The New Canonical Link Tag: What to do…
First off, kudos to the search engines for working together to come up with a reasonable standard for solving what had previously been an intractable issue. I will restrain myself from saying “it’s about damn time”, or maybe I just didn’t, but regardless this is a fantastic new tool that far more webmasters can implement. Here are some initial thoughts. What it really changes…The burden has shifted from knowing all the false URLs (in order to create URL rewrites to address them) to simply knowing the correct URLs. Who it really helps….The New Canonical Link Tag is most useful to webmasters and site-authors who do not have access to redirecting languages. Since 301 redirects are initiated server-side, users of CMS or hosted-app...
PageRank vs. MozRank
Please Note: LinkScape and MozRank have been updated since this publishing. The graphs and data below are no longer accurate, albeit still interesting IMHO.With the announcing and opening of the fantastic SEOMoz MozRank API for Linkscape, I thought it would be worth taking a bit of time to compare MozRank to PageRank using existing and fresh PageRank data. Essentially, we wanted to determine if there were any patterns of dispersion between the MozRank and PageRank for random pages across the internet. Using the API, we were able to collect data on 1000 various pages. We selected only pages above PR0 to discourage the likelihood of identifying pages with no MozRank data. We also, as expected, have a skew in the representation of higher PR data, as they are just...
Rand’s Questions Get More Difficult
A year or two back, Rand Fishkin over at SEOmoz posted a list of questions he still had not answered in the world of SEO. As a matter of sheer luck, we had just finished up a bit of experimentation that answered quite a few of them. Well, Rand is at it again with 8 more questions, this time with far more difficult questions to answer – many of which may be unknowable without a leak from Google. However, one question in particular, #8, Will Anchor Text Value Pass Through Terribly Low Quality Links?. It is fairly understood that high quality links will boost the PageRank variable in the ranking equation, and low quality links will not. It is also understood that high quality links with good anchor text will boost the Relevancy variable in the ranking...
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