Mod edit: This post was copy and paste from this post at SEL: http://searchengineland.com/070621-150354.php
That is indeed a good list of dont's but where are tips on what should be done ohene.. Please guide all through your experience and knowledge..
that is a great list of to dos and not to dos I will be implementing and asking people I am working with about some of these topics to check to see if these are some things they are doing!
Hey Ohene, If you're going to steal others' work and claim it as your own I'd suggest not taking it from a popular blog like searchengineland.com Here's the original article with comments: http://searchengineland.com/070621-150354.php
Wow .. that's such a good spam ... I do agree with the list but hell you have to give some credit to the original author ... this makes you look funny ... Cheers, Venetsian
I was just gonna post that link to SEL about that list but GuyfromChicago beat me to it... Solid advice nonetheless.
Can someone clarify this? 12. Don't allow both www.yourdomain.com and domain.com to resolve to your home page. Those are two separate addresses to a search engine, and that means you have the same content at two addresses. On a related note, don't link to your home page with a URL like www.yourdomain.com/index.html—that's also a separate address from www.yourdomain.com and will also look like duplicate content. How are www.yourdomain.com and domain.com meant to imply two different domains and if it is a mistake and meant to say www.domain.com and domain.com, how does one have separate content in both locations??
They don't imply different locations, they ARE different locations. http://www.mysite.com http://mysite.com http://www.mysite.com/index.html http://mysite.com/index.html Each of those is considered a different location even though they are really/usually meant to be the same place. In the eyes of a search engine those are 4 different URLs and so they are treated as 4 different locations. The way to correct that is by using 301 redirects. Here's the info from Googles PR guy himself: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/
Check your sources before posting things you didn't write. Give credit where credit where credit is due.