Howdy, I wrote a quick post about one simple thing that ruins your credibility as an SEO in my humble opinion: http://www.jon-west.com/?p=67 I was just wondering who else feels the same and what other things like this make you automatically write someone off who claims to be an "SEO professional."
Meta's are one thing, at worst they will be ignored by Search Engines. What makes me really laugh is when you go to a "Professional" SEO companies website then type: www.domain.com http://domain.com www.domain.com/index.html http://domain.com/index.html And you guessed it, all pages load without re-directing to the one domain. Canonical URL's not only split your Pagerank, but Google see's this as 4 seperate pages all with duplicate content. Come on, you have no business charging $1,000 for a SEO package commiting this type of suicide on your own homepage of all places.
You're right, they don't make a blind bit of difference, but it's good practice to include them, same with the keywords meta, it doesn't help but it's still good from a usability POV. I'd place far more stock on the rankings people actually achieve than their HTML
Haha, I have it turned on but my site is hosted on another one's VPS so it's not in the root directory. The non-www 301 redirect won't work either until I move to my own VPS.
Am sorry but wouldn't it have been better, had you discussed these here ? It is not much big of a list to link to it! I don't really like the idea of blatantly plugging your blog link in forum posts! Doesn't go well with someone like me. Sorry!