I would like to thank everyone for taking the time to check out my session at Web 2.0 Expo here in New York City. I've included a link to my slides below, along with answers to all the questions that were posted that I did not get a chance to answer during the talk. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Advanced SEO for Web Developers View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: seo web ) Download Presentation: Web_20_NYC_2008.pptx (6.88 mb) Here are answers to the questions asked online after the session: How important is XHTML and 508 conformance to search engine optimization ( kpande ) For folks who might not know, XHTML is one of several standard formats for...
Just recently a strange problem came across my desk that I thought was worth sharing with you. A customer notified us that content from a site she was interested in was not showing up in our results. Wanting to understand why we may or may not have indexed the site, I took a look to see what the problem was and stumbled upon an interesting but a potentially very bad use of the robots.txt file. The first visit I made to the site had a very standard robots.txt file that read like: User-agent:* Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /ads/ But within an hour the robots.txt had changed to: User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /ads/ Disallow: /products/ Disallow: /home/content/archive/ Disallow: /Survey...
