Posts by Hamlet Batista

Content is King, but Duplicate Content is a Royal Pain.

July 19, 2007

Duplicate content is one of the most common causes of concern among webmasters. We work hard to provide original and useful content, and all it takes is a malicious SERP (Search Engine Results Page) hijacker to copy our content and use it for his or her own. Not nice. More troubling still is the way...

Canonicalization: The Gospel of HTTP 301

July 19, 2007

Usually I don’t cover basic material in this blog, but as a loyal reader, Paul Montwill, requested it, I’m happy to oblige. As I learned back in school, if one person asks a question, there are probably many others at the back of the class quietly wondering the same thing. So here is a brief...

Our Digital Footprints: Google's (and Microsoft’s) most valuable asset

July 17, 2007

After reading this intriguing article in the LA Times, I came to the conclusion that Google has far more ambitious plans than I originally thought. In their effort to build the perfect search engine — an oracle that can answer all of our questions, even answers that we didn't know about ourselves — Google is...

You’ve Won the Battle but not the War: 10 Ways to protect your site from negative SEO

July 16, 2007

Last month there was an interesting article in Forbes about the search engine marketing saboteurs. These so-called “SEO professionals” proudly proclaim their job to be damaging the hard-earned rankings of their clients’ competitors. I understand a lot of people would do anything for money, but it’s still unsettling to see such people trumpet their efforts...

Why Quality Always Wins Out in Google's Eyes

July 13, 2007

Quality is king in search engine rankings. Of course spam sites using the latest techniques make their way up top—but their rankings are temporary, fleeting, and quickly forgotten. Quality sites are the only ones that maintain consistent top rankings. This wasn’t always true. A few years ago it was very easy to rank highly for...

Out of the Supplemental Index and into the Fire

July 11, 2007

Do you have pages in Google's supplemental index? Get 'em out of there! Matt Cutts of Google doesn't think SEOs and website owners should be overly concerned about having pages in the supplemental index. He has some pages in the supplemental index, too. As a reminder, supplemental results aren’t something to be afraid of; I’ve...

Popularity Contest: How to reveal your invisible PageRank

July 10, 2007

Let's face it. We all like to check the Google PageRank bar to see how important websites, especially ours, are for Google. This tells us how cool and popular our site is. For those of us who are popularity-obsessed, the sad part is that the other search engines do not provide a similar feature, and...

Becoming a Web Authority: The story of Sally and Edward

July 09, 2007

Getting permanent search engine rankings for your site requires making it very popular within your specific niche. This is what we call a web authority. Other site owners will naturally link to your site when they are talking about your topic because you have some of the best content out there.  It's common sense that if...

Anatomy of a Distributed Web Spider — Google's inner workings part 3

July 06, 2007

What can you do to make life easier for those search engine crawlers? Let's pick up where we left off in our inner workings of Google series. I am going to give a brief overview of how distributed crawling works. This topic is useful, but can be a bit geeky, so I'm going to offer a...

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Getting Started with NLP and Python for SEO [Webinar]

Custom Python scripts are much more customizable than Excel spreadsheets.  This is good news for SEOs — this can lead to optimization opportunities and low-hanging fruit.  One way you can use Python to uncover these opportunities is by pairing it with natural language processing. This way, you can match how your audience searches with your...

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Changes to the RankSense SEO rules interface

As we continue to improve the RankSense app for Cloudflare, we are always working to make the app more intuitive and easy to use. I'm pleased to share that we have made significant changes to our SEO rules interface in the settings tab of our app. It is now easier to publish multiple rules sheets and to see which changes have not yet been published to production.

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How to Find Content Gaps at Scale: Atrapalo vs Skyscanner

For the following Ranksense Webinar, we were joined by Antoine Eripret, who works at Liligo as an SEO lead. Liligo.com is a travel search engine which instantly searches all available flight, bus and train prices on an exhaustive number of travel sites such as online travel agencies, major and low-cost airlines and tour-operators. In this...

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