According to Google, twitter.com has 61 million pages indexed Also according to Google, api.twitter.com has 20 million pages indexed. Pages which are identical to normal twitter.com/username pages. Oops. hellboy film picture
So Google now lets you control the max crawl rate through a nifty slider. While most sites start at a max-allowed rate of 0.5 pages/sec, I’ve been able to get a few sites to 10 pages/sec. I had some large sites that had pretty low max rates (eg 1 page/sec), and it took me some […]
So in my previous post I talked about one of my favorite companies – LDC. Next up is Yipit. But this isn’t just about how awesome Yipit is. No no – today they launched profile pages, and in the process, further convoluted their home page. So this post is about how I would look over […]
So I find out that YellowPages.com has purchased YP.com (formerly operated by LiveDeal). But – what the hell are they doing with its SEO? They have essentially duplicated yellowpages.com on yp.com – creating a duplicate content nightmare. On top of it, all of their previous links are now dead and go straight back to YP.com […]
I was looking at how Google was crawling a new website of ours (more on that later), I noticed that Google not only looked for favicon.ico but also favicon.gif. I should mention that in 4 days Google has looked for favicon about a dozen times, and keeps looking for it. Just so you know. the […]
No really: pages in Google. What I saw: the bridge on the river kwai movie desktop
The #3 site on Google UK for ‘ipod’ (and #1 if ‘UK only’ is ticked) is http://www.ipod.org.uk Beyond the decent name, the question is – how do they get there? Good ol Yahoo Site Explorer reveals all. It seems like the good people at ipod.org.uk decided that they needed authority. They also realized that getting […]