Google Webmaster Tools is a pretty cool tool for analyzing architectural issues with websites. It can point you towards duplicate content issues, redirection issues, site performance issues, etc. And best of all it’s free.
Unfortunately all of this great data does come at a price: Complacency.
When you get all of this awesome technology handed to you [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Duplicate Content'
Kick The Google Webmaster Tools Habit
February 17th, 2009 · 12 Comments
Tags: Duplicate Content · Google
Rel=Canonical: A Gift To SEO Consultants & Clients?
February 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment
I just spotted that Google Webmaster Central announced they are supporting a new tag, rel=canonical, that allows sites to specify which URLs on your site are the canonical versions. They explain it in all of the gory detail on their blog, but in short when you have multiple versions of a single page, this tag [...]
Tags: Duplicate Content
Save Your URLs
December 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Just got off the phone with a client who has some serious SEO issues. One of the big ones is that there are ten-year-old URLs still in Google’s index that nobody knew about. These URLs were put in place by people who are no longer at the company, and if I hadn’t done some creative [...]
Tags: Duplicate Content · Google
