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The Internet Explorer team met the Mozilla team

Thursday, December 15th, 2005

Yes they did, in Silicon Valley, to discuss the RSS icon that’s going to be implemented in the browsers.
And in the user’s best interest (to standardize on an icon) they decided upon the following icon:

This icon will be displayed in both Internet Explorer and Firefox when an RSS feed is discovered on the page. Actually, […]

Does AdSense affect my PageRank

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

This question is asked frequently by webmasters. The answer is no.
Having Google AdSense ads on your website does not increase your Google PageRank nor does it lower it. The most it can do is index your pages if they were not already indexed, or index them more often. That’s normal, since if Google doesn’t know […]

How to protect your copyrighted work

Monday, December 12th, 2005

So you wrote an article, or you developed a website and you find an almost exact clone of your work on the web. What to do?
The first thing you should do is contact the owner of the website with an official letter, such as “Cease and Decist”. The best way is to send a signed […]

Tool for estimating the number of visitors

Saturday, December 10th, 2005

I found this incredible tool that estimates the number of visitors an website has. It seems pretty accurate, judging from the tests I’ve done.
I tested with Geekpedia.com which currently gets ~85,000 visitors / month. MetricsMarket estimated 83,600 visitor sessions in the last 30 days. That’s very accurate.
The results shown above are collected from a […]

SES Chicago 2005

Saturday, December 10th, 2005

At Search Engine Strategies Chicago 2005 (December 5-8) it was confirmed that more than 3 parameters in an URL can prevent the crawl of the major search engines for that page.
So try to limit the parameters in the URL to 3 or less. Or better yet, use an URL rewriting technique (such as ISAPI rewrite […]