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Yahoo News Syndication: Attribution Links Not SEO-Friendly

Adam Sherk

In looking at syndicated content on Yahoo News, most of the syndicated articles do not include attribution links (each news source likely has to request or provide them), but among those that do exist there is a problem. The Yahoo attribution links do not point directly to the original article URLs.

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New York Times Plans to Implement Permanent Redirects on IHT.com urls

Adam Sherk

So the bottom line is, the NYT SEO team strongly advocated the use of permanent 301 redirects from all IHT.com URLs to the corresponding new URLs on NYTimes.com, and they are continuing to do what they can internally to get this implemented as soon as possible. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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The Fleeting Value Of Content

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It's a challenge that many of us lamented as Blogging became that much more prevalent and commercial in the early 2000s, and it's becoming an even bigger challenge in a world where content is created in channels like Twitter , Facebook , YouTube , Google + , LinkedIn and more. url shortening service. Content is short. Content is long.

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What is Robots.Txt?

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Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing follows the standard protocol of robots.txt to index or crawl webpages. It is advantageous to control the crawling, and it can also be used to insert the sitemap to provide search engine crawler with an overview of the existing URL of your website. Facebook 0. LinkedIn 0. Pinterest 0.

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Real-time Search Optimization for News Sites

Adam Sherk

Google, Bing and Yahoo are all experimenting with various forms of real-time results now and making deals with Twitter, Facebook and other social sites. It should be noted that there many forms of real-time search, including Twitter Search itself and sites like OneRiot , Collecta and Topsy , among others.

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Facebook Privacy Gone Awry: Search Engines Indexing Email Addresses from Facebook

Bill Hartzer

Private email addresses of individuals who have Facebook accounts are getting indexed by the search engines, including Google , Yahoo! , In fact, Yahoo! Perhaps the URLs are being recorded somewhere, on another server, and the search engines have started indexing those URLs. to index those URLs. Tweet This!

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Make the Most of Your Retweet Buttons

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Make the Most of Your Retweet Buttons by Adam Sherk on February 25, 2010 In working on my presentation for the Twitter Marketing Tactics session at SMX West next week I’ve been looking at the various types of share and retweet buttons used on news sites.