Comments on: The Importance of Usefulness in SEO http://www.dotcult.com/the-importance-of-usefulness-in-seo Ryan Jones Blogs About Internet Culture, Marketing, SEO, & Social Media Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:30:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ryan http://www.dotcult.com/the-importance-of-usefulness-in-seo#comment-3470 Ryan Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:57:33 +0000 http://www.dotcult.com/the-importance-of-usefulness-in-seo#comment-3470 Hmm. I'll look into it. Ya nothing here has comments really. I recently turned them on, and when I migrated from my own custom CMS to wordpress, i accidentally wiped out my comments table - whoops! So nothing older than a few months has any comments at all :'( Most of the posts of mine I've seen in the supplemental results are posts that seem to belong there - old posts, and posts I've posted elsewhere. I usually don't care about duplicate content. In fact, many things I write I post in several spots. Most wordpress links I nofollow, but I'll look into that feed stuff. Hmm. I’ll look into it.

Ya nothing here has comments really. I recently turned them on, and when I migrated from my own custom CMS to wordpress, i accidentally wiped out my comments table – whoops! So nothing older than a few months has any comments at all :’(

Most of the posts of mine I’ve seen in the supplemental results are posts that seem to belong there – old posts, and posts I’ve posted elsewhere.

I usually don’t care about duplicate content. In fact, many things I write I post in several spots.

Most wordpress links I nofollow, but I’ll look into that feed stuff.

]]> By: JC http://www.dotcult.com/the-importance-of-usefulness-in-seo#comment-3469 JC Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:39:51 +0000 http://www.dotcult.com/the-importance-of-usefulness-in-seo#comment-3469 I take that back, it's RSS for comments I see (though most are empty since there's no comments), not an RSS for the headlines. But the duplicate title it creates and the duplicate content for this page and the rss comment page could be penalizing you in google. I'd suggest adding to robots.txt: Disallow: /*/feed/ I think that'll still allow your headline feed to be picked up I take that back, it’s RSS for comments I see (though most are empty since there’s no comments), not an RSS for the headlines. But the duplicate title it creates and the duplicate content for this page and the rss comment page could be penalizing you in google. I’d suggest adding to robots.txt:

Disallow: /*/feed/

I think that’ll still allow your headline feed to be picked up

]]> By: JC http://www.dotcult.com/the-importance-of-usefulness-in-seo#comment-3467 JC Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:19:19 +0000 http://www.dotcult.com/the-importance-of-usefulness-in-seo#comment-3467 Ryan, you may want to examine this site's SEO... you have a "Subscribe to the comments via RSS Feed" that has the wrong path and I'm guessing is why 2/3 of your pages are supplemental in google. Ryan, you may want to examine this site’s SEO… you have a “Subscribe to the comments via RSS Feed” that has the wrong path and I’m guessing is why 2/3 of your pages are supplemental in google.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.dotcult.com/the-importance-of-usefulness-in-seo#comment-3465 Andrew Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:57:12 +0000 http://www.dotcult.com/the-importance-of-usefulness-in-seo#comment-3465 Looks promising...I always struggle to collect this sort of information into a single place/process...and communicating to my customers that "magic bullets" are a rarity (or damn expensive at the very least). I agree with your basic premise of focusing on value rather than exploiting algorithms (this is not really new ground). Most businesses are primarily interested in a final sale and repeat business. More visitors is nice...but more customers is better. Good luck with your ebook. Looks promising…I always struggle to collect this sort of information into a single place/process…and communicating to my customers that “magic bullets” are a rarity (or damn expensive at the very least). I agree with your basic premise of focusing on value rather than exploiting algorithms (this is not really new ground). Most businesses are primarily interested in a final sale and repeat business. More visitors is nice…but more customers is better.

Good luck with your ebook.

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