SkeyMedia » google http://skeymedia.com Blogging about Web Development and Website Management & Monetization Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:18:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 SEO in a world where the “SE” doesn’t “O” http://skeymedia.com/seo-in-a-world-where-the-se-doesnt-o/ http://skeymedia.com/seo-in-a-world-where-the-se-doesnt-o/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:04:10 +0000 brian http://skeymedia.com/why-bother-with-seo/ I spend a ton of time working on SEO aspects of sites I work on. I’m also a pre-release team member over at vBSEO, a 3rd party SEO software add-on for vBulletin forums. Today, I question why I do this.

The ‘big daddy’ Google can’t even seem to get their sub domains correct.
ie,

http://maps.google.com/webmasters/

http://mail.google.com/webmasters/

and

http://www.google.com/webmasters/

all go to the same place.

Both the maps and mail sub domains should 301 re-direct to regular www.

This is an epic duplicate content failure on all accounts. It is possibly the greatest oxy-morons of all time. No one “searches” for Google (ok, maybe a few random’s go to Yahoo.com and search for “google” to get there…), so they seem exempt from anything relating to SEO. Yet, their algorithms penalize websites with duplicate access points.

This is not a difficult ‘final tweak’ either. This is an entry level SEO consideration. Moreover, it can have negative effects on the application itself, such as cookies hitting mix-matched domains.

Maybe Matt Cutts will grace us with a reply here :)

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What does this mean for publishers? It let’s you paste one ad code on your page never for you to touch it again. via their portal, you’ll be able to change the colors, borders, etc without changing the code block on your site.

For more information, read Google’s help topic

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