- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Specify your canonical
"we now support a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL. If your site has identical or vastly similar content that's accessible through multiple URLs, this format provides you with more control over the URL returned in search results. It also helps to make sure that properties such as link popularity are consolidated to your preferred version. " (google search html urls seo )
- SEOmoz | Canonical URL Tag – The Most Important Advancement in SEO Practices Since Sitemaps
"The announcement from Yahoo!, Live & Google that they will be supporting a new "canonical url tag" to help webmasters and site owners eliminate self-created duplicate content in the index is, in my opinion, the biggest change to SEO best practices since the emergence of Sitemaps." (search html urls seo )
- Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Bespin
"We wanted to see if we could develop a code editor for web developers using the web itself." I know I'm an cynic, but why-why-why? They developed a text editor from scratch. Why? They reimplemented scrollbars. Why? A great example of the not-invented-here syndrome. (Of course, now I've said that it'll probably take the industry by storm.) (tools development javascript programming mozilla )
- The Telegraph: how to pick up traffic from Digg – Hitwise Intelligence
"Many (arguably most) news and media websites now include social bookmarking buttons, [...] but the Telegraph’s widget takes things a little further. [...] the real test of how successful the widget has been is to look at the amount of traffic that Digg sends to the Telegraph. [...] Looking at the Hitwise data, the strategy seems to have worked. As the chart below illustrates, the amount of downstream traffic that Digg sends to the Telegraph has increased significantly over the last 12 months." (marketing telegraph digg social_media )
- Etsy :: Ways to Shop
On one level this is just a shop front. But look at how many ways you can slice and dice and view and choose their content. By colour, sellers who have just sold something, by time,… It shows what unexpected things can happen when you have lots of data behind your content. (data design shopping craft )
- Comcast Property Sees 92% Success Rate With New OpenID Method – ReadWriteWeb
"Plaxo and Google have collaborated on an OpenID method that may represent the solution to OpenID's biggest problems: it's too unknown, it's too complicated and it's too arduous. [...] This experimental method refers to big, known brands where users were already logged in, it requires zero typing – just two clicks – and it takes advantage of the OpenID authentication opportunity to get quick permission to leverage the well established OAuth data swap to facilitate immediate personalization – at the same time, with nothing but 2 clicks required of users." (google usability oauth openid authentication )
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