Apache 1.3 Hits End of Life at 42 (Don't Panic!) (Linux Today) Netstat -vat: "As of today the Apache 1.3 HTTP Server is at its official End of Life with its 1.3.42 release, eight years after its successor Apache 2 debuted."
The Latest On Google News Sitemaps (Search Engine Land) Back in November 2009, Google News announced they were “in the midst of an exciting transition period” that included a change to the News Sitemap Protocol . News publishers have through April 2010 to modify their News Sitemap to accommodate the new format. What’s so exciting and transitional?
Duplicate Content Between HTML & PDF Pages? Google Should Figure It Out (Search Engine Roundtable) A Google Webmaster Help thread has discussion about a potential duplicate content issues between HTML and PDF documents. In this case, the content found on the HTML is the same as on the PDFs. Be it an automated "print as PDF" feature or manual download of the content in PDF format. How does Google handle the duplicate nature of such content available on the web? JohnMu at Google chimed in ...
New Google Reader Feature Can Create a Feed for Any Site (WebProNews) Google has launched a new feature for Google Reader that lets users create a custom feed to track changes on pages that don't have their own feed. In other words, you can follow changes to any site. "These custom feeds are most useful if you want to be alerted whenever a specific page has been updated," says Google's Brian Shih. "For example, if you wanted to follow Google.org's latest products ...
Taking Front End SEO to the Next Level (Search Engine Journal) I can't recall how many times a prospective client has come along where my initial thought was "wow - this one's going to take 250 hours of SEO to get them to even compete with all the sites that have been there for years". Sometimes that turns out to be the case, while at other times, the majority of… Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Taking Front End SEO to the Next Level
No Feed, No Problem – Google Reader Now Tracks (Mostly) Any Website Change (Search Engine Land) The Google Reader blog announced you can now track changes to any web page, even the ones without RSS feeds. How does this come in handy? Well, let’s say you want to track when Google changes their webmaster guidelines . All you do is copy the URL into Google Reader and click on “create a feed.”
Robots.txt Tips For Dealing With Bots (Linux Today) Begin Linux: "The robots.txt is used to provide crawling instructions to web robots using the Robots Exclusion Protocol. When a web robots visits your site it will check this file, robots.txt, to discover any directories or pages you want to exclude from the web robot listing on the search engine."
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