July 2011
1 post
Google Panda - Why Brands Aren't Always Best and...
Full Disclosure: I am the founder of TravBuddy.com, a large, independent travel community. Our site was affected by Google Panda, and I will highlight some content from my niche (because those are the easiest examples available to me), but this post isn’t about my site vs Google. This is about my personal opinion on the terrible state of Google’s search results, and why it’s bad...
June 2011
3 posts
Website Feedback
I’ve gotten a lot of good feedback from HN about the first post. Here are some additional tips that people mentioned:
USE HTTP CODE 410 GONE INSTEAD OF 404 FOR PAGE REMOVAL
HTTP status code 410 lets Google know that your page is permanently gone. 404 only tells Google that the page cannot be found. Apparently, a 410 status code is better for getting Google to remove pages from its index,...
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How We Have Attempted to Recover from Google Panda
BACKGROUND
My main site, TravBuddy, was hit in February by Google’s latest “Panda” algorithm. This post isn’t really meant to complain about the issues we’ve noticed - we’ll save that for a later post ;) - but to openly talk about some of the things we’ve done to try to recover.
First off, a little background about TravBuddy. We are a large online travel...
Introduction
I’m not much for blogging, but I’ve recently had some thoughts that I wanted to get out there (mainly around business). While the first few posts will likely center around that theme, hopefully I’ll continue to blog about things I find interesting.
