stop words
If you've ever searched for anything, you've probably run into stop words [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words]. Stop words are words so common they are typically ignored for search purposes. That is, if you type in a stop word as one of your search
seo
So I've been busy with this Stack Overflow thing over the last two weeks. By way of apology, I'll share a little statistic you might find interesting: the percentage of traffic from search engines at stackoverflow.com. Sept 16th one day after public launch10% October 11th
seo
There's something about the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) industry that I find highly distasteful. I've never quite been able to put my finger on it, until I read Rich Skrenta's pornographers vs. SEOs [http://www.skrenta.com/2007/04/early_adopter_pilotfish_pornog.html]
search engine optimization
Rich Skrenta, who may have written the first microcomputer virus [http://www.skrenta.com/cloner/], calls Google the start page for the Internet [http://www.skrenta.com/2007/01/winnertakeall_google_and_the_t.html]: > The net isn't a directed graph. It's not a tree.
seo
Philipp Lenssen pointed out that my concept of Unbreakable Links is, unsurprisingly, not a new one. It’s also known as * Memomark * Google URL * Googlenym * Robust Hyperlinks All of these terms really refer to the same thing: using a search engine to build an unique URL. However, there are some
urls
I was reading through some of the DataGrid Girl’s oh-so-cute article links, and I encountered a few dead ones. It’s not really Marcie’s fault; dead links are inevitable on any page as it ages. Such is the nature of absolute links. For example, this one: http://msdn.