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Mar 18,2010

Welcome to TD Creative. This website is a web developer blog designed to cover intuitive and effective Web development.

The web dev navigation items on the right hand side give an overview of the areas of web development. This website covers web development for webmasters, web marketers and entrepreneurs.

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Use Nofollow with Robots.

Author: DooBDee
Filed under: Client Side Coding, SEO Techniques, Search Engine Optimisation, Search Engines, Website Development, Website Marketing, XHTML

Wednesday
Aug 6,2008

photo credit: cote

The rel=”nofollow” attribute on links is very usefull. Additionally nofollow in robots can be usefull. They should not be confused with eachother.

The rel=”nofollow” description below is courtesy of robotstxt.org

The rel=”nofollow” is an attribute you can set on an HTML <a> link tag, invented by Google, and adopted by others. Those links won’t get any credit when Google ranks websites in the search results, thus removing the main incentive behind blog comment spammers robots.

See Preventing comment spam on the Official Google Blog.

From that description it sounds like it only affects the ranking, and the Google robot may still follow the links and index them. If so, it is different from the robots meta tag NOFOLLOW semantics.

Additionally, the below is courtesy of robotstxt.org too

<html>
<head>
<title>...</title>
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
</head>
There are two important considerations when using the robots <META> tag:

robots can ignore your <META> tag. Especially malware robots that scan the web for security vulnerabilities, and email address harvesters used by spammers will pay no attention.

the NOFOLLOW directive only applies to links on this page. It’s entirely likely that a robot might find the same links on some other page without a NOFOLLOW (perhaps on some other site), and so still arrives at your undesired page.

Now, get using nofollow links!

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Wordpress.com or Wordpress.org?

Author: DooBDee
Filed under: Content Management, Scripts, Website Management

Friday
Jun 20,2008

photo credit: Nikolay Bachiyski

An honest opinion? Wordpress.org.

Wordpress.com has various pro’s and con’s of which will be covered in this post. Many of the negatives of wordpress.com do not exist when you choose wordpress.org as your solution.

In a nutshell, wordpress.com is a hosted solution wheras wordpress.org is a blog you own, you install and you run on your own hosting.

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Ideas For Blogging Posts?

Author: DooBDee
Filed under: Content Management, Website Management

Wednesday
Jun 4,2008

photo credit: Matthew Oliphant

Its been said many times on this blog to try and at least blog once a day. Why? It drives traffic. People like new content to read, search engines like to index new content. OK - lets be realistic, if you run your blog as a hobby sometimes you cant make a post every day, then that leads to another day, then another and you end up not blogging for a month *cough* not guilty *cough*.

If you get a fantastic idea in your head you want to share - you do actually go home after work at night and blog about it. Its just getting those ideas. Here are some of the ways to get ideas to write about;

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301 Redirect non www to www with 301

Author: DooBDee
Filed under: SEO Techniques, Scripts, Search Engine Optimisation, Website Management, Website Marketing

Monday
Apr 28,2008

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A largely missed concept with webmasters is how to use 301 redirects. They are the only safe SEO redirect.

With regards to SEO and the duplicate content penalty, you should redirect all non www requests on your domain to www unless there is a special case where this is required for site functionality. This means…

http://tdcreative.net is 301′ed to http://www.tdcreative.net
http://tdcreative.net/my-post is 301′ed to http://www.tdcreative.net/my-post

Any person involved with SEO should know this and it can be achieved with a few lines of .htaccess code placed in the public root of your FTP, sometimes public_html or httpdocs. An example….