A Better Way To Keep Pages From Being Indexed

Today I went through some of the indexed pages of one of my older sites and found that their were pages still indexed that I blocked years ago via a robots.txt file.  I guess at the time I did this I had assumed once I block these pages in robots.txt, that was all I needed to do to get them removed from the index.  Rookie mistake. Read this post

Fixing Duplicate Content Issues Due To Forward Slashes //

I recently had some deep pages from another website drop off of Google’s ranks I believe it was from a duplicate content issue. This is still under investigation but what I found was there were two forms of the same page indexed in Google, one with 1 trailing forward slash and another with 2 trailing slashes.
Read this post

ICSA offering Network Security Insurance, What’s Up With The Website?

I recently came across a company that was offering an insurance policy to their customers if at any time their customers network was hacked.  Now to me this just sounds like a future box of fraud from customers bad intentions.  Anyways, since this product was unveiled the company signed up 100 new customers over a 6 month period.  Interested in learning more I attempted to jump over to their website and take a look at their products and services.  Once the website loaded my browser came up with a page that reviled the image shown on the right.  Did the company get hacked, is this just a internal glitch or is it just an update? 
Read this post

How To Fix HTTPS / HTTP Versions Causing Duplicate Content Penalty

Today Google threw one of my website homepages in the basement from #1 positioning on google for several terms.  Once I experienced this I started thinking to myself some of the changes I’ve recently made.  Nothing I did came to mind that could have caused this.  Then I checked for php injections and found no problems there.  Then I gave it some more thought and remembered how Google recently indexed that particular website’s homepage with https instead of http.  After some research I found that this does in fact cause a duplicate content penalty.

Read this post

Craigslist Still Proves Itself To Be A Great Resource

Craigslist still proves itself for being a great tool for selling stuff locally.  I recently posted an ad for a car alarm and received a pretty quick response.  The alarm sold within 2 days of the posting date plus I received the entire asking price.  People still love the convenience of buying something they can have in their hands the same day which provides a great opportunity for anyone who knows how to shop online to get great products at rock bottom prices. 
Read this post