Duplicate web pages should specify the canonical link - so that google will put that page in the index, and not the duplicates.

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish" />

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Nice summary of the atl and title attributes of an img tag - which are more important for search engines and for users.

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Quoted: Watch a video on canonicalization. What is a canonical page? Why specify a canonical page? A canonical page is the preferred version of a set of pages with highly similar content. It's common fo

Caffeine is down now - I'd love to try it out.

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Yahoo's current crawler is called Slurp 3.0

Seriously? Microsoft put all this PR effort into a product launch and Bing.com just says "coming soon"? How is it that working in a large organization turns otherwise very smart people into idiots.