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" />

robots.txt admits wildcard patterns

Quoted: Search engine programs are called "robots" or "spiders", because they follow links on the Web to discover new pages. These are fairly fragile and both search administrators and webmasters need to understand what links they can and can't follow.

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

Quoted: How to properly use alt text and title text image attributes in HTML for search engine optimization and browser tool tips.

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

SEO conference with Vanessa Fox in SF on June 12th.

Met Neil last night at Fado - nice to see him in Seattle now!

Quoted: I'm Kind of a Big Deal

Vijay's meta-search prototype

Nice blog post on calculating the value of a "freemium" business.

Quoted: Analysis on viral marketing, freemium, design, and online ads

I like the new RescueTime home page - and especially the tag line (is it new)?

- Ridiculously Easy Time Management & Analytics

The value proposition is really explicit and easy to get now:

- Effortless Time Tracking
- Beat Interuption Overload
- Compare your Productivity

Note the clever SEO trick for the page title "Free Time Management Software | Rescue Time"

a) The company name is at the END not the beginning (better SEO for the search terms NOT the company name).
b) Includes the terms for the searches thay want to target AND has the eye-catching "Free" at the beginning for the SERP).

Quoted: RescueTime is time management software that helps individuals and businesses understand how they spend their time (with NO DATA ENTRY), and provides tools to help them spend it more productively.