And I'm back from PubCon. It was nice being surrounded by other people who got this SEO thing, for a week at least. As I was cleaning out my week's worth of messages, here are 3 of the new messages that popped up in my inbox this morning ... no joke:
Boss man: "It's a one page site - it can't be that hard to SEO it can it?" (About a completely Flash-driven application.)
Usability guy: "Just wanted to give you a heads up that I'm submitting an IT request to append unique URL strings onto every link in the new content sections. The Analytics team wanted us to use different URLs that all go to the same page so we can track which link from within the site someone used to get there."
IT guy: "Is there a difference between a 301 redirect and a 302 redirect? Is the distinction really that important for SEO?" (After a year of getting IT project requirements from me insisting on proper redirects from hundreds of duplicate pages and then following up those requests with: and these are 301s not 302s, right? Right? Right?!)
Aughhh. Please repeat after me: content is important, duplicate content is bad. I've been explaining this over and over for a year and a half. Think I should try to convince the search engines to change their algorithms, rather than keep writing IT requirements documents that apparently no one is reading? Hah!
Okay, I'm done ranting now. All better.
Labels: navel-gazing
Posted by Melanie Phung
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And I'm back from PubCon. It was nice being surrounded by other people who got this SEO thing, for a week at least. As I was cleaning out my week's worth of messages, here are 3 of the new messages that popped up in my inbox this morning ... no joke:
Boss man: "It's a one page site - it can't be that hard to SEO it can it?" (About a completely Flash-driven application.)
Usability guy: "Just wanted to give you a heads up that I'm submitting an IT request to append unique URL strings onto every link in the new content sections. The Analytics team wanted us to use different URLs that all go to the same page so we can track which link from within the site someone used to get there."
IT guy: "Is there a difference between a 301 redirect and a 302 redirect? Is the distinction really that important for SEO?" (After a year of getting IT project requirements from me insisting on proper redirects from hundreds of duplicate pages and then following up those requests with: and these are 301s not 302s, right? Right? Right?!)
Aughhh. Please repeat after me: content is important, duplicate content is bad. I've been explaining this over and over for a year and a half. Think I should try to convince the search engines to change their algorithms, rather than keep writing IT requirements documents that apparently no one is reading? Hah!
Okay, I'm done ranting now. All better.
Labels: navel-gazing
Posted by Melanie Phung