Tag Archives: links

Shorter URLs

Welcome back!The list of URL shortening tools is growing. The first one that I heard of was TinyURL, and I thought it was genious. All of a sudden sending Google Maps and books on Amazon was no sweat. Before this came along emailing long URL strings to less savvy surfers like my Mom or brother [...]

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Dofollow

A few years ago comment spam was a huge problem. Any site that accepted comments, such as blogs and any site that had a visitor log was pummelled with thousands of spam messages per day. Search engines decided to address this by creating the nofollow attribute for links, which is basically a way of saying [...]

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