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Search Engine Watch November 18, 2003 Shari Thurow	Search Engines and Web Server Issues What is the best way to move a site from one server to another without affecting search engine visibility? After a site redesign, how can you communicate to the search engines that old URLs should be redirected to new URLs without affecting positioning?
Search Engine Watch December 2, 2010 Mathieu Burgerhout	Best Solution for Duplicate Content Issues A clever solution to get every product indexed, in the right language, and show visitors from specific countries the right stock.
Search Engine Watch February 28, 2011 Ray "Catfish" Comstock	The Canonical Tag Can Save You from the Duplicate Content Monster How the very useful rel="canonical" tag solves many common SEO problems that exist around duplicate content issues.
Search Engine Watch February 4, 2003 Danny Sullivan	Ending The Debate Over Cloaking This article examines why people have traditionally cloaked content from search engines and how the issue is largely now about different standards for paid inclusion content.
Search Engine Watch December 29, 2008 Ron Jones	SEO Site Structure 101, Part 2 Search engines love sites that provide a great user experience. So as you consider your site structure please do not leave this out. You will reap great dividends by doing so.
Search Engine Watch September 30, 2008 Mark Jackson	Tin Foil Hat? I Have Mine On When Google advises against URL rewriting in their Webmaster Central blog, is there an ulterior motive?
Search Engine Watch August 6, 2009 Bill Hunt	Are Language Options Hurting Your International Sites? Most SEOs face challenges with a single site in English, but the challenges compound exponentially when you add multiple countries and languages to the mix. The most common of these problems is the use of language or location detection.
Search Engine Watch June 8, 2010 Adam Audette	Crawl, Index, Rank, Repeat: A Tactical SEO Framework (Part 2) A framework for SEO strategy that captures the three primary elements of search engine optimization. Part two in a three-part series.
Search Engine Watch October 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan	Inktomi Spam Database Left Open To Public Inktomi suffered an embarrassing lack of security last week, when it was discovered that a copy of its database of spam and porn sites was left open to the public...
Entrepreneur August 2004 Catherine Seda	In the Click Want all the right people to notice your business? Gone are the days when adding keywords in meta tags to your site produced rankings. You need to make the most of today's hottest marketing method--search engine optimization.
Search Engine Watch December 24, 2003 Craig Fifield	Bungled Search Engine Optimization: Cleaning Up the Mess Many advertising agencies, design firms, and even web hosting companies offer search engine marketing services for their customers. However, some of the methods they use to obtain top positions are considered to be spam by the major search engines. How do you tell the difference?
Search Engine Watch November 5, 2001 Danny Sullivan	Desperately Seeking Search Engine Marketing Standards It seems that every so often, someone makes a new push to suggest that the search engine marketing industry needs to establish standards of conduct. The idea usually dies away from a lack of support. However, a new effort is underway from several different parties that might have more luck...
Search Engine Watch June 16, 2010 Simon Heseltine	Listen to the Search Engines The tools that search engines provide give you more information about what they really like, and can help you reach your SEO goals.
Search Engine Watch March 27, 2011 Peter van der Graaf	Old Black Hat SEO Tricks Still Work This article is all about unethical SEO. Hopefully you don't have any practical use for it. Search Engine Watch assumes no responsibility when you end up being banned from Google!
Search Engine Watch August 11, 2009 Eric Enge	The 60 Minute SEO Site Audit Site audits are one of the most important tasks for an SEO professional, and sometimes you need to do one quickly. Here's how you can complete an SEO audit for your web site in one hour or less.
AFP eWire June 13, 2005	Website Back to Basics: Site Search A search field is more than a convenient tool for web visitors. It is a fundamental component of the visitor/donor experience because it is a window on visitor needs and desires.
Search Engine Watch March 4, 2011 Eric Enge	Case Study: Impact of Code Cleanup on Site Traffic How six months of improving site speed saw 40 percent increase in traffic.
Search Engine Watch April 27, 2004 Danny Sullivan	Spam Rules Require Effective Spam Police How effective rule enforcement by the search engines regarding spam would help matters, and the impact better spam disclosure would have for searchers and marketers alike.
Search Engine Watch August 3, 2005 Marcela De Vivo	Coping with Search Engine Penalties Search engine penalties are present and pervasive, and are a primary method used by search engines to control webmasters. Unless webmasters understand what they are and what to do about them, their websites could easily trigger a penalty, losing traffic and revenue.
Search Engine Watch February 21, 2007 Andrew Goodman	2007: A Search Odyssey? Keynote Conversation with Matt Cutts At SES London, Google's most famous engineer shared his thoughts on search spam, personalization, and the future of Google.
Search Engine Watch September 13, 2010 Josh McCoy	Don't Let Small Disconnects Lead to SEO Disaster When SEOs and webmasters aren't on the same page, it can lead to listings dropping off search engine result pages. Here's how to avoid three common SEO blunders.
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Search Engine Watch June 2, 2009 Eric Enge	SEO Challenges of Restructuring a Site It's one thing to make simple changes, where a page on the new site corresponds exactly to every page on your old site. But it's much tougher when you're making more fundamental changes to the layout, organization, and content of your site.
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Search Engine Watch January 17, 2007 Eric Enge	An Introduction to SEO Best Practices Best practices for search engine optimization are constantly evolving, and are starting to look more like conventional business plans.
Search Engine Watch February 7, 2007 Eric Enge	Think Like a Search Engineer Knowing when you are taking risks, or making the decision to avoid them, can help scale your search engine marketing strategy to new heights.
Search Engine Watch June 17, 2010 John Lynch	Optimizing for the User Experience Eight steps designed to help webmasters re-prioritize day-to-day activities that will increase conversion rates, keep visitors around longer, and hopefully improve rankings.
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Search Engine Watch April 8, 2009 Eric Enge	Operating Web Sites in Multiple Countries Setting up Web sites for multiple countries is a common problem for multinational businesses that want to have separate sites for each country where they do business. There's a real risk that the search engines will see them as duplicate content.
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Search Engine Watch September 4, 2000 Danny Sullivan	Search Engine Optimization Firm Sold For $95 Million Search engine optimization is sometimes labeled a cottage industry, but plenty of companies take an industrial approach to generating traffic for clients. Case in point is Website Results, which was purchased by Internet advertising company 24/7 Media in a $95 million stock deal.
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Search Engine Watch September 28, 2009 Ron Jones	International SEO 101, Part 1 International SEO, otherwise known as global SEO or multilingual SEO, is an important component to an effective global Internet marketing strategy.
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Search Engine Watch January 27, 2009 Mark Jackson	SEO Web Site Review: Water Filter Corner This Web site recently launched and has several elements that need to be corrected to lay a sound foundation for future SEO success.
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