The past month has been a frustrating battle with Google’s search results.  My audiobooks for ipod site has been bouncing between the first page of Google search results and the last page of results.  When it gets pushed to the back, the whole site seems to be affected.  It will be on the first page for thousands of keywords one day and then the next it won’t show up for just about anything.  Very frustrating.

I think it has to do with duplicate content that Google has indexed.  First, I had set up some subdomains to serve images faster, but Google began duplicating content like mad so I cut of the subdomains. Now, I’m seeing Google index XML feeds which create duplicate content.  I added noindex to those last week, but it seems to take forever to get out of the doghouse:<

I was surfing around the web working on improve the organic search results of some sites when I stumbled upon Google’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization (SEO). It’s a good primer on the basics of SEO.

Google’s guide describes best practices for

• site navigation
• content
• onsite links
• anchor texts
• heading tags optimization
• image optimization
• using robots.txt
• using rel=”nofollow” the right way

The guide is great for people who want to make sure they are doing the basic stuff right. If you’re new to SEO or want to check out the basics before hiring someone to help with SEO this is worth reading.

You can get the pdf of  Google’s Guide To Search Engine Optimization here.

Just like the mp3s, there are plenty of cams that are connected to the web and open for someone else to control. Here’s what you need to stick in the search box:

inurl:”viewerframe mode=”

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Google’s index shows a huge number of unprotected mp3 files out there on the web.

Here’s what you need to put into the search box

intitle:index.of +mp3 +”INSERT BAND NAME HERE” -html -htm -php -asp -txt -pls

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