One WordPress feature is automatic trackbacks (pingbacks) by other blogs powered by WordPress. I learned of my first trackback via a Google Alert. It’s a source of back links that may yield some traffic.
These trackbacks are tagged with the “nofollow” attribute so it won’t help Google Page Rank. WordPress 1.5 and above automatically [...]
Last week I got caught by the Google Duplicate Page filter. I checked this morning and discovered that they had reindexed the pages so I’m #1 on Google for top 10 temecula wines. That’s good news that the penalty didn’t last too long.
It took hours to clean up the mess after being flagged by the Google duplicate page filter. Therefore, I needed to change titles, text, and images so that the flag could be removed. I eventually followed the tack of using the Squidoo lenses for long polls where people could vent their frustration at my choices [...]
After scrambling to quickly yank out duplicate content from Squidoo, I was ready for bed. The Squidoo pages were a wreck, and my blog links were pointing to wrecked pages. But as best as I could tell, disaster had been averted and I was ready for bed.
Early in the day I had done a Google [...]
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