News,Search Engine Optimization
Google December Pagerank Update for the 2009 New Year
Since I’ve put up a blog post every other time Google updated it’s toolbar PageRank, I might as well not make tonight’s any different. The final quarterly PageRank update for 2008 is here, and (for me, at least) it’s been extremely friendly. I no longer have a client or a site with a PageRank of less than 4, and I’ve helped several sites up to 5 or 6.
But PageRank is Pointless
google, google pagerank, keywords, pagerank, Search Engine Optimization, search results, seo
For All You Twitterers: We Launched Tweetwasters.com Today
Whew, it’s been a hectic morning! Sugarrae, Streko, Reese and I have been working together to launch Tweetwasters.com, and we just shipped it out the door a few hours ago. It’s a pretty simple application – it just polls the Twitter API to count how many status updates (ugh, do I have to call them “Tweets”?) you’ve posted to Twitter. Then we do some high-end mathematical computations to figure out just how much time you’ve wasted on Twitter — assuming you spend about 30 seconds on average every time you send in a new a tweet.
Code Samples,Search Engine Optimization
Using IIS URL Rewrite Extensions to Redirect Default.aspx
About a week ago or so I received an email from Michael Wall asking me about an issue I have also noticed but had not mentioned in my earlier blog post about Canonical URL rewriting in IIS. He asked, “How can I redirect /default.aspx to / on IIS shared hosting without causing an endless loop?” It’s a familiar problem with Windows Web Servers.
301 redirect, asp.net, default.aspx, IIS, iis 7, microsoft, url rewriting, windows web server