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Re: SEO tricks from Patio11

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@dikbrouwer: Was the talk recorded, if so is there a youtube link? @patio11: could you make your presentation / slide deck available for those of us who were not fortunate enough to attend in person.

No recording that I'm aware of.

Thanks. Any idea if the deck is available anywhere?

Re: SEO tricks from Patio11

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Google and Bing are pretty good at automatically canonicalizing these, but not perfect I have been meaning to blog this - this leads to cloaking exploits. For eg. Google will figure out the shorter canonical link for a domain. So if you have www.lakers.com redirect to lakers.nba.com Google will treat 'lakers.com' as the canonical link and rewrite all the search results. This can be exploited by registering a shorte…

I talked to Fred about this after you pointed out, but there's basically no way that shorter url could have hijacked Fred's site. Way back in the mists of time we had things called "302 hijacks" but I haven't seen any attempts like that succeed in years.

Sorry, missed your reply. I was going to email you about Fred's blog but you were on holidays at the time, so I just asked him to setup the canonical in Webmaster Tools

Good that this doesn't work

Re: SEO tricks from Patio11

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This part sounds like cargo cult black magic: "This works for .com (.edu, .org) domains, but not for non-US TLDs like .co or .ly." Does Google really discriminate based on TLDs?

Ask a simple question, get a simple answer: yes, Google certainly treats the Big Three differently than it does .co or .ly. I don't have specific evidence of them discriminating against .co/.ly, but the evidence that they discriminate for EMDs in the Big Three is overwhelming and undeniable.

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