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TinyURL! Bookmarklet

Thursday, September 18, 2008

I love TinyURL! and have been using it for years and years.

For the first time today I scrolled down the page a bit, by accident, and saw that you can create a TinyURL! bookmarklet. Trés radical.

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Easily Mispronounced Domain Names

Monday, July 28, 2008

Brilliant: Easily Mispronounced Domain Names
Go Tahoe!

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A Rant about Keywords and URLs

Friday, June 22, 2007

A day or two ago I was pinged by a co-worker from my previous job. He wanted to know why, during its recent redesign, I didn’t include keywords in the URLs of the pages on a site I originally built a long, long time ago. I told him that there was no concrete evidence anywhere to support the theory that search engines give any weight to keywords in URLs. He then pointed me to an article at Search Engine Land that begins by stating that, “Keywords in the URL can help rankings,” and, “Hyphens are better than underscores when separating multiple words.”

Google hates underscores?!

First I noted that I don’t include keywords on this site, either, and it’s been doing just fine. Then I argued that I find it very, very hard to believe that Google (or any other search engine) has some sort of negative bias against the underscore character but that hyphens are just fine. So basically I completely disagree with the single piece of actual “advice” in the article.

Am I saying that it is wrong to include keywords in your URLs? No. I don’t think that at all. I just don’t think you should be stuffing keywords into your URLs in an effort to boost your pages’ rankings in search engine result pages. It makes great sense to use words in your URLs if you’re doing it to improve the usability of your site or to make it easier for people to link to your site. Unfortunately most site designers and blog engines — WordPress included — fail to effectively do this.

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SpoilerKits

Tuesday, July 24, 2001

No detail has been overlooked! The URL’plate compliments the chrome detailing on any vehicle. The letters are bold and stand out. They are easy to read, even at highway speeds!

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require www in URL

Friday, April 6, 2001

It drives me nuts that you need to enter the www to get to the University of Florida Home Page. Just typing ufl.edu won’t get you there.

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Available Domain Names

Monday, April 2, 2001

More from the These Are Still Available Department:

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Available domain names

Monday, March 26, 2001

Available domain names:

Nobody wants these?!

[Note: I just registered terribleheadache.com for no apparent reason. <grin>]

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Available Domain Names

Tuesday, March 20, 2001

The available domain name of the week from splorp.com is a handy and fun little web resource. I remember visiting the site early last year and seeing some great names. This is a site for the people who complain that all the good www names are taken. This week’s available name is plaintextarchive.com. Check ‘em out.

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