Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Hi

someone knows why google hits sometimes links thats not exit? who knows why google abbreviated simply urls

66.249.72.152 - - [23/Feb/2011:04:19:59 +0100] "GET /pressemitteil HTTP/1.1" 404 28521 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
the right place is
66.249.72.152 - - [23/Feb/2011:04:19:59 +0100] "GET /pressemitteilung HTTP/1.1" 200 28521 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"

Drupal use links as a main element for the navigation in UI. We open help pages with the links, open many auxiliary pages. But search engines will try to index that links. So people will try to close these links by the robots or any other technique. May be there are some alternatives of using links in UI (forms for example).

NYTimes.com has a very interesting article about misuse of SEO techniques and Google's response.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/business/13search.html

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Hi Everyone

Having a bit of trouble setting up google cse
Im running Drupal 6 with the google cse module and I would like it to work in a the following way
Pages that places higher in the hierarchy will have have a higher placement in the searchresults.

ie

menu/food/candy will be higher in the searchresults than
menu/food/candy/red candy when using the candy keyword. At present i seems to do the oposite.

Any ideas anyone?

Kind regards Marcus

I wrote a post about how Google Instant Search changes what we search for. It gives an example for a passport photo search that turned into passport photos.

This is only an example.

These look like very similar things, but they're not. Obviously, when Google auto-completes search terms, unexpected results can happen.

Are you seeing similar things in your sites?

I have been putting a lot of work into finishing the Keyword Research module over the last few weekends and have moved both it and Alchemy to release candidate status.

I also posted screencasts for both;
Keyword Research video demo
Alchemy video demo