A couple of weeks ago Forbes blocked its coupons directory on its website from being crawled by Google. Now Forbes has completely wiped out all the coupons from its site, serving a 410 status code and removing the coupons link from its navigation. If you try to access forbes.com/coupons, you should get a 410 status … Read more
Forbes has blocked its coupons section of its web site at forbes.com/coupons using an x-robots-tag: noindex directive prior to Google enforcing the upcoming site reputation abuse policy. As a reminder, Google will enforce that new policy on May 5th both algorithmically and through manual actions. Laura Chiocciora notified me of this change on X saying, … Read more
WordPress is a popular content management system (CMS) that powers millions of websites worldwide. However, it’s not uncommon to encounter roadblocks along the way. One such obstacle that can dampen the spirits is the “Installation Failed: Could Not Create Directory” error. This error often appears when attempting to install a theme or a plugin or … Read more
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September 28, 2014 | Posted by Barry Schechter Nearly 20 years ago, the Yahoo Directory was born. With a hand-compiled list of websites, it was something revolutionary for its time, and was certainly the industry leader for a number of years. The only site to overtake Yahoo! has been Google, who celebrated 16 … Read more
In the early years of SEO, directories were a popular ranking tactic. They were a very popular way of obtaining links for a number of reasons. Not only was it very easy to submit websites to dozens of directories at a time, but it was also a low-cost tactic and it worked. Google even encouraged … Read more
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