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What are Canonical URLs?

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on February 17, 2008

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www vs. Non-www?

The problem is that www is considered a sub-domain, just like: http://mail.yahoo.com or http://analytics.google.com.

Search engines consider subdomains to be a completely different web site. So, http://www.dauclair.com is a completely different site than http://dauclair.com in Google’s eyes.

This affects your SEO in two areas:

If Google happens to index your site as both www and non-www, you may be penalized for duplicate content. Your site is essentially competing against itself.
Google determines your PageRank, the importance of your site, by the number of inbound links your site has. So, if people are linking to www, but your site is indexed as non-www, you are missing out on all the inbound links pointing to your www site.

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After It Falls

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on January 30, 2008

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After It Falls

We’ve had some peacefully rainy days this week. I had to capture this moment I was experiencing ‘after it falls’.

My Camera

Make: Panasonic
Model: DMC-FX3
Date/Time: 01-29-2008 4:29PM
Location: Riverside, CA

MacBook Air Redefines ‘Wow Factor’

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on January 20, 2008

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Apple never ceases to amaze me. I was just getting over the fact that you can surf the web via Wi-Fi on the new iPod touch, but the new MacBook Air ultra compact notebook computer totally pushes wireless personal electronics over the edge.

Nice Specs, Small Package
Core 2 Duo and 2GB of ram at a starting price tag of $1799. MacBook Air weighs in at only 3 lbs. and measures well under one inch thick at 0.75″. It ships standard with OS X 10.5 Leopard.

Air Technology
MacBook Air comes fully equipped with ‘Air’ technology like 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.1. There is no optical drive built in because you can wirelessly access everything you need.

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Starbucks Got Me Hooked

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on January 17, 2008

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You may have noticed a new product offering from Starbucks during the recent holiday season. It is not a new drink or one of their super delicious pastries, it is the new Starbucks customized gift card.

You start with a simple, blank white starbucks gift card for $25. Then, you visit the Starbucks MyCard web site and redeem approximately $4.00 of your gift credit in exchange for a personalized, custom printed Starbucks gift card. Use their simple card building wizard to create a card that is so ‘You’. I customized mine with my favorite drink order: A Grande Java Chip Frappuccino with extra chips!

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How To: Setup GoDaddy Nameservers

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on January 11, 2008

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So you just bought your domain name from GoDaddy and you are wondering what to do next? It is time to point your newly acquired domain name at your web server. We call this ‘Pointing’ or ‘Setting up’ your nameservers.

So What is a Nameserver?

Nameservers are like the road signs of the internet. For example, if you type a domain name into your web browser (also known as an ‘address’), a site usually pops up. That is because your browser followed all the road signs (nameservers) until it ended up at your destination, the web site you were requesting. These road signs need to be setup by somebody. That somebody is probably you, unless you have a web designer working for you, who will gladly handle this task.

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