Pages tagged “google”

14 Dec 2014

Scenic routes?

OK, Google - er, wait, no. I’m seven minutes from my destination. I think I’ll pass on your “9 min slower” alternative. While I like the “would you like a faster route” pop-ups, I’m confused. Why is a slower alternative route ever offered?

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08 Oct 2012

URL shuffling and Google juice

I thought I’d write up something I did at work today, in case it’s useful to other “webmasters”. We have a site which, through evolution, history and multiple editors, has ended up with a cluttered URL space. It happens. This is a worthwhile thing to do for tidiness, to enable future redesigns, and to ensure good navigation (and hence Googlability). I was keen to do it in a way that maintained existing links, and in a way which would preserve search engines' knowledge of our pages.

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