Furl is destroying Google rank of websites with 302 redirect

July 5th, 2005 Angsuman's Permanent Redirector Plugin Overview This plugin allows you to redirect (permanent redirect using HTTP status 301) any of your posts or pages to a different URL. This enables you to transfer Google rank of your post or page (static page of WordPress) to a new page.

April 15th, 2008 While looking for VOIP information I found an article which looked eerily familiar to another article I had recently read. A simple google search (remember that Google lists a small subset of total matches) with a big identifying phrase from the article yielded 2110 articles.

May 16th, 2005 An analysis of growth pattern of top weblogs.

June 28th, 2008 Any PHP based software like WordPress, Mambo, Joomla, Drupal, MODx etc. will serve pages both from http://your-site.com as well as http://your-site.com/index.php.

October 19th, 2005 I have recently added BlogAds to my site on the first right navigation bar. I started getting ads.

May 1st, 2009 URL redirection service is not new. Recently it has become extremely popular thanks to Twitter and its draconian 140 character limit on messages.

November 28th, 2005 I have observed this for sometime, so I thought I would bring this to light and see if you have observed it too. Apparently nofollow directive is ignored by search engines including Google, despite their claims.

August 17th, 2006 Finally a clean-room implementation of Google's Page Rank Algorithm in Java, reverse-engineered from their numerous commentary on Page Rank (or is it Pigeon Rank?). public static int getPageRank(url) { // start off with a random low PR int pageRank = rand.getInt(0, 3); if ( isHostedOn('google.com', url) ) { pageRank++; } else if ( isHostedOn('microsoft.com', url) ) { pageRank--; } // Support valid pages if (isValidPage(url) ) { pageRank += 1; } tag_value['b'] = 1; tag_value['h2'] = 2; tag_value['h1'] = 3; tag_value['strong'] = -1; // W3C sux! pageRank = calculateTagsPR(tag_value, pagerank); // Sergey said good news sites have // lots of nested tables tablesOnPage = getTagCount('table'); if (tablesOnPage >= 50) { pageRank += 2; } if (pageRank >= 5) { pageRank = 4; // helps selling AdWords } if (linksFrom('mattcutts.com', url) >= 4) { // I link to "clean" sites only // ? Matt, Feb 2006 pagerank += 2; } pagerank += countBacklinks(url) / 10000; blacklist1 = getList('c:\chinese-government-censored.txt'); blacklist2 = getList('c:\larry-page-hatelist.txt'); if ( inArray(blacklist1, url) || inArray(blacklist2, url) ) { pageRank = 0; } d = dashesInUrl(url); pageRank = (d >= 3) ? pageRank -1 : pageRank + 1; if (inString(url, "how to build a bomb")) { // added on request.

February 23rd, 2008 I recently came across an instance of Google Proxy hacking with one of my clients, which removed his index page and other pages from SERP (Search Engine Ranking & Positioning) and he lost the page ranks (went down to zero). We were asked to protect his site against Google Proxy hacking, a really dangerous technique which can not only cause you to loose page rank but also remove your pages from SERP, all because Google cannot properly identify original pages from duplicates.

August 2nd, 2006 Google Analytics increased the number of default profiles from 5 to 10. This increases the number of websites you can track.

February 6th, 2008 I accidentally discovered a super-cool re-direction feature embedded in WordPress 2.3.x. Any blog may have multiple url pointing to the same blog.

January 10th, 2009 BEIJING - China has shut down another 50 websites for containing pornography and lewd content, bringing the total number of blocked sites to 91 since last Thursday. Authorities have vowed to beef up crackdown efforts in the following days and urged law-breakers to voluntarily turn themselves in to local public security departments.

July 14th, 2006 US Federal court judge, Jeremy Fogel, dismissed Kinderstart's, education website, lawsuit against Google. The lawsuit accused Google of ""pervasive monopolistic practices" that denied its free speech rights, destroyed competition, and led to predatory pricing conditions".

July 21st, 2006 Accessible Search is a Google Labs product which will identify and prioritize search results that are more easily usable by blind and visually impaired users. Regular Google search helps you find a set of documents that are most relevant.

April 13th, 2005 Nowadays I have noticed that Google apparently confers pagerank only to the front page of the blog. All other pages appear to have a rank of zero! I have noticed it across a wide spectrum of blogs, even blogs with very high pageranks.