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Poorly Coded Site Search can Kill Your Rankings

Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Poorly Coded Site Search can Kill Your Rankings

Usually when a developer thinks of bad code affecting search rankings, they think in terms of how poorly written HTML will bonk SERPs. A search engine will get over a table in your HTML, probably even a broken link. It will snicker at your inclusion of the keywords meta-tag and move on, happy to keep [...]

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Avoiding Loose Typing Dangers

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Sometimes I like terse code. if( state ){} is clear. However this syntax can cause a lot of grief in loose typed languages, and while you can avoid some cases by typing vars, you can still get yourself into trouble (as a note: I find strict mode a pain in ActionScript). if( GetState() ){} may [...]