Duplicate content and the non-www redirect
Filed under: Webmaster-Ressourcen, Website-Marketing, WordPress HowTo
Jerry West writes in his current post: Fixing Internal Duplicate Content with a Non-www Site Redirect about a well known subject, which I want to emphasise due to the fact that many webmasters are still neglecting this important detail; it leads to the Duplicate Content penalty by Google and reduces pagerank which worsens search engine listings for your pages. As a consequence the site gets less search engine traffic – a bad mistake for every webmaster, not only those using their site to make money.
Worse still because the Duplicate Content Fix can be done simply by editing .htaccess in the root directory of the website. Even easier done by using the latest version of WordPress: set your WorPress-Address and Blog-Address correctly using “http://www.”, and the rest is done automatically by WordPress – no gurudo necessary.
Instant Buzz and Firefox
Woohoo – finally my Instant Buzz toolbar seems to work OK in Firefox (yeah – it is really version 2.0 already!). ‘Seems to’ because Firefox is sometimes behaving a little strange and I have not figured out yet, if it is a bug in the brandnew version 2.0 or if it is still something with the IB toolbar – it has shown me sort of its rough edges so far… We’ll see and keep watching…
Anyways, you can go and download the tuned IB Firefox plugin – not right here though, as I don’t want to infringe anyone’s legal interest’s – certainly not those of Instant Buzz and Mike Filsaime…
1) The plugin is only interesting if you are an InstantBuzz user anyway, so I have posted the link in the Community-Forum. So just go there…
2) do a search for ‘Firefox 2.0 Plugin’ and you will (hopefully) find my post with the download-link.
3) download and unzip and then drag and drop the .xpi into the open Add-ons window in Firefox. That should be it.
If it does not work (quite yet), then go check your firewall security settings (hint: if IB works in IE, then this is OK); still another cause could be some temporary IB files that still linger somewhere on your PC. There is good information about how to tackle this one: go to the Community – Peer to Peer Help Forum and do a search for ‘Loading…’
Have fun 
P.S. A little tidbit: IB does not load any ads and shows ‘Loading…’, if there are temporary (buzzxxx.htm) files present. You can prevent this if you go to Options/Settings/Privacy and then click ‘Delete private data when exiting …’ (I hope that this is the right wording as I am not using FF with the English interface language – maybe some comments…) That should do it.
update: Instant buzz people probably did not linke my contribution 
and they have not updated their firefox toolbar either. that’s why I have discarded using it – works just as well…
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