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Smart Traffic SEO Tip #33 – Session IDs and Duplicate Content Issues

A session ID is a unique number assigned by a Web site’s server to a specific user for the duration of that user’s visit. They are used for tracking a single visitor’s navigation path through the site…..

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #32 – SEO Problems with Database-driven Sites

A database-driven site is a type of dynamic website where webpage content is extracted from a database. Having potential duplicate pages is one of the most common problems encountered for database-driven websites. This is caused by the page being called from the database by the last part of the url rather than the complete url. This means that you can change any part before the product number in the url and it will still load…..

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #31 – Google’s Search Options Column – Helpful or Not?

With the Google’s new look, the search options column at the left hand navigation provide alternatives for researchers to further refine their search query. Inside the nav bar are links to other services such as Maps and Book Search, related search queries and additional tools for narrowing your results…..

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #30 – Google’s New Look

Google’s just rolled out its new look on their search results. It’s actually a 3 column design containing menu of search options and tools to help searchers further refine their queries…..

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #29 – Are You Sure it is a Google Penalty?

Worried that your traffic and rankings have suddenly changed negatively? Do you think that Google has penalised your site?

The most obvious sign of Google penalty is the sudden negative change of rankings and a drop in visitors. Remember though that rankings do fluctuate every now and then. However, if it’s continuously decreasing after a week or so then maybe it’s time to consider looking for a penalty…..

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #28 – Dealing with Trailing Slash Duplicate Issue

Trailing Slash Issue is very common to some sites, for example pages http://www.example.co.uk/sample and http://www.example.co.uk/sample/ often serve same content. Google treats each URL above separately thus creating a duplicate issue…..