How should I serve different content based on user location?
This is interesting because it's a topic that gets close to what might fall into the spam world.
Matt talks about sending people from different countries to different parts of your site based on IP Delivery. He specifically says that you should not show different content to Googlebot.
If you do that then you are not in violation of Google Webmaster Quality Guidelines.
Martokus from Sofia, Bulgaria asks:
"What is the best way to serve different content according to user country IP (legal reasons)?"
This video is part of a "Grab Bag" series in which Matt Cutts, head of Google's webspam team, answers questions from webmasters. We're not currently taking new video questions, so your best bet for getting an answer about webmaster-related search issues is to head to our help forum: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p...
A day in the life of webmaster support
This is an interesting video in seeing a day in the life of Googlers.
What's fascinating is how dedicated these people all are to helping webmasters.
You might watch this to see where all these people hang out to help webmasters.
WordPress Template Spam
I recently uncovered some amateur spam in a free template my friend downloaded for her web site. This kind of thing could cause you a lot of trouble in the search engines.
You need to be aware of this because the search engines hold you responsible for everything on your site.
If you are violating their terms regardless of whether you know it or not, they could pull your entire site from their index.
Google’s Policy on IP Delivery and Geolocation
This is a fairly technical subject. But this is a good piece on understanding this topic
and pointing out what is and is not possible.
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: How Google defines IP delivery, geolocation, and cloaking
Moving From Joomla To WordPress
After a lot of careful thought, I decided to move from Joomla to WordPress at:
http://www.webmarketingwatch.com
I love Joomla. But for what I'm doing at Web Marketing Watch, I think WordPress is a better fit.
Here's why...