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How to Avoid Google Penalties with AJAX and display:none

As you may have read about by now, Google's Matt Cutts participated in a fairly lengthy Q&A session at SMX Advanced in Seattle. One interesting question that Matt got was about how webmasters should deal with display:none and AJAX without being penalized by Google. Cutts recommends making sure that whenever you write your own mouseover code that you don't roll your own custom solution, which he says might do some really weird things that nobody else has done before.

Google Referral Change Linked to Faster Search Results Experiment

This week, it was announced that Google was making changes to search referral URLs. Basically, where URLs looked like this before: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=flowers&btnG=Google+Search They will start looking more like this:

SMX East: Handling CSS, Ajax, And SEO

Since most relevant recommendations are presented as and relate to standard English words, it's not too hard to understand most of the SEO basics.  But stuff relating to CSS and Ajax can get a little confusing, so a session at SMX East tried to focus on a few tips and tricks.

Enabling Google Analytics Site Search

You can now log-in to your Google Analytics account to start enabling the new Site Search feature for a site of yours.

Google Takes AJAX Debugger Out of Beta

Google has long maintained that AJAX is the future (and the now) of the Web, and even refers to the click-and-wait method as "the yesterweb." But for developers, AJAX is a pain, especially when debugging for browser quirks. Those struggling, then, may be happy to know that the Google Web Toolkit is now out of beta with version 1.4.

SES - CSS, AJAX, Web 2.0 & Search Engines

As the web moves into its second generation, sites are making more use of CSS, AJAX and other advanced and interactive design techniques. But how are the largely Web 1.0 search engines reacting to these, from an SEO perspective. This session explores issues and solutions.

Yahoo YSlow Shows Site Slowness

A Firefox add-on called YSlow from Yahoo works with the Firebug plugin to show webmasters the causes of problems with their website's performance.

Google AJAX Search API Including Image Results

Google AJAX Search API now has image search results reports the Goog

Blogger Gets AJAX API/CSE Search Box

Blogger In Draft has a new page element feature, a search box that uses both the Google AJAX Search API and Google’s Custom Search Engine to deliver a great search experience for your blog.

Google Gears Grind Out Web Apps

Google announced an open source browser extension that enables web applications to run offline.