My Short Response to Derek Powazek

by Dave on October 17, 2009

Dear Derek,

The website for your quarterly, Fray,  is producing duplicate content due to a canonical issue with the www versus non-www version,

http://www.fray.com

http://fray.com

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=9Jj&q=site%3Awww.fray.com&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=HKj&q=site%3Afray.com&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

So much for the obvious.

Love,

Dave

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{ 10 comments… read them below or add one }

1 kev grant October 18, 2009 at 3:33 am

heh, nice. :)

he IS one of those web spammers he hates so much.

regards from Ibiza

2 Myron Rosmarin October 18, 2009 at 12:34 pm

nicely done.

3 Olivier October 18, 2009 at 2:27 pm

absolutely brilliant.

4 aaron wall October 19, 2009 at 3:38 am

Yup the guy is a tool.

On his personal blog the page titles start with his name rather than the post names. He is not using descriptive URLs. And he lists some of the month archives on the homepage, but none of the word-based categories. And he is not using any related posts plug in which could increase user engagement and help with cross linking.

5 Sadie October 19, 2009 at 6:11 am

Brilliant!!!

6 SEO Concepts Blog October 19, 2009 at 11:43 pm

That’s a nice job being accomplished.

7 Gradiva Couzin October 20, 2009 at 8:23 pm

And, fortunately, there are several relatively easy ways to handle this. One, you could bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepppp in your .htaccess file. You may also wish to bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepppppppp within Google Webmaster Tools. Or, use the recently introduced bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepppppppppp tag within your .

[this comment has been censored due to its use of SEO, which "is not a legitimate form of marketing" and "should not be undertaken by people with brains or souls."]

8 rinkjustice October 21, 2009 at 9:52 am

Heh. This is the best rebuttal I’ve read yet.

9 Rob October 21, 2009 at 10:37 am

Funny stuff! Maybe I’m out of the loop but does anyone really care what Derek Powazek thinks any more? Are we spending more time and energy on this guy than he’s worth?

10 Ralph | Vertical Measures October 29, 2009 at 12:36 pm

I read the original article Powazek wrote when it first came out, and this response is just what was needed! Brilliant!

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