2010-08-19T07:31:43-04:00 http://www.davidrivers.name/ David Rivers davidrivers.name@dpg.me 2010-07-24T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.davidrivers.name/blog/2010/07/24/google-indexes-javascript <p>For someone who professes an interest in SEO, I feel like I am the last one to get the memo when I discovered earlier today that <em>Google indexes JavaScript</em>. I realized this when checking that Google finally <a href='http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kvSQE0qJOJQJ:davidrivers.name/'>cached DavidRivers.name</a>. I think consensus dictates that JavaScript is ignored, but I imagine that Google prioritizes HTML over JavaScript content.</p> <p>Apparently this keeps sites a little more honest in quelling black hat SEO attempts of keyword stuffing, and this is certainly something to consider within your overall SEO strategy.</p> <p>I don&#8217;t have anything else to say about this, but I will hopefully enlighten some others!</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/davidrivers/~4/a3j-O11J4wE" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.davidrivers.name/blog/2010/07/24/google-indexes-javascript 2010-07-13T00:00:00-04:00 http://www.davidrivers.name/blog/2010/07/13/blog-site-redesign <p>Save blog entries about the redesigns themselves, I&#8217;m pretty sure that I have deployed more versions of my site than I have published articles to it. Nevertheless, this is yet another blog about my blogsite redesign. (As soon as I implement a tagging system this will be promptly filed under &#8220;who cares?&#8221;.) This post will be updated with more details as I continue to the build out the site, improving user experience and posting more content&#8230;</p> <h2 id='todo'>TODO</h2> <ul> <li>Improve layouts and design</li> <li>Publish my portfolio</li> <li>Load-time optimization (esp. <a href='http://labjs.com/'>LABjs</a> or similar to defer loading of Disqus crap)</li> <li>Write better content for the homepage</li> <li>Generate a sitemap.xml</li> <li>Implement a tagging system</li> </ul> <!-- ## Microformats xfn, hcard, hatom, rdfa ## URL shortening /blog/redesign to /blog/2010/07/12/yet_another_blog_about_my_redesign --><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/davidrivers/~4/-FouyO2pkec" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.davidrivers.name/blog/2010/07/13/blog-site-redesign