The Open Directory Project (also known as DMOZ) is a free directory created and hosted by the Netscape Communication Corporation (remember Netscape?  They’re now part of Time Warner’s AOL). The ODP has lost favour with webmasters and search professionals over the past few years, mainly due to two reasons.  The first is the theory that [...]

Canonicalization is a big word, essentially meaning standardization or normalization.  In the context of SEO, it’s best described by Wikipedia. URL normalization (or URL canonicalization) is the process by which URLs are modified and standardized in a consistent manner… wikipedia Even more simply, it’s a set of rules written in regular expressions that instruct browsers [...]