Archive for April, 2009

A quick lesson about the canonical tag/element

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Ever wonder how can you be sure that search engines do understand what is real name of your page you want to index?

Now, you can simply add this <link> tag to specify your preferred version:

<link rel=”canonical” href=”http://www.example.com/product/123″ />


Matt Cutts of Google introduces the canonical link element.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm9onOGTgeM[/youtube]

Resources:
Blog post on Google webmaster blog:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspo…

Yahoo blog post:
http://ysearchblog.com/2009/02/12/fig…

Microsoft:
http://blogs.msdn.com/webmaster/archi…

Ask:
http://blog.ask.com/2009/02/ask-is-go…

Google Help Center documentation:
http://google.com/support/webmasters/…

Joost de Valk: WordPress, Magento, and Drupal
http://yoast.com/canonical-url-links/

VirtualBox 2.2 update loses network

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

I discovered today weird problem, not sure if it is related to my Windows XP setup or just a bug on VirtualBox but anyway I lost all network interfaces after updating from 2.1 version to 2.2 version. vbox_eps_cmyk2_ico
It is possible that the problem is in VMWare virtual network adapter because after I disabled VMWare virtual network adapters in Network Neighbourhood and re-run setup in repair mode it seemed to fix problem.
Anyway, Now I am happy VirtualBox user. I am still puzzled if I like it more than VMWare, maybe I do…

Update: as in 13th of April it seems that VirtualBox 2.2.0 build has many bugs. I recommend waiting bug fix patch for it before installing. Release 2.1 is much more stable. I recommend using it.