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I made a tiny and most likely imperceptible change to one of my Movable Type templates. I had noticed that a lot of Google (and other) search referrals to my site were for individual words that appeared in very different places on my monthly archive pages. With a search string spanning a whole month of […]

I made a tiny and most likely imperceptible change to one of my Movable Type templates. I had noticed that a lot of Google (and other) search referrals to my site were for individual words that appeared in very different places on my monthly archive pages. With a search string spanning a whole month of entries, the page would be of little or no help to the searcher. Sure, the extra traffic is nice, but being an editor by trade, I’m all about the reader experience. Sort of. So, I tweaked the meta tags on my monthly archive templates such that they won’t get picked up by search engines. The daily archives are still able to be crawled, as usual.

Yes, I’m that bored.

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