(Gizmodo, Lifehacker)WTF, Gawker? You Redesigned All Your Sites?

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Usability-wise they're horrible. I'm not so sure it's going to hurt their rankings though. They're using the #! in URL structure to conform with Google's AJAX crawling rules [1] and Google is linking to the pages in the SERPs.

Now they have screwed themselves in an entirely different way. Google has indexed their staging server [2] which is now password protected and outranking their site [3].

[1] http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting-started... [2] http://www.google.com/search?q=site:stage.gawker.com [3] http://www.google.com/search?q=flubbed+because+she+was+drunk

didn't get that [2] and [3] parts, But the design is so bad that makes me stop going there instantly. Engadget just got a not shared 24/7 user.

Just got the [2]. [3] still not clear thougt

The original author says that they won't rank, but the pages are ranking in Google with the #!. The problem is stage.gawker.com is ranking instead of gawker.com.

Click the first result in [3] and it will ask you for a username and password.

It looks like the main domain is ranking for everything but the most random queries. Interesting to see the AJAX crawl in action.

They just made one of my favorite sites, Gizmodo useless.

Cheers, It would be incredibly hard to make me stop going to Gizmodo an Life Hacker(browser thru it the whole day for as long as I remeber) but YOU DID IT !

Ironic that their front-page article has a montage of cans of Coca Cola CLASSIC.

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