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I hear you now -  I’m SOOOO wrong on this, right?  Cufon is a standard compliant javascript file with failback support – It MUSN’T affect SEO at all!  The previous means -  that even in browsers (or robots) that do not support cufon, the text will be seen just as text – index-able plain text!  This text will get weighted and indexed just like any other text on the internet.  So I’m an idiot and wrong – right?  Not exactly.

So then how does cufon affect SEO?  Well now that google has released “instant preview”, cufon font is not being rendered in the images.  Some suggest it is a problem with google’s bot.  Regardless, this is an issue for YOUR cufon website!  Your image can come up completely incomplete in the preview pane.

I will use Katy Perry’s website as an example.  Just look below at the highlighted sections that use Cufon and see how cufon is missing completely:

I’m currently working on a fix for this and testing out a few different options.  I will update you once I verify it.

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Sometimes an svn url path may change due to server relocation etc. To remap back the svn path we can use svn switch –relocate

First check the old url path with “svn info” next do the switch

svn switch –relocate

i.e.
svn switch --relocate https://udklstr1/SWITCHING/generic/SunManager/trunk https://10.162.24.3/svn/SWITCHING/generic/SunManager/trunk

Have all mail get sent from one ipaddress on your server:

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp --dport 25 -j SNAT --to-source IP_YOU_WANT_TO_USE

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