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SEO Redirect or 301 Redirect

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

SEO redirect or 301 redirect is one of the best Search Engine Friendly method to redirect a webpage. It is easy to implement and it will preserve your rankings for that page. 301 redirect means “moved permanently”.

You can also use this tool Redirect Checker to check if your page is 301 redirect or not.

Here are some of the common of the common examples of 301 redirect you can use with your website:

Search Engine considers ankitrawat.com and www.ankitrawat.com both Different websites. So you have to redirect one of them to other so as to have a same PR.

This is not a new issue its already discussed lots of time like in 2005 Dan wrote a post in his blog example.com vs www.example.com.

Well here I’m Telling you the code you have to put into your .htacess file into the root folder of your control panel.

The code to redirect ankitrawat.com to www.ankitrawat.com would be as follows:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.ankitrawat\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.ankitrawat.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Code to redirect www.ankitrawat.com to ankitrawat.com will be:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^ankitrawat\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://ankitrawat.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Now last night I was browsing DP and there a guy asked he want to change his website url. (Domainname.com to Domainname.org) or we can say he wanted to move his domain without loosing search engine ranks… so here we go with the coding part…

301 code to Move your domain to www.ankitrawat.com:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://www.ankitrawat.com/$1 [R=301,L]

You can also redirect sub-domains. Just add the below code into the .htaccess inside the root of your olddomain.com.

Code to redirect sub-domains of Your olddomain.com to ankitrawat.com:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (.*)\olddomain\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://%1ankitrawat.com/$1 [R=301,L]

If you have moved some old page to a new page and want all visitors and search bots to redirect to your new page simply put any of the code into your old page :

301 PHP redirect Code to redirect old page to www.ankitrawat.com:

< ?
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: http://www.ankitrawat.com" );
? >

301 JSP (Java Script) redirect code to redirect old page to www.ankitrawat.com:

<%
response.setStatus(301);
response.setHeader( "Location", "http://www.ankitrawat.com/" );
response.setHeader( "Connection", "close" );
%>

It is strongly recommended that you should contact all the website owners earlier linking your website or pages to link your new website or page. Right now Google is passing all the search ranking and Pagerank redirect under 301 code.

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SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

Monday, February 18th, 2008

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a process which is applied to increase the quality and number of visitors through Search Engines by getting high rankings in Searches. This includes a process of designing or developing a web site to attract search engine bots and to improve a website’s ranking for relevant keyword within a seach engine database. It includes search engine submission, directory submission, content creation and sometimes more.

Major search engines:

  1. Google
  2. Yahoo
  3. Live Search by Microsoft, formerly known as MSN
  4. Ask.com, formerly known as Ask Jeeves

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Keyword Optimization Tips and Tricks

Monday, February 18th, 2008

I believe Google hate and kicks websites made for Web Crawler .. Google will always love a nice content website with lots of useful information. (i.e … a website made for users not for bots).

Below are some Keyword Optimization Tips and Tricks which according to me are very much important while making a website.

  1. Never do Keywords Stuffing, as it will result in Making Google Mad over your website. Always tries to make your post look good like its made for peoples not for bots.
  2. Plural forms are sometimes helpful, not just singular.
  3. Use good keywords as categories like blog, google, hosting..etc. It promotes usability and it will optimize your website as well. Using irrelevant categories will not only harm usability but it will also result in your Google standing.
  4. Google don’t trust much on meta description or keyword tags as users cant see them. Google trust on categories, navigation menus, sidebars and the whole content of the page.
  5. Never overflow your content with keyword repeat .. only repeat it nearly 2-3 times in a paragraph of nearly 100 words.
  6. Never repeat the same keywords within a line but you can use keyword variants or synonyms.
  7. Altering content and sending it to googlebot is called cloaking and Google will ban you from its search index if it will caught you doing so.

These are some simple tips and tricks which one need to have in mind while Optimizing Keywords for his/her website.

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Exchanging Links Just a SEO Mistake

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

Buying a random software package to get thousands of backlinks, is what normally 60% of webmasters do. Mailing some reputed website for a link exchange don’t really make any sense. I had seen many SEO companies using this technique. Lets take an example how webmasters react after getting emails with link exchange request…

Brainpulse is ticking me off

Instead of exchanging links, lots of webmasters forward these unsolicited emails to Google.

Always remember best links are not paid, or exchanged .

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