301 Redirect
A 301 redirect setup in the .htaccess file is typically the friendliest method for moving web pages. As long as you get the format correct (see below), it is not difficult for webmasters to utilize the 301 redirect method for renaming web pages. And yes, search engines do view it as a permanent move for the pages named in your .htaccess file.
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* The .htaccess file can also be used for changing file extensions.
Here is Herman’s complete and concise article on using a 301 redirect.
How to Redirect a Web Page Using a 301 Redirect
By Herman Drost
You’ve just redesigned some pages of your web site. The
pages have high search engine rankings that you don’t want
to lose. How can you safely redirect web site traffic from
your old pages to the new pages without losing your
rankings? You can do this by using a " 301 redirect "
What is 301 redirect?
301 redirect is the best method to preserve your current
search engine rankings when redirecting web pages or a web
site. The code "301" is interpreted as "moved
permanently".
After the code, the URL of the missing or renamed page is
noted, followed by a space, then followed by the new
location or file name. You implement the 301 redirect by
creating a .htaccess file.
What is a .htaccess file?
When a visitor/spider requests a web page, your web server
checks for a .htaccess file. The .htaccess file contains
specific instructions for certain requests, including
security, redirection issues and how to handle certain
errors.
How to implement the 301 Redirect
1. To create a .htaccess file, open notepad, name and save
the file as .htaccess (there is no extension).
2. If you already have a .htaccess file on your server,
download it to your desktop for editing.
3. Place this code in your .htaccess file:
redirect 301 /old/old.htm http://www.you.com/new.htm
4. If the .htaccess file already has lines of code in it,
skip a line, then add the above code.
5. Save the .htaccess file
6. Upload this file to the root folder of your server.
7. Test it by typing in the old address to the page you’ve
changed. You should be immediately taken to the new
location.
Notes: Don’t add "http://www" to the first part of the
statement – place the path from the top level of your site
to the page. Also ensure that you leave a single space
between these elements:
redirect 301 (the instruction that the page has moved)
/old/old.htm (the original folder path and file name)
http://www.you.com/new.htm (new path and file name)
When the search engines spider your site again they will
follow the rule you have created in your .htaccess file.
The search engine spider doesn’t actually read the
.htaccess file, but recognizes the response from the
server as valid.
During the next update, the old file name and path will be
dropped and replaced with the new one. Sometimes you may
see alternating old/new file names during the transition
period, plus some fluctuations in rankings. According to
Google it will take 6-8 weeks to see the changes reflected
on your pages.
Other ways to implement the 301 redirect:
1. To redirect ALL files on your domain use this in your
.htaccess file if you are on a unix web server:
redirectMatch 301 ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com
redirectMatch permanent ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com
You can also use one of these in your .htaccess file:
redirect 301 /index.html http://www.domain.com/index.html
redirect permanent /index.html http://www.domain.com/index.html
redirectpermanent /index.html http://www.domain.com/index.html
This will redirect "index.html" to another domain using a
301-Moved permanently redirect.
2. If you need to redirect http://mysite.com to
http://www.mysite.com and you’ve got mod_rewrite enabled
on
your server you can put this in your .htaccess file:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]
or this:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Tip: Use your full URL (ie http://www.domain.com) when
obtaining incoming links to your site. Also use your full
URL for the internal linking of your site.
3. If you want to redirect your .htm pages to .php pages
andd you’ve got mod_rewrite enabled on your server you can
put this in your .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule (.*).htm$ /$1.php
4. If you wish to redirect your .html or .htm pages to
.shtml pages because you are using Server Side Includes
(SSI) add this code to your .htaccess file:
AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml .html .htm
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
DirectoryIndex index.shtml index.html
Frequently Asked Question:
What’s the difference in using a 301 redirect versus a
meta redirect?
Meta Redirect
To send someone to a new page (or site) put this in the
head of your
document:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;
url=http://mynewsite.com/">
Content="10; tells the browser to wait 10 seconds before
transfer, choose however long you would like, you can even
choose 0 to give a smoother transition, but some (really
old) browsers aren’t capable of using this so I’d suggest
putting a link on that page to your new site for them.
With a meta redirect the page with the redirect issues a
200 OK status and some other mechanism moves the browser
over to the new URL. With a 200 OK on both pages, the
search engine wants to index both the start page and the
target page – and that is a known spam method (set up
10,000 domains full of keywords for the search engines to
index then meta redirect the "real visitor" after 0 or 1
seconds to the "real site" ) so using it gets you
penalized.
The 301 redirect simply issues a Permanently Moved message
in the HTTP header which tells the search engine to only
index the target URL.
Conclusion: The safest way to redirect old web pages to
the
new pages or old web site to the new web site and keep the
same search engine rankings is to use the 301 redirect. It
will also pass on the page rank from your old site to your
new site.
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Article Membership Sites
Whether you are building your first website or adding internet marketing information to an existing website, you need informative web site content- preferably unique articles. Unique article writing with interesting and helpful details about the topic of your web site content will build credibility. If you need unique article writing help for your web pages, there are several very good options for article memberships.
Three highly recommended article membership web sites.
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- 400 keyword optimized articles monthly
Plus 25 high page rank blogs you can post to
& create one way links back to your site!
Article Writing Information
First, you can grab some free articles from content syndication websites. These are articles written by other authors or webmasters. Because they are free to use, you must remember that it can be seen as duplicate content by the search engines if the articles you choose are used by other websites. Another option is to hire someone to write your marketing articles. You provide keywords and the web content theme and your ghost writers return the site content. The best option is to purchase Private Label Rights (PLR) articles. These are niche related articles that were written by a person or entity outside of your company that you can buy and receive reprint rights for. However, unless they have been written exclusively for you, the PLR articles should always be made unique before being posted to your website, blog or web content management software.
Free Articles
Just a note about free articles- There are hundreds of article directories sharing thousands of free articles. This brings up several issues, one of which is duplicate content. Even today, that subject is heavily debated so we will go into it deeper in another article. Believing that free articles are usable for generating website traffic, does not change the fact that unique article writing is the best method of web content development.
Web Content Development
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Article Memberships
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Novice SEO Tricks That Produce Lots Of Free Traffic To Your Site
Be forwarned! I don’t know of any instant way for you to get fantastic rankings and mountains of qualified traffic to your ecommerce site inside of ten minutes, like all of the other so called SEO Experts who fill your email inbox claim. But then again, if you believe all of the hype that they offer, you might still believe in Santa Claus or that the earth is flat.
If you want some honest info about how a sheer novice established a profitable and successful website in less than one year, then stick around. This article is about what has worked well at getting mountains of highly targeted traffic to an ecommerce website that I own.
A year ago I was a complete amateur at this, and I didn’t even know what SEO, reciprocal links or article spooling was. Today I am the owner of a highly successful ecommerce website.
Now, I don’t claim to be a Search Engine Optimization guru. But I can honestly tell you that in well under one year, I’ve been very successful at driving lots of traffic to my website without paying a cent for it. My website also has a much higher conversion rate than many other ecommerce websites on the web do. In other words, my site is well in the “black” and making plenty of money.
My Background: I’ve been an entrepreneur for many, many years and I’ve had a great deal of success at it. Since about 90% of all new businesses fail within three years, and many established businesses fail on a regular basis, I believe that over the years I’ve learned how to rapidly adapt as the marketplace changes.
I decided to mold my existing business into an Internet based business in February. So I bought a copy of FrontPage and I started creating and building a website. At the same time I started transforming my “product” for online consumption. In June, at the age of 59 I retired from my business in order to focus full time on marketing my “product” via my website.
Right about now you might be wondering what my “product” is. My “product” is information. But I’m not going to disclose to you exactly what kind of information it is that I sell, and I’m not going to send you to my website because I don’t want my competition to know how I took a brand new homemade PR0 site, and advanced it to a PR4 site by Thanks Giving – a six month time span.
More importantly, I don’t want them to know how I got my homemade website to get to a first page ranking in the Google organic SERPS for lots of important keywords, and on the first three pages of Yahoo, MSN, and Google organic SERPS for literally hundreds of different keyword phrases. It has taken me way less than a year, and many of my competitors have been struggling at it for many years!
I’ll admit that along the way, I have wasted lots of time and hard earned money on lots of Internet marketing software and lots of worthless information from the “Internet Get Rich Quick Gurus.” At the same time I’ve learned which software packages are beneficial and worth investing in.
HOW I FOUND SUCCESS ON THE INTERNET – ARTICLE WRITING AND MARKETING
Many people use link trading to promote sites. I myself have traded links with others in my industry. However, I believe that writing articles and getting them published on thousands of websites for free has had the largest impact on my web site’s search engine ranking and my income. But beware: If you are not cognizant of the downside of article marketing, you can quickly drive yourself out of business.
WHAT MAKES ARTICLE MARKETING SO EFFECTIVE?
It’s simple: 1. The fastest way to rank well on the search engines is to have lots of one-way links from other on-topic sites to your website.
2. When you write a good article and put it on another website, your “payment” for the use of that article is one or more links from that article back to your site. The more articles that you publish, the more free one-way links pointing back to your website. The more one-way links from other on-topic sites, the better your site will rank in the organic SERPS.
3. If you are able to write a good article, then you can set yourself apart as an expert in your field. A well written article will create a lot of validation for you in the eyes of the public. And a well-written article is one of the best ways to get qualified traffic to your site. That is because people will read it, and if you’ve built their trust through your article, they will click your link to see what you have to offer them.
NOW FOR THE MONKEY WRENCH – AVOIDING THE GOOGLE DUPLICATE CONTENT FILTER
In order to be successful you have to get your articles published on hundreds or even thousands of other websites. Google doesn’t like content that has been duplicated on other websites. What that means is that even if you have an article on hundreds or thousands of other websites, Google can find the identical articles and only give you credit for the back links in one, or maybe a few of the articles.
So in the real world, in order to get the most “bang for your buck,” you must create a unique article for each website. But no one has enough time or talent to accomplish that, right?
Well . . . . Thanks to modern computer programming, articles can be spun, spooled, or re-written automatically using software. And indeed, in 2006, article-spinning software began to appear on the scene.
Unfortunately, most spooled articles are worthless because the articles that the software creates on full autopilot are very often totally laughable. The grammar and syntax is almost always all wrong. And people who read them will think that they were written by a three year old. And because of latent symantic indexing, the Google algorithm can also pick out and ignore your articles as well.
However, if you create an article that has been well-written to begin with, and then use the spinning software correctly, the software can re-write the article into hundreds or even thousands of unique, high quality articles that anyone would feel proud of. And more importantly, they will be more than unique enough to avoid the duplicate content filters.
If you don’t like to write articles, don’t have the time, or you don’t have the expertise, you don’t need to worry. You can purchase PLR (private label rights) articles and spin them! But you will always be better off if you can write your own articles.
I’ve used desktop software that I paid about $200.00 for, to create spun articles, and the software works great. As I write this page, I still do use this software for spinning articles that I submit to article directories. The upside of this is that each article directory gets a unique version of the article, and this version won’t get filtered out by the duplicate content filters. The down side is that as other webmasters take these articles from the article directories and publish them on their sites, most of these re-published articles will get filtered out. But they will still increase the traffic to your site as people read them and click your links.
Published articles almost always trigger a lot more referrals if they are published directly on your competitor’s website! But it happens to be somewhere between very difficult and impossible to recruit other competitor webmasters to publish your articles. So that relegates you to submitting directly to article directories.
HERE IS SOME GOOD NEWS!
Now there are some very inexpensive online services that allow you to use their article spooling software right on their websites, to create dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of unique articles. You can even try some of them out for free. It is very easy to learn and to use their software. And the benefits of using these sites is almost too good to be believed. Let me tell you a little bit about these online services.
To start with, the wonderful thing about these online services is that they take your article, and they can spin an unlimited number of unique versions of it. Then they publish a different unique version of your article on hundreds or even thousands of on-topic websites. These spun articles are so unique that a duplicate content filter will not filter out these articles. So you will get the benefit of all of your back links for ranking purposes.
This is real efficiency. We are talking about the ability to get your articles published on hundreds of your competitors and your peer’s websites virtually overnight. To sweeten the pot, when these services publish your article on another site, they won’t publish that Webmaster’s articles on your site. This eliminates reciprocal linking and will net you hundreds, or even thousands of one-way links.
And unlike most article directories where the number of links you can place in the article are very limited, these services allow you to put up to five keyword rich back links in each of your articles. It’s best to have each of those back links go to a different webpage on your site, not just to your home page.
You should make the back links appropriate. So if your story is about baby furniture, and you are talking about cribs, you’ll want to link to a page about baby cribs on your site. If you are talking about playpens, you’ll want to link to a page that features playpens, etc.
The plans for the future on some of these article spinning sites are to publish your unique articles to thousands of on-topic blogs, and into hundreds of article directories automatically. And remember, every submission will be unique as far as the duplicate content filters are concerned.
Make no mistake; this is not a 10 second “click one button” cure for the huge job of creating hundreds or even thousands of unique articles and submitting them to hundreds of article directories and potentially thousands of your competitor’s websites. If you believe that something like that exists, then you probably still believe in the tooth fairy or that the earth is flat.
You will still have to put sufficient effort into creating well-written professional articles. And then you must be willing to put sufficient effort into creating the synonym words and phrases that the software will use to spin your unique article. But believe me, you can not accomplish in a full month what these services can do in an hour.
Here is an example of what can be accomplished: I wrote four completely different articles on different kinds of information that I sell. After only 12 days on one of these services, my articles were on two-hundred-forty-two different competitor site on-topic web pages.
You do the math! With five back links in each article, one to my home page and four to different deep linked product pages on my ecommerce site, that’s 968 links in only 12 days! And I began to see some of those links indexed by the major search engines within that same time period. Use your imagination about what will happen after a month, six months, or a year!
HOW HARD IS IT TO SPIN ARTICLES USING THE ONLINE SERVICES?
It is so easy to use the software applications that it’s almost ridiculous. You will learn to use the software within minutes.
Most of these article spinning services will let you try out their site and their service for free. Many give a 30-day money back guarantee. So you get to try the software for a full month to see how much it can help your site to improve its rankings and its traffic before you are committed to having to pay for the use of the software and the service. I highly recommend this type of software and you will be happy that you gave it a try!
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Albert Weiss is a novice at SEO. He is NOT a self-proclaimed SEO Guru. However, as a beginner, he has built and marketed a very profitable ecommerce site in well under one year. His ecommerce site is successfully competing with the other top producing websites in his industry, many of which have been on the Internet for ten years or more!
Mr. Weiss has documented the steps that were taken to get lots of free traffic to his ecommerce site to make it successful by relying on article marketing, as well as how relying on several other aspects of SEO can make a site a big success. He developed a Free SEO Website for everyone! So visit www.ArticleSpooling.com now.
Mr. Weiss has documented the steps he took to get tons of free traffic to his website to make it successful by relying on article spinning, as well as how several other aspects of SEO can make a site a big success. He created a Free Search Engine Optimization Site just for you! So drop by www.ArticleSpooling.com now.
- Albert Weiss
Summary of website content management systems
A website content system is used to publish a range of content. These can be simple pages or complex pages sourced from databases, training materials, online manuals, or general business documents. The websites can range from large e-commerce sites, personal blogs, school lessons, to corporate sites. There can be thousands of pages with extensive linkage between pages.
The very first thing you need to do in selecting a website content management system is to ask yourself about your future goals and potential needs. Obviously there can be no single best list of requirements which can cover everybody’s future needs and potential goals. Every organization or person is going to have unique requirements.
A website content management system goes through stages of development. It spans from the initial content creation to the final end user delivery. To simplify the process, stages of the life cycle can be categorized into groups: a) Content creation; b) Content management; c) Publishing; d) Presentation; and e) Contract & business.
Content creation is functionality required by authors who are creating the material that shows up on websites. For a system to be successful, it must be easy to create and maintain content. The core of a system is content management, which is a central repository supported by a range of tools for manipulating and managing the content. Key parameters are version control and archiving, workflow, security, integration with external systems and reporting.
Final pages are created by the publishing engine, using content stored in the repository. Primary elements include stylesheets and page templates. Multiple formats such as html, print, pdf, wa, etc may need to be supported. Larges sites will require personalization and usage statistics.
Content presentation is another important aspect that must not be neglected. The appearance and layout of the web pages will be dependent upon decisions made on this facet. To provide the most value to your users, the page presentation must meet certain criteria. They are as follows: usability, accessibility, cross-browser support, speed, navigation and metadata.
The final requirement, contract and business, relates to the project management and business procedures when the website content management system is being implemented by a third party or vendor. Some of the parameters which need to be addressed are training for using the cms, skills required for running and maintenance, documentation, resource requirements in terms of hardware/software or any specific databases, cost, scalability, etc.
A website content management system is often crucial to the popularity of the website that it helps creates. Millions of dollars may depend on the website in the case of complex enterprise system. Therefore, it is imperative that the website content management system meets the neccessay needs of the website. Addressing the goals and necessities remains the most important task, and all persons involved should perform this job beforehand.
- Robert Taylor
Advertising Software in a Store or Website?
There are two common ways of selling software: either online or in a store. Both have some kind of advantage, both for the costumers and for the merchants. It is in the merchant’s interest that his/her clients know about the product, and the way to achieve this point is through advertisement.
There are advantages and disadvantages to advertising software in a retail store. The main advantage is the presence of a salesperson, who can field questions from the prospective buyer. The buyer may also be attracted by the medium that the software comes on, such as a CD or DVD. The main disadvantage of the retail environment is that there will be other similar products competing for the same customers.
A product which is being sold online requires differrent distribution and advertisement techniques than the products sold in stores. advertising software on the web can be quite user-specific: an inexpensive way is the use of marketing software, which for example sends e-mails out to customers which did buy similar products in the past. This is just one example of the use of ecommerce software in a product promotion.
Another way of advertising software online is the use of popup windows. This is an approach which is less personalized. The mass of people being reached through this method compensates for its lack of distinctiveness. It is also cheaper than the use of expensive ecommerce software, the advertiser just pays for the views the advertisement is receiving.
%NL% The disadvantage for online advertising is that there has been desensitization among frequent online users toward online ads. This is due to the extensive and sometimes intrusive use of advertisements on a number of websites. As a result, users tend to just block out the ads.
It is also noticeable that some Internet users are now afraid of clicking on any advertisement online, especially in the case of advertising software. Consumers have become aware that they might inadvertently install a virus packaged along with software they have downloaded, and it is no wonder that this makes them leery of clicking on an advertisement.
As for me, I like to research software on the Internet before I go into the store to purchase it. For that reason, I can be influenced by online advertisements in addition to the ads inside the store.
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