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Using www. Could Be Decreasing Your Rank

February 20th, 2009 1 comment

If you’ve used WebsiteGrader, you might’ve noticed the section mentioning that you need to redirect www.yoursite.com and yoursite.com to the same location. I’ve done my research on the effects of not doing this, but there are a lot of conflicting opinions. The general though is that your search engine score might be split between the two “seperate” sub-domains.

There is a chance that other problems can be caused also. SSL certificates are for one sub-domain only (with or without the www.), so your certificate might show the user an error if they use the other.

Some search engines may realize they are the same website, others may not, but why risk lowering your score, when it’ll take you less than 5 minutes to fix this problem?!

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Flat Links

February 12th, 2009 2 comments

All the way back in my first article, Where to Start, I talked about how registering a domain name containing your website’s keywords is important. Well having the keywords in the complete URL to the page is also helpful.

The URL of the page you’re on now for example: http://www.cashsblog.com/2009/01/flat-links/. It contains to year, month, then title of the article. This can give search engines a better idea of what the page is about. Have you ever seen URLs like http://www.cashsblog.com?read_article.php?year=2009&month=01&key=120&title=flat-links and thought “What the hell does that mean?”

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Website Grader

January 28th, 2009 No comments

Also today, I’ll quickly introduce you to an awesome SEO tool I use frequently (frequently’s probably too often, yeah?). It’s called Website Grader. All you do is type your website’s address and hit you enter key. Then after a few seconds, you will be given an SEO score and a list of suggested ways to improve and promote your website.

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Where to Start

January 19th, 2009 1 comment

So you’ve decided your not satisfied with working 40 hours per week in a dead-end job, not getting ahead and you want to try something else. If you’re looking at starting some kind of Internet based business, great! I can help! You can read over my whole life story and more importantly, my reasons for trying something different on the about page.

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