SEO Tips

Link Building: The Definitive SEO Guide

The purpose of this document is to (a) identify the various types of links (b) calculate their impact on search engine rankings and (c) provide an overview of the various metrics and link types to create a protocol for SEO best practices.

Link Building Tips: The Definitive Guide to LinksLink Building Tips: The Definitive SEO Guide to Link Metrics


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20 SEO Tips for 2010

Below are 20 SEO Tips for 2010 as a stocking stuffer from SEO Design Solutions to kick off the new year in style. It’s no secret that SEO involves granular changes across multiple metrics to optimize a site, yet each layer of the respective SEO onion has its place in the hierarchy of relevance which you can use to fine-tune rankings and results.

20 SEO Tips for 2010


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Why 301 Redirect (Permanent Redirection) Is Important?

301redirectDomain Aliases: Domain Aliases allows you to point more than one domain name to a single web site. Using Domain aliases may have a negative impact on your site. You may lose traffic from visitors who follow a search engine link. To avoid this you can use 301 redirect where the search engine spider will transfer all your credits from the old page to the new page.

WWW vs Non WWW: Though the www and non www version of your site leads to the same page and have the same content technically both are different sub domains.

For eg. Take the URL’s http://example.com and http://www.example.com. Search engines treat this as different sub
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What is Error 404 Page? How to configure Error 404 page? part 2

Error 404 Apache : How to configure Error 404 page in Apache Server

It is extremely easy to configure the Apache server to serve your customized error 404 page.As mentioned in my previous post, create an error404page.html page for your server to serve whenever the visitors looking for a page which does not exists.

In your server you can find httpd.conf file.

Error 404 Apache Server

Open the conf file. At the bottom of the file you can find the section as mentioned in the image. This is where you have to edit.


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What is Error 404 Page? How to configure Error 404 page? part 1

What is Error 404 Page?

Whenever the visitor to your site asks for a page that is not available on your site, the Error 404 “Page not found” message will be displayed. The 404 or Page Not Found error message is a HTTP standard response code which indicates that the visitor was able to communicate with the server but the server could not find the page which was requested.

The default error 404 page as shown on Internet Explorer is given below.

Default 404 Error Page


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Beginners Guide to SEO

By Abi Andrews

Most people realise Google is currently the number 1 search engine in the world so it makes sense to build websites to rank highly on it. What most people don’t understand is that the position at which a website is listed on Google is not random. When you type in a search string, google ranks each relevant site based on Google Algorithm, which in essence calculates a score based on a “secret” points system, and list sites according to the highest score.

I get asked all the time, how can I improve my website ranking? Well, at the very least you should follow these tips. There is no short cut, you have to read and learn. There is also no guarantee where you will rank on Google, no matter what you do to improve your ranking, but there are some basic things you can do to your site, to at least help positioning.

Here is an informative article on the basics of search engine optimization techniques. This is a basic SEO and not a conclusive guide, but should give you some ideas to get you started.

1. Keywords / Keyword Phrases


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6 SEO Tips for Launching a New Website

What are the 6 critical steps for launching a successful SEO website? If I had to list them in order, it would go something like this…


4 Indispensable “SEO TOOLS” for Competitive Research

SEO Tools You Can't Live Without.When you’re tired of playing childish games like leap-frog and tidily-winks in the SERPs (search engine result pages) with your competition and are ready to change the subject from recess to biology and literally dissect their SEO game. You’ll need to break out some real SEO tools for a stint of competitive research.
4 Indispensable SEO Tools for Competitive Research


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SEO Tips for Link Building and Directory Submissions

Today’s SEO tip is about using citation and search modifiers to find creative solutions for link building. Citation (a websites footprint or popularity matrix) is a prominent principle used by search engine algorithms to assess importance.

SEO Tips to Find and Qualify DirectoriesSEO Tips to Find and Qualify Directories


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The 7 Deadly SEO Linkbuilding Mistakes

SEO linkbuilding has become one of the main high leverage activities in any online business. The simple fact is that backlinks will give you a high page rank and a high page rank will rank you higher in the SERP’s. Obviously this means more traffic and more money.

Backlinks make up 90% of your Google rank and because of this linkbuilding has taken on a life of it’s own. Most people seem to misunderstand it complete. For starters you should know that not all back links are good links. They can actually hurt you more than help you.


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