For those of you that make use of add-on domains on your hosting accoumt, its important to setup an .htaccess file to redirect any visitors or bots who find their way to one of the subdomains., to aviod duplicate content issues.
There are three (well six actually!) ways of accessing an add-on domain:
Root domain name (ie. [...]
Many hundreds and thousands of websites are potentially damaging their ranking abilities by failing to avoid canonicalisation of their websites url.
Canonicalisation occurs when a website is able to be accessed via both www.website.com and website.com, in severe cases this can cause the search engines to effectively index 2 identical copies of your site, and then [...]
If you are moving content between page or domains on a permanent basis to maintain a seamless transition between your pages (hopefully) established rankings, there really is only one way of redirecting your existing urls.
Using a 301 redirect.
There are a number of ways of implementing a 301 redirect, my preferred method would be a command [...]
Want to get your site indexed and listed within google within 24 hours?
Ever heard of Gumtree.com? Submitting adverts for your site to Gumtree is an excellent way of getting your site indexed in Google and can even bring you some visitors too!
Simply navigate to Gumtree.com, i often choose my local area but any Gumtree area [...]
I noticed that Aaron Wall from Seobook.com has released a fantastic free ranking checker tool, and unlike some tools on the market its free and even better for us UK users, unlike many similar tools (with a quick fiddle with the settings) its compatible with google.co.uk.
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