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How to do 301 redirection in a PHP file

July 24th, 2010

I will try to explain the 301 redirection using an example. I had a a url as follows

http://www.referencedesigner.com/rfcal/cal_03.php

Obviously the url is not SEO friendly. I wanted to make it SEO friendly for the term vrms. The following url seemed to me a bit more SEO friendly

http://www.referencedesigner.com/rfcal/vrm-to-vpeak-conversion.php

I wanted to mention that at the time of writing, the search term vrms result in position 3 for this url. I am not sure if renaming the url and using the 301 redirect is going to improve the search ranking, but it is not bad to try.

So here is the change what I did in the file called

http://www.referencedesigner.com/rfcal/cal_03.php

I added the following code at the top of it.
<?
Header( “HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently” );
Header( “Location: http://www.referencedesigner.com/rfcal/vrms-to-vpeak-conversion.php” );
?>

I let the code below it as it is, although I think it could be removed without any loss.  Then I copied the original  cal_03.php file to another file called vrms-to-vpeak-conversion.php. That is it. When I am searching for the vrms term the google search is still showing the
http://www.referencedesigner.com/rfcal/cal_03.php in its search result. I expect that to change to http://www.referencedesigner.com/rfcal/vrms-to-vpeak-conversion.php over period of time. I also expect to improve my search position. Am I expecting too much ?

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Additional List of the Blogging sites

June 21st, 2010

In my link building article a list of 16 blogging sites were indicated where anyone could write blogs. In this article, the list is extended to include 12 more blogging sites. This makes it to a total of 28 blogging sites. A note – Once you create blogs in these sites it is recommended that you create backlinks of these sites in the bookmarking or other places to get better results. There are other ways of creating the links but this will be covered in other topic.

http://www.webs.com/

http://doodlekit.com

http://www.webspawner.com/

http://www.webjam.com/

http://www.webnode.com/

http://www.yola.com/

http://myfirstblog.net

http://quizilla.com

http://www.gather.com/

http://www.tumblr.com/

http://www.ning.com/

http://blog.com/

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SEO URL – dashes Vs. underscores

December 30th, 2009

Most of us already know that a SEO friendly url is recommended. By SEO friendly url we mean that the keywords should form the part of the url. For example instead of

http://referencedesigner.com/blog/id?=715

we may like the url to be

http://referencedesigner.com/blog/seo-url-dashes-vs-underscore.

Sometimes people design their website, so that they write the url with underscore in place of dashes as in

http://referencedesigner.com/blog/seo_url_dashes_vs_underscore.

One must note that google processes underscore in a different way than the dashes. In case of undersore, it thinks that the underscore is a part of the url. So when we write c_sharp, it attempts to gives preference to search for c_sharp and possibly less importance to csharp or c sharp. In case, where the url is c-sharp, google gives preference to search for “c sharp”.

It is therefore recommended that dashes are preferred over the underscore wherever possible when creating SEO friendly urls.

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Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbook review SEO Experiment # 2

December 25th, 2009

I am writing this bolg with two purpose. The first purpose is to write a review about the Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbook. This purpose is not the main purpose. I am writing the review with the aim of optimizing the webpage for the keyword “Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbook”. The reason I chose this keyword is that it gives only about 17,000 webpages and should relatively be easy to come to the top of the google.

The Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbookis powered by Atom N270-based Amilo Mini Ui 3520.  The MH380 has a 10.1-inch, 1366 x 768 display, a 250GB capacity hard-drive and 1GB of memory. It also has Intel’s newest Pine Trail 1.66GHz processor.

The 2.97lb netbook manages manage up to 7hrs of runtime with its 6-cell battery – which is impressive. The Fujitsu have made both WiFi b/g/n and Bluetooth standard as part of the netbook.

The operating system is  Windows 7 Starter. The netbook has a webcam and includes VGA, USB 2.0 and audio in/out. Fujitsu plans to start selling  LifeBook MH380 from January, priced at around $449.

I hope readers who arrived here with the intention of finding Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbook review are not disppointed. Now here is the main reason I wrote this blog. I am writing another identical blog Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbook review SEO Experiment # 1. The two blogs are identical as far as the contents are concerned. The backlinks of both the blogs will be created in an identical way. The first Experiment that I want to conduct is to see what is the effect of the duplicate content on the Search Engine Result Page ( SERP). Do both of them come to top ? Does only one come to top and second one is completely neglected.

The coming days will verify this and I will write a separate blog about the results. Stay tuned.

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Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbook review SEO Experiment # 1

December 25th, 2009

Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbook review SEO Experiment # 1

I am writing this bolg with two purpose. The first purpose is to write a review about the Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbook. This purpose is not the main purpose. I am writing the review with the aim of optimizing the webpage for the keyword “Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbook”. The reason I chose this keyword is that it gives only about 17,000 webpages and should relatively be easy to come to the top of the google.

The Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbookis powered by Atom N270-based Amilo Mini Ui 3520.  The MH380 has a 10.1-inch, 1366 x 768 display, a 250GB capacity hard-drive and 1GB of memory. It also has Intel’s newest Pine Trail 1.66GHz processor.

The 2.97lb netbook manages manage up to 7hrs of runtime with its 6-cell battery – which is impressive. The Fujitsu have made both WiFi b/g/n and Bluetooth standard as part of the netbook.

The operating system is  Windows 7 Starter. The netbook has a webcam and includes VGA, USB 2.0 and audio in/out. Fujitsu plans to start selling  LifeBook MH380 from January, priced at around $449.

I hope readers who arrived here with the intention of finding Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbook review are not disppointed. Now here is the main reason I wrote this blog. I am writing another identical blog Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbook review SEO Experiment # 2. The two blogs are identical as far as the contents are concerned. The backlinks of both the blogs will be created in an identical way. The first Experiment that I want to conduct is to see what is the effect of the duplicate content on the Search Engine Result Page ( SERP). Do both of them come to top ? Does only one come to top and second one is completely neglected.

The coming days will verify this and I will write a separate blog about the results. Stay tuned.

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Text sitemap and submit sitemap with Webmaster Tool

December 24th, 2009

If google can crawl ALL of  your webpages you do not need a sitemap. It is however possible that your web design is such that it does now allow google to crawl ALL the pages from the home page. Under such conditions you need a sitemap.

Here is a simple method to generate and submit your sitemap to google.

In a simple text file write one URL per line. For example:

http://www.ezdia.com/expert/vikasshukla

http://www.ezdia.com/expert/alokjain

As per google, for best results, follow these guidelines:

  • You must fully specify URLs as Google attempts to crawl them exactly as provided.
  • Each text file can contain a maximum of 50,000 URLs. If your site includes more than 50,000 URLs, you can separate the list into multiple text files and add each one separately.
  • The text file must use UTF-8 encoding. You can specify this when you save the file (for instance, in Notepad, this is listed in the Encoding menu of the Save As dialog box).
  • The text file should contain no information other than the list of URLs.
  • The text file should contain no header or footer information.

  • You can name the text file anything you wish. Google recommends giving the file a .txt extension to identify it as a text file (for instance, sitemap.txt).

You should upload the text file to your server. Once you’ve created this file, you can submit it as a Sitemap. This process, while manual, is the simplest and is probably best if you’re not familiar with scripting or managing your web server.

If you have not used the google webmaster tool I will suggest you do signup and use it. Here is how it looks like.

If  you make changes to your Sitemap,  resubmit it using your Google Webmaster Tools account.

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