seo

mod_rewrite tips and tricks to be used in Apache htaccess

What is it about this page that immediately tells me it's an SEO-pit?

On the plus side, this page has:

- Simple UI
- Attractive colors
- Attractive image

Yet I instinctively could tell you there is NOTHING of value here. Perhaps it's because there is no content on the front page - it's all navigation elements.

Replace underscores in URLs with hyphens using Apache .htaccess

This Apache .htaccess code 301 redirects requests for URLs with underscores (_) to the URL with hyphens.

Howto with working code: Require the WWW for SEO using Apache htaccess mod_rewrite, and Windows ISAPI_Rewrite

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This was an awesome SEO presentation I went to last week. Recommended for anyone who cares how much search engine traffic their web site gets.

Slides:
http://blog.rescuetime.com/2007/09/26/diy-web-marketing-16-resources-for-seo-social-media-marketing-viral-marketing/

Quoted: A presentation on optimizing your web site for search engine rankings. Covers basics of SEO, ranking factors, keyword research, spiderabilit.... Sep 27, 2007.

Using Flex with the CMS system, Drupal...

Social Poster is an SEO tool. I would say it is mostly "mis-used" - i.e., people are trying to game search engines by getting inbound links.

Of course, Faves.com uses "nofollow" links - so there is NO SEO benefit to bookmarking on Faves.com. But many SEO people are not sophisticated enough to realize this. So we are constantly having to remove spammer accounts.

Quoted: Tag and Ping Software to automate your social bookmarking.

Heh.

Quoted: What if Google had to design
their user interface for Google?