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Tag Archives: SEO
Where is my site in Google Results?
Here’s a great tool that searches the first 10 pages live – http://whatpageofsearchamion.com
Also, of course, SEM Rush is a favorite tool of internet marketers – http://www.semrush.com/
And Google Analytics has just upgraded their reports to show the first position of a link to your site http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1308626
Dynamic 301 Redirect
This is a solution to a very niche, but annoying problem. For SEO purposes, I was creating new URLs on an old-school dynamically generated site. So I needed a way to redirect from one dynamic url to another. The traditional .htaccess 301 redirect method doesn’t work in this situation. I found the solution here: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=659415
Here it is, for your htaccess file, after, of course, “RewriteEngine On”:
Instead of saying:
redirect 301 /old-directory/filename.php?item=old-page-name http://mysite.org/new-directory/filename.php?item=new-page-name – that doesn’t work
Say:
Option 1 (php file and directory stay the same):
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} item=old-page-name
RewriteRule ^directory/filename.php$ /directory/filename.php?item=new-page-name [R=301,L]
Option 2 (directory and php file change, but page file name stays the same):
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} item=page-name
RewriteRule ^directory/filename.php$ /new-directory/new-filename.php?item=page-name [R=301,L]
ClickHeat
Here’s a great tool we should add to your site. It’s Open Source (free), and check out the amazing demo.
http://www.labsmedia.com/clickheat/index.html