301 redirect for www and the trailing slash SEO tip

Search Engines see yoursite.com and www.yoursite.com as two different site and to further confuse the issue if you are using the trailing / it can look to the engines that you have 4 different sites with the combination if backlinks pointing to the various options. The has the effect of dilluting the value of the links to your site.

The solution is to use an .htaccess file with this code:

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}^yoursite\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1/ [L,R=301]

 

Last Updated on Thursday, 16 July 2009 09:28

Migration of SEO articles and information to new host

I've decided to migrate all my articles related to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to http://professionalsearchengineoptimization-seo.com/

largely because so much of my personal stuff has become mixed in with my consulting ;) I'd really like to use my personal web site for personal information although I'm very proud of my career, I can always include a tidbit here and there.

Introducing David Juris of Generation Sales Group in Littleton CO

David Juris of Generation Sales Group of Littleton CO hired me to provide guidance with their SEO through my company config.com..

Generation Sales Group services include:
Sales Prospecting,
Appointment Setting,
Lead Generation,
Lead Qualification,
Full Sales Cycle Execution,
Cold Calling,
Event Registration,
Pre & Post Event Calls,
Web Demonstration Scheduling,
Direct Mail Follow-Up Calls,
Customer Surveys,
Prospect Database Lists,
Local and National Campaigns.

Last Updated on Thursday, 12 February 2009 19:45

Mobile Cell Phone PDA WAP compatible access from pda.joerinehart.com

Considering the growing popularity of Blackberrys and mobile Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) computing, I'm very pleased to announce that this web site now has Mobile Cell Phone PDA WAP compatible access from http://pda.joerinehart.com for those that live on a PDA!

Please feel free to send me your comments  as  my template may need some tweaking. Of course, you can also always use your phone to telephone me at 330.389.1192 since some of us really don't like to use the small keypads on our phones to SMS You may also call toll-free in North America 1.888.config.com. This line revolves to the config.com reception desk first, five seconds later it'll ring my office, then five seconds later it'll ring my cell.

This new PDA designed web site service will also allow me to conduct additional research toward  the effectiveness of search engine optimization (SEO) for PDAs. 

Last Updated on Friday, 19 June 2009 09:54

What is RSS and it's relationship to SEO

So what is RSS and how does it help SEO

First: RSS is an acronym depending on what version of RSS you are referring to:

• * Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91)
• * RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0)
• * Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)

Second: a simple video explanation I found on YouTube explains the old way-new way value of RSS.

More detailed information may be found online at http://www.whatisrss.com/ and about everything you could wish to know about RSS is at http://en.wikipedia.org/

In relationship to SEO, the bottom line is you may disseminate your web sites articles, news, and web pages to other third party sites. When a reader finds a headline of interest it brings them to your site for the full article.

I have one of my favorite links directories SEO: RSS Feed Directories is currently available to non-registered users. Once I'm convinced I've submitted my own sites to all the directories I've researched with any page rank value or real tangible value to my mind, I'll close my favorite links category SEO: RSS Feed Directories to registered users only... Needless to say, there are several of my favorite links categories that are only available to registered users ;)

Last Updated on Wednesday, 26 November 2008 20:23

1st URL advertised in a computer magazine

I was digging around archive.org (now known as the way back machine) for a copy of one of the actual ads that I authored and ran in Computer Shopper between Oct '93 and Oct '94 a couple of years before the Internet was commercial for an interview today with The Daily Kent Stater at Kent State University and found one from Oct '94.

Usually when I tell people about my 15 minutes of fame according to Andy Warhol they'll respond "but we all know that Al Gore invented the Internet". I'll smile and respond I don't claim to have invented the 'net, or wish to take anything away from either Al Gore or Tim Berners-Lee, just having attempted to captilize on it as ethically as possible at the time through traditional print media instead of spam (still a bad thing), for which I'm very proud to have been at the right place at the right time in history.

We were selling screaming fast single spin CD-ROM drives and maintained the largest selection of discs - LOL

At the time there were only two distributors in America selling CD-ROM discs and neither sold overseas. We saw that as an opportunity. Since the config.sys file was the first and most important file on a computer which told the system where the address for devices like CD-ROM drives were, we named the company config.sys (now known as config.com)

I've always joked that we didn't make our first gazillion dollars selling CD's because computers were not as popular as they have become today

An interesting turn in our company also occurred in Oct of 1994 when I produced a CD-ROM disc called "The Commerce Exchange" which the idea was to distribute commercial catalogs bundled with what was the largest game collection available via "electronic marketing" (now known as search engine optimization (SEO) and in those days it was conducted in the USENET newsgroups instead of web pages) via the Internet. It was taboo to use the Internet for commerce in those days, but we found that if we provided Information, it was viewed differently much like advertising supporting a newspaper so we established one of the oldest commercial newsgroups alt.cdrom.reviews which was well accepted in those pre-commercialism of the 'net days.

The Internet became commerical in March of 1995 which was about two weeks after our Commerce Exchange was released. While sales initially went through the roof, then died just as quick since all of a sudden the merchants supporting our disc could get a web site. It was just another great idea, three months too late.This was when we evolved our company toward publishing and manipulating content on the Internet web and have been doing so ever since.... 

More detailed information about the history of config.com is available on our company timetable webpage

 

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Last Updated on Friday, 21 November 2008 03:58

Introducing RestorationVIP water damage extraction service

I'm very pleased to introduce our latest client RestorationVIP.com water damage extraction service from Miami, Florida!

I was first hired to perform a Search Engine Optimization web site review to help make it easier for people who need emergency water damage extraction services from hurricanes, floods, fires, and other natural disasters to find them easier. Upon implementing my recommendations the growth and ranking of their web site had indeed improved to the point that we've agreed to convert their site to our joombalaia content management system (CMS) designed specifically to make it easier for people to find our clients. 

Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 September 2008 14:14

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