Tag Archives: Search Engines

What If Your Stats Match What I See In the Search Engines?

Most of the time the problem is simply a matter of how you’re looking up your stats versus how Master Site Manager looks them up. For example we look up your site in the format: “http://www.yourdomain.com” Remember, you want to compare apples to apples here, so it’s very important to put both the “http://” AND [...]
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SEO Monitoring Software With Outbound Link Tracking

Think you know how many “Outbound links” your site has? Maybe not! Knowing EXACTLY how many outbound links your site has isn’t just about SEO, and funneling page rank anymore. When hackers break into your site they are far more likely to hide links on home page to game the search engines than do much [...]
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Getting Ranked 1st in Google

One of the things I hear a lot from business owners online who’ve spent a LOT of money on web designers and SEO companies is this: “Why isn’t my site the first result on Google or any other search engine?” Well, the answer is simple, and not one that they really want to hear. The [...]
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Adding a trailing slash to requested URLs

Here’s the problem: Some search engines remove the trailing slash from urls that look like directories – e.g. Yahoo does it for example. However, you might find that this could result into duplicated content problems when the same page content is accessible under different urls. And clearly you don’t want that. But if you’re using [...]
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Migrating domain content using .htaccess:

Ok here’s the problem: You have an old website that can be found under olddomain.com and you have a new website that is accessible under newdomain.com. Copying the content of the old website to the new website is the first step – but what comes after that? Doing a “301 moved permanently” redirect from the [...]
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