Please read my introduction to 301 redirects post for a full understanding of the 301 redirect using your .htaccess file.

Redirecting an Entire Folder or Directory

If you’d like to redirect a whole directory (commonly called a ‘folder’), the code is not that much different from a specific page redirect.

Redirecting / redirect an entire whole folder:

Assuming that the user is looking for the page “http://www.example.com/folder/samplepage.html“, - these different directives would redirect to the respective URLs as shown below:
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If you haven’t already, please read my introduction to 301 redirects post for a full understanding of the 301 redirect using your .htaccess file.

Redirecting Entire Websites:

redirect 301 / http://www.yoursite.com/

In the above example(s), the first “/” indicates that everything from the root level of the site down (to the folder name if specified) should be redirected. This is an excellent remedy for ensuring that no traffic or rankings are lost if you have to change your domain name.

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Happy Valentines Day! Here’s my special gift to you:

About The 301 Redirect - A How To Tutorial

If you have decided to move a whole website, or move a whole directory or folder, or just move a page, then a 301 redirect is the way to do it.

Or perhaps you’ve renamed a page but don’t want to lose the traffic from people who’ve bookmarked the old page name, or worse, loose search engine listings and traffic pointing to the old named page. The answer, again, is…
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UPDATE - Jan 21, 2008:

These videos have been removed from YouTube. It seems for some reason that RichGrad had to remove these videos. Our apologies for any inconvenience.

Want to increase your online sales conversions?

Want to influence your husband to take out the garbage?

The following is a great series of videos that give you the ’science’ of years of research and development on techniques used for ‘getting what you want’, in any situation. Presented by Dr. Robert Cialdini. Videos made available by RichGrad.com.

I have my doubts about the true efficacy of these techniques, but I’m also sure that like anything, if practiced and studied long enough, it may be possible to persuade somewhat unlikely people to behave in a manner which they might otherwise not. Skillfully playing with one’s ego and emotions is not an obvious tangibility that is apparent to the average layperson, making them very vulnerable to it’s effects.

This clearly explains (when you look for it) how the governments of the world, run by power and control hungry elites has been able to manifest the current reality that we have all come to accept as ‘the way it IS’.

When viewing these videos, please note any occasion where or how you have been affected by these techniques - so that you may recognize them and have an awareness that protects you from their influence.

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If you’re into SEO, then you know the power of a blog. If you’re into blogging, there’s a good chance you use WordPress (like we do - this site!). And if you use WordPress, there’s a good chance you’ve been getting bogus phony user spam registrations from free email services like mail.ru, web.de, buy-24h.net.ru, bigmir.net, yandex.ru, list.ru or one of many others. And you’ve been wondering… “how can I block or stop wordpress blog registration spam?” “Spam bots are trying to register for my WordPress blog - does anyone know of a WordPress plugin to prevent spam user registrations?”

The Spam User Registration Solution - SABRE WordPress Plugin

We just found the perfect WordPress plugin to block or stop spam bot user registration (by Didier Lorphelin). It’s called SABRE (Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine) and “is dedicated to the protection of your blog against automatic registration by spammers.” We just installed it, then very easily set up how we wanted to block the spammers (from a variety of methods), and presto, our registration form is bot tight (hopefully!). WE LOVE THIS PLUGIN and how extensive it is!
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One of My Favorite Secret Weapons

Google Alerts is a favorite tool I’ve been using for about a year now. This versatile, simple and
easy to use tool not only helps for building links, but it is also great for relationship building, content ideas and development, research, finding industry or topical news and so much more…

I should note right away that I learned about this tool during a conversation I was having with Eric Ward (link building god) about building links for a contest I was running. He mentioned it to me as a way to determine if my press releases had been picked up. I quickly realized the power of this free and easy to use tool, now I’m going to share the secret powers if this nasty little weapon with you…

To understand it’s power you first need to know what it does, so let me show you how Google Alerts works. → read more

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Search Expired Domains by Keyword, PageRank, Age & More…

SEARCH TIP:
To view large lists of expired or expiring domains, search for single letters. To view our entire inventory, just press “Submit” without selecting options or keyword.

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OR, How To Find Expired High PageRank Domains by Keyword

Actually, this won’t be some hugely extended post that goes into 22 steps or things-you-need-to-do in order to find really great domain names, that contain good keywords, and have high PageRank, and good backlinks, are well aged and established, and….. “WELL HOLD ON!” you say. “NOT POSSIBLE!”

Oh yes it is. We’ve just released a brand new tool for finding your perfect new domain name. It’s called DeletedLIVE.com and will help you find the domain you need within minutes, instead of hours doing research in 7 different places, when you can find it all here.

Search by keyword and/or PageRank and/or expiring date, and have results sorted by any of these parameters. Once in the results pages, you’ll be able to immediately backorder your domain, check Google backlinks, see domain age, get WayBack data, WhoIs data, and we’ll soon be adding much more useful stuff like DMOZ listing, Yahoo directory listing, Alexa ranking, and more.

Big Deal? - Keywords Don’t Matter?!

So, you’ve heard from ‘SEO experts’ that keywords in a domain name has no affect on SEO?

Well, my good fortune and experience say otherwise… but don’t take my word for it - listen to the SEO guru himself [Aaron Wall - SEOBook] on the IMPORTANCE of keywords in a domain name.

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I was checking out a blog today while doing some research for our new site - www.DeletedLIVE.com - our tool for finding expiring domains by PageRank and keyword (more later), when I came upon these very helpful posts by PaulH at Assertica.co.uk about getting links.

The first really meaty post was about 18 Nasty Ways to Get Links (#11 made me laugh my ass off - I’m gonna do it someday - watch out suckas!!!), but the post that really got me was the 1002 ways to get links post. MAN, this is some good s***! Mr. Paul has been doing his homework.

My Faves

The list is categorized by method, with each method having multiple variations. Here are some that I really liked:

• Track who picks up your articles or press releases. Offer them exclusive news or content.
• Publish ebooks laden with links and encourage people to distribute for free
• Review and recommend local businesses and ask for a link back
• Lie - make up a number like 1002

For some added link ammo when dealing with clients, also read about the 25 benefits of links.

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If you have AT ALL been paying attention to anything I’ve said, dear students, then you know that the most important focus of your SEO efforts is to GET LINKS, then get some more links, and when you’re finished getting those links, just go get twice as many as you just got, and THEN you WILL be successful. Really.

“Impossible!” you say… Well there is one man who’s goal it is to earn a full time income within one year of beginning blogging - and he is well on his way. Bryan Clark at OneMansGoal.com has done what it takes to become successful - he gets links. → read more

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Just another gimmick.

Seems there’s yet another ‘great idea’ for bloggers that’s turning out to be just another gimmick (referral link). There’s a new tool called BlogRush that you can sign up for that is supposed to help you get traffic by ’sharing’ your own traffic. You put this widget on your blog, and it displays posts from other blogs in your niche (supposedly) - you get a ‘credit’ every time you show the widget (each impression), the credit allows your most recent post to be displayed on other blogs, hopefully bringing you traffic. (Try it if you want, see if it works for you - BlogRush - referral link.)

From sounding good, to nails on a blackboard.

Sounds good, eh? Well, in practice, it has been a nightmare. We have put it on a test site, and have earned about 1000 times more credits than we spend. So, basically, we could remove the widget right now, and still get our posts showing up on other blogs for the next year (somehow I don’t think it’ll happen).

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Writing a great blog post or article consists of many more factors than just making sure you’ve got your facts straight.

There are 3 main things to keep in mind when writing your blog post or article, and in doing so, you’ll not only get more readers, but you’ll get them coming back for more, often.

Great Blog Post Writing Tip #1

…Grab ‘Em By The Titles

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NOTE: This is a quick ‘what is’ writeup about a great site called StumbleUpon. I’m writing this because I have not been able to find a good online resource that explains what StumbleUpon is from a REGULAR WEB USER perspective, rather than a blogger or webmaster perspective, which there are lots of. And oh, you can buy traffic from StumbleUpon too.

What is a Stumbler?

A ‘Stumbler’ is someone who uses the StumbleUpon toolbar to find, rate and review great new websites.

What is StumbleUpon?

What StumbleUpon is:

• a website/tool for easily and quickly finding great new sites in categories YOU specify
• once at the new site, you can rate it as ‘good’ (thumb up) or ‘bad’ (thumb down)
• StumbleUpon learns your preferences and starts delivering you sites more to your liking

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It’s all about getting the links. If you focus your efforts with the intention of getting links, you WILL be successful online.

Why? Because if you are getting links it means that you are doing a lot of other things right, like building excellent content, and offering people top quality information that informs, educates, or entertains. People eat that stuff up, and they link to it too. Top Quality Information is called LinkBait. Linkbaiting should be your business focus. (Our contest at www.remodelingmyspace.com is a form of linkbait.)

Why Build Links?

Here’s a great list of benefits of links, but simply:

Links do two things:
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(NOTE: I am only going to make this a short simple post that will give you the general IDEA of what I am talking about, without going too deep into specifics. I have linked to people much smarter and more credible than I am if you want to learn the nitty gritty of it.)

That’s right - I said it - and I’ll say it again… “Therz PageRank in them thar internal link thingys”.

If you’re new, PageRank is like GOLD to your website (for ranking in Google). If you want a page to rank well in Google, it needs to have some decent PageRank.

There are two ways to get your pages some decent PageRank.

1. Get links from other websites to point to the page that you want to rank well.
   (For some extra link-juice - if you can control this - make sure the link anchor text contains the keywords that you want to rank well for - read more about link anchor text.)
2. Link from your OWN pages to the pages that you want to rank well.

You may be asking: “What happened?” or, so you don’t look like a deer in the headlights, you might say out loud: “You mean I can pass MYSELF some PageRank?”

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