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How to Properly Redirect a Domain Name and Get Link Credit

Bill Hartzer

I recently received an email from Duane Long asking a question about redirecting a domain name that he had recently purchased. He is trying to redirect the domain name so that he can get the proper link credit; so that the links from the domain name he bought is credited to his current, live website.

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Facebook Privacy Gone Awry: Search Engines Indexing Email Addresses from Facebook

Bill Hartzer

Private email addresses of individuals who have Facebook accounts are getting indexed by the search engines, including Google , Yahoo! , In fact, Yahoo! Perhaps the URLs are being recorded somewhere, on another server, and the search engines have started indexing those URLs. to index those URLs.

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Google Issues Search Engine Optimization Report Card

Bill Hartzer

First off, I’m very happy that they are aware of the 301/302 redirecting issue and can handle it when we redirect our domain names or URLs from an old URL to a new URL using a 301 Permanent Redirect. That’s one reason why I’m glad that Bing is going to be powering Yahoo! Search soon.

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Is Google Quietly Embracing Paid Inclusion?

Bill Hartzer

Currently, we can submit our website to Google (which really isn’t necessary) because Google’s crawlers are so good at crawling the web and discovering new domain names, new web pages, and new URLs. You could get a lot of your pages included in Yahoo!,

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$1M Case Study: The Harsh Reality, and New Direction

Viper Chill

If you can get an exact-match.com domain name for your keyphrase, then it’s usually much easier to rank in search engines like Google. Thanks to my own.com, I was number one in Yahoo within a few weeks, and ranking highly in Bing. Since it isn’t in bold, I don’t think it’s being counted in the domain.

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

For your blog, any URL will do, and if you are writing for a blog with multiple authors, FriendFeed parses through the authors and only features blog posts written by you. link] Show the domain: You can’t underestimate HOW something as simple as showing the domain name beside a link makes it easier to scroll through the information.

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How I Ranked for 66000 Visitors Worth of Keywords

Viper Chill

So, if a result for personal development was johndoe.com/personal-development, that would be my URL, but “johndoe.com&# would be after -site: Run this 5 step process for all of your keyphrases and you should have a good idea of how many backlinks it will take to rank for them. This site is less than a year in the making. Any advice?

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