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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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Search Engine Optimization Tip: Check the Whois on Your Domain Name

Bill Hartzer

Technically speaking, Whois is is a query/response protocol which is widely used for querying an official database in order to determine the owner of a domain name, an IP address, or an autonomous system number on the Internet. There are several things that you need to take a look at on the domain name’s whois record.

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4 Steps to Segment Social Media Traffic in Google Analytics

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“Direct Traffic&# is visits from people who clicked a bookmark to come to your site or who typed your site URL directly into their browser. Instead of using the domain names or URLs of the most popular social sites (e.g. Step 3: Test and name your segment. Make sure to test your segment before you save it!

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

Bill Hartzer

Perhaps the URLs are being recorded somewhere, on another server, and the search engines have started indexing those URLs. to index those URLs. I had a feeling Google was picking it up somehow, but couldn’t narrow down exactly where they were picking up the URL. So, what can you do to combat issues like this?

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Spring Cleaning For Your Blog – How A Little Work Can Drive Search Engine And Social Media Traffic

SocMed Sean

If you have changed your permalink structure or your domain name, you might even have some old links out there that need fixing because they point to the old URLs.If you need a good tool to redirect user from an out-of-date URL to a new one, check out the Redirection plugin for WordPress. Would you have an addition to the list?

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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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Search Engine Optimization Tip: Check Your 404 Errors

Bill Hartzer

If you were to fix the link (by redirecting the visitors from that not found page to the correct URL using a 301 Permanent Redirect), you could get the visitors and the credit for the link. You need to go to your internet site and enter an invalid page/URL address. The bottom line. What s the bottom line? Then, see what happens.