Web Design Blog | Craig Pennings

301 redirect and SEO

admin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:02:52 +0000

A 301 redirect is an effective on-page SEO method to let search engines know exactly where your domain is. A great SEO method/trick that I have learned is pointing the url WITHOUT the “www.” in front of it, to the url WITH the “www.” so that any link pointing to either of those, will be credited to the same site. Google will view www.yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com as different sites, so when you have links pointing to both of those, you aren’t getting full credit for your inbound links. You can accomplish a 301 redirect by creating an .htaccess file with the code below and placing it in your root folder:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^yourdomain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Please REPLACE www.yourdomain.com in the above code with your actual domain name.

*This method works for linux servers*

Grand Rapids Web Design

admin — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 05:24:49 +0000

Hello everyone!

I am pleased to announce that I have been working hard on revamping my website over the past few weeks to make it not only better in representing my work, but to be more informational and resourceful on all levels. With that, I have also geared my website to target the Grand Rapids web design market along with keeping to my Kalamazoo roots. I have just begun Link Building on my site again, and plan on taking back my #1 rankings in Kalamazoo, as well as take over the #1 rankings in Grand Rapids over the next few months. I am very excited to see how things go as both markets are very competitive, and hope to network with many design firm owners in Grand Rapids as I become part of their web community. I am also looking forward to meeting and working with many new web design clients from the Grand Rapids area. Please contact me for a free quote on your next project. I look forward to hearing from you!