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		<title>Hire The Best SEO Company For Instant Traffic</title>
		<link>http://www.seoance.com/2010/02/hire-the-best-seo-company-for-instant-traffic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>oskar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Redirects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[best SEO company]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is best to use search engine optimization while trying to expose your Business to your targeted audience. You can get the desired result only by using the best SEO company. What is search engine optimization (SEO)? Optimizing your web pages with keyword phrases relating to your products or services is what you do through [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is best to use search engine optimization while trying to expose your Business to your targeted audience. You can get the desired result only by using the best SEO company. What is search engine optimization (SEO)? Optimizing your web pages with keyword phrases relating to your products or services is what you do through search engine optimization. Link popularity is one of the major aspects for ranking of web pages in relation to keywords. SEO ensures increasing quality back links to your site. The more back links from other websites that you have pointing to yours, the more the search engines will find your blog relevant, thus getting you traffic and higher ranking. </p>
<p>The top SEO researchers know about the algorithmic formulas used by various search engines that the average person does not. A highly optimized website can get first page listing in various search engine result pages. No one understands this fact more than the best SEO Company. Good rankings mean more traffic. Most Internet marketers will agree with the fact that; the more traffic you have the more sale conversion you will make. This is reason why it is important to seek the best SEO company so that your website gets first page listings in various search engine result pages. </p>
<p>SEO is not only good for traffic, but it also helps in stopping readers from going to your competition’s websites. This is the art of growing your name all around the web and branding your business. Having an online presence that is long term and getting high page rank, is only possible through good SEO skills. Choosing the best SEO Company that specializes in many different factors can get you the desired results. Making relevant results in the search engines is possible only when your website comes up in the search engine result pages (SERPs) of various search engines. This is when you are receiving lots of organic traffic based on the relevancy of the keywords you use for your site. </p>
<p>The best SEO company knows that organic traffic is what users of the Internet thrive on. Tapping the organic visitors is quite different from your typical PPC advertisement and a lot more effective. People tend to trust organic results than an advertisement that they know someone paid for it to be there. This is what the best SEO Company knows, and they work their magic around this fact. </p>
<p>Is SEO really required? Well, with the life getting busier day by day, most people go to the Internet now to find quick and fast information. No longer is it relevant to sift through the Yellow Pages or Classified newspapers for information when you can just sit at your computer and type a keyword into the search engine. Most consumers and potential clients look on the Internet all the time to find out information on products and services that they might be interested in. The best SEO Company tries to make your website the most relevant on the web in accordance with your product or service. </p>
<p>You can imagine the amount of traffic you can receive from getting first place listings since 90% of Internet readers click on the first page of any site that pops up in the search engine after an inquiry is made. Using the best SEO company can get you these results. It can be hard trying to go about search engine optimization by yourself without the knowledge and expertise of professionals that have studied optimization inside and out. This is why it is important to pick the best SEO Company to represent your brand and company.</p>
<p>Bergstrom-seo.com is one of the <a href="http://www.bergstrom-seo.com/">best seo company</a>  that delivers exceptional search engine visibility for its&#8217; clients by providing <a href="http://bergstrom-seo.com/inner.html#customized-plan">Website Promotion</a> offerings. Its&#8217; SEO service domain comprises of keyword-based content development, website optimization, strategic link building and social media optimization.</p>
<p>Article Source: <a href="http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Hire-The-Best-SEO-Company-For-Instant-Traffic/1344399">Hire The Best SEO Company For Instant Traffic</a></p>
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		<title>Redirect Your URL Using META Tag</title>
		<link>http://www.seoance.com/2007/12/redirect-your-url-using-meta-tag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 08:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>oskar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meta tags]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Redirects]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are many occasions when you wish to display your URL in the form yourdomain/display.html but would like, instead, to direct visitors to another URL, say some-other-domain/best-mouse-trap.html.
For example, you are promoting an affiliate program with URL your-merchant-URL/sales-page/your-affiliate-code, and you think that the URL is too long, or you want to hide the fact that it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are many occasions when you wish to display your URL in the form yourdomain/display.html but would like, instead, to direct visitors to another URL, say some-other-domain/best-mouse-trap.html.</p>
<p>For example, you are promoting an affiliate program with URL your-merchant-URL/sales-page/your-affiliate-code, and you think that the URL is too long, or you want to hide the fact that it is an affiliate link, or you want to prevent people from stealing your affiliate commission, you could use this technique. You could even check how many people have clicked on your affiliate link, by checking the number of clicks of the displayed URL before it is redirected, from your Web site log.</p>
<p>Here is another example. You are using a tracking software, or a tracking company, to track your advertisement. Usually, the tracking URL will be of the form your-tracking-URL/&#8230;/tracking-?blah-blah or tracking-company-URL/&#8230;/tracking-?blah-blah. You want to use your own domain name or you do not want others know that you are tracking the ad. You could use the URL your-URL/your-sales-description which redirects visitors to the tracking URL.</p>
<p>Knowledge of technique of redirecting URL will give you a lot of, among other benefits, flexibility. Here is how to do it with META tag&#8230;</p>
<p>Create the page, &#8220;display.html,&#8221; with the following META tag between the HEAD and /HEAD tags in the HTML codes&#8230;</p>
<p>META http-equiv = &#8220;refresh&#8221; content = &#8220;0; URL = some-other-URL/best-mouse-trap.html&#8221; without any other content (if you wish, you could include the title &#8220;World&#8217;s Best Mouse Trap&#8221; between the TITLE and /TITLE tags, to show that this page is about mouse trap).</p>
<p>Upload the page &#8220;display.html&#8221; to the root directory of your Web site. With that, when visitors click on the link your-URL/display.html, they will be redirected to some-other-URL/best-mouse-trap.html.</p>
<p>Please note that for the URL some-other-URL/best-mouse-trap.html in the above META tag, and other URLs through out the rest of the article, you should include the &#8220;http&#8221; protocol which have been omitted.</p>
<p>The following variation of the above method will give you a neater way of displaying your URL, namely, without using the &#8220;.html&#8221; extension in your displayed URL&#8230;</p>
<p>First create a sub-directory, say &#8220;best-mouse-trap&#8221; in the root directory at your Web site. Instead of naming the Web page created above as display.html, name it as index.html.</p>
<p>Upload this &#8220;index.html&#8221; file into the sub-directory &#8220;best-mouse-trap&#8221;. Then, when your visitors click on the URL your-URL/best-mouse-trap they will be redirected to some-other-URL/best-mouse-trap.html.</p>
<p>Scott Morris manages the site on <a href="http://sundisplay.com" target="_new">glass display unit</a>.</p>
<p><span class="technoratitag">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/URL+redirects" rel="tag">URL redirects</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/affiliate+tracking" rel="tag">affiliate tracking</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/affiliate+program" rel="tag">affiliate program</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/SEO" rel="tag">SEO</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/internet+marketing" rel="tag">internet marketing</a></span></p>
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		<title>Tips Using URL Redirect for Promoting Affiliate Program</title>
		<link>http://www.seoance.com/2007/11/tips-using-url-redirect-for-promoting-affiliate-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>oskar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Affiliates]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tips using URL Redirect for Promoting Affiliate Program
URL Redirect can be used to hide the link of Affiliate Program that is usually take a long URL name,
And if someone access through URL Redirect, it will be forward to real URL.
Example of Link Affiliate Program
http://BlogBisnisInternet.com/?id=angelina0880
Using URL Redirect, becomes:
http://blogbisnisinternet.cjb.net/
blogbisnisinternet is your URL Redirect name
.cjb.net is a provider [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tips using URL Redirect for Promoting Affiliate Program</p>
<p>URL Redirect can be used to hide the link of Affiliate Program that is usually take a long URL name,<br />
And if someone access through URL Redirect, it will be forward to real URL.</p>
<p>Example of Link Affiliate Program<br />
<a href="http://BlogBisnisInternet.com/?id=angelina0880" target="_new">http://BlogBisnisInternet.com/?id=angelina0880</a></p>
<p>Using URL Redirect, becomes:</p>
<p><a href="http://blogbisnisinternet.cjb.net/" target="_new">http://blogbisnisinternet.cjb.net/</a></p>
<p>blogbisnisinternet is your URL Redirect name<br />
.cjb.net is a provider URL Redirect service</p>
<p>Everyone who access through <a href="http://blogbisnisinternet.cjb.net/" target="_new">http://blogbisnisinternet.cjb.net/</a>, will be forward to <a href="http://BlogBisnisInternet.com/?id=angelina0880" target="_new">http://BlogBisnisInternet.com/?id=angelina0880</a>, but the URL <a href="http://BlogBisnisInternet.com/?id=angelina0880" target="_new">http://BlogBisnisInternet.com/?id=angelina0880</a> is hidden.<br />
So, if everyone want to access again, he/she will type <a href="http://blogbisnisinternet.cjb.net/" target="_new">http://blogbisnisinternet.cjb.net/</a> make you secure that if someone want to buy Affiliate product, he/she will but through your link Affiliate</p>
<p>One of URL Redirect Service provider is <a href="http://www.cjb.net/" target="_new">http://www.cjb.net/</a></p>
<p>The steps<br />
1). Open <a href="http://www.cjb.net/" target="_new">http://www.cjb.net/</a><br />
2). Click Free Domains “Sign Up”<br />
3). Click “I would like to redirect my free domain to another web site address”<br />
4). Type your URL Name.</p>
<p>You have to login and choice &#8220;keep Active&#8221; in login page every 90 days, to keep your account active.<br />
The benefit using URL Redirect:<br />
1). Your URL Link of Affiliate Program will be shorter and it will be easier to be remembered.<br />
2). You are not worried to promote affiliate link, because he/she will come back with your Url Redirect Name and every sales you will get the money</p>
<p>You can put your URL redirect in your webpage, blog or email in your signature to promote Affiliate Program.</p>
<p>David Odang, <a href="http://www.blogbisnisinternet.com" target="_new">http://www.blogbisnisinternet.com</a></p>
<p><span class="technoratitag">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/URL+redirect" rel="tag">URL redirect</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/affiliate+program" rel="tag">affiliate program</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/affiliate+link" rel="tag">affiliate link</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/internet+marketing" rel="tag">internet marketing</a></span></p>
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		<title>Affiliate Programs, You Will Suffer Crippling Losses If You Do Not Redirect Your Affiliate Links</title>
		<link>http://www.seoance.com/2007/10/affiliate-programs-you-will-suffer-crippling-losses-if-you-do-not-redirect-your-affiliate-links/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>oskar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Affiliates]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Affiliate programs can make you a decent amount of income on the side without having your own product and sales copy. There exists another side of affiliate programs though. You probably work hard and long for the affiliate checks that you do get.
But do have any idea how many hard earned dollars of your affiliate [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Affiliate programs can make you a decent amount of income on the side without having your own product and sales copy. There exists another side of affiliate programs though. You probably work hard and long for the affiliate checks that you do get.</p>
<p>But do have any idea how many hard earned dollars of your affiliate money you do not get? What are some of the methods that you can employ in order to get all that you fully deserve as a hard working affiliate? One way is to try and be different. Try your best not to appear like everyone else.</p>
<p>Put a completely different face on your identification link. You can easily redirect or cloak your affiliate link. Lets take a look at some ways that you should redirect your affiliate link in order to reap your rightful benefits.</p>
<p>The first is spam. Stay away from using the same link coming from the same domain as everybody else. The spam filters will start to pick up on that domain as being a sales letter email and will block it as spam. See the example below:</p>
<p>www.youraffiliateprogram.com/?id=xxx This is a dead giveaway affiliate site link.</p>
<p>Whenever the filters see that address in the email it will get blocked as spam and get blacklisted, especially if it is a large promotion. By redirecting your link, it will contain your domain name and will get an easier ride thru the spam filters.</p>
<p>Lets consider search engine optimization. If you write articles and submit them with a signature file that has an affiliate link, the affiliate site gets the back links. In addition, unscrupulous people can easily get rid of your affiliate id.</p>
<p>Use your domain as a redirect to the affiliate program and you will get the backlinks to your site and better SEO rankings. Some affiliate programs give you cloaking links to prevent removal of your identification marker. While this is a great step, it does not address the loss of backlinks.</p>
<p>Another reason is that it will make you look more professional as a marketer. You would not appear as someone who is just promoting all kinds of affiliate programs.</p>
<p>When potential customers see the link below</p>
<p><a href="http://www.affiliateprogram.com/?id=xxx" target="_new">http://www.affiliateprogram.com/?id=xxx</a> they know it is an affiliate link and will be less likely to click on it.</p>
<p>However when they see this</p>
<p><a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/youraffilliateid" target="_new">http://www.yourdomain.com/youraffilliateid</a> or this<br />
<a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/recommendsthisprogram" target="_new">http://www.yourdomain.com/recommendsthisprogram</a></p>
<p>They will view it more as your personal offer or recommendation.</p>
<p>There are many simple software solutions that can change your links. These programs are not pricey at all. Many are available as freeware or shareware through popular sites that offer these kinds of products.</p>
<p>Whatever program or software you choose, the key is to make your domain as the primary axis on your journey throughout the World Wide Web. As a result traffic will increase and customers will be clicking away on your links in no time.</p>
<p>Affiliate Programs can be very lucrative. Have you started yours yet? Would you like some help getting started? This ebook is just what you need to get you going. Follow this link to make your start: <a href="http://www.wyclefinnovations.com/aj" target="_New">Affiliate Programs</a></p>
<p><span class="technoratitag">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/affiliate+programs" rel="tag">affiliate programs</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/redirect" rel="tag">redirect</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/affiliate+link" rel="tag">affiliate link</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/SEO" rel="tag">SEO</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/affiliate+marketing" rel="tag">affiliate marketing</a></span></p>
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		<title>Turn Harmful 404 Error Pages Into Helpful 301 Redirects</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>oskar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Redirects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a fact, Page Not Found, known as a 404 error, can harm your website Ranking with Search Engines as well as being a Turn-Off for Visitors.
A search engine that repeatedly gets a 404 error will de-list the page from its index. Too many 404 error pages on your website and its ranking with the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s a fact, Page Not Found, known as a 404 error, can harm your website Ranking with Search Engines as well as being a Turn-Off for Visitors.</p>
<p>A search engine that repeatedly gets a 404 error will de-list the page from its index. Too many 404 error pages on your website and its ranking with the search engines will suffer.</p>
<p>Visitors are always just one click away from clicking to another search and another website. Present them with a page not found 404 error and these days they&#8217;ll not stick around long enough to search for your missing page.</p>
<p><strong>How Many 404 Error Pages Do You Have Right Now on Your Website ?</strong></p>
<p>Unless you check your web stat error logs regularly you&#8217;ll never know just how many 404 error pages your site has. Even if you don&#8217;t have a single 404 error right now, I can absolutely guarantee you&#8217;ll get them.</p>
<p><strong>How Can I Avoid 404 Error Pages ?</strong></p>
<p>The simple answer is you can&#8217;t, a 404 error can not be avoided.</p>
<p>They happen when you rename a page.<br />
They happen if you delete a page.<br />
They happen if you change the page file extension i.e. htm to html or php.<br />
They happen if you move a page to another location.<br />
They happen if other sites link to pages which don&#8217;t exist.<br />
They happen if visitors have bookmarked pages that no longer exist.<br />
They happen if visitors mistype a URL.</p>
<p><strong>How is a 301 Redirect Helpful?</strong></p>
<p>A 301 redirect enable you to send you visitor or the search engine to any replacement page you specify. A 301 redirect is also important because it&#8217;s what&#8217;s known as a permanent redirect. A permanent redirect is the one preferred by search engines so they are the only ones you should use if you want your website to be search engine friendly.</p>
<p><strong>How Do I Setup a 301 Redirect?</strong></p>
<p>Basically there are two ways to setup a search engine friendly redirect. One is by directly modifying what&#8217;s known as the .htaccess file found in the root directory of your website where your web pages are stored.</p>
<p>The second way is to use a software redirect script. The advantage of using a redirect script is that you can setup and maintain any number of 301 redirect &#8217;s through a control panel.</p>
<p>You can also do very clever and helpful things that will make your website even more friendly to visitors and the search engines, but more of that in the 2nd Part of this article.</p>
<p><strong>Setting Up a 301 Redirect Manually</strong></p>
<p>First let&#8217;s deal with modifying the .htaccess file to setup a redirect manually just so you know what&#8217;s required. Then I&#8217;ll tell you a much simpler way to do this and a whole lot more.</p>
<p>First you must find the .htaccess file on your web server. There could be more than one, but you need to locate the one in the same directory as your web pages.</p>
<p>On some web hosts the .htaccess file is hidden, it&#8217;s there but you just can&#8217;t see it listed when you FTP to your host. On most web servers it&#8217;s visible, so I&#8217;m only going to deal with the visible file. Download the .htaccess file as ASCII not Binary to your PC then open it with a text editor like Notepad or Textpad, not Word.</p>
<p>In the .htaccess file, type the following line but substituting your locations for the missing and replacement files shown in [ ] brackets, excluding the brackets.</p>
<p>Redirect 301 [relative URL of missing file] [complete URL of replacement file ]</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<p>Redirect 301 /directory/discover.html<br />
<a href="http://yourdomain.com/adventure.html" target="_new">http://yourdomain.com/adventure.html</a></p>
<p>For every other redirect required you must add a new line of code to the .htaccess file then FTP to upload it as an ASCII file back to the same location you downloaded it from.</p>
<p>If all this sounds quite complicated, you&#8217;d be right, it can be. But life gets a whole lot easier in the 2nd part of this article Setting Up a 301 Redirect with Redirect Script Software.</p>
<p>Tony Simpson, Advises on the use of Automation in Website Design, Promotion and Optimization of Websites. The 2nd part of his article is at: <a href="http://www.webpageaddons.com/stp/404error1" taraget="_new">Setting Up a 301 Redirect with Redirect Script Software</a> where the advantages of using automatic redirects is outlined.</p>
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