The future of Competitive Website Design

Ok let’s talk about the future of competitive website design for a second: it is just that: competitive. By looking at the Google Insights graph at the top you can clearly see that the trend of search for web design in the North Carolina area has dropped almost by half! You could probably attribute some of that to the specificity of search, however in my opinion it also highlights that web design is being searched less. Read the rest of this entry »

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First SEO Video. SEO Basics Series. Canonicalization

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Canonicalization (Man it is hard to say that), is the practice of choosing one version of several duplicate pages and redirecting the other pages to the chosen one. In this video, Alex Centeno explains the process. This video is the first video of my SEO Basics collection, therefore it is horrible in terms of language and theme (I hope they get better with time). Anyhow for anybody looking for the .htaccess code for the www versus non-www canonicalization it is here:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

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