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Thanks Yannick,

Quick question, I have dropped both snippets into the htaccess file. When I view my url in internet explorer it still has the trailing slash. All instances of the www. have been removed however. Is this just something IE does leaving the trailing slash even if it is in fact being redirected?

Is there a tool or a way to check to make sure the action has been completed correctly?

Thanks again for the help, this technical stuff is NOT my background.

One thing I like to do to find fresh content to write about is the following.

Set some google alerts for topics in your own industry as well as vertical industries. When you get the alerts you will be able to sift through them and find new stories, products, happening etc.

This can give you things to talk about as well as gives you more insight into what is going on in your industry. There have been many times where I have also discovered other things I should be doing in my business this way.

I am cleaning up a fairly large site.

Some pages have a trailing slash on the end some don't. Some of the existing backlinks built used a trailing slash in the url and some didn't.

We aren't concerned with picking a particular one but just want to get one set and stick to it from now on.

I am wondering, would I clean this up within the same redirect in the htaccess file that takes care of the www and non www?

example

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

I currently use that to redirect the www. to the non www as you can see. However here is what I was confused about.

Would this code be enough to redirect ALL pages with a / to the ones without?

or would I also need to add another code (so there is 2) to my htaccess like below?

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

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

That way, now, even the non www pages with a trailing slash will redirect to the non www without the trailing slash.

Hopefully you understand what I am getting at. I just want to redirect EVERYTHING to the non www WITHOUT a /

Thank you

Jake

Awesome suggestion James thank you!

I was wondering if I can get a couple recommendations for good info graphic designers. The person I previously used is no longer available.

Also, how do you guys go about outsourcing the actual information procurement that will go into the info graphic? I am doing everything in house but am now expanding to where I was wondering if it was possible to outsource the actual info gathering and process flow in addition to the creation/design of it.

Any thoughts and info would be appreciated. Thank you

I hear a lot of conflicting opinions regarding when to use pages over posts.

If you were using wordpress mainly as a static site and less of a blog would you use pages over posts?

Let's say it is a yacht review site. Would you set up most of the content (boat review pages) as pages or posts?

I hear some say in that case you would want to use mostly pages and use posts for news related items.

Then there are others that suggest only making the few (contact, about, privacy, terms) as pages and everything else created as posts organized into categories.

Any thoughts?

Also, is there a tool to find out if a website that is not yours is using a page or a post?

Thanks

Mik,

I agree with everything you said. My plan is to move it to a subfolder and redirect everything. I appreciate the example of the long tail traffic example.

Someone told the owner of the site to put it on a subdomain for seo and there are very few instances where I could see that as being the way to go.

I am wondering what my fellow mozers think. Pretty set about my direction but want to get any other input to aid in my decision.

Have an ecom site with a www.blog.maindomain.com. The blog is fairly new and no major rankings. There are only about 30 posts.

This isn't a super competitive market and the blogging won't be a huge part of our content strategy but I would like to use it for passing juice etc.

Would you go through the trouble to move the blog to www.site.com/blog and redirecting all the old content to new?

I am running a large ecommerce fitness equipment store. It is on magento and there are lots of little issues with the site. Things like url strucutre, not enough text for google to read as far as menus and too many images etc.

I am wanting to work with a company that totally understands what I need done to the site to fix it and make sure its in its absolute best shape for seo. I need a real consultant that can help me make changes to my site. I cannot seem to find someone when outsourcing to overseas like india and stuff.

Does anyone know of anyone or a company I can contact? If you know of multiple please list. Thank you very much

Jake

I have a wordpress site that is about a product that is now getting some great traffic. Right now It has affiliate stuff on it. I want to sell my own product so I will be turning this wordpress site into an ecommerce site.

I want to redesign it so I am not looking for simple plugins to just add a cart.

The part I am really confused about is what to do with my posts and categories? How does that work when turning this site into an ecommerce site?

Lets say the site is "hats for adults" My post pages are things like "funny hats for adults", "hats for adult men" etc etc. Would I turn these posts pages into like category pages that have a category of products.

Or should I create real categories and have my developer turn those into the ecommerce category pages and then redirect my posts to those categories?

Maybe I don't even know what I am talking about. Is this even making sense? This is a small site (5posts and 1 category) and most of the traffic will come from the homepage keywords anyways.

One thing I like to do to find fresh content to write about is the following.

Set some google alerts for topics in your own industry as well as vertical industries. When you get the alerts you will be able to sift through them and find new stories, products, happening etc.

This can give you things to talk about as well as gives you more insight into what is going on in your industry. There have been many times where I have also discovered other things I should be doing in my business this way.

Also, I think that would be a great blog post! There is a real lack of clarification on what peoples options are and what they should be doing based on their situation.