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How to Completely Ruin (or Save) Your Website with Redirects
Cyrus Shepard

How to Completely Ruin (or Save) Your Website with Redirects

Have you ever redirected a page hoping to see a boost in rankings, but nothing happened? Or worse, traffic actually went down? When done right, 301 redirects have awesome power to clean up messy architecture, solve outdated content problems, and improve user experience — all while preserving link equity and your ranking power. When done wrong, the results are often disastrous.

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How To Make Your SEO - REAL SEO
Chad Hill

How To Make Your SEO - REAL SEO

Online marketers are anxious to see how the recently announced Google Penguin 2.0 update will impact their website marketing. For people who don’t closely follow Google’s algorithm updates, Penguin updates look for unnatural link patterns that might be a signal of inappropriate SEO tactics. In my opinion, the guidance that Google provides around big updates is vague and difficult to interpret. As a result, many bloggers fan the flames by being deliberately provocative, trying to create a sense of panic and alarm to get attention. Creating panic around a Google update is pretty easy to do.