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I know this is an old thread, but I actually spotted this issue while trying to fix it myself. I was able to fix it by using quotes and a literal space. So for example, instead of
RewriteRule ^/products/product%20name$ http://www.site.com/products/new-url [R=301,L]
use
RewriteRule "^/products/product name$" http://www.site.com/products/new-url [R=301,L]
Hope that helps.
3/28/2012 Outreach letters are a primary element in any quality link building campaign: If you're not getting responses, you're not getting links. It takes a lot of trial and error to find what works, which can be difficult for new link builders. To make things easier for everyone, I wanted to give several outreach letters I use for contacting different sites.
9/2/2011 Training someone who doesn't know anything about SEO to link build, can be very challenging even for someone who is quite advanced in the industry. You have to know how to dumb things down, while still giving adequate information. You also need to make sure you don't overwhelm the person you are training. I've taken several approaches to this in the past and I wanted to go through a step-by-step of what works for me.
7/13/2011 I see a lot of people talking about how link building is difficult and the truth is, it really is. It's time consuming, tedious, frustrating, and several other negative words. To make things worse it can also get very pricey, no matter whether you're outsourcing it or doing it in-house. I've also seen several posts about free ways to get links and they're a...