What do you think?

Ok im getting close to saying my site is complete for being informational and mabye add a few more products is the code i have friendly for search engines ? and nay sugestions to add to my site ? take a look www.assuredmedical.com

 

the site is pretty good and simple.. for SEO you'd want to place more h1/2/3 tags for titles and subtitles, and use the htaccess to rewrite assuredmedical.com to www.assuredmedical.com, and www.assuredmedical.com/index.html to www.assuredmedical.com, to avoid engines reporting duplicate content (use 301 redirs)

 

I am so boggled by the 301 redirect and how that works and where i would place it any ideas i accually have another thread right now trying to get info on my 301's but im new to this game and clueless

 

I would steer clear of using underscores in the urls. Use hyphens or join the words together if possible.

Also change the hc_providers url to healthcareproviders.html

Otherwise all the basics seem to be covered - time to start getting some links!

 

301s don't hurt unless you overdo the interlinking.

 

but how do i do these 301's that are at least needed for my redirect from a htm file to a html file

 

<?php
header("HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.your-site-name.whatever");
?>

in http://www.your-site-name.whatever/.htaccess

 

ok so create this and name it privacypolicy.htaccess ? how does it know its moved permannenly

 

Because it says so in here
header("HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently");

 

better yet how does it know where its moved to

 

The script is generating a 301 error and telling the browser where to go to next. Hopefully, it will cache the result and go there always. This is useful when you are changing domain names.
I have registered variations on my domain names and I have asked the registrar to forward thoese to the primary domain name. Whether or not you can do this depends on where you registered your domains. For better or for worse I use GoDaddy for most of may domain names. I tell them to forward the odd spellings for my domain to the one I want to market.

 

basically you need to create a file with the name "htaccess" (no extension, no nothing, just htaccess)

open it, and write the following lines:


RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^assuredmedical\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.assuredmedical.com/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.html$ http://www\.assuredmedical\.com/$1 [L,R=301]

(if this doesn work, try adding "Options +FollowSymLinks" without quotations before the "RewriteEngine On" rule)

now, save and close the file, and upload it to the root of your site (where you have your index.html file); after that, rename the file to ".htaccess" (without quotations); you will probably not see the file anymore, the "." before it hides it, and you will need an option to show hidden files if you wanna see it (depends on the program you're using to access your account)

now test it; it should work like this: http://assuredmedical.com and anything after it, http://assuredmedical.com/index.html, http://www.assuredmedical.com/index.html and http://WWW.ASSUREDMEDICAL.COM all lead to http://www.assuredmedical.com (so you're sure that search engine will not mistake in getting duplicate content)