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Hmmm, I learn something new everyday .... Well I learn lots, but this one in particular will inevitably lead me to changing very old habits

Is this a test Marie .... or are you after advice

As for me, I'd kick back and pat myself on the back and say job done good  ... Number 3 aint nowt to be sad about

I once did a site for a client, and offered basic SEO as part of the build, clearly stating that I would insure the site structure would be fine, proper use of heading tags, good meta description, the basic stuff.

Anyway, he said he would love to rank high for School Cleaning Ireland, the phrase itself was so niche, as soon as the new site was indexed, he ranked number 2 in Google.ie

The guy was over the moon with me ... Got three new jobs from referrals (just web build) ...

Anyway, the moral, I have not done a thing with his website in over 8 months, my job was just to build it for him, I have just checked Google.ie, and he now ranks number one for that very phrase, without an iota of content changing on his website, I know that for sure as it is a static HTML ...

Sometimes niche words need very little work at all

Regards

You shouldn't really have both your www.yoursite.com and yoursite.com domains accessible in the public domain, especially for SEO practices. Search engines may view it as duplicate content.

You should use your .htaccess file to redirect all your www to non www or vica versa (assuming your server is Apache enables)

#Redirect no-www to wwwRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !www.yoursite.com$ [NC]RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.-yoursite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

I might add .... I aint no SEO experts, but I am pretty sure that you should follow the advice above

I have always wrote URL extensions as www.mysite.com/two_words.html .... when I need to separate two words, I use _ as the separator ...

I am a first time SEO Moz user ... I

While looking around the tools on SEO Moz, I happened to stumble across the on-page analysis.

A great tool indeed, rather worryingly though, one issue it flagged to me was my URL extension

"Characters which are less commonly used in URLs may cause problems with accessibility, interpretation and ranking in search engines. It is considered a best practice to stick to standard URL structures to avoid potential problems."

Can someone advice me if this really is a problem, its just not this project, its tons of sites I have already developed that I am also worried about ...

I always write file extensions with more than one word using _ to separate the words.

How should I write the extension, I am almost embarrassed to ask this question ...

Surely, even Google's algorithms are not smart enough to decipher two words without some some sort of spacing ....

Regards

J

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Pay like $20 dollars, great piece of software ... can update itself as you update your site

Probably, the one of my very best investments