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I think the pagerank it forwards can be the same, but if you link to your own pages that does not affect your rankings as much as if you do it from some other domain.

still not working for me.

The exact url is domain.com/?score=4&rew=25   (there are some more versions of course with different counters)

I want to redirect all urls like this to domain.com

tried:

RedirectMatch 301 /[a-z]score[a-z] http://domain.com
RedirectMatch 301 /.score. http://domain.com
RedirectMatch 301 /^score$.* http://domain.com
RedirectMatch 301 /.^score$.* http://domain.com

none of them woks

Another thing to take into consideration that always a given amount of a pages own page rank is forwarded to the page you link to. So if you have a page with a PR of 2 and have 20 outbound links, the pagerank the actual page forwards will be divided equally between the 20 links, provided you place one link. If you place more links than the second one pointing to your site will carry slightly less value than the first one did (but will carry some), although it will carry anchor value. So, agreeing with Robert: don't look spammy,  but you can take placing more links into consideration.

I had just the same experience. It was only one occasion but I did nothing more to the site then putting it under a new account on my shared hosting, so only the last digit of the ip has changed. I saw a drop in rankings however the original I gained back the original rankings a few weeks later.

Thanks, Alan. Not really like that, as my url contains additional characters both in the front and at the end of the word. By the way the links you sent me on the topic were great I am just having some hard time to understand them, they are a bit chinese to me, as I have no basics at all writing htaccess.

Thank  you a lot for your help, very much appriciated

I think it should be something like

Redirectmatch 301 /.*thisword.``* http://domain.com

Maybe but I am not sure, would be grateful for feedback

You got it right

I'm looking for a method to redirect any urls containing a certain variable. I have  a scorable element on my site and each time a new score is added a new url is generated like domain.com/xyz?score=5 or domain.com/score=4&rew=22. These are all alternates of my main page abd I would like to redirect them there. In the end found something when clicking through from Jennifer's post but I'm still not quite sure.

If you are focusing just for the UK you nedd a co.uk tld as you mentioned. You need to submit to UK directories and to get links from UK  sites. If you can host your page in the UK that is even better, that does not mean to buy hosting from a UK firm but to have server phisically based in the UK. You can alsotry adding a lang=en parameter to the html. As Cisaz said you can try adding targeted cities like seo in London or Birmingham. That is all you can do besides general SEO issues.

Egol has usually got great answers that woths linstening to, this time however I think I disagree as moving site A's hosting to a new ip causes a drop in rankings. Put the redirection on top of that and you get some more fallback. I think in the above case I would not change the hosting but do the redirect and wait for google to notice the change. Maybe a few months later I would give up site A's original hosting and migrate it to site B's hosting to be able to keep the original urls live for some more time.

Not exactly what I was looking for but thanks for the feedback anywy

Here's a piece of authentic information if you like videos and Matt Cutts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0fgh5RIHdE. Just as miss M. -J said, links in footer do carry less value.

What is a proper way to redirect any url containing a give word (anywhere in the url) to another sepcified url? Is it like this?

RedirectMatch 301 ^thisword$ http://domain.com/newlocation

Thanks a lot.

Hello There

Can anyone refer to me a document that will explain htaccess files to me from the begining to the end? I have done some Seo projects, so I know the benefits but I don't know the code for the files.

Thanks

Hello Colt,

First and most important thing is that organic SEO differs from paid search. One thing is that you have multiple instances of h1 tag and that is spamming. Just leave the most important as h1 modify all other to h2.

I think you have quite a long code for this short page. I would try to shrinken the code somehow. One other problem with the code is that your page is built using tables: that is not up to date anymore. You should use divisions and format them via css.

The hugest matter of all is that you have only got 2 inbound links: all two from the same site. If you want to rank in organic search with compatitive terms like loan and credit you should have tonns of inbound links. Read more somewhere on linkbuilding what is possible and what is forbidden. Do not purchase links.

Do some keyword research or get some from your paid campaigns: optimize for long tail words, loan and credit are so compatitive words, that with really hard work you need at least a whole year to get to first page, and i am not sure that is even enough.

Why you are not ranking for federal auto loan is that it contains loan as a compatitive words, federal that is another nice word used mostly on governmenr sites, and auto that can be a lot of things. So your brand name is composed of three really compatitive and hard words, you need patience and lot of hard work to rank for that.

I don't know what exactly this is, but you can implement useful snippets of information, like price, rating, reviwe counter with schema.org. I personally haven't got any long time experience with it but it is said to lift CT. This should be true as users searching for items with reviews for example can find clues that here they will find some.

It is not a simple text I suggested, but a hcard,and i did not suggest it for users, but for SEO and local search. It carries local value: http://smallbusinessshift.com/articles/microformats-for-local-seo/ I suggested links as well. A footer area in my opinion should hold definately more than two links. These links do carry useful value, as after finishing reading all the content on a page you get to the footer and you can scroll up till the main menu or you can find something useful you can clcik in the bottom. I think it is a great way to lead visitors through your site. I think a carefully designed sites should give some attention to this factor. If you do doubt that users click footer links just look at your analytics and draw the conclusions yourself.

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