How to Choose the Best Domain for Search Engine Visibility

How to Choose the Best Domain for Search Engine Visibility

Selecting a domain is usually the first and perhaps most critical component of launching a new site.

Remember that the reason that search engines are popular are because they help people easily find what they are looking for. Search engines will continue to improve their processes in order to bring their users the most accurate and relevant content. On the other hand, spammers, hackers and black hat SEO experts will always be looking for ways to find loop holes or gaps to take advantage and reap the rewards of being 1st in Google. Therefore, search engines are always seeking weighting elements that are difficult to manipulate. Since the search engines know how easy it is to buy keyword-stuffed domains, they stopped weighting these hyphenated domains. So what do they look for?

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Add the Facebook Like Button to your Joomla Site

You can add the Facebook Like button to your Joomla site in under 5 minutes.

Follow these simple instructions and your Joomla site can become part of the Facebook social network. Adding a Like bottom will allow people to "like" your site, content on your site, and connect to the Facebook page that represents your web site.

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How to PDF an entire website

If you need to create a PDF of an entire the site the following tutorial will walk you through all the necessary steps. Please keep in mind you need Adobe Acrobat Pro (if you don't have the pro version you can download the trial version from Adobe.com) in order to do this. You might be wondering why would you want to PDF an entire site? Well there are several reasons: Ability to browse the website when it is not online, preserving the pages at the exact moment for tracking changes and history, or just for basic record keeping.

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How to 301 Redirect

What is a 301 Redirect?

A 301 redirect is the most efficient and search engine friendly method for webpage redirection. It is easy to implement and it will preserve your search engine rankings. If you have to change file names or move pages around, it's the safest option. The code "301" is interpreted as "moved permanently".

A 301 redirect will be commonly used when you have redesigned a website  with pages that have high search engine rankings that you don't want to lose. However, it should also be used so that search engines don't think that www.YourDomainName.com and YourDomainName.com are two different sites. By implementing a permanent redirect ("301 redirect") between these sites you will get full search engine credit for your work on these sites.

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Converting external hard drive to NTFS format

the file "file name" is too large for the destination file system

If you received the error: "the file is too large for the destination file system" when attempting to store a large file on your system hard drive or external hard drive, the problem is probably due to the format of the drive being FAT.

The max file size for FAT drives is 4.00 GB so any file larger than that will yield the aforementioned error.

However, do not fret! This can easily be remedied by reformating your external hard drive using NTFS.

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