Would you like to change a URL page name on your website for SEO benefits without losing valuable Page Rank or backlinks?

You can easily resolve this by setting up an .htaccess Redirect if your website is hosted on an Apache Server.

Open Notepad or a similar html editor.

Type this code:

Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.pinkpoodles.com/newpage.html

Please note there is a space between 301 and the forward slash as well as a space between html and http.

(301 space / oldpage.html space http://)

Save the file as .htaccess. Notepad will automatically add a .txt extension, so be sure to rename the file as .htaccess. Upload via FTP to the appropriate directory and a permanent redirect is set.

To make your website text easier to scan, use numerals rather than letters when spelling out numbers

It's a known fact that readers scan text on websites which is different than how they read print. Therefore by placing numerals such as 29 rather than twenty nine in the text, readers will be able to focus in on facts which is usually what they want to find. The most obvious examples of this is price of a product. People certainly want to read $10 rather than scan for ten dollars.

Starting a sentence on a website with a number is also recommended.

77 members of our organization volunteered their time to raise money. This allows the reader to absorb facts quickly.

Exception: When writing very large numbers it's recommended to use 12 billion rather than 12,000,000,000. Readers will get lost in the translation. Giving readers the information they want or need quickly will increase the usability of your site.

Commenting Your CSS

To make updating a site easier in the future, use comments in your css to define what the particular css does.

Comments look like this /* text */

Comments are typically used to identify an IE Bug Fix but can be used as notes or reminders as well.

For instance, keeping track of css for different elements of a page:

/* use this code for all products for men*/
.productname {
    font: bold 14px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    color: #333333;
}
        

or

.redtext {
	color: #FF0000; /* Use this for all sale items */
}