Optimization technique
Alexa Incorrect Merged Listings Problem
Jul 11th
Have you ever tried to get your Alexa ranking and you were amazed by seeing Alexa giving you the traffic rank of a site that is different than the site you were trying to get ranking for?
This is called Alexa incorrect merged listings problem. Why this happens?
Alexa spider, identified as ia_archiver in the HTTP “User-agent” header section, crawls the Web whenever it notices that the content of 2 websites are identical it will merge listings for those two sites, this might happen even for more than two sites and is called merging site listing or aliasing. When this happens the traffic of all those listings will be summed to form one ranking that would be listed under only one domain, the one with the most incoming traffic. With a huge number of websites on the Web, this procedure of identifying which domains are displaying the same content may go wrong or become outdated.
Now how to get this Alexa merged problem fixed? Continue reading below. Read the rest of this entry »
Different Methods of Redirection
Jul 14th
There is one main reason you might decide to redirect a page to another one and that is moving the location of files or changing the URLs. On the other hand there are 3 major methods for setting up a redirection which include 301 (permanent), 302 (temporary) and Meta redirect.
301 redirect: is the server side, permanent and search engine friendly redirection.
302 redirect: is used for temporary redirection. This means although the requested page now resides under a different URL but the preferred address to be used in the future is the original one (source one). This means when a URL returns a 302 redirect the users are asked to continue using the source URL as the redirect is temporary and could be modified in future. Read the rest of this entry »
