I previously wrote about 301 redirecting www to non www url and vice versa to avoid a possibility of getting a duplicate content penalty, but the is another scenario where you can have two identical homepages.
Google See’s your domain. say www.bettermychance.org and www.bettermychance.org/index.php as two different pages with the same content on both. so a great way to solve this problem is by putting some code in your .htaccess file
Here is what you do:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.bettermychance.org/ [R=301,L]
Replacing my domain above for yours.
Now when anyone goes to your domain.com/index.php they will be redirected to your main URL thus eliminating the chance of a duplicate content penalty.
Tags: , Content Penalty, Google, htaccess, mod rewrite, Redirect, seo
09.Jan.08 
Oscommerce SEO, SEO Basics, Site Optimization 
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Making good use of header tags is good practise when it comes to SEO.
To use a header tag simply put <h1> at the start of the heading and </h1> at the end of the heading.
Make sure you use the keyword you are trying to optimise your site for in the header and then directly after the header have a paragraph sentence using <p> paragraph goes in here </p> where you repeat the keyword twice within 200 words, prefrably once at the start and again nearer the end.
Example, based on trying to further optimize my site for “Blue Widgets”
<h1>Blue Widget are a must for all home users</h1>
<p> Blue Widgets where first introduced to out company back in 1966 since then ourcompany has over 1000% and we are now producing more than 250,000 Blue Widgets every day</P>
Apply this technique to your site and you will see an improvement in SERP’s
Tags: Advanced SEO, Header Tags, seo, SERPs, Site Optimization
29.Dec.07 Advanced SEO, Site Optimization Comments (0)
I consider there to be two main types of backlinks.
1. A standard backlink using your url. Example http://www.bettermychange.org
And
2. An anchor text backlink. Example Search Engine Blog
The second is a much better way to improve your SERP’s (Search engine results pages) as the site that is linking back to you is telling search engines what type of site it is, it need to be written in html code and looks like this:
<a href=”http://www.bettermychance.org”>Search Engine Blog</a>
Its not always easy to get sites to link to you using anchor text, but a good place to start experimenting is forums that allows footer links, such as Digital Point. There we go, that was another backlink using anchor text. cool huh! 
Tags: Anchor Text, Backlinks, seo, SERPs
12.Dec.07 Backlinks, SEO Basics Comments (0)
A backlink in its most simplist form is a link from one site to another site (Your site)
Google considers a backlink as a vote for your site, so the more backlinks or votes you get to your site the more popular your site will become.
The above is a very basic description, you may also want to read, Types of backlinks and Too many backlinks.
Tags: Anchor Text, Backlinks, seo, SERPs
10.Dec.07 Backlinks, SEO Basics Comments (0)
