A 301 redirect is a status code your web server recognises as a web page or link that has permanently moved to another location. To find out what Matt Cutts of Google thinks of 301 redirects, please check out the following web pages:

Google’s Matt Cutts Talks About Redirected

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I recently did an export of most of the posts of my internet marketing blog to this blog. It was quite simple actually. Simply click on the Tools -> Export link on the left of the WordPress admin sidebar to export all the content from a WordPress blog to a… Read more…

I have conceded in the struggle to get my internet marketing blog, VincentRich.com, back into the Google index. I have checked my content and outgoing links to see if they have violated Google’s rules.

The problem is Google did not give me any specific example of how I violated their… Read more…

Sorry for the lack of updates. I added a lot more features that I originally planned and it just took longer and longer.

I am almost done with the Maverick Keyword Researcher. I moving on to the testing  phase, creation of the sales page and other documentation. I am considering… Read more…

This is a follow up to my web site’s disappearance on Google.com. I submitted a reconsideration request to Google and I received a very vague reply.

The reply I got from Google was simply:

We received a request from a site owner to reconsider how we index the following… Read more…

I recently discovered that Google de-indexed my blog for no good reason. I have read their webmaster guidelines and I still do not think I have broken any of their rules.

I have submitted a request to Google to reconsider my web site via Google Webmaster Tools. I hope… Read more…

I am implementing the Keyword Effectiveness Index (KEI) into the Maverick Keyword Researcher. However, the original formula does not work with Google keyword statistics unless I make some tweaks to it.

First up, let’s take a look at the official explanation of… Read more…

This module of the Maverick Keyword Research was inspired by John Jonas’ Outsourcing Online Research post. John hired a programmer to create a tool to fetch the OCI values from Microsoft but his programmer found it hard to do it with PHP so he wrote a Windows program to… Read more…

If you use twitterfeed to sync your blogs with your Twitter account, you could easily integrate tweetmeme retweet counters by adding the code “RT @tweetmeme” to your twitterfeed feeds.

Once you have added the tweetmeme retweet code to the prefix field of your twtterfeed feed, you tweets will be counted… Read more…

I think I have to be a bit vague about the keyword sources of the Maverick Keyword Researcher. I have made a lot of improvements to it in the past few weeks and avoided a lot of trademarked terms.

The keyword research tools of the Maverick Keyword Researcher come in… Read more…

I have been applying what I have learnt from the Twitter Traffic Machine for over a month now. When I started on 10 April 2009, I had 2258 followers. After using the tips and tricks in the Twitter Traffic Machine for 2.5 months, my followers have risen to… Read more…

Just received an email from CBS warning me not to use mySimon and Search.com’s keywords. Therefore, you won’t see them when the Maverick Keyword Researcher is released. I have removed all references to them from this blog.

Sorry for the lack of updates. In the past 2 weeks, I have further developed the Maverick Keyword Researcher beyond my initial plans for it.

User Accounts, Installation, Password Reminders, Login etc

The first public version of the Maverick Keyword Researcher will not use a MySQL database to store its… Read more…

I just completed the Alibaba module of the Maverick Keyword Researcher that imports keywords from Alibaba’s top lists – Alibaba’s Latest Sourcing Trends and Alibaba’s Trade Trends.

I combined the “Categories with most new buyers”, “Categories with fewer competitors” and “Categories with most products” into 1 page. This… Read more…

The Keyword Research Pro keyword research software is one of my favourites but I have to tell you there are some major bugs in this software and the customer support is terrible.

The problem with a lot of keyword software is they grab data from Google.com “illegally”, which means they… Read more…