Recently I’ve visited several high profile blogs where the blog itself is located in a sub folder and the main page of the site (http://www.Domain.com/index.htm) was simply a “notice” telling me where to find their blog.

From a Google SEO standpoint, this isn’t the best way to go. You’re about to discover how to quickly and easily fix this problem and get better search position, more traffic and, ultimately, more money.

You do want more money from your blog, don’t you? Yeah, I thought so.

“Google Isn’t Very Smart”

As I said in a previous post about another one of my Google SEO Tips, Google is stupid. Google doesn’t have the ability to look at three very similar URL’s and decide they are “really” all the same.

If you don’t force Google to “see” they are all the same page, it will treat them as different pages and dilute your Google juice. Here’s some simple steps to take to make Google a little less stupid.

“Use a PHP Redirect as Your Index Page”

If you aren’t using your main page as anything but a place holder, you need to do this. This one is easy–even if you don’t know anything about PHP. Just take this code below:

<?php header( “Location: http://www.fulltiltblogging.com/blog”); ?>

Change the domain from Full Tilt Blogging to your own URL.

Then, paste the code into a blank notebook document, name it “index.php” and upload to the main page of your site.

“Next, Fix WordPress”

Go to your dashboard and look over to the right hand side. See that little link labeled “settings”? Go ahead and click it.

When you get to the page look for these two blanks (it will be your domain, not mine):

See that “http://fulltilt…” part? You need to change that to “http://www.FullTilt…”. Like this:

See how I added the “www” to the two links? That means when someone links to my blog using this link:

http://FullTiltBlogging.com/blog

They automatically get redirected to:

http://www.FullTilTblogging.com/blog

And Google doesn’t get confused.

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