Freesites Help / Support - FTP Log In
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Good evening, I have engaged a SEO company to improve my google rankings, and they require the FTP log in details. His language is 'canonical error on your site, what we need to do to fix this is 301 redirect'. My website is www.estraining.com.au Please send correspondance to coach@estraining.com.au. Thanks a million in advance, Adam |
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Hi, Firstly, Any SEO work needs to be done to the content of your pages. Secondly, FTP access will not allow him to edit the content of your pages. Thirdly, your site does not have a canonical "error". A canonical error means that when you got to http://www.estraining.com.au it opens a different url like http://www.estraining.com.au/index.html. You can see this does not happen when you click the link. therefore, no canonical error. However, google may have picked up on the URL: http://www.estraining.com.au/index/1;Home-Page/ You can let your SEO company know that we have uploaded an .htaccess file to take care of that using 301 redirect. If there is some other URL they would like to have redirected then they can tell us what it is, and we'll take care of it. All other SEO can be managed from within your freesites account. One part of our business is SEO, and I can tell you that SEO is simple if you know what you are doing. All you need to do is the following: 1. work out what people would search for when looking for a service such as yours. eg. Employment skills or 'how to get a job' and include a location, as people like to find businesses in their city. 2. put whatever search terms you come up with all throughout your home page, and ESPECIALLY your page title. and page description. 3. only gear your site up for google. (here is why: http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2009/02/the-800lb-gorilla-knows-where-your-website-lives/) 4. when you have populated your pages with the search terms that people would use, submit your site to google, (http://www.google.com/addurl/) and wait for it to re-index your site. (up to 6 weeks) 5. after google has re-indexed your site, test your work by typing in your search term that you optimised your site for, and seeing where you come in the results. 6. refine your SEO based on the results, and what your competitors are doing with their SEO, and resubmit. Any questions, feel free to ask! www.m2seo.com.au |
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Hi again, Please have a look at the response from the SEO company below. Please let me know if this is possible. Thanks in advance....... In that case, if you can please tell them to always redirect “estraining.com.au” to ”www.estraining.com.au” would be greatly appreciated. The reason is: You know when you type in estraining.com.au in your web address, it will stay like that rather than adding www at the front. Google treats the “www.estraining.com.au” and “estraining.com.au” differently, so in a sense it will see 2 different pages instead of one. And by not redirecting the non-www to www , we are not allowing your homepage to achieve the strength it should have. That is what I meant in the sense of canonical error. I would need the .htaccess to fix that, however if they are willing to do it, then its okay by me. Secondly we can do anything from FTP but if we just want to update content, CMS is sufficient. |
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Hi Adam, Canonical error redirect has been setup. Thank you |
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