Every SEO company on web apply lots of tools & techniques under the purview of SEO promotion such as link exchange, directory submission, PPC search engine marketing, article writing, etc… and one such popular technique is URL Redirection.URL Redirection which is also known as the Domain Redirection, URL forwarding or Domain forwarding is a technique in which SEO experts make use of mod_rewrite module to clearly redirect one web address (URL) to another, hence take the visitor to a different URL than clicked upon without his / her explicit knowledge or permission. In other words, URL redirect is a technique wherein websites are made more visible by making them available under many URLs.The technique is sometimes preferred for redirecting visitors when they type wrong spellings. It is also used as an effective solution in a SEO website that is a subject of poor publishing. URL redirecting is used for such a website to give much more reader friendly and search engine friendly URLs (web addresses).With more and more websites using dynamic web page generation facilities, the URLs nowadays are generally less meaningful and ingrained with ampersands (&) and question marks (?).Disadvantages of having such ragged URL’s:* Easy information leakage about the technology under use for Hackers* Scope for confusion for the readers/ visitors wishing to memorize or note down the URL for future use* Difficulty in future changes in technology, as a shift from one programming language to another say ASP to PHP would render the old URLs obsolete and thus non-functional* Difficulty in linking to your web pages for others, as the special characters in your dynamically generated web pages may meddle with the XHTML code of the websites trying to link with yours* Discourage Search Engines from indexing your web pages, as search engine spiders do not index web pages with question mark within the URLURL Redirection helps an SEO expert to eliminate all the above advantages and renders the URLs much more logical, manageable and readable for the end users as well as the search engine spiders.
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Understanding Importance of URL Redirection
Thursday, November 5th, 2009Url Forwarding and Redirection
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009Webmasters and common Internet users have a constant need for URL forwarding and redirection. The reason is that there are many long URLs that are not convenient to use. The solution is using a URL redirection service that would create a shorter URL and forward the long URL to the short one. To try the service visit To try the service visit URLic.com is a new free URL forwarding and redirection service that meets these needs. URLic.com can instantly turn every awkward and inconvenient long URL into a handy and easy to use short URL. URLic.com also allows you to choose your own suffix (the part after the “/” in the URL), so the URL will be easy to remember and represent the page it refers to.
So why would someone want to use it? Here’s a few common cases:
For Your own use:
Let’s say that you often search for the map of Brooklyn in Google maps. The URL is
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=new%20york%20map%20brooklin&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl
Of course it’s not convenient to use and it’s impossible to remember.
Using URLic you can create this URL: http://urlic.com/map1
This can easily be remembered.
For emailing and posting:
Let’s say that you want to post a long URL on your website or in an article or just send to
your friends in an Email or to you customers in a newsletter. Long URLs just don’t look good. With URLic.com you can create an Easy and Friendly URL for posting or Emailing.
For your website:
Let’s say that you have a website or a webpage on a free web host, without you own domain.
The URL would be something like:
http://www.my-internet-host.com/~myusername/my-page.html
This is not easy to use, remember or tell people.
With URLic.com you can easily create a URL like: http://urlic.com/john
To hide your Affiliate link:
Let’s say that you have affiliate referral links on your site, this links usually contain numbers and are not easy to use. Besides, many people know that these are affiliate links and don’t want to click them. With URLic.com you can mask these links into short and good looking links.
What are the other advantages of URLic.com ?
URLic.com is a 100% WEB 2.0 website, built with AJAX. The meaning is that there are no page reloads of any kind, and the user experience is just like of a desktop application. URLic.com also allows you to choose your own suffix, unlike some other services. When using the automatic URL (without choosing a suffix), URLic.com will always give you the shortest possible URL.
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