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PLR Articles

http://www.flamillion.com/ - A very reasonably-priced site for buying some topical PLR articles.

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Google Ranking Factors

Found a nice Google Ranking Factors table on this site.

http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/internet/google-ranking-factors.htm

I like how it lists both positive and negative factors for on and off page optimization.

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Wordpress Password Protected Directory

This really isn’t a hard SEO tool suggestion. Just a note for people like me who use a lot of Wordpress blogs.

I created a WP blog and wanted to set up a separate “members only” section where I could post FAQs, tips, suggestions, etc. So my main blog was at www.mainblog.com and my members-only blog would be installed at www.mainblog.com/members.

Sounds easy enough — just do another Wordpress install in the /members directory.

To make life easy, I thought I would just use the cPanel directory password feature. Now here’s the problem. When I did a cPanel directory protect, and then tried to access www.mainblog.com/members, it redirected me to my 404 page!

After a lot of searching I found this posting: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/111914

Basically the fix is to put these two lines at the top of the .htaccess file.

ErrorDocument 401 /members/index.php
ErrorDocument 403 /members/index.php

I think it might work with just the 401 line but someone suggested trying both. Apparently when you password protect a directory it kicks out either a 401 or 403 error. If you don’t put in the above code Wordpress eventually treats it as a 404 error and redirects you to that page.

A nice trick and my members section blog is now password protected!

P.S. Don’t forget to remove the members directory from being spidered in your robots.txt file.

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