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It’s no secret, Google is bringing it’s vision of cloud-based computing to reality with it’s recent release of the Chromebook as well as it’s constant launching of new and innovative cloud-based applications. For Google, one of the main limitations is the high speed internet infrastructure that most Americans use to get online. We live in an expansive country which means laying down new cables to create more bandwidth is a slow and costly endeavor, much slower than the pace at which our technology is innovating and sucking up all that extra bandwidth.
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A website can generally be accessed by entering the site’s domain directly (domain.com) or by including a leading “www.” subdomain. This offers increased usability in that users can enter the site in either way but lowers overall SEO in that web crawlers index both addresses as separate sites and will penalize the site for duplicate content.

This is easily fixed by forcing on or off the “www.” subdomain while allowing the users to enter through both addresses. To do this you can modify your .htaccess file in your site’s root folder by adding in the following mod_rewrite condition. If you have issues with your permalinks or cache after including this condition, move the snippet to the beginning of the .htaccess file. The codes send a 301 redirect while doing their thing so search engine crawlers know that this is a permanent redirect and to reallocate the pagerank data from the defunct subdomain’s pages over to the main domain’s matching pages.
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Keyword density is simple enough to understand, the more targeted keywords your page contains, the more likely that term will be associated with that page as a keyword. Since the keyword tag is more-or-less obsolete these days, keyword density is the way search engine spiders and crawlers determine what keywords that page will come up for.
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