Having multiple email addresses and websites (and having consulted for countless others) I’ve seen my fair share of  “We can rank you #1 on Google” emails.

Why though, do they continue to fill out the form on this website?

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From: jimmypalacios05@gmail.com
Subject: Increase traffic to your website

Message: We would like to get your website on first page of Google.

All of our processes use the most ethical “white hat” Search Engine Optimization techniques that will not get your website banned or penalized.
Please reply and I would be happy to send you a proposal.
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From: Jules Boven
Subject: Increase traffic to your website

Message: You do know what I do for a living right?

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What happens when you have a WordPress theme you like, but it doesn’t include a “Home” Link in the main top navigation?

Sure you can always click the blogs title, but I always feel that for usability purposes every website should have a prominent link called ‘Home” to the left of the main navigation.

And if you’re like me you do everything you can do avoid digging into those nasty php and css files.

The easy  3 step process:

1. Download the 301 Redirect Plugin, unzip it, upload it to /wp-content/plugins, and activate it in your WordPress plugins
2. Create a page called Home, and name the permalink/URL /home or /index or something like that. (www.exampleblog.com/home)
3. Scroll down the page your editing (in WordPress admin) and you’ll see an option called 301 redirect.
   
   Type your blogs homepage into this box, and set the date in the past, then publish the page. Now when you click that home link, your blog will automatically redirect your users from that blank page to your index page. No Coding!

Other uses for this plugin

• You can use this trick to link to external pages in your WordPress navigation.
• I use this plugin on my blogs to parse pagerank to pages that need it. For example when I bought this domain (seo.co.nz) it had previously had a website attached to it which had several links to its internal pages. I created duplicate pages that those links were pointing too, then redirected those pages to the homepage. Much simpler (for me at least) than mucking round with a .htaccess file.