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RFE Hosting: A Step Above the Competition

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What makes RFE Hosting so special? We’re glad you asked! Here’s a quick rundown of why we believe so firmly that we can help your website succeed.

The company.

Since 2008, RFE Hosting has been helping businesses just like yours establish and grow an online presence by offering world-class hosting services at affordable prices. We strive to offer a competitive combination of high-end hardware and expert service, thus ensuring that our customers receive the experience we know they deserve.

The mission.

We aim to provide outstanding service for an outstanding price. As mentioned above, this means making some serious investments in our customers. We ensure, for example, that the equipment and technology used at RFE Hosting is state-of-the-art and one hundred percent up-to-date.

The promise.

There are a lot of hosting companies out there to chose from, and we understand that choosing between so many options can be overwhelming. That’s why we offer two important guarantees to every new customer that trusts in us. First of all, we offer a 99.996% Uptime guarantee. We believe that it’s always best to set the bar high, and we embrace the challenge of turning this incredible metric into reality each and every month. Secondly, we also offer a 30 day satisfaction guarantee that can be exchanged for a full refund if you so chose. We want our customers to choose RFE because they believe that we truly are the best option for their company–which is why we encourage people to try our services risk-free.

How you can get started.

If you’re interested in learning more about RFE Hosting, we encourage you to check out our hosting plans and explore our website in order to see everything that we have to offer. If you have any questions, please reach out to our friendly and experienced staff: we look forward to helping you out!

Creating SEO-Friendly WordPress URLS

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If you’re reading this article, the odds are good that you take SEO seriously.  Perhaps you’ve even created some great content, done some research on Google Analytics, and used your social media accounts to promote it all.  If so, then congratulations!  You’re well on your way to great search engine rankings!  However, even if you’ve done all of this, there is still one very simple problem that could be holding you back a great deal–your URL.  In this article, we’ll explain how URL can affect search engine rankings, discuss the best URLs to choose for your website, and the provide simple instructions on how to create such a URL for your WordPress content.

URL and SEO

Contrary to what some web developers may tell you, not all URLs are created equal.  Sure–no matter what URL you choose for your website, it’s not going to affect your pages crawlability, its speed, or any other technical matter.  What it will affect, though, is the ability of web users and search engines to determine what topics each page deals with. It’s anyone’s guess what:

example.com/rygn39_eue_569

is going to feature, and this hurts SEO.  On the other hand, you can probably guess what

example.com/Improve-your-SEO

is going to be about. Search engines appreciate this, and they will reward you for it!

Choosing the best URL

As mentioned above, a URL that is genuinely descriptive of a page’s content will produce better rankings. Apart from being descriptive, however, it’s also important that your URLs be “pretty.”  What exactly does this mean?

Use-hyphens-between-words, instead_of_underscores.

Don’t include unnecessary numbers or symbols. (They’re&really^^annoying.656666)

Keep it short!

Creating a URL for your WordPress

WordPress URLs are better nowadays than they were in the past, as the site now the title of each post in that post’s URL.  However, these URLs are generally not pretty.  Thankfully, this problem is easy to fix–and, in fact, you can even standardize the format for all of your posts in order to make SEO-friendly URLS easy!  Here’s how to do it:

In the admin menu, go to settings and click on permalink.  From there, you’ll be offered a list of “common settings,” as well as the option to choose a custom setting.  Under “common settings,” you’ll notice that the first option is “plain,” and this is the default option for wordpress users.  After that you will see “day and name,” as well as “month and name.”  These options are worth considering if you are a news blog, however for most users they add an unnecessary length to the URLs without contributing anything meaningful.  “Numeric” adds the number of each post, which is also unnecessary. For most users, “post name” is the best option, as it structures the URL around the post name without including any other data.   Though some “custom” options may be worth pursuing for advanced users, the simplicity and length of “post name” is difficult to beat, and we recommend it for most users.

How do I install Google Analytics tracking into my WordPress blog (Hosted)

Here is a quick guide on how to setup your Google Analytics tracking on WordPress.

We recommend using a plugin called “All In One Webmaster” as it makes the process quick and easy.

Step 1: Download/install “All In One Webmaster” @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-webmaster/

Step 2: Login to your google analytics account

Step 3: Find the UA- profile number for your website you want to track, if you do not have one, go ahead and create one. (the profile id is located in the “Website Profiles” section of Google Analytics.)

Step 4: Copy that UA- Profile ID.

Step 5: Login to your WordPress blog, go to settings > All In One Webmaster.

Step 6: Locate the “Analytics Options” area in the plugin, and paste your UA- Profile id into the Google analytics field – http://screencast.com/t/K0HEC10G1

Step 7: Save it!

And that’s it! Once that process is complete you can now verify, and start tracking your site stats with Google Analytics.

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