@MoJordan – you can control the 301 redirects to be conditional to the request URI, so that issue can be overcome. More good info is available at http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/mod_rewrite-tips-and-tricks.html or http://www.helicontech.com/isapi_rewrite/doc/examples.htm

@TampaRVLotsforRent – The first suggestion would be to buy a domain that better represents the brand or product (what does doegie.com mean?). Beyond that, be sure you’ve signed up for the Webmaster Tools for the major site engines and submitted your sitemap. I looked at your site very briefly and saw “nudist” which may shy some search engines to believe it is adult content (I’m not sure, is it?). Beyond that, there are many that offer SEO services, just be sure you aren’t buying from someone who guarantees first page results overnight – many of those techniques will end up getting you banned or they are for a very specific keyword phrase that nobody else would bother indexing.

The two things that I feel are the most important, when it comes to SEO, are writing optimized content and creating back links.

I believe one of the biggest and most common mistakes that people make when building their sites is not learning how to optimize content. I made this mistake and had to rebuild thirty pages to make them more appealing to the search engines.

It is very refreshing to see that Homestead is providing information on this subject. Hopefully many beginners will start studying the valuable information that is provided on this blog before building too many pages.

And I’d like to send a shout out to “Art” who was the customer service rep that assisted me when I called Homestead.com. He was patient and took me by the hand and help me set up my account.

I’ve already starting telling my associates about the company.

I’ve spent a week looking for a free tutorial for assistance on creating my site map and found one with Google that wasn’t helpful.

I am a new customer with Homestead.com and am so happy I followed up on information I received through another web designer.

This information will be very helpful in my goal to achieve a high ranking in the search engines as well as sharing the information with my clients.

I would like to know more about linking especially how to give other web site link and what to ask fore in return

SEO Aaron Wall says that you should view the web as one big social network. I fully agree.

Here’s something you can do right now: if you have a blog or whatnot, start posting about that target website with something interesting to say (a review or constructive feedback might be good). Point it to them, and ask for a link when you are ready.

It works in a couple of ways:
1) you establish relationship
2) you give them a link, and can ask one in return. If you have your blog somewhere else (e.g. a free blog site) and you have them point their link to your homestead site, then its not really reciprocal linking is it?