Google Buys Nest For $3.2 Billion

January 13, 2014/in Google /by chameleon

Google has announced that they have entered into an agreement to acquire the company Nest Labs for $3.2 Billion.

Nest Labs are the producers of the Nest Thermostat which is a Learning Thermostat which remembers what temperatures you like and creates custom schedules for your home, and turns itself down when you’re away.

One of the great things about the Nest Thermostat is that you can control it from anywhere with your phone, tablet or laptop.

Save more energy with the Nest Learning Thermostat

Google are interested in Nest due to the this an other products such as the Nest Protect Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm.

IP address to the main website URL

January 8, 2014/in DIY SEO, Web Design /by chameleon

We thought we would share this information for people using Apache Web Servers who require to redirect the IP address of a website hosting to the main website URL. If you have a dedicated IP address it is well worth checking this.

If the web hosting server IP address is not forwarding to the website’s domain name then you may find that search engines could index your website content using IP address rather than the domain name itself.

If this did occur it would mean that there is a potential of duplicate content so we recommend you check this by putting your webservers IP address in your browser.

If it does not redirect to the main website URL then you can fix this using a htaccess 301 redirect on an Apache server.

Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on # # Redirect non www to your www.yourdomain.com RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} . RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yourdomain\.com$ RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
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Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on # # Redirect non www and also the server IP Address to your www.yourdomain.com RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain\.com [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^123\.456\.789\.101 RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]