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April 2nd
PHP 301 redirects for Apache and IIS
This one is just here for my own reference, because the default 302 status code just isn't good enough!
PHP 301 for Apache:
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.example.com/newpage/");
exit;
PHP 301 for IIS:
header("Status: 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.example.com/newpage/");
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Posted in: Serverside, Webdesign & development
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April 2nd
9Why Google doesn't like frames in your sites
I'm currently working on a site for a client who has a site which uses frames, and he asked me why Google always linked to the "wrong" page. He did not build this site himself of course, and hasn't got much of a clue as to how HTML works, let alone search engines. He [...]
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Posted in: SEO
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April 1st
The correct way of using conditional comments
Some people, like Jens Meiert, have argued that using conditional comments to fix layout bugs for IE is wrong. For those of you who don't know what they are, check out my article on conditional comments. I on the other hand, think that it's the only proper way of working around IE CSS bugs.
If you [...]Continue reading: The correct way of using conditional comments
Posted in: Webdesign & development
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March 31st
16Google, WordPress and trackback URL's
I've been playing around with WP-Googlestats for some blogs, and I noticed something I really didn't think about until now. Googlebot, and other spiders, all spider the trackback URL's that are in the meta data for posts. But since it spiders that and it's not really sending a trackback, it get's redirected to the post [...]
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Posted in: WordPress
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March 30th
15PHPSESSID in your URL? Learn to 301 redirect them with PHP
I'm doing some work on a site which has like 4,500 pages indexed with a PHPSESSID in the URL, causing some major duplicate content problems. I got the server admin to disable the PHPSESSID's by adding the following to the vhost config:
php_value session.use_trans_sid 0
php_value session.use_only_cookies 1
I also wanted Google to get a clean URL when [...]Continue reading: PHPSESSID in your URL? Learn to 301 redirect them with PHP
Posted in: SEO, Webdesign & development
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March 28th
Sorry, fucked up the feed
I fucked up my FeedBurner feed redirection, so my feed had not been updating for a few days. Should be all good now!
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Posted in: Offtopic
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March 26th
1SEOdays was great, even though Google fucked up
Ok, so a lot of people asked me what I thought of SEOdays, since they don't speak Dutch and thus can't read my posts on the Onetomarket blog. The headline says it all, I've met some very cool people, of course Jennifer Slegg and David Naylor, but also Jason Duke and Johan Terpstra, a [...]
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Posted in: SEO
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March 25th
1Convert underscores to dashes with Apache mod_rewrite
Update: (Aug 4 2007) the stuff below is no longer necessary, all major search engines now treat underscores and dashes exactly the same, as word separators!
A year or so back, I was using underscores in my URL's on this site for spaces, and I decided to switch them to dashes, since several people, including [...]Continue reading: Convert underscores to dashes with Apache mod_rewrite
Posted in: Serverside
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March 24th
5Ask.com: I'm flattered, but...
Do you really think that I should rank #1 for my name? And no, not "Joost de Valk", but "Joost"? Hint: go off, and spider joost.com...
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Posted in: SEO
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March 19th
2Going to SEOdays!
Some people watching the blogosphere closely had already guessed it: I'm going to SEOdays tonight. We only finalized it last thursday, so it has been quite hectic, but tonight I'm getting on an airplane over to London, to spend a few days and nights with the awesome DaveN, JenSense and others! I'm really looking forward to [...]
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Posted in: SEO
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