Make sure your WordPress robots.txt is in line with the latest best practices in SEO. Don't block Google from loading important content!
Want to delete a page from your site? This post explains the options you have when deleting a page and helps you choose the right one.
This guide discusses what hreflang is, what it is for and gives in-depth information on how to implement it for your multilingual website(s).
The robots.txt file is a very powerful file if you’re working on a site’s SEO. At the same time, it also has to be used with care. It allows you to deny search engines access to certain files and folders, but that’s very often not what you want to do. Over the years, especially Google changed »
Categories: Technical SEO, WordPress
hreflang is a technical solution for sites that have similar content in multiple languages. A site owner wants search engines to point people to the most “fitting” language. Say a user is Dutch, the page that ranks is English, but there’s also a Dutch version. You would want Google to show the Dutch page in »
Category: Technical SEO
When you delete a page (or post) from your site, you delete one or more URLs too. That old URL, when visited, will usually return a 404 not found error. But is that what you wanted? Maybe that page should be redirected somewhere. If not, and you deliberately deleted that content, serving a 410 header would actually be »
Category: Technical SEOGoogle is once again showing why standards compliant building might be very beneficial for SEO. They have started to use rel=”next” and rel=”prev”, both part of HTML4 and HTML5, to recognize archives and paged articles. Just yesterday I was having a discussion with Nathan Rice, on of the developers of Genesis over how one should deal »
Category: Technical SEOIt keeps amazing me that I keep seeing people use robots.txt files to prevent sites from being indexed and thus showing up in the search engines. You know why it keeps amazing me? Because robots.txt doesn’t actually do the latter, even though it does prevent your site from being indexed. Let’s go through some terms »
Category: Technical SEOEver since the announcement on the Google Blog and more recently Yahoo’s announcement that they’ve enhanced their support for it, I’ve been meaning to play with the X-Robots-Tag header. This HTTP header allows you to do what you’d normally do in a robots meta tag, in an HTTP header, which has some pretty cool appliances. »
Category: Technical SEO
With the meta robots tag you can control what search engine spiders do on your site. Learn what it does right here!
Category: Technical SEOI got a hit today for the following search query: how do you get rid of the www in url. As you can see that hits on my article about removing PHPSESSID’s, which isn’t quite what the person was looking for I guess. Here’s the code to 301 redirect the www version of your site »
Category: Technical SEOThis one is just here for my own reference, because the default 302 status code just isn’t good enough! PHP 301 for Apache: PHP 301 for IIS:
Category: Technical SEOUpdate: (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 »
Category: Technical SEO