WordPress SEO : Fix the WordPress default permalink duplicate behavior
Even if you do have the right WordPress permalink structure, WordPress wrongly treats a path with or without a trailing backslash the same way, although some search engines, like Google, see that as duplicate content. So it's not only that WordPress Continue Reading →
Drupal SEO : The top Drupal SEO modules and how to use them
Drupal has the best out-of-the-box SEO performance of any CMS software that I've used, and yet there are a few easy to implement modules that would give an additional boost in Drupal's SEO performance. Here are the top Drupal modules for Drupal SEO and best practices Continue Reading →
WordPress SEO : Change to a new permalink structure while maintaining the old one
Many WordPress bloggers that start off blogging without much knowledge of SEO, soon realize realize that the WordPress permalink structure they chose wasn't well-optimized for search-engines. Although being aware of the problem, some chose to stick Continue Reading →
WordPress SEO : using robots.txt to avoid content duplication
Google really doesn’t like content duplication on sites and so it is advisable to prevent the Google crawler from reaching the same content on your site from more than one url. Since WordPress does offer many ways of reaching your content, you should block Continue Reading →
SEO casestudy : mandarinhostel.com
Here's a simple SEO analysis for a very simple website : http://www.mandarinhostel.com/ Design It’s important to have more text and it is important to style the text. It’s better to use headings H1/H2 and use CSS than just give <bold><strong> Continue Reading →
Dynamic Page-Titles with Joomla-SMF
To get a dynamic pagetitle in Joomla-smf, edit your template's index.php and add the following right after the <head> : <?php global $sc, $context, $settings; if (!defined('SMF')){require ("administrator/components/com_smf/config.smf.php");require ($smf_path."/SSI.php");} $sc Continue Reading →
Website Google Search results within your Drupal site
I've played around with how to integrate Google Search results for the Drupal installations within the Drupal site, and finally found the right posts on how to make that happen in Drupal. This is an extremely useful feature for two reasons : Builtin Drupal Continue Reading →
Drupal SEO – using robots.txt to avoid content duplication
Google really doesn't like content duplication on sites and so it is advisable to prevent the Google crawler from reaching the same content on your site from more than one url. Since Drupal does offer many ways of reaching your content, you should block certain Continue Reading →
Fixing PNG transparency display problem with IE6
One of the most annoying bugs in IE6 that I keep running into is lack of support for a PNG file that isn't PNG8. In order to for a PNG24 to display transparency right in IE6 it has to be converted to a PNG8, and so, attached here is a small DOS command line tool Continue Reading →
IE7 login problems on various Drupal installations
Seems like this has been a major issue in many Drupal installations. After reading through endless articles on this bug, here are the two patches I've applied to different installations for Drupal 4.7.6: http://drupal.org/node/6696#comment-182857 Symptom: I cant Continue Reading →