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Content duplication, redirecting and other tips for using Feedburner feeds

Written on April 10, 2007 by

Using Feedburner? then you should disable your feeds from search engine indexing. After you're done tweaking your robots.txt to avoid content duplication and sorting your .htaccess to setup all the redirects you should also take care of the content duplication Continue Reading →

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Joomla SEO : SEO friendly URL structure

Written on April 7, 2007 by

The URL structure is an important factor in SEO and user friendliness, and Joomla's default structure is lacking. Alledia asks "What is the best URL setup for Joomla and why?" and does an incredible job of detailing all the options for optimizing the Joomla Continue Reading →

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WordPress SEO : Verifying 404 Not-Found headers are not OK

Written on April 6, 2007 by

WordPress also has "404 not found" issues. In the last post we discussed "Drupal SEO : Verifying 404 Not-Found/Forbidden headers are not OK and custom 404 pages" but it seems that this problem persists across CMSes, like Wordpress, that fail to return Continue Reading →

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Drupal SEO : Verifying 404 Not-Found/Forbidden headers are not OK and custom 404 pages

Written on April 4, 2007 by

Search engines care about dead pages in your site that were not found,  so that those can be differentiated from the rest of the site. Search engines expect a "404 not found" message, and you probably rely on  Drupal to support that. Are you really sure Continue Reading →

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WordPress SEO : Fix the WordPress default permalink duplicate behavior

Written on March 31, 2007 by

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 →

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Drupal SEO : The top Drupal SEO modules and how to use them

Written on March 28, 2007 by

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 →

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WordPress SEO : Change to a new permalink structure while maintaining the old one

Written on March 27, 2007 by

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 →

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WordPress SEO : using robots.txt to avoid content duplication

Written on March 10, 2007 by

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 →

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Dynamic Page-Titles with Joomla-SMF

Written on March 6, 2007 by

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 →

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Website Google Search results within your Drupal site

Written on February 28, 2007 by

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 →

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