SEO
Drupal SEO : Verifying 404 Not-Found/Forbidden headers are not OK and custom 404 pages
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 →
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 →
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 →
Automatically redirecting to the www no-www prefix
There's a common SEO claim that a double domain pointing to the same content isn't good for SEO due to what can be perceived as duplicate content . Use the rewrite module to redirect all domain.com to www.domain.com by adding the following to your .htaccess : <IfModule Continue Reading →