Mod Rewrite Rules for Uniform Spidering

I mention in my earlier post that you should choose to use www or not, but regardless, stick with it. Another issue that arises is that you can’t always control how someone else will link to your site. While most will include www. others wil not. To insure that all you links are cataloged in the search engines uniformly, you should implement a couple of rules in your .htaccess file.  (more)

Never delete or rename a page…

Well, almost never… I talk about the importance of page names on my SEO page. The trick is to design your site so that you have the best page names with the right content in those pages for top organic results. But what happens if you inherit a poorly designed site, the content becomes obsolete, or a generic term like “MP3 player” is suddenly secondary to a more popular phrase like “iPod”?

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