.htaccess performance tips

This is a work in progress list of tips to improve site performance using .htaccess. Feel free to contribute! Continue reading

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Do too many .htaccess redirect commands affect performance?

We’re doing a site move for one of our sites and in the process we’re having to change a lot of URLs. So we need to setup a lot of redirects from the old URLs to the new ones. Continue reading

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What do *, ^, . etc. mean in .htaccess files?

Ok I don’t have a formal education in computer science or programming so I didn’t actually know what the f*ck to call the symbols used in a .htaccess file like *, ^, . , (*) etc. I had searched far and wide for them with no luck. Finally a web developer friend informed me these are actually called regular expressions which are used for pattern matching. Continue reading

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How To 301 Redirect An Entire Directory

Looking at ways here to redirect an entire directory to a single page because we are moving a site from wordpress to silverstripe and want to redirect all our tags and category pages to a single page. Continue reading

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How Important Are Keywords In URLs?

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As part of our move to a new CMS we need to change some of our URL structure. So how important is our URL structure and page URLs for SEO?

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Google Tips On Good SEO Opportunities

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Why Matt Cutts, Google SEO Pro, writes articles on setting up printers in firefox on linux.

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Changing URLs For Pages On Your Site

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Considering changing some page organisation on your site? What is important when changing URLs for multiple pages on your site? Continue reading

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Designing Search Engine & User-Friendly URLs

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Don’t make mistakes that will haunt your site forever! URL structure tips you cannot ignore from web authorities W3C and Google. Continue reading

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Google Analytics: Avg. Time On Site 00:00:00

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What the hell is with Google Analytics showing visits when they have spent 0 seconds on the site? Let’s look at the reasons behind this confusing statistic. Continue reading

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Strategies To Optimise For Different Keywords

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What to do and what NOT do to in order rank in the search engines for your target keywords. Continue reading

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