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WordPress SEO: Updating Permalink Structure

By on September 12, 2008 in SEO, Tutorials

From the recent WordCamp Philippines 2008, I preferred attending the WordPress & SEO lecture by Hans Koch. He pointed out good notes to write down about some of the best seo-related plugins, and other aspects of seo that you can work with wordpress but he did miss something, that is working with the permalink structure.

I have checked a number blogs earlier and found out that most of them don’t care of the permalinks issue. If you’ll notice, wordpress permalink by default shows a question mark and numbers in it, obviously not search engine friendly. You can customize this by going to Dashboard > Settings > Permalinks section of your wordpress powered blog. You’ll see five options there for your permalink:

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URL Rewriting: Redirecting To A Single Domain

By on September 11, 2008 in SEO, Tutorials

I personally prefer to have a single domain name and will do redirect 301 response header all the others, in maximizing my page ranking.

Well, to make it simple, the whole idea here is to take a domain like http://kontrapelo.com and redirect it to http://www.kontrapelo.com consolidating all incoming links to a single domain, wether they use “www” or not.

Here’s a simple mod_rewrite rule you can add to .htaccess to accomplish this, put it above any other rewrite rules that you are using, you may want the other rules to apply to the www. domain after the initial redirect.

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