Archive for the 'SEO' Category

HTACCESS Code (General Purpose) • Monday, March 6th, 2006

This is basically what I use to manage dynamic URLs.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.+)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F,L] Protects against bogus query strings attached to the end of a URL. This code is customized to issue a forbidden instead of a 404.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ([a-z0-9]+)\.html$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]+)\.html /script.file?p_path=$1 [L] This allows dynamic xyz.html under a directory and […]


META Tag Analyzer Check List • Monday, March 6th, 2006

General things I look for when I run a page through a meta tag analyzer.

Title/descriptions/keyword are unique ENOUGH for each page. To be on the safe side, build pages with completely different titles/META descriptions with as few repeating words as possible.
Source code starts off with unique H1 and P
100 or less links on the […]


Handling Erroneous Dynamic URLS • Monday, March 6th, 2006

When creating dynamic pages, make sure you handle weird urls so that malicious linking doesn’t lead to the indexing of non-existent urls. Use HTTP header checker to see server responses. Catch all invalid requests with a custom 404 page. What URLS to check? Try to let .htaccess handle as much of the 404s as possible […]


SEO On-Page Optimization Checklist • Monday, March 6th, 2006

I compiled this list of things to do before I actually publish a page for the spiders to crawl. Most of this stuff is meant for people running dynamic sites, so if you build sites by hand page by page, some of this won’t probably apply to you.  The goal of this checklist isn’t […]