Preventing Search Engine Access with /robots.txt

The /robots.txt file is simply a text file on your root directory that tells all “good” robots (the ones that aren’t fishing for email address of other spammy pursuits) what parts of your site to not index. By default all content that is accessible to a search engine spider is considered fair game. Because of [...]

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Edward Rayne publishes blog posts for small businesses who are looking to learn how to harness social media and blogging for traffic and sales.

301 Redirects for SEO

One of the main problems that arise when doing SEO, updating content, or when redesigning a site, are URL’s that no longer work. When this happens not only are your customers subjected to broken links, but all search engine value the old page had is lost. Best practice is to take those old URL’s, and [...]

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Edward Rayne publishes blog posts for small businesses who are looking to learn how to harness social media and blogging for traffic and sales.