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I have been all bitter and twisted the past few weeks about Google putting some of my pages into the supplemental index. And not just my rubbish pages, some of my best content has gone supplemental. After chewing on the problem for a couple of weeks, I have it figured out. It's the TRAILING SLASH on my URLs, or lack thereof. As odd as this may sound, www.example.com/page/ is not the same...
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I have just completely revamped the NZ Coastguard boating education website tonight. When I say "revamped", I mean make substantial changes to the backend with virtually no changes to how it looks - if anyone notices anything new, I'll be surprised. Clients aren't going to notice the new nice URLs, the new CSS based layout, the fact that it's quite a bit lighter, it validates, it has client...
> articles/67/why-dont-people-use-301-redirects/

I have been in the process of writing a SEO article all about www.ferrit.co.nz[1] - a multi million dollar website with more SEO and web development mistakes than a drunk illiterate kid with Microsoft Frontpage could make. My article covered what you don't want your website to look like after...
> articles/58/ferrit-seo-their-site-properly-sort-of/

The preferred way of redirecting a page that has moved is by a 301 redirect. In PHP, 301 redirects are not the default (a 302 redirect is the default). Whenever you move a visitor to a new location, you should use the PHP 301 redirect, which involves one extra line of code. In PHP, a 302...
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Redirects are an important part of a well maintained site. As pages are deleted or moved, it's common courtesy to sent the visitor to the new page, or at least apologise for the inconvenience. TYPES OF REDIRECT Redirects come in several flavours. Redirects can be done by the server, or by the...
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