Tag Archives: seo
Dear Google, Please Index…
Dear Google,
Please add the following sites to your almighty index:
Thank you!
Testing a Spambot Blocker
I’m testing a spambot blocker courtesy of Augusto over at Spanish SEO. So if you can’t read this blog post, please let me know asap :)
It displays a nice big STOLEN sign, as seen on the right here, to mess with their splog display.
You should be able to block bots via robot.txt instructions, but spammers aren’t known for following rules. This solution blocks the bold bots at the Apache httpd level using .htaccess instructions. See Augusto’s spambot blocker article for more information.
Removing date from WordPress permalink: .htaccess 301
I just updated my permalinks structure on amdsoft.com to remove the dates from the URL. This is slightly better for SEO, and is nicer looking also.
So now we get URLs like
http://amdsoft.com/essential-software-for-new-macos-box/
instead of
http://amdsoft.com/2009/03/12/essential-software-for-new-macos-box/
In WordPress, this is changed at www.yourdomain.com/wordpress/wp-admin/options-permalink.php, select Custom Structure and just use
/%postname%/
Here’s the 301 redirect (replace amdsoft with your domain):
RedirectMatch 301 /([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/(.*)$ http://amdsoft.com/$4
Make sure it appears all on one line in your .htaccess file, and that it’s above the WP code in there.
Thanks to Aaron over at SEO book for this htaccess code. Edit: someone just pointed out to me that this is originally from Yoast tweaking websites blog- so thanks Joost (and also to Aaron for bringing it to my attention)! I highly recommend reading both of these guys, they’re both awesome.