Tutorial: How to find and fix duplicate content on your website
You might not realize it, but many websites make the same content available via different URLs. This is not popular with the search engines, and it’s one part of what’s referred to as duplicate content. There are a few different kinds of duplicate content, but in this blog post you’ll learn: the basics of what duplicate content and canonicalization is how to figure out if your website has duplicate content problems how you can use free tools to find and solve some of your duplicate content issues Please note: In this blog post, you’ll learn the basics of how...
Read MoreLeverage browser caching: How to add Expires headers
This tutorial explains how you add Expires headers to your .htaccess file. This will help you improve the performance of your website, based on Google’s and Yahoo’s recommended performance guidelines. You’ll learn about: what browser caching and Expires headers is how to test the current performance of your site how to add Expires headers for your website where you can find more information Important! To make use of Expires headers the way it’s explained in this blog post, your server must be Apache (and requires the module mod_expires) and you must have access to your...
Read MoreYASB – Yet Another SEO Blog?
There are about a gazillion SEO blogs out there, and plenty of SEO resources to keep you busy forever…so why start a new SEO blog? It all started when I searched for resources for SEO beginners, to recommend to my clients. I found many really good and free SEO courses, tools, ebooks, blogs, newsletters etc (more about that in another blog post). But…I quickly realized they were all very overwhelming for small business owners just starting out in SEO. “I see it’s all very useful, but where do I begin on my website, and what’s more important to do first?” Is...
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