Occasionally, you may change some pages on your website, eliminate pages altogether, or migrate to a new website platform altogether. You may notice that Google still has old URLs that no longer exist in the search results. How do you get the new web addresses indexed, and make the old outdated web addresses disappear from […]
How to Remove Old URLs from Search Results
How To 301 Redirect a PDF in WordPress for SEO
Here’s something I noticed when trying to redirect a PDF URL to a new URL. On most servers, using .htaccess redirects, or even redirect plugins, have no effect, because most servers are configured to resolve directly to the PDF URL. Here’s how you can fix that on Apache servers.
301 Redirects and SEO
What are 301 redirects? A 301 redirect is a when you forward an old web address to a new one. For instance, let’s say you have a page on your site with a URL of http://example.com/contact-us, but you want to change it to a more SEO friendly URL http://example.com/contact. You would use a 301 redirect […]