Redirects are a critically important part of running a successful website, but too often there is little care given to the process of managing them. Without redirect management, you may see important ...

JavaScript redirects are one of the methods available to webmasters in communicating to both users and search engines that the requested URL is unavailable, either permanently or temporarily. The URL ...

Changing URLs just to shorten them or add keywords isn’t worth the upheaval in SEO performance that will come as a result, even when you use 301 redirects to minimize the damage. To learn more about ...

Today we’re going to take a look at the basic building block of not just SEO, but your very web presence itself: the humble URL. Does the structure of a URL (or uniform resource locator for pointless ...

Google's John Mueller said it would be better to offer personalization to users through dynamically tweaking the content on the page versus redirecting that user to a different page with personalized ...

At SMX Advanced, I moderated a panel about technical SEO. Google’s Maile Ohye spoke about SEO best practices for technical implementation of mobile sites based on how Google crawls, indexed, and ranks ...

Change URLs for real reasons, not for handwavy "good for SEO" reasons." Maybe even strong language against changing URLs. I have also never been a fan of changing URLs for SEO reasons. In fact, my old ...

HTTP is the standard protocol defining how information passes between your visitor’s browser and the server hosting your site and HTTP status codes are your handy way of knowing exactly what is ...

The next major on-page group in the Periodic Table of SEO Factors is site architecture. It plays a critical role in SEO effectiveness. These factors affect the findability and usability of your site.

Hackers are conducting a massive black hat search engine optimization (SEO) campaign by compromising almost 15,000 websites to redirect visitors to fake Q&A discussion forums. The attacks were first ...