If you follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed a tweet from me a while back lamenting a conflict between a caching plugin and the 301 redirect from non-www to www (or vice versa - whichever is the preferred URL for a given site). From time to time I check to make sure that the non-www URLs of pages on my site are being properly redirected to the www URLs. Some time after I started using the w3 Total Cache plugin, that stopped happening. I was not bursting with fruit flavor, but … [Read more...]
Canonical URL Issues and Link Equity
I've assessed hundreds - probably thousands - of small business websites over the past few years. Canonical URL issues seem to be a common problem for many of them, regardless of whether the site was built by a design firm or a do-it-yourself business owner. For those who aren't familiar with canonical URL issues, also referred to as url canonicalization (and sometimes "canonical home page issues" - which is technically incorrect as it does not just apply to the home page), put simply it is … [Read more...]
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