Recent Posts Tagged With '.htaccess'

• Why storing URLs with truncated trailing slashes is an utterly idiocy

  Posted on Wednesday February 6th, 2008 at 02:03 in web development, crap, usability, duplicate content, anchor text, .htaccess

  With some Web services URL canonicalization has a downside. What works great for major search engines like Google can fire back when a Web service like Yahoo thinks circumcising URLs is cool. Proper URL canonicalization might, for example, screw your...

• The hacker tool MSN-LiveSearch is responsible for brute force attacks

  Posted on Friday February 1st, 2008 at 09:36 in msn, crap, testing, .htaccess, search quality

  A while ago I’ve staged a public SEO contest, asking whether the 401 HTTP response code prevents from search engine indexing or not. Password protected site areas should be safe from indexing, because legit search engine crawlers do not submit...

• Upgrading from IIS/ASP to Apache/PHP

  Posted on Tuesday December 11th, 2007 at 14:47 in web development, iis, duplicate content, .htaccess, redirects, 404grabber, copy+paste-penalties

  Once you’re sick of IIS/ASP maladies you want to upgrade your Web site to utilize standardized technologies and reliable OpenSource software. On an Apache Web server with PHP your .asp scripts won’t work, and you can’t run MS-Access...