The perfect 404 page
jhnidk - April 26th, 2010 in: PHP, SEO
A error 404 page is displayed in the cases where another site is linking to a URL on your site that isn’t available.
There can be different reasons why the URL isn’t valid, maybe you redesigned/restructured your site to a new URL structure, maybe somebody just made a typo in a link or in the browsers address bar, or maybe some of your content has been removed.
There are different philosophies about 404 pages. Some people just want to redirect the users to the sites front page, however if the user expects to see a very specific page on your site, being redirected to the front page isn’t a very good user experience.
In this post we’ll build a 404 page in PHP that tries to guide the user as close as possible to the most relevant content on your site.
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12 tips to get your SEO flying
jhnidk - April 24th, 2010 in: SEO
SEO optimization sometimes sounds like a mix of facts and Voodoo. The search engines won’t reveal too many details about their ranking algorithms, because somebody might want to misuse this information to put the wrong sites on top of the search results.
Therefore the information on how the ranking on search engines exactly works isn’t available, but there is many theories on how a site is best built to be search engine friendly. In this post we’ll focus on the facts about SEO, and not so much on the Voodoo.
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