301 Redirect
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Semrush Backlink Analytics: How To Find and Restore Rankings and Authority With Lost Content
While every website evolves, those changes often leave behind unintended damage, especially regarding SEO. Martech Zone has undergone several transitions, including domain changes, migrations to new hosting, and theme changes. These improvements helped modernize the site and improve performance, but they also introduced risk: broken links, missing content, and forgotten pages. This is particularly costly because many of these outdated…
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410: When And How To Tell Search Engines Your Content Is Gone
When a search bot crawls your site, your web server responds with a header request code. We’ve shared quite a bit about the negative impact of search engines finding 404 errors (page not found) and how to utilize redirections effectively to redirect the user (and the search engine) with a 301 status code to a relevant page. Redirections are a…
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How To Stop WordPress From Guessing Redirects When It Believes It Will Result in a 404 Error
If you’re a longtime reader of Martech Zone, you’ve probably noticed much progress on cleaning up the site. I’ve been correcting incorrect internal links, adding many redirects, removing articles to discontinued platforms, and updating critical articles. Working nights and weekends, I’ve probably deleted over 1,000 articles and edited over 1,000 more… and my work isn’t done. Another functional change I’ve…
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WordPress: Remove and Redirect A YYYY/MM/DD Permalink Structure with Regex and Rank Math SEO
Simplifying your URL structure is a great way to optimize your site for a number of reasons. Long URLs are difficult to share with others, can get cut off in text editors and email editors, and complex URL folder structures can send the wrong signals to search engines on the importance of your content. YYYY/MM/DD Permalink Structure If your site…
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Working With The .htaccess File In WordPress
WordPress is a great platform made all the better by the detailed and powerful standard WordPress dashboard. You can achieve much in terms of customizing the way that your site feels and functions by simply using the tools that WordPress has made available to you as standard. There is a time in any website owner’s life when you must go…
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What Is A 404 Error Page? Why Are They So Important?
When you make a request for an address in a browser, a series of events happen in a matter of microseconds: You type an address with http or https and hit enter.The http stands for hypertext transfer protocol and is routed to a domain name server. Https is a secure connection where the host and browser do a handshake and…
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Finally, It’s Time to Retire Your WWW
Sites like ours that have been around for a decade accumulated SEO rank on pages that have sustained incredible traffic. As with most sites, our domain was displayed and started with www. In recent years, the www has become less prominent on sites… but we kept ours because that subdomain had so much authority with search engines. Until now! Moz…
