Htaccess
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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…
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WordPress Security: A 10 Step Guide To Hardening and Securing Your Website in 2024
WordPress powers over 43% of all websites on the internet , including major news outlets, e-commerce stores, and corporate sites. This overwhelming market dominance makes it a desirable target for hackers and malicious actors. Understanding why WordPress sites are targeted…
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How To Block Legitimate And Illegitimate Bots from Crawling and Scraping Your Site
Martech Zone continues to grow in popularity over recent weeks... and with it it's also becoming a popular site for hackers and bots. Last week, my hosting company alerted me to my site being hammered with what almost appeared to…
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Build Easy Social Media Shortcut URLs to Your Site with .htaccess
Since Martech Zone is built on WordPress, we utilize the redirections feature in Rank Math to manage all of our referring URLs for our site. We've even modified our redirect code to append UTM campaign query strings automatically on any…
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How to Speed Up Your WordPress Site
To a great extent, we've written about the impact of speed on your users' behavior. And, of course, if there's an impact on user behavior, there's an impact on search engine optimization. Most people don't realize the number of factors…
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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…
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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…
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WordPress: A Comprehensive Guide to Redirects (.htaccess, Plugins, Hosting, Theme Functions and Header)
Redirects are an essential tool for managing traffic flow on your WordPress site. Whether updating URLs , moving pages, or handling HTTP errors , a well-structured redirection strategy can enhance the user experience, preserve SEO rankings, and ensure visitors find…
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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…
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WordPress .htaccess Rules Have Exceptions, Too
WordPress made a major evolutionary step forward in the blogging platform, moving it closer to a full-fledged content management system with revision tracking, more support for custom menus, and--the most intriguing feature for me--multi-site support with domain mapping. If you…