Redirects are a critically important part of running a successful website, but too often there is little care given to the process of managing them. Without redirect management, you may see important ...

Redirect chains can significantly affect your website’s performance and SEO health. When one URL redirects to another, which then redirects to yet another, it creates a chain that can confuse search ...

JavaScript redirects are one of the methods available to webmasters in communicating to both users and search engines that the requested URL is unavailable, either permanently or temporarily. The URL ...

Changing URLs just to shorten them or add keywords isn’t worth the upheaval in SEO performance that will come as a result, even when you use 301 redirects to minimize the damage. To learn more about ...

Hyperlinks pointing to pages that don't exist on your site are known as broken links. If a user clicks on such a link, they get a 404 error page. Fixing broken links ...

Google's John Mueller was asked if redirecting a URL to a new URL will also pass the Core Web Vitals metrics. The short answer is yes, if you redirect page A to new page B, page A's Core Web Vitals ...

Change URLs for real reasons, not for handwavy "good for SEO" reasons." Maybe even strong language against changing URLs. I have also never been a fan of changing URLs for SEO reasons. In fact, my old ...

At SMX Advanced, I moderated a panel about technical SEO. Google’s Maile Ohye spoke about SEO best practices for technical implementation of mobile sites based on how Google crawls, indexed, and ranks ...

HTTP is the standard protocol defining how information passes between your visitor’s browser and the server hosting your site and HTTP status codes are your handy way of knowing exactly what is ...

Online marketers spend a lot of time demystifying Search Engine Optimization (SEO), from the jargon and rules to new updates and algorithms. As the technology continue to advance, what you might know ...