I came across the question recently and decided to start this blog with an answer Im pretty new to Screaming Frog, I understand majority of the results but i dont understand the H1 section There are two H1’s H1-1 and...
Different HTTP status codes to consider for pages that have been redirected or removed
After a complete website upgrade I discovered Google, Bing, ahrefs, Moz and a bunch of other bots were constantly crawling the website looking for old URLs, these old URLs contained PHP variables and would look something like this: index.php/id=3&something=something. The...
Checking if a word or phrase exists in a string
Using PHP's strpos to test a URL I need to redirect old URLs that are attached to a domain that has been re-purposed for a new project. These old URLs have become an obstacle in achieving decent search engine ranking....
Forcing htaccess to remove www from your domain name
Htaccess - www to non-www domain name Good SEO practice suggests that one domain be chosen as Google, Bing and other search engines see www.mysite.co.za and mysite.co.za as 2 separate domains. To redirect all requests to the non www version...
What is SEO Page depth and how to handle it
Page depth related to SEO Page Depth for SEO is an important SEO factor and one that I find under emphasized. What is SEO Page Depth Page depth is the number of clicks it takes a user to reach a...
Challanges with Migrating a domain name while considering SEO
Rant website domain migration from an SEO perspective Moving content from old domain to new. Every time I think about transferring a domain, I get this sick feeling in my tummy. The risks are high and there is no solid...
Currenct symbols coverted to HEX and HTML values
Hex and HTML codes of currecy symbols Currency codes provided in HTML, CSS, Hex or Unicode where available. A useful list of currency symbols. This was used on a project where we need a user to select their currency symbol...
The best FREE file uploading programs
All web developers or web designers have an arsenal of tools, one of these tools on the top of the list would be an FTP program. Although all web hosting providers offer some sort of a file uploader like Cpanel,...
Robots.txt to block web crawlers
Every serious website owner or webmaster goes through a phase where they monitor their domain traffic, this monitoring can be done using tools like google analytics, awstats or raw website logs. Personally, I rely on all the resources but for...
PHP Sessions, How do they work
Quick reminder on PHP sessions The thing with sessions is you only code it once or twice and then you start the cycle of re-purposing code to cut down on dev time. This is even more relevant when you development...