Tag Archives: SEO Steps

How to Add www. – or Remove www. – From Your URL

Posted on February 22, 2010
Add or remove .www from your site's address

This has been done many times by others, but just a quick tip on how to add or remove www. from your website’s address. This is helpful for URL canonicalization and user experience consistency. You can also achieve SEO-friendly canonicalization using rel="canonical". Oh boy, I’m getting too technical :-)

Here’s the juicy part:

Add the following to the .htaccess file in your website’s root folder (often named public_html or www). If there’s not a file named .htaccess, you may create it. If you are creating the .htaccess file, set the permissions to 644. For security reasons, you don’t want others to be able to write to this file.  Read more…

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An Inside Look: 4 Step SEO for a Denver Solar Company

Posted on March 3, 2009

Matzen is a Denver solar company

4 Steps to optimize a website — a Denver solar case study

This is an inside look into my process for optimizing a pre-existing website. This will cover lots of the aspects of the SEO I’ve done, but not all of it…These steps are often my first round of optimization on a site. Once I do these four vital SEO steps, I move on to content SEO and more link-building.  Read more…

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