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 ...

Google has published an updated document which goes over six different types of URL redirects and their effects on search results. Google’s Gary Illyes and Lizzi Harvey worked together to add eight ...

Personally, I change outdated, harmful or lengthy web addresses (a.k.a., URLs) when updating existing content quite often. Why? Let me explain. What did Google’s John Mueller say about changing URLs ...

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 ...

Everyone understands the value of a readable URL. But many web applications and websites still output complex ones that no one, even a search engine can understand. Microsoft now makes it easier to ...

Whether you’re making changes to your website, or moving it to an entirely new platform, if you haven’t redirected your key pages properly, you are unwittingly corroding your rank, traffic, and sales.

Today we’re going to take a look at the basic building block of not just SEO, but your very web presence itself: the humble URL. Does the structure of a URL (or uniform resource locator for pointless ...

Well respected SEO, Scottie Claiborne, wrote a guest article for Jill Whalen's popular newsletter named Switching to a New Domain Without Losing Your Google Rankings. In her article, Scottie ...

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 ...

Hackers are conducting a massive black hat search engine optimization (SEO) campaign by compromising almost 15,000 websites to redirect visitors to fake Q&A discussion forums. The attacks were first ...