Hello and Happy Holidays! I hope that some of you can take a quick look at the following website and share your thoughts on the SEO. If you notice a obvious no-no please let me know. http://www.cecilcountycitizens.com Thank you in advanced for your time
It doesnt have any no-nos that i can see. Its a well optimized site by my eyes. You shouldnt have a problem with the search engines, everything is normal and in place. Kingdom
Thanks Kingdom, that is good to hear. One question I have is the site URL. I noticed some place that sites could be index by YourSite.com and again for www.YourSite.com and that YourSite.com should change over to www.YourSite.com some how. Does that make any sense?
Ive hear this somewere... hmmm wordpress system? Yeah I heard this rule on a wordpress guru system I installed I guess it is true. But im not sure.
Yes you need to do this, you have a canonical url problem. You need to create a permanent domain wide 301 redirect from the non-www version of your domain to the www. version. Do this redirect in your .htaccess file. Good luck with your site Steve
Steve I looked into your suggestion and think I almost have it figured out. I found some tips on canonical issues via google (searched 301 redirect) and the site I found suggested adding the following code to my .htaccess Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^cecilcountycitizens.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.cecilcountycitizens.com/$1 [L,R=301] Code (markup): but that would not work, kept getting a 404 Error, so I messed around with it a bit and got it working with the following code on the index page. Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^cecilcountycitizens.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.cecilcountycitizens.com/ [L,R=301] Code (markup): I placed this code at the bottom of my .htaccess file with a space between the code already on the .htaccess file. Now the index page does just what it should (I assume) http://cecilcountycitizens.com redirects to http://www.cecilcountycitizens.com but http://cecilcountycitizens.com/forum/ does not change. Did I miss something or is that correct? Thanks again guys for the suggestions
One other thing I would do is translate the forum urls to nice URLs forum/showthread.php?p=2063 > forum/post-about-subject.html there should be a plugin for the bulletin you are using