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By: steve

steve — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:01:30 +0000

useful article i’ll use it on my blogs! thanks!

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By: kumaran

kumaran — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:10:56 +0000

if you are using the latest version of wordpress guys then ignore this article. not needed anymore.

By: oblio

oblio — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:14:06 +0000

is it posiblle that my host does this already through another mechanism? i have noticed that it automaticly redirects to http://mydomain.com/. i don’t have the lines you mentioned in my htaccess file.

By: Recent Inside

Recent Inside — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:15:09 +0000

Nice Article. After searching Wordpress SEO I landed on your page. I am 100% impressed

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:00:48 +0000

Jim this is what my htaccess file looks like. Is this ok?

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mywebsite.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mywebsite.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ “http\:\/\/www\.mywebsite\.com” [R=301,L]

By: Midhun Devasia

Midhun Devasia — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:06:19 +0000

Hi Jim,
In my blog I append one .html after the postname.
like http://tutorboy.com/articles/linux/creating-a-playlist-for-mplayer.html

http://tutorboy.com/articles/ is the blog section.
linux is the category name.

is this affect my SEO , I have some other business related to the the domain so i cant put wordpress in my root, that is why i made a section as articles for wordpress. What do you think is this optimized?

By: Jim Westergren

Jim Westergren — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:40:15 +0000

Hi Gereth,

No, this is not anymore needed. It is taken care of in the new version of Wordpress. I have updated the article and thanks for heads up.

By: Gareth James

Gareth James — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:30:02 +0000

@Adam – You should always use / at the of your domain name when link building. The non / is usually 301 redirected to the / version, but you will get link juice leakage.

Jim, I’m new to Wordpress SEO – Is this all still needed in 2009? If yes do you need to add it for every new page created or can 1 bit of code sort everything (and future posts)?

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:47:17 +0000

… so when I put my URL at the bottom of my signature when commenting on other people’s blogs, twitter, etc, should I keep the slash on the end of the URL as http://www.mydomain.com/ ? (since my domain will now have the slash at the end of the URL)

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 17 May 2009 06:44:05 +0000

Hi Jim,

Excellent post.

How do I know if it is working fine as without editing my current .htaccess file, all my articles automatically link to http://www.mydomain.com/articles/. Should I need to modify according to your codes? My current .htaccess as below.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

By: Jim Westergren

Jim Westergren — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:30:56 +0000

Hi wayan,

It is hard to say when I don’t have more information. But try deleting line number 4 and 5 and see if it works.

By: wayan

wayan — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:13:30 +0000

I was change my .htaccess to

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^wayan\.web.id
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.wayan.web.id/$1 [R=permanent,L]

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.wayan.web.id/$1/ [L,R=301]

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

But my server says there is some misconfiguration. can you give a solution for my domian??