Should I nofollow the social media icons on my own site that link to my own Social Media profiles?* Do not nofollow your [own] social media profiles. Do not nofollow your own links or links to properties you manage. Only nofollow links if they are low quality sites, you have a commercial relationship with them, or…
How to force HTTPS using the .htaccess file – InMotion Hosting To force all web traffic to use HTTPS insert the following lines of code in the .htaccess file: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R,L] Note: Be sure to replace www.example.com with your actual domain name. Setting up Permanent 301 Redirects –…
Screaming Frog MOZ – Learn SEO 301 Redirects – How to Properly Move WordPress to a New Domain Without Losing SEO Google Webmaster Guidelines Google Webmaster Tools Yoast SEO WebMeUp – SEO Dashboard Google’s 200 Ranking Factors: The Complete List – Backlinko
SEO Best Practices Are You Setting Up WordPress For SEO Success? (Moz) Screaming Frog SEO Spider Tool Categories vs Tags – SEO Best Practices for Sorting your Content (WP Beginner) WordPress SEO – The Definitive Guide To Higher Rankings For WordPress Sites (Yoast) Does HTTPS damage SEO? Sources gathered January 2014
Rand Fishkin from MOZ does an excellent Whiteboard Friday to kick off the New Year, entitled: What Should I Put on the Homepage? Great breakdown of the old way a home page was laid out, and the new 2014 super-hero way of laying out your site’s home page. Excerpt: Homepages were once the ultra-authoritative one-stop shops…
What Are Inbound Links? – MOZ Links (also called backlinks or inbound links) are created when one page hyperlinks to another page; you can think of them like votes that pass visitors and link equity to your site from other pages on the web. Search engines use these to understand content and to gauge the importance…