SEO Tips & Tricks

# 1 YEAR

Header set Cache-Control "max-age=29030400, public"

# 1 WEEK

Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800, public"

# 2 DAYS

Header set Cache-Control "max-age=172800, proxy-revalidate"

# 1 MIN

Header set Cache-Control "max-age=60, private, proxy-revalidate"


#Serve Alternate Default Index Page
DirectoryIndex about.html

RewriteRule ^products/(.+)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

#trailing slash enforcement
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !#
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1/ [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*[^.]+)$ /$1.php [L]

If you wish to create a 404 page based on your sites design instead of some horrible default page, then this is the code you are looking for.

ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

In fact, we would recommend that you do this for the following error pages:

ErrorDocument 401 /401.php
ErrorDocument 403 /403.php
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
ErrorDocument 500 /500.php

Using your .htaccess file, it is possible to only allow specific IP addresses access your site. If you wish to do this, try this code: Continue reading →

Hotlinking is when other websites display your files/images on their site. This results in this unknown site using your bandwidth to display content on their site and is effectively stealing. This is even worse when your hosting package has limited monthly bandwidth attached to it. Continue reading →