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Just about all the information you can read on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) with regard to urls being SEO friendly includes discussions on using them, however if you are not using a Content Management System (CMS) to implement them, you may be doing yourself more harm than good.  This two-part article discusses how to implement SEO urls in your website if you are building your site from the ground up.  Part 1 discusses the rational behind the article and Part -2 walks through an example of a webpage that lists news articles and shows individual articles within the site utilizing SEO friendly URLS.  It also discusses the .htaccess file changes that would need to be made to ensure there is only one version of the url availble to web browsers and automatic robots.

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Cron is a essential website tool to automate tasks on your website. Cron is a process that runs on the same server as your webserver that allows you to run scripts at specific times and dates such as once a month, once a week, every 20 minutes or the 4th day of November at 2pm. So you spend some time developing your cron PHP scrip and you believe the script is setup correctly to run, you wait for the time it is expected to run and…NOTHING! Now what? Continue Reading

An XML sitemap file is essential to having search engines correctly find the files in your site. Maintaining a sitemap file can be almost as challenging as keeping your site up to date. In this article we describe a sitemap index file and how to logically layout your site to be more Search Engine Friendly for SEO. Continue Reading