Comments on: 10 htaccess Hacks Every SEO Should Know

By: David Brownley

David Brownley — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:24:44 +0000

Great list,

The CMS category removal is especially useful as inherited CMS is clunky.

Thanks

By: Website Design and Development

Website Design and Development — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:42:49 +0000

Thanks Kevin, I’ve referred to this article several times when setting up .htaccess on our company’s websites.

By: Kevin Spence

Kevin Spence — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 03:18:15 +0000

Thanks, Jason! I’m glad you found it useful.

By: Jason Acidre

Jason Acidre — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:44:33 +0000

Brilliant post Kevin! This is certainly an area of SEO that doesn’t really get written more often, which most will really believe essential to all websites. I know most of the hacks that you have listed, but I never have thought of compiling them and sharing them to my readers. I must say this is a great find that is worth sharing.

By: Pummy Manku

Pummy Manku — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:22:25 +0000

thanks for useful info. I was founding it. I will use it now.

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By: Kevin Spence

Kevin Spence — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:25:15 +0000

@Miles You’re absolutely right on the formatting & usability concerns. I’ll improve that.

As for #10, WordPress formatted things a little wonky on me, and tried to render the opening brackets around the files .htaccess as HTML tags. My fault, I didn’t proofread carefully enough. It’s fixed now.

By: Kevin Spence

Kevin Spence — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:21:40 +0000

@Ryan — My philosophy is that every element of a site is related to SEO, even if it doesn’t have anything to do with linkbuilding or traditional SEO practices. I understand what you mean, though.

@Johnny Ace & Brent — Good ideas. Maybe I’ll write a follow-up post and include those. Both are great ideas.

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:16:32 +0000

Great list, thanks. Perhaps you might want to include how to redirect all pages to a certain page, except for certain IP addresses (i.e. taking your site down for maintenance and redirecting users to one page, but allowing yourself to view all files).

By: Johnny Ace

Johnny Ace — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:19:13 +0000

Awesome tips. The tip on disabling directory browsing is especially useful, since even Google can (and will) index directories you do NOT want indexed: WordPress plugin dirs for instance.