Comments on: 10 htaccess Hacks Every SEO Should Know

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.

By: Miles

Miles — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:17:33 +0000

Some useful ideas, a few of which I didn’t know about – but this guide is not much use. The lack of/inconsistent formatting of the code makes it difficult to work out what should be used and what is optional.

Also some things such as #1 really should have example code, instead of “access plus x seconds” – I have no idea what I would replace this with for a real situation.

There is no indication of where in the .htaccess these rules should go to work properly and not conflict with other rules.

Finally, wouldn’t #10 used as is block access to the entire site?

By: pligg.com

pligg.com — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:38:10 +0000

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