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In my line of work, there has been a widespread belief that Google is unable to crawl “unoptimised” URLs and that ideally all URLs should be in a directory structure. This is totally untrue as mentioned by Google’s blog post. In fact, Google actually says that they might have problems crawling and ranking your dynamic…

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As promised in my previous post (301 Meta Refresh Redirects: How Google and Yahoo Sees It), I will show you a script I wrote that will handle 301 redirects from Blogger to WordPress using the meta refresh tag and javascript. I have tested it on my old blogger (http://dannynsl.blogspot.com) and it seems to have worked…

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Normally the best practice for 301/302 (permanent/temporary) redirects are through your web server. However, you can only do this if you own your own domain. So what happens when you’re using a free webpage service such as Blogger, WordPress and Typepad, and you want to do 301 redirects to your new website? If you’re thinking…

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