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Ask Bill Hartzer: We redesigned our website, pushed it live but did not catalogue our old URLs. What do we do?

Bill Hartzer

Someone recently asked me about redirecting their old web pages (their old URLs) to the new URLs because they redesigned their website. However, we forgot to catalogue all of the old URLs on the old website, and therefore we have no way of knowing what the old URLs were on the site, so we can redirect them to the new URLs.

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[Tech Tip] 10 Steps To Improve The Speed, Security, and Functionality Of Your WordPress Blog

SocMed Sean

–Sean As more and more new sites hit the Web on a daily basis, the adoption of WordPress as a content management system seems to keep on growing. Take the Groesy WordPress theme , as an example. Do you want to include the month and year in your URL? By default, WordPress has a terrible URL structure.

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Four SEO Tips for WordPress Websites

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WordPress is the world’s most popular content management system. Not only is it used by almost a quarter of new webmasters, it’s also the system of choice for 17% of Alexa’s top one million sites on the web. Optimize Your Page URLs. You need to take a look at the page URLs on your site. Get an SEO Plugin.

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How Buffer’s Content Team Collaborates + Our Content Calendar Template

Buffer Social

Mitra keeps several weeks of content ideas planned out at a time, for example, and still keeps ideas in Notion as well. On the blog side, we’ll go over ideas and add dates in the Editorial meeting for the blog content calendar to make sure we have the next two weeks fully planned out. Featured? (a

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Google’s Change of Address Tool is Broken

Bill Hartzer

I’ve used Google’s Change of Address tool plenty of times, and I can honestly tell you that I’m considered one of SEO’s premier experts on site migrations (from one URL to another). There are several web CMS (Content Management Systems) whose URL structures are inherently broken and not set up properly.

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The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites

Adam Sherk

Even when the engines do a reasonable job of filtering out duplicates in their results, sites are essentially shooting themselves in the foot by splitting internal and inbound links to a particular piece of content across multiple URLs. Here are the most common causes of duplicate content on news media sites: Tracking codes.

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Five Reasons Why I Love Wordpress

Firebelly

. | Main | Stop tweeting about the # of followers you have » October 23, 2009 Five Reasons Why I Love Wordpress WordPress was originally made as a blog publishing application but has now evolved into a huge content management system (CMS). For example, check out the very popular site colourlovers.

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