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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. If you are setting up a new instance of WordPress, take a moment to think through what you want your URL structure to look like. Do you just want to include the post slug?

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MilesWeb – The best way to WordPress hosting

BeingOptimist

WordPress CMS is constantly growing and it developed from a simple blogging platform into a powerful and accessible content management system. Plugins are essential so you cannot talk about WordPress with the same that contributed mostly to the evolution from a blogging platform to a real and powerful content management system.

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Four SEO Tips for WordPress Websites

Idaconcpts

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

How we manage blog posts For blog posts, our main properties are: Status (Idea, Planned, Working on, Drafted, In Review, Ready to be scheduled, Scheduled, Published, Paused) Author/Owner Channel (blog or social media platform) Description (what is the post about?) Featured? (a

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Tech Tip: 3 Simple Things You Can Do To Improve The Backend Of Your Site

SocMed Sean

To get you started on the right track, here are 3 simple ways to make the management of your website/blog backend much simpler: URL Rewriting The Apache server has a mode rewrite module which will give you the opportunity to effectively redirect one URL to another. By default, WordPress has a terrible URL structure.

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The Beauty (and Benefits) of a 404 Page

Firebelly

With the rise of GUI content management systems such as WordPress, it’s easy to throw in some codes that will guide your users before they go astray. Trust me, there’s likely more than you think– anything from misspelled URL’s to incorrectly linked images will return an error.

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