Personally, I change outdated, harmful or lengthy web addresses (a.k.a., URLs) when updating existing content quite often. Why? Let me explain. What did Google’s John Mueller say about changing URLs ...

Google has published an updated document which goes over six different types of URL redirects and their effects on search results. Google’s Gary Illyes and Lizzi Harvey worked together to add eight ...

JavaScript redirects are one of the methods available to webmasters in communicating to both users and search engines that the requested URL is unavailable, either permanently or temporarily. The URL ...

Changing URLs just to shorten them or add keywords isn’t worth the upheaval in SEO performance that will come as a result, even when you use 301 redirects to minimize the damage. To learn more about ...

Whether you’re making changes to your website, or moving it to an entirely new platform, if you haven’t redirected your key pages properly, you are unwittingly corroding your rank, traffic, and sales.

Change URLs for real reasons, not for handwavy "good for SEO" reasons." Maybe even strong language against changing URLs. I have also never been a fan of changing URLs for SEO reasons. In fact, my old ...

Google's John Mueller was asked if redirecting a URL to a new URL will also pass the Core Web Vitals metrics. The short answer is yes, if you redirect page A to new page B, page A's Core Web Vitals ...

At SMX Advanced, I moderated a panel about technical SEO. Google’s Maile Ohye spoke about SEO best practices for technical implementation of mobile sites based on how Google crawls, indexed, and ranks ...

HTTP is the standard protocol defining how information passes between your visitor’s browser and the server hosting your site and HTTP status codes are your handy way of knowing exactly what is ...