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You Canonical Be Serious!
Apart from being a dreadful word, canonicalisation is an important factor for Webmasters and site owners to consider. Basically, it refers to picking the URL that you want for your primary URL and re-directing the ‘other versions’ to it.
Let’s say you have:
- yoursite.com
- www.yoursite.com
- www.yoursite.com/index.html
- yoursite.com/index.html
Although you would imagine they’re all the same, technically they are different. Potentially, a web server could show a different profile, e.g. links and content, for each of these scenarios.
Try to get into the habit of being consistent with your internal links.
More importantly, go to your web server and set-up a permanent (301) re-direct from the other versions of your domain to the URL format you have selected for your primary. Your visitors won’t notice any difference, but you can make sure that any link value that the alternative URLs have gained aren’t lost.
The search engines are getting better at resolving this issue and Google Webmaster Tools allows you to set a preferred domain. However, you shouldn’t rely on this and instead use a 301 re-direct to ensure that you control which view of your domain you’d like the world to see.
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The Advantages Of Branding In The Digital Age
Your branding is not your product or service. Instead it is about you and your team and how you connect with your audience. Good branding has always been focused on forging connections and as the digital landscape allows us to be more interconnected than ever before, branding and digital should be inseparable. (more…)
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A Day In The Life Of A Content Marketing Strategist
I frequently get asked about my job as a Content Marketing Strategist by aspiring content marketeers looking for insight into digital marketing. What do the day-to-day tasks involve? What kind of skill set is required? And what do I enjoy most about this role?
What do you think?