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Think it is a HTAccess issue, just opened it up and I have the following, do I just strip out the trailing slash on

RewriteBase /newsite/ or do I have to strip out a few more?

Don't like messing with my hataccess so any help to point me in the right direction would be great!

# BEGIN WordPress
 <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /newsite/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /newsite/index.php [L]</ifmodule> 

# END WordPress

Good point!

Just checked and www.domain.co.uk redirects to www.domain.co.uk/

This a htaccess issue perhaps?

Self hosted!

I have set it as www.domain.co.uk in the settings but for some reason it is still showing with the slash when I view the site

Hi recently changed my site so it is based on Wordpress, got my preferred domain set in Google webmaster as

www.domian.co.uk

but since moving to wordpress my domain is now having a slash put on the end of it like

www.domain.co.uk/

Most of the links going to my homepage do not have the slash on the end so am I right in thinking I should get rid of the slash from my site so I have one consistent url?

If so any ideas how to banish the slash? Cannot seem to do it through the Wordpress general settings (despite preferred domain being set as www.domain.co.uk !)

Thanks

T

Redesigning website in Wordpress and going to use the following lightbox plug-in http://www.pedrolamas.pt/projectos/jquery-lightbox/

Naming the original images that appear on screen as say

'sweets.jpg'
and the bigger version of the images as

'sweets-large.jpg'

Alt text wise I would give both versions of the images slightly different descriptions.

Do you think there would be any duplicate content issues with this? Anything I should do differently?

I'm very wary of doing anything that Google is likely to think is naughty, so want to stay on their good side!

Cheers
T

So I redirect the large lightbox image to the page url?

Using a lightbox type thing for our new website (you click on an image and then get a bigger version of image).

Is there any best practices SEO wise for this and any no no's I should be aware of?

It's all hard coded so not going the normal way via wordpress of using thumbnails then the larger original image as you click on the thumbnail, using two separate images- this sound to you guys?

Adding breadcrumbs to create a hierarchy on what is otherwise a flat site.

Got the following pages which are, our main pages that rank -

Metal gates

Metal driveway gates

Metal garden gates

Metal side access gates

The Metal gates pages link off to the other pages mentioned but also contain a lot of other info

The driveway gates, garden gates and side access gate page all contain our range of gates, the three pages mentioned then have links off to their individual gates contained within each section

Breadcrumb wise, should I aim for

Home - Metal gates - Driveway gates - individual driveway gate
Home - Metal gates - Side access gates- individual side access gate
Home - Metal gates - Garden gates- individual garden gate

Is that the best way to go or if I want the driveway gate page (etc) to continueto rank should I go like this

Home - Metal driveway gates

Home - Metal side access gates

etc

Thanks, so keep alt text same

What I was going to do was say with alt text was -

On red cheese page 'Get a quote on our red cheese'
On Cheshire cheese page 'Get a quote on our cheshire cheese'

So just to confirm I'd be best just using

'Get a quote on our cheese'?

(Do people use alt text for call to action buttons anyway?)

Redoing my site at the moment and placing a few call's to action around it.

The calls to action are pretty basic, along the lines of 'click here to get a quote', when you click you get taken to an anchor towards the bottom of the same page that takes you to a contact form.

I've based the Calls to action on just a brightly coloured gif image that has text written on to it (not in code but added via photoshop)?

This the right way to go, or should I be putting the text actually on my page and using a background coloured element to do it?

The same image is used across several pages (got a couple of these images which I use across the site) and thinking it's easier to do it this way rather than code?

Adding alt text to images 'Click here to get quote on X' (X being product) and also using img title tag for when mouse i hovering over - Click here to get a quote!

Don't want to get hit by any dupe content issue for using the same image on multiple pages etc (I could always no index the folder where the call to action images are stored if this helps?)

This sound ok to you pros?

Thanks Takeshi, Thats the one I want (do you read minds?!) I'll give the link a good read

Really stupid question (I think) but does Left or right hand navigation help or hinder SEO and/or user experience?

Re-doing our site at the moment and I quite like right hand navigation as it seems to highlight our content better but not sure if it would hinder anything SEO wise - site is based on a responsive theme and side navigation is only called after content anyway so don't think it would make a difference SEO wise

Noticing more and more sites moving towards right hand nav and I quite like it, would also differentiate us in our niche as everyone else uses left hand nav

As I say probably a stupid question but thought I would ask!

I have a super static site - whats the best way to hardcode (manually if possible) the breadcrumbs i.e. the correct mark up etc?

Not got a super large site (about 60 pages) and find people land on deep pages and seem to bounce outta there, working on things to turn this around etc but would like to add breadcrumbs as I think some people would probably go up a level in our site to find what they are looking for.

Thank you Irving & Bernado, had a feeling I was on the right lines and good to get confirmation!

Just pondering what is current best practice for Title tags of pages buried deep within my website?

Say I have a page about 'Cheese's of the world' and from that page there is a page about 'Cheshire Cheese' how would you suggest to structure title tags

Would for example this be ok -

Cheshire Cheese | Cheese's of the World | Brand name

Or is this better -

Cheshire Cheese | Brand name

Just wondering as I'm redesigning my site currently and looking at everything!

Ted

PS - I like cheese

Cheers Dan,

Once it's live I will be double, triple, quadruple checking everything! Paranoid I will miss something or do something wrong!

Planning on doing it when I've a lot of time to spare just to be on safe side in case things go wrong!

I shall give the plugin a go as well I think.

Thanks

Ted

Thanks both, I'll probably try the redirecting of a folder but I shall test it all first on a new folder just to be on the safe side - to be honest the testing on a different folder never even crossed my mind (why did I not think of that!)

Thank you!

Ted

I've recently been converting our old website to a wordpress based website and been working on the new version of the site on a subdomain.

Now at the stage when I am getting ready to let the site go live and just wondering exactly how to do this so I have minimal downtime?

Looking in the wordpress control panel there is the setting to enter the address of the site if you want it to be different from the directory it has been installed within - is this a good idea (i.e. is it stable if I do this? good for seo, bad for seo or makes no difference?)?

or should I manually install everything in the root myself (if I do this is there a way to direct people to the temp version of the site on the subdomain?

Any tips, do and don't s would be appreciated as I want to do this right!