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Hey,

The reason is that I want to no index the actual .xml file because it causes a 404 error in Google Web Master Tools.

Hey,

How can I tell search engines not to index my xml RSS feed?

The RSS feed is created by Yoast on WordPress.

Thanks, Luke.

As Oleg Korneitchouk is correct on the schema side of things there is also the option to add in Google places link to your website which you'll need a separate page for that.

Luke.

What have you used to put them in place in the first place? HTML, PHP, WordPress?

If I'm understand the question correctly if should just be a case of removing the rich snippets that are around your video information?

Hey,

I'm getting a soft 404 error on a webpage that has content and is deferentially not a 404.

We've redirect a load of urls to the web page. The url has parameters which was used before the redirect but are no longer used on by the new url, these parameters have been carried over in the redirect.

Is this whats causing the soft 404 error or is there another problem that may need addressing?

Also a canonical has been set on the webpage.

Thanks, Luke.

Exactly what i was looking for.

Thanks!

Hey,

I'm trying to redirect all instances of "/archive_details.php?id=*" to "/public-affairs-job-archive.php". Is the below code correct?

Redirect 301 /archive_details.php?id=* /public-affairs-job-archive.php

Thanks, Luke.

Hey,

Were adding schema to a website and I was wondering how it would be best to tackle a business that has two location.

Would it be better to put it on two different pages or on one page using one or two itemscopes.

Thanks, Luke.

Hey Paul,

The above code can be placed between and as stated above. If yur website is built in php then you can just copy and paste it above.

Please have a look here http://moz.com/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

For the canonical you want to use Yoast if your on a WordPress site.

If not add this between and (php is required)

" />

Here's the link http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/

Hey,

Never used All-in-one SEO but we do use and recommend the Yoast plugin for WordPress. Take a look at it

Hey Paul,

I'm not to sure on what your asking at some parts of this question.

Are you looking for a, b and c to be explain or an example?

I'm using php to try access Google web master tools but its now emailing me about a Suspicious sign in prevented. How can I get round this in a way that it wont effect the security of my account?

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);

$data = array('accountType' => 'GOOGLE',
'Email' => 'xxx@gmail.com',
'Passwd' => '***',
'source'=>'PHI-cUrl-Example',
'service'=>'lh2');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);

$hasil = curl_exec($ch);

echo $hasil;

?

Hey,

You probable what to make sure you have the correct schema added to you contact page on your website. Have a look at http://schema.org/LocalBusiness and http://schema-creator.org/organization.php.

If your using a WordPress site theirs also a plugin available but it needs editing to make the information it gives out correct.

Have a look at adding this to your .htaccess file. It will compress files before sending them to a browser making the download time of your website quicker.

<ifmodule mod_gzip.c="">mod_gzip_on Yes
mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
mod_gzip_item_include file .(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.gzip.</ifmodule>

If you have access to the .htaccess file on your server you can use this website http://www.htaccessredirect.net/ to generate content for it. The redirect directory should do it.

If not the you can use php to create a 301 redirect like so

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); 
header("Location: http://www.New-Website.com/test.php");?>

and the final option would be to email your hosting company and ask them to do it.

Have a look at this Screaming Frog

http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/

Its one of the best tools to use for creating sitemaps in our opinion.

Oops thanks for all you answers, but what i should have said is: Is having "/index.php/" half way through the URI like so

"http://www.example.com/someuri/index.php/more_uri/"

bad for SEO/UX?

To clarify if one searched on Google for more_uri and everything else was equal would the index.php in the middle of that URI be damaging to the ranking?

Sorry about that

OK thanks, so index.php won't effect the SEO results. But not redirecting it, as both /index.php and / work correctly and go to the same php file, will result in the same content being registered twice by Google I'm guessing?