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Yes will look at the Bing Webmaster tools and work of that finding broken links. Thanks again.

Update on Blog situation:

Thanks

Great thanks,

With Wordpress it seems to come up over and over again anytime you research Wordpress - people seme to run into problems with it.

Hi Alan,

Thanks for the analysis.

Did you see anything in the index or main structure that caused any issues do you think?

Regards

All good now

Hey thanks for the tip

Sure, can I PM you a link if that's ok? Thanks

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help…

Thanks Alex, nice share.

Thanks, some interesting stats. Our main pages have a pretty good bounce rate but the blogs are not as good. I think we may find an advantage here.

Thanks for the reply, sat at position 2 before the change and still sat at position 2 now after the change but hey expect we would be there so no great surprise.

Checked it in Pingdom too as we had researched this before making the changes. Interestingly I ran it 5 mins ago and it said load time 4.3 secs. Ran it again and it comes up as 1.8 secs. Seems a bit buggy today.

My opinion is that it wont make a significant difference on it's own but as part of an overall aim, it makes a slight difference.

Just wondering if anyone has seen significant improvements and can demonstrate them.

Hey, we recently optimised our website page load speed as part of our overall optimisation.

Page load speed according to the Google Developers Page Speed test was previously 51 out of 100 and is now 92 out of 100 and this was improved within the last seven days gradually, cached half way through the improvement process.

I appreciate this is regarded as only a small part of the whole process, however, I’d be interested to know if anyone has a concrete opinion/proof on whether such a big improvement would actually make a difference to our rankings in the SERPs.

Hi Alan,

Thanks for that, it worked perfectly!

Thanks Yannick,

I'm using the configuration tag and there isn't a CMS being used. The page is accessible via index.php, but I'm currently redirecting it using a PHP script (this is fine but it doesn't provide a 301 redirect).

I'd hopefully like to replace this using the web.config file but it only results in an internal server error or an infinite loop.

Thanks again.

Hi there, I'm trying to create a 301 redirect for the file "index.php" but I keep getting a "fail to redirect" message in Firefox whenever I insert it into the Web.config file.

<location path="index.php"></location>

Is there anyway around this? Thanks for any help

According to Open Site Explorer, there are about 500 links to my index file but it only has a 302 status so will not be passing link juice.

Thanks, I agree with your thoughts on this but with us we tend to chop and change inner pages and having a good sitemap helps us to make sure the navigation is solid. Or remember to include missing pages more to the point.

I like the example you provided, it does help from a user perspective to see the pages summarised from a branding perspective as much as seo.