Web Design – css/php/seo

I am about to publish my new website, a complete redesign for claudiocugia.com. The site is focused on what I am into at present: seo webdesign – the art of writing seofriendly webpages with all the tags and the key factors in the right place. The website will be available for iphone devices as well. Stay tuned!

It’s official: as reported by Matt Cutts, Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking. There is an official discussion at google webmaster central as well as a complete guide about the meta tag usage.

Following up my article on Page load speed and website optimization I decided to remove all the graphics from this blog as I noticed a general slowing down; Google webmaster tools helped me a lot in finding the reasons of slow performances , I suggest consulting it more often.
I’ll try and study another simpler theme asap but for now… just text :)

This week I found some interesting article about page optimization, speed loading time and ranking:
Is Page Load Speed Google’s Next Organic Rankings Factor?

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Let’s see how to create a custom 404 page in two simple steps.

1. You need to have access to your webserver and upload to its root the .htaccess file. This is a simple file which tells the server to show a default page in case the one we are trying to access cannot be found. The file looks like this:

   ErrorDocument 404 http://www.yoursite.com/404.html
   

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Matt Cutts explains the new ‘canonical tag’ in a video.

This tag (whose syntax is:

<link rel=”canonical” value=”http://example.com/page.html”/>

) helps webmaster to clean up duplicate urls on sites and is very useful when working with CMS such as wordpress for instance.
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