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Quick Tip: Forcing www. to avoid duplicate content

Google (and other search engines) treats subdomains as different websites so if you are linked / accessed both via http://www.yourdomain.com and http://yourdomain.com you may get your content classified as duplicate since will be the same on both.

To avoid this simply add a rule to a .htaccess file in your root directory:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yourdomain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

NOTE: You need to have mod_rewrite enabled in your server in order to do this.

The Great H1 Debate

I was recently reading a post at the Viget Engage Blog about the upcoming debate about the placement of the h1 heading HTML tag.

It seems to be just making some noise by now but I remember like for months ago reading blogs, someone just stopped and wondered if placing it at the website title was really a good ideia and made me wonder too in that time and since then I started to follow the title placement option.

Now it has become something bigger, with a website (http://h1debate.com/) tracking peoples votes on tweets and we decided to speak our mind too. Go #h1title!
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