I’ve tried to click the header check as mentioned-http://www.webconfs.com/http-header-check.php but I keep getting a “Page Cannot Be Displayed”. Does anyone know if the link has been removed.

Thanks

Frank

Love the WP instructions

Yup… I ran into this blog and setup everything based on what I read at the time. I had read that the best url structure was simply %postname%, and I added the .htm behind it myself.

Fast forward 1 year and I have actually read what WP recommends! :-)

Honestly, it works just fine 99% of the time as postname only, but if I had to do it again with the postname structure, I would include a forwardslash / at the end versus htm.

Mark

Mark

I notice after watching the video on permalinks that this blog that we are on here doesn’t seem to follow the “month, name” url. Is there a reason for that?

thanks

I plan a post about this early next week – but I would move bans into a folder and keep WP on the root.

Here: http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/moving-bans-off-the-root-of-the-domain.htm is a good post of instructions.

Mark

Great information!

Thanks!

I did what you recommended and still nothing.

This site uses the WP/BANS combo. Does that change how you indicate your wordpress and blog URLs?

Also, whenever I use www. anything with Hostgator it just ends up anything.com. Why should I use www or why do you?

Jeff

I have limited exposure to WPDirect, but it really is just a fancy splog platform isnt it? It goes out and grabs content from other sites based on your keyphrase imput… then republishes the content on your site?

Forgive my ignorance on it… just not 100% familiar with it.

@ Jeff –

In regard to the 200 status, this should be completely independant of Google. The status should be 301 on one method and 200 on the other.

Try making a copy of your htaccess as a backup, then delete the original. (Yup – delete it!) The site will be inactive for a few minutes, but when you go back into your WP-Admin and submit your General url structure, it will be recreated. Retest and see if that helps…

On an established site – I have used the older version of the 301 redirect plugin to “recreate slug after permalink change” and it covers the changes. I dont know if the new version does the same or not!

Mark

A great quick and dirty, let’s get it done now post! Good work!

Two questions:

1. I have a brand new site that comes up 200 ok for both. Is this because I have not submitted my sitemap to google and selected a domain preference?

2. Is it a bad idea to go back to an established site and change your permalink structure? In other words, does it only change posts made from this point on or attempt to change older ones?

Jeff