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Understanding 301 Redirects

bchapman@ifinity.com.au — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:16:00 GMT

A little while ago, I posted a blog entry as a guest blogger on seablick.com. I'm putting a link in this blog to that entry, so that anyone searching for it here can find what they are looking for.

Why does Url Rewriting break all my image links?

bchapman@ifinity.com.au — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:12:00 GMT

Url Rewriting has been known to make sites act strange, with broken image links, missing CSS files and javascrtipt not found errors. Here's why it happens, how to fix it and how to avoid it in the first place.

301 Redirecting from /default.aspx to the site root - the final word

bchapman@ifinity.com.au — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:09:00 GMT

Have you got two home pages indexed for your site? I bet you have. There are two home pages for most ASP.NET websites - www.domain.com and www.domain.com/default.aspx. Read on for the final word on this.

Google A/B Ad Testing with DotNetNuke websites

bchapman@ifinity.com.au — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:15:00 GMT

If you're getting serious with your Google Adwords advertising, you should probably be trying out different types of page copy to see which works the best. Here's a quick guide on how to setup Google Adwords testing in a DNN site.

Troubleshooting Url Master Installations

bchapman@ifinity.com.au — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:15:00 GMT

If you've installed the Url Master module, and it's not working exactly as you want, here's some things to try to work out where you're going wrong.

Building an SEO Friendly DNN Module : Part 1

bchapman@ifinity.com.au — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:33:00 GMT

This entry is the first in a series about building SEO modules for DotNetNuke. It follows on from my earlier posts about building a module that is optimised for search engines, but in this series I am going to build a module and show the relevant steps and pieces of code that go into making it.

Getting caught out by Culture Specific Conversions

bchapman@ifinity.com.au — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:12:00 GMT

For us 'English as an only language' folks, it's easy to skim over globalization issues. But with a global audience, sooner or later you'll run into problems. Here's one of mine.

DotNetNuke SEO for Mere Mortals – The 3 most important fields

bchapman@ifinity.com.au — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:25:00 GMT

There are three main fields you should be concentrating on for each and every DNN page, and anyone who edits or maintains a DNN site should be doing this in their websites, each time they create or modify a new page.

7 Features DotNetNuke developers must implement in their DotNetNuke Modules to be considered SEO

bchapman@ifinity.com.au — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:39:00 GMT

If you're building or maintaing a DotNetNuke module, then you need to consider these factors to see if the module is Search Engine Optimised, or Search Engine Compromised.

What's the difference between the Friendly Url Provider and the Url Master software?

bchapman@ifinity.com.au — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:49:00 GMT

Recently I've been requested by a number of people to explain the differences between the iFinity Friendly Url Provider, and the iFinity Url Master module. The obvious difference is one is free, and the other you have to purchase a licence. To help determine which one you need, I've done up a reference table of the features.