[thelist] site redesign: what will break SEO? what will keep existing Google juice?

Joel D Canfield joel at bizba6.com
Wed Feb 23 15:05:41 CST 2011


On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:33 AM, Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at speakeasy.net>wrote:

> Matt's pretty much on target; Google cares only what the content is, and
> not about what happens on the server end to get it out onto the HTTP
> connection.


That's really what I suspected; thanks for confirming.


> I'd like to add this makes a great opportunity to dump silliness like
> ".html" in the URL. Also, if you care about valid code, be careful about
> what WordPress plugins you add, as many of them will cause an otherwise
> valid site to fail validation (at least CSS validation if not HTML as
> well)


I haven't been considering validation much during the march to WordPress,
but it's time. Any resources specific to plugins that validate?


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