Websites, SEO, and redirect questions
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Hey guys.
Looking for a few answers from the pool of wisdom out there.
So as some of you will know I know fairly little about website design but have fumbled my way through it to design a website for my wifes new business.
Now most of it is built with custom post types, I was looking to change a few of the pages up but was wondering what the best way to do that would be without destroying my previous SEO and rankings.
My first change (and if it goes smoothly there will be more) would be to change the Cake Gallery so simply a page, assuming I can change the custom post type, I would keep the url the same, linking to esentially a page that did the same thing.
My larger change would be to change the url's after that example www.okotokscakes.ca/cakegallery/cakes to a new page, so even if I named the page "cakes" it would only be www.okotokscakes.ca/cakes correct? There's no way to nest if after /cakegallery is there?So with that problem in mind what would be my best way to do this without destroying SEO.
Would I do a 301 redirect?And would I need to do one for every picture on that page, or just for the main url
Thanks guys,
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Picture locations would not move, right?
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The url would move move from www.okotokscakes.ca/cakegallery/cakes to www.okotokscakes.ca cakes but where the pictures are stored would not.
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The pictures are stored in the folder rather than in a single media location? Are you not using a content management system?
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@scottalanmiller
I'm gonna go with no.There simply stored in folders.
Reading up on it right now though.
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@Sparkum said:
@scottalanmiller
I'm gonna go with no.There simply stored in folders.
Reading up on it right now though.
Oh man, move to WordPress right now. All of your headaches are coming from trying to hand build what everyone else gets right out of the package. No one has built websites like you are doing from nearly a decade. There is so much power in a CMS and all of the hard work is done for you. And things like SEO are considered from the beginning.
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Even without a CMS, you would put your images all in a single location like /media so that no matter what changes, the image locations never do.
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Ya they are in /media
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@Sparkum said:
Ya they are in /media
So no matter what you change in your folders, the image locations won't be changing.
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@Sparkum said:
I am on wordpress,
Just no clue what CMS is haha
So maybe I am?
Content Management System. WordPress is the biggest one.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Sparkum said:
I am on wordpress,
Just no clue what CMS is haha
So maybe I am?
Content Management System. WordPress is the biggest one.
Isn't Wordpress also one of the most hacked webpage type?
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I'm only familiar in making webpages in the same way that @Sparkum is... clearly we are both way out of touch.
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Oh ok sorry then yes I am completely using a CSM!
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Sorry nope not on the same boat as you, just have no idea what I'm talking about haha.
Currently looking into Boilerplate for a random task at work though, slightly more towards how you probably know I assume
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Dont give up on me guys,
Bump
haha
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@Dashrender said:
Isn't Wordpress also one of the most hacked webpage type?
By that definition, is Windows the most hacked OS?
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@Breffni-Potter said:
@Dashrender said:
Isn't Wordpress also one of the most hacked webpage type?
By that definition, is Windows the most hacked OS?
That's kinda a given.
Now the question is, are there more windows computers in the world or linux ones? (server and home users both are part of this question)
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@Dashrender said:
Now the question is, are there more windows computers in the world or linux ones? (server and home users both are part of this question)
according to this, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
Linux by far - which makes sense when you consider Android phones/tablets/etc -
@Dashrender said:
@Dashrender said:
Now the question is, are there more windows computers in the world or linux ones? (server and home users both are part of this question)
according to this, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
Linux by far - which makes sense when you consider Android phones/tablets/etcJust think about all the websites out there. I'm sure a vast majority of them run on Linux or Unix. Very few run on Windows.
