Examples of Great URL Design
Here are some cool ways to structure URLs
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Lighthouse SEO monitoring is now available at Oh Dear
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A package to run Google Lighthouse using PHP original
Google Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages. It has audits for performance, accessibility, progressive web apps, SEO, and more.
Our newest package, spatie/lighthouse-php makes it easy to run Lighthouse using PHP. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
I wrote 1 blog post every day for 2 years. Here's 5 things I learned about SEO
Interesting read for the bloggers amongst us.
Read more [flaviocopes.com]
Improving title tags
? PSA: <title> tags matter (especially for people browsing the web with screen readers)
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) May 28, 2019
ICYMI: https://t.co/g7IdUkEjiQ pic.twitter.com/ANIjMZUMDN
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Non-breaking, SEO Friendly Url's in Laravel
Sebastian De Deyne, author of many Spatie packages, posted a new blog article on how to generate SEO Friendly Urls in Laravel.
When admins create or update an news item—or any other entity—in our homegrown CMS, a url slug is generated based on it's title. The downside here is that when the title changes, the old url would break. On the other hand, if we wouldn't regenerate the url on updates, titles that were edited later on would still have an old slug in the url, which isn't an ideal situation either.
https://sebastiandedeyne.com/posts/2017/non-breaking-seo-friendly-urls-in-laravel
A package to fluently generate schema.org markup original
Schema.org is a vocabulary of microdata markup that aims to make it easer for search crawlers to understand what's on a webpage. The vocabulary is very extensive: here's the official list of things that can be described with Schema.org. This article on Tutsplus explains schema.org and structured…
Retain your SEO worth by correctly redirecting missing pages in a Laravel application original
When transitioning from a old site to a new one the URLs of your site may change. If your old site was popular you probably want to retain your SEO worth. One way of doing this is by providing permanent redirects from your old URLs to your new URLs. Our new spatie/laravel-missing-page-redirector…
Building a search engine friendly sitemap XML with Laravel
Eric Barnes of Laravel News wrote a good tutorial on how to create a sitemap with Laravel.
A few years ago search engines recommended submitted sitemaps to help with indexing your website and now the importance of this is debatable.I’m of the mindset creating and submitting can’t hurt, so I spent a little time putting one together and wanted to share how easy this is in Laravel.
Automatically generate a sitemap in Laravel original
Today my company released a package called laravel-sitemap. There are already a lot of excellent sitemap packages out there. They all have in common that you have to manually add links that must appear in the sitemap. With our new package that isn't required. It can automatically build up a sitemap…
A technical guide to SEO
Mattias Geniar posted an overview of how to take care of SEO from a technical standpoint:
If you're the owner or maintainer of a website, you know SEO matters. A lot. This guide is meant to be an accurate list of all technical aspects of search engine optimisation.https://ma.ttias.be/technical-guide-seo/There's a lot more to being "SEO friendly" than just the technical part. Content is, as always, still king. It doesn't matter how technically OK your site is, if the content isn't up to snuff, it won't do you much good.
But the technical parts do matter, after all.
Say goodbye to manually creating a robots.txt file original
If you don't want a site to be indexed by search engines you must place a robots.txt file. Typically you don't want anything indexed except production sites. Today Spatie released a new package called laravel-robots-middleware. It was coded up by my colleague Sebastian. Instead of you having to…
Best practices when switching to https
Here's a big list of things to be aware of when switching an http site over to https. Ignore the bit about social buttons, just don't use them.
Generate a sitemap in Laravel
Sitemap is a package built specifically for Laravel 4/5 that will help you generate XML sitemaps for Google. Based on laravel-sitemap this package operates in a slightly different way to better fit the needs of our project. A facade is used to access the sitemap class and we have added the ability to produce sitemap indexes as well as sitemaps. Furthermore, it's tested.https://github.com/dwightwatson/sitemap
Using this on polkadots.be.