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The Parallax SEO Conundrum
This post touches on the parallax SEO issue and offers solutions to fix it. If you're following the trends in web design at least from time to time, you probably know that parallax scrolling is one of the cool things that are all the rage as...
Python Decorator for Preventing Robot Indexing
Much of my time at Mozilla has been spent catching up to the rest of the MDN team with respect to python. The new MDN backend, codenamed Kuma, is entirely Django-based and has been a joy to learn. My latest python adventures have been focused on...
Prevent Robot Indexing with Response Headers
Every so often you have parts of your website that would be better off not indexed by search engines. API calls, search result pages, PDF documents -- all examples of responses which may not have value outside of the current user. No we all know we...
Change Category Slug within WordPress
When I first started this blog, I set the category "slug" to "sugar." Why sugar? Because a lot of a good thing is candy; thus, a bunch of MooTools tutorials is as sweet as sugar. While I get a giggle out of calling my categories sugar...
Fixing mod_rewrite and .htaccess on GoDaddy Hosting
I recently launched a new website on GoDaddy shared hosting. The website required mod_rewrite for SEO-friendly URLs. GoDaddy provides mod_rewrite but every time I tried to hit a two-deep URL, I would get a 404 error. Here's what I had: The fix to this...