The guys over at Digging Into WordPress have six .htacccess modifications that will improve the security and SEO of your WordPress-powered site buy establishing canonical URLs for robots.txt, favicon.ico, and sitemap.xml files.
Canonicalization keeps legitimate bots on track, eliminates malicious behavior, and ensures a better user-experience for everyone.
Here are the six tricks:
- Canonical robots.txt
- Canonical Favicons
- Canonical Sitemaps
- Canonical Category, Tag & Search URLs
- Canonical Feeds
- Simpler Login URL
Don’t forget to make a back-up copy of your .htaccess file before you make any changes. If you make a mistake and generate a 500 – Internal Server Error, don’t worry, simply upload your backup file and try again!
[via Digging Into WordPress]
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