How To: Get Mod Rewrite working on Xampp

Want a workable test environment on your Xampp server to use mod rewritten urls for seo purposes? After doing some great research its easy as pie.
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Web Development and Meta Tags

I know people are tired of hearing these SEO tips and all, but this is useful and I’m pretty sure no one explains how to use the description in this way.

Maximum Google Meta Tag Description Characters

Yes thats right, Google has a maximum amount of characters that it displays on the search index. I been doing some studying and Google’s max characters is around 154-157. Even though this is Google’s maximum length, this will still be effective in other search engines also.

Effective Meta Tag Description

In order to have a pretty effective description you must use 2-3 of your most used keywords in your description at least twice, any more or any less will fail to get you high SERPS. Then again you got to make sure to get an effective description in under 157 characters, use as many characters as possible, but try to keep it to the maximum.

Meta Tag Description Dont’s

Do not use extra characters such as “….” or multiple spaces because it can hurt your ranking, because you lose those extra characters that you could have used to describe your website or an extra keyword that you could have used.

I was trying to check the last time googlebot actually visited my portfolio, because I’ve updated it a bit with some better SEO tips I’ve gotten from a lot of experts in that area.  Did a little research to see if there was an easy way to check last time googlebot visited my portfolio  found a site called “BotsVisit“.  Its a nifty little tool thats easy to implement into your website and see the last time googlebot crawled your page.  This could help you when it comes to web development to see what your doing and not doing for googlebot not to crawl your site consistently, and help you improve your seo.

Check it out, comes in handy.