The government slimdown has affected the websites and social media presence of many major government agencies (hopefully you did not lose your .gov link).

But what about the Government websites that shut down?

What will happen to their rankings in the SERPS?

As we all know, you have to watch the changes you make to your homepage. Like every person in SEO or web design knows, you don’t want to add too many links to your homepage, you want to carefully monitor the content and keywords on your homepage, you constantly check your redirects, and you do your best to keep your web server up 100% of the time, but you’d settle for 99.9%.

301 redirection broken link pages to new page using .htaccess

301 redirect to redirect a single page on your website

We have 24 broken (404) errors on webmaster tools for our Dreamweaver template site. Most of the sites are running WordPress, but if you are wondering how to change a 404 to a 301, heres how.

Simply enter the following code into your .htaccess file (of course, change your address from ours) and save the changes.