Adjusting our Magento configuration for SEO
A really quick and easy adjustment we can make to our entire website URL structure is to remove the default index.php string that is appended to the base URL—for example, http://www.mydomain.com/index.php/my-product.html—and also auto-redirect to our base URL if the non-www version of our domain is entered.
In order to achieve these small fixes, we should perform the following steps:
- Navigate to System | Configuration | Web | Search Engines Optimization and set Use Web Server Rewrites to Yes to remove
index.php. - Within this same section but under URL Options, set Auto-redirect to Base URL to Yes (301 Moved Permanently).
As long as our server has been configured correctly and our default .htaccess file is ...
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