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2.

Save the following code as

blog301fix.php

, and copy it to your

/blog/wp-content/plugins

folder:

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Blog301Fix

Plugin URI: http://www.seoegghead.com/

Description: Redirects /blog to /.

Author: Jaimie Sirovich

Version: 1.0

Author URI: http://www.seoegghead.com/

*/

if ($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] == ‘/blog/‘) {

header(“HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently”);

header(‘Location: ‘ . preg_replace(‘#blog#‘, ‘’, get_bloginfo(‘url’), 1));

exit();

}

?>

3.

Enable the plugin from the Plugins area of your admin page. Now, loading

http://

seophp.example.com/

will display your blog, and loading

http://seophp.example.com/

blog/

will 301 redirect you to

http://seophp.example.com

.

Summary

This chapter has shown you how to use as a basis for a successful blog by making some modifi-

cations and installing some plugins to the end of search engine optimization. Creating such an application

from scratch would be a task the size of — well, . Plugins are available to implement much of

the concerns discussed in this book. Therefore, using is a viable option if you decide to launch

a blog as part of your search engine marketing efforts. Please see

http://www.seoegghead.com/

seo-with-php-updates.html

for updates to this chapter, especially with regard to updated

releases.

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