Technical SEO - Martijn Oud

Free tool to check HTTP status codes

For a potential clients website I wanted to check the XML sitemap for errors. I had a suspicion the file contained links to that no longer worked (301 redirects and 404 errors) but without having access to the Search Console I had no quick way to check.

To solve this I wrote some PHP code to get the HTTP request headers of an array of URLs. I thought someone else might find it useful so after polishing it a bit I published it online.

Free SEO tool: Bulk Check HTTP status codes

Extensive /robots.txt guide for SEOs

Technical SEO

This is a “from beginner to advanced” guide to /robots.txt. Each instruction contains advice on common mistakes and pitfalls. Written for beginning SEOs and marketers but full of helpful info for people from all knowledge levels.

Common htaccess snippets for your SEO needs

Quick tips, Technical SEO

To save myself from looking into various Github projects I decided to make a collection of my most commonly used .htaccess snippets. Most of these snippets I use when optimizing websites for SEO to make sure all rewrites and redirects are in order.