404 Traffic on Blog site

[Simon]

One thing to keep in mind is that WordPress will either create or ask you to create an htaccess file in your blog directory if, for example, you wish to have 'search engine friendly' URLs for your blog pages. If you're using WP and/or do have another htaccess in your blog directory for some reason, just add your 404 statements to that htaccess too and you should be fine.

[Element115]

Originally Posted by Simon

One thing to keep in mind is that WordPress will either create or ask you to create an htaccess file in your blog directory if, for example, you wish to have 'search engine friendly' URLs for your blog pages. If you're using WP and/or do have another htaccess in your blog directory for some reason, just add your 404 statements to that htaccess too and you should be fine.

This is good to know, thanks. I don't mean to hijack this thread but I have a question about the 'search engine friendly' URL's. When my blog comes up on a search it doesn't seem to be listing the full URL, just up to /blog/. I have permalinks set up to use my post titles, title tags on all my pages and I've added a sitemap. Google seems to be indexing those but the full URL's are not being displayed when my site comes up in a searches. Any ideas why this may be happening? Maybe because the site is so new?

[Element115]

Originally Posted by Simon

One thing to keep in mind is that WordPress will either create or ask you to create an htaccess file in your blog directory if, for example, you wish to have 'search engine friendly' URLs for your blog pages. If you're using WP and/or do have another htaccess in your blog directory for some reason, just add your 404 statements to that htaccess too and you should be fine.

When you talk about using the htaccess to make your URL's more search engine friendly, what do you mean exactly? Do you mean this code here?

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

or were you referring to something else?