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{"id":428,"date":"2008-04-10T00:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/search-engine-friendly-headers-headers-that-help-search-engine-rankings\/"},"modified":"2012-09-20T02:47:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T06:47:31","slug":"search-engine-friendly-headers-headers-that-help-search-engine-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/search-engine-friendly-headers-headers-that-help-search-engine-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Search Engine Friendly headers &#8211; Headers that help search engine rankings."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are very few headers that we call search engine friendly.<\/p>\n<p>1) 2oo OK: This is the primary headers that needs to be for all working sites. Search engines will understand 200 ok to be ideal for crawling and indexing a site.<\/p>\n<p>2. ) 301 Permanent redirect: This is again a search engine friendly header return, 301 redirect is used where you want to permanently move a particular page to an other page or an other URL. This is search engine friendly since your redirect won&#8217;t affect any search engine crawlers since they will understand that your page has moved to a new location.<\/p>\n<p>3. 503 status code: 503 is best to prevent search engine crawlers from crawling your website If your site is hacked or attached by a virus best is to prevent the search engines from crawling , Google&#8217;s webmaster central blog has some useful information on that <a href=\"http:\/\/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/my-sites-been-hacked-now-what.html\" target=\"_blank\">here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Search Engine Genie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are very few headers that we call search engine friendly. 1) 2oo OK: This is the primary headers that needs to be for all working sites. Search engines will understand 200 ok to be ideal for crawling and indexing a site. 2. ) 301 Permanent redirect: This is again a search engine friendly header [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-search-engines","category-seo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}