htaccess SEO

what are the basics?

[SirTalksalot]

I hear that part of good seo is having a good htaccess page. Currently, all mine does is redirect http*//domain.com to http*//www.domain.com.

What else should I have in there as standard? And what can I customise to make for good SEO on my .htaccess for my particular site?

[edited by: caveman at 7:57 pm (utc) on April 1, 2007]
[edit reason] Delinked links. [/edit]

[Robert Charlton]

What you with your .htaccess depends on the specifics of your site and your server. You can do everything from making dynamic urls more user and crawler-friendly to banning bots and limiting unwanted access to your server.

As a start, I'd suggest you do some reading in the Apache Web Server forum on WebmasterWorld, starting with the library on that forum...

Apache Web Server Library
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