seo-friendly

Is this a bad thing for SEO ?

Hi folks, a friend of mine told me that the company he works at are redoing their SEO for their large website. Large == both number of pages and traffic they get a day. Currently they have a (quote) deeply nested site , which i'm assuming means /x/y/z/a/b/c.. or something. I also know it's very unRESTful from some of the pages i've als...

Does a Search engine rate the alt attribute on image tags?

Do search engines rate also the alt atribute in image tags? In my opinion the alt attribute was for blind peoples. ...

SEO - what to do when google thinks "avatar review" and "avatar movie review" are different

I am trying to design SEO for a new website and I am running into SEO challenges which I am not quite sure how to solve. The presumption is of course that the structure of your url - title all are important to rank your page higher for certain keywords. i.e. http://www.mymoviesite.com/Avatar/Review http://www.mymoviesite.com/Avatar/M...

Search engine friendly URLs that contain numbers... good or bad?

I made a website that has a hierarchical structure and has search engine friendly (SEF) URLs like: /seeds-1/ /seeds-1/fruits-2/ /seeds-1/fruits-2/black-berries-5/ /seeds-1/fruits-2/blue-berries-6/ /seeds-1/fruits-2/strawberries-7/ /seeds-1/vegetables-3/ /seeds-1/vegetables-3/potato-8/ /seeds-1/vegetables-3/onion-9/ /seeds-1/vegetables-3...

Tools for finding how much a site is SEO compliant.

Are there any tools for finding if a page is SEO complaint and if it's not then suggest something to make that page SEO complaint? Also note that I want to do this research on offline pages i.e. these pages are not on web yet. ...

Short URL or long URL for SEO

I am implementing cs-cart for a web site. Which one is better for SEO if possible with a reason or reference. Site sells books stamps cds etc. www.domain.com/book/Java.html (or) www.domain.com/book/programming/Java.html or www.domain.com/Java.html Some says short URLs are good. But isnt it good that stating which category the pro...

noob's problem with mod rewrite and relative urls

I must be doing something terribly wrong because no matter how i try or google it, i can't find an answer :( So, i want to have a url like http://localhost/BLUEPRINT/list/857 to actually load a perfectly working url like this: http://localhost/BLUEPRINT/list.php?lid=857 I can write the rewrite rule in the .htaccess file and i can read ...

Grails SEO friendly URLs

The standard way of creating URLs in grails is: <a href="${createLink(controller:'news', action: 'show', params: [id: news.id])}">${news.title}</a> which generates the url: /news/show/102 I want more SEO friendly URLs like: /news/102/this-is-the-hottest-news-today What is the cleanest way to do this in Grails? I could use gra...

SEO URL Structure

Based on the following example URL structure: mysite.com/mypage.aspx?a=red&b=green&c=blue Pages in the application use ASP.net user controls and some of these controls build a query string. To prevent duplicate keys being created e.g. &pid=12&pid=10, I am researching methods of rewriting the URL: a) mysite.com/mypage.aspx/red/green/...

How can I use friendly ID in Rails like mysite.com/[USERNAME]

How can I use friendly URLs on my Rails application ? All I need is to make available the following url format mysite.com/company1 mysite.com/user123 mysite.com/user1234 mysite.com/newton.garcia mysite.com/company-name Can anyone help ? ...

GWT SE friendly application

Hi friends, How I can develop 'Search Engine Friendly' web app in GWT? Take an example of StackOverflow it self, its a web app and should be SEO friendly allowing user to search from search engine. If some one want to develope same app in GWT. How one can make it SEO friendly? As GWT contain a single HTML file. How we can allow its in...

Seo friendly Accordion menu

Hello, currently i use the accordion menu provided by the asp.net toolkit. The problem is that it is not Seo friendly. So what i am looking for is an accordion menu with the following characteristics. 1) Seo friendliness 2) Preserving of the selected index, on post-backs. 3) Small in k bytes 4) Free of charge Do you have anything...

Do spaces in your URL (%20) have a negative impact on SEO?

All the articles I Googled on this subject are dated back in 2004-2005. Basically I am structuring precanned searches, and it is based off of categories the client will input. Example content/(term name)/index.htm Does it matter if I used the raw term with a space, which is converted to %20 in the URL, or should I convert the link t...

problems getting nice browser url using redirect/rewriterule

Currently I use a .htaccess redirect to send a (nice) url /offices/london/whatever to my script (nasty url) /db/db.pl?offices-london-whatever i want the browser url to be nice, with the 301 redirect it isn't so i tried with the RewriteRule but the browser url is still the nasty one. e.g. RewriteRule Offices/London/(.*)$ /db/db.pl?Offic...

Anyone got SEO tips for Ruby on Rails

Can anyone recommend some RoR plugins and/or general sage that will help me with SEO? ...

More HtAccess Rewrite Rules

Greetings all, I need help combining some htaccess rewrites, these crazy regular expressions screw with my head. So I have a folder structure something like this: /www/mysite.com/page/member/friends.php /www/mysite.com/page/video/videos.php /www/mysite.com/page/messages/inbox.php The URLs get rewritten to this: ...

URL Generation Technique with PHP

I have a build a web portal based on the Cricket concept, I have build a Custom based CMS where I can upload the News for the site Once I upload the news, the URL Will be like this http://cricandcric.com/news/news.php?id=841&amp;An-emotional-moment:-Dhoni.html But I am trying to have the above Url as follows (some thing like this) ht...

How SEO friendly is this URL ?

I have this products catalog site.For the sake of SEO, I would have wanted my 'view details' link to look some thing like this ~/products/26-productname or ~/products/26/productname On my machine I'm using a url re-writing module and it works well. Unfortunately My host(shared) does not support url re-writing modules or Aspnet 4.0 for...

Generate MVC HTml.ActionLink programatically

I have a scenario where I should redirect my Legacy Url to my current SEO Url. and I have 300+ different legacy urls so I am handling all those in my 404 Handler. I have my Legacy Url and the actual Action, controller and parameters it is supposed to use. But the issue is there is already a SEO friendly route for these Action and Contro...

ASP.NET Gridview and SEO friendly paging

Hello, I've started a topic (http://our.umbraco.org/forum/developers/xslt/7571-Xslt-paging-vs-UserControl-gridview) a while ago about the default ASP.NET Gridview vs XSLT paging. The conclusion was that XSLT paging should be used if you can because it's SEO friendly. In some situations I need to use the ASP.NET Gridview, but I'd like t...