seo-friendly

making JavaScript generated content possible for search engines to index

Is there any way to make JavaScript generated content indexable by search engines? I remember reading something about Google parsing a generated site map, but I might be wrong here. _L ...

SEO Friendly URL to Dynamic URL using PHP

Currently I have a url like this http://&lt;client_name&gt;.website.com/index.php?function_name&amp;cat=32 I want to set things up so that our Marketing people can publish url's like http://&lt;client_name&gt;.website.com/&lt;parent_category&gt;/&lt;category&gt; The "cat=XX" will be generated of the last <category> only. But m...

What is the ideal length of an URL slug

To make pretty URL's from article titles I am using a simple function. However lately I an concerned about the ideal length of these "slugs". It is said that too many dashes are bad. However some article titles can be long and a too long URL may not be liked by google. Of course that defeats th whole idea of having URL slugs. So does a...

Make friendly URL in ASP.NET

how do i make my web app friendly URL? currently my app URL looks like this http://www.domain.com/Page.aspx?article=103 but I would like to display the URL to look like this http://www.domain.com/Page.aspx?Google-likes-url-friendly what would i need to do? ...

What is the most mature way/lib to generate SEO friendly URLs (slugs)?

I am looking for the most mature library, algorithm or code snippet that can generate SEO friendly and meaningful URLs from titles (e.g. www.example.org/what-is-the-most-mature-way-to-generate-seo-friendly-urls-slugs). I know one can easily write a 10-line function that does this but I am searching for a mature library that is able to h...

How to make website more SEO friendly when the content is coming from the database?

How can i make my database content search-able on SE, so basically how to make a website more SEO friendly where the data is not static, it will come from the database. ...

How to structure image directories for SEO?

Hello, We are currently reorganizing some files on our site, and I am trying to figure out the best way to organize files to be SEO friendly. Here is the wrong way to do it: yamaha-bikes\yamaha-bikes.php The right way: bikes\yamaha-bikes.php My question is how do I go about organizing images for those products? Obviously if I th...

Which canonical name is better? www or non-www?

I am having a confusion which domain to go with. domain or www.domain I dont care about the redirections between each other. I would like to know which one is better in any ways. Update: Greg's links below have very useful info. Must visit. ...

How does tiny url work

I have been wondering how tiny url works. I would like to develop something similar for my site, but as most people, I use GUIDs for ids. When an object is created, should I then generate a 10 character random string to use as public id, or is there a smarter approach? Example of old url: www.mysite.com/default.aspx?userId={id} Exampl...

Suggest best URL style

Our system Our search module can have many parameters like search keyword examination filter subject filter date range filter course name filter ... ... etc and there are pagination and sorting parameters like Page number Number of results in a page sort field sort order We used to have URLs like:- www.projectname/module/searc...

Automated content creation for the web?

I see a lot of new websites lately which create automated content, most notable SiteGuruji and 7zoom: http://www.siteguruji.com/site/youtube.com Is there an application framework or text analysis framework available to create such sites? SiteGuruji is doing full SEO analysis of the sites as well. Is there an SEO analysis library availa...

Find urlRewrite rule

I am developing a webshop and I'm making it SEO friendly, so I use urlRewrite to have a "nice" and "clean" URL. I am having products in categories, and I'm having filters for products search. I would like to have something like: www.website.com/motor-oils/filters/volume-1L/weight-4Kg/price-500/ i would use the following rule: Rewri...

Combine websites without hurting SEO

I have a friend that I'm helping out with some web design. Basically, the guy owns a few businesses that are all complementary of each other and he wants to combine them all into a single site. There's service A and B, based on the west side of our state; and service A and B based on the east side. Each has their own website (eg, east...

With redirect code should I use for geoip language redirect?

Hi, I have this URL: http://example.com/website/ then I check user country based on geoip and redirect them to: http://example.com/website/en/, http://example.com/website/pt/ etc.. Witch code should I use for this redirect 301, 302 or other? cheers ...

Forms with action=""

Hey guys, I just wondering if it's safe to have form actions like this one: form action="" method="post" And what is more interesting is it SEO friendly? What I want to do is that form points to the same page, so I don't need to change action, but maybe it's not SEO friendly or not so safe? Thanks, Ignas ...

which domain to use and which to forward.. SEO reasons. discuss!

Hey guys, I am developing a site for a client and they currently own two domains. howafarms.com and grassfedbeeffl.net The current site has howafarms.com traffic forward straight to grassfedbeeffl.net. My question is.. which one should I use as the main url and which should I forward. Normal logic tells me howafarms.com should be...

Page contains multiple canonical issues.

i am using ISS SEO toolkit to analyze our website. Form that i got 450 canonical issues. all the errors in the same format as follows: The page with URL "http://dynamicsexchange.com/images/Logoscroll/Images/511201091716pm_a.jpg" can also be accessed by using URL "http://www.dynamicsexchange.com/images/Logoscroll/Images/511201091716pm_a....

How can I remove ID veriable from URL with htaccess?

I'm sorry for complexive question. I've got a website that reading contents from MySQL database to get video information just like YouTube. I've 7 column: id, title, desc, url, date, whosadded, views. I want to do is Rewriting url's from /video.php?id=X to /title-music-video.html There's ( http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Apache/Using-...

what is the impact of escaped characters on seo-friendly urls?

I have a site that displays products - in the simplest sense the url of the page for a particular product is: site.com/products/manufacturer_model - so for example if I was displaying a Dell Latitude D700 laptop my URL would look like: site.com/products/dell_latitude_d700 I have a number of products that contain characters that I woul...

SEO for Rails site, now or later?

My freelance web developer is developing a site on Ruby on Rails. Currently the URL structure is http://abc.com/all?ID=category Example: http://abc.com/all?3=CatA I requested him to structure the URL according to categories, such as http://abc.com/CatA/3-page-title but he refused cos it was too much work and cost involved as he is ...