I am trying to implement URL rewriting in my PHP application. Can someone share a step by step procedure of implementing URL rewriting in PHP - MYSQL. In my application I want to implement following URL rewriting, I want to redirect 1. http://example.com/videos/play/google-io-2009-wave-intro 2. http://example.com/videos/play/203/googl...
Hi, I have built a Twitter client that's only one page: index.html. When being used, it draws in content from JSON feeds to populate various columns. The issue is hardly any traffic is coming in from Google except for searches on the site's domain name. This is because Google only crawls index.html when it's blank and before the user ent...
Am I creating competitors for my site by creating subdoamins... becos Google treats subdomains as individual domains... so, am I going to create/build competitors for my website.... I want to go for subdomains.. please explain me the drawbacks and at the same time advantages of having subdomains... One more question... subfolders are m...
I've heard people mention the Canonical URL tag but I don't know what it means or what its purpose is. What is it and how does it effect SEO? ...
Hi, I'm trying to use IIS Isapi Rewrite to do the following... I need seo-friendly URLs to be (silently) converted back to application friendly URLs like so: RewriteRule ^/seo-friendly-url/ /test/index.cfm [I,L] Simple enough. But I also need URLs already indexed in search engines (for example) to be 301 redirected to the seo-frien...
I'm trying to make a "clickable" region. <a style="display: block" href="http://stackoverflow.com"> StackOverflow </a> A is an inline element but the CSS made it a block. If the above is valid, then the following should be valid too: <a style="display: block" href="http://stackoverflow.com"> <div>Some DIV that link...
I'm about to refactor some content on our site to be more search friendly and it occurred to me that most of my image file names are relatively short to reduce the size of the tags in HTML and I wondered if that was the best approach. As search engines give a great deal of weight to the URL of my documents, should I give the same consid...
My goal is to have the url routing as following: http://www.abc.com/this-is-peter-page http://www.abc.com/this-is-john-page What is the simplest way to achieve this without placing controller name an function name in the url above? If page above not found, I should redirect to 404 page. Addon 1: this-is-peter-page and this-is-john-p...
I currently have a small-midsize website with .htm extensions. I have redesigned the full website, this time using a .aspx extension. I want to issue 301 redirects to keep my search engine rankings, but am unsure of how to do so from an .html page in a spider friendly way. With research I have repeatedly encountered references to ISAPI r...
Do web crawlers use cookies, or discard them? ...
I have a website and for internal page I have take keyword as hyderabad and I kept this keyword hyderabad in cookies so that when we surf the subcategories we would get that page from the cookies... So my doubt is when crawler visits the subcategory page then does it identifies cookies and can identify the keyword....if yes how... ...
When I use CakePHP Paging I get an url like this: http://example.com/php/page:2 What do I have to change in the controller, the view and the routes.php to create a working url like this: http://example.com/php/2 ...
Like this one: <a href="/" id="logo"></a> Or should I do like this instead and change the font-size to zero: <a href="/" id="logo">Home</a> Edit: No one here seems to understand my question. So I'll post some CSS too: #logo { display: block; width: 326px; height: 69px; background-image: url(images/logo.gif); ba...
I am wondering what the googlebot will see when we use jQuery for rounded corners where jQuery generates the outer divs for the corners. Will this method affect SEO ranking? ...
Hi, A little late but I just upgraded from Isapi Rewrite version 2 to version 3. I'm having problems with rules in the following style: RewriteRule ^/seo-friendly/(\?(.*))? /test/index.cfm?page=home&$2 Here I want any extra query string parameters passed on to the rewritten URL. This worked fine under IR2 but fails to pass the extr...
Hi all, I want to drop some keywords meta tags into a page depending on the article being showed. Let's say you load the page blabla.com/article.aspx?id=2 The article which id equals 2 is titled "The Wisdom of Deliberate Mistakes in Business Management" So I would like to include the meta tags like this: <META name="keywords" content...
I know how to create/implement friendly url in asp.net, but is it possible (and if so - how) to do it in classic asp? if its impossible, how would google respond (SEO) to creating pages whos sole purpose is to redirect (on load) to a different page? thanks! ...
There seems to be huge number of meta tags you can set. I'm guessing that some of them are more important than others. What are the most important metatags to supply and why? Do I even need meta tags? (looking at the stackoverflow homepage there are none) ...
How many types of sitemap are present related to RSS? ...
Hi, Recently I have observed that some popular sites like olx, clickindia... doesn't show there sitemaps on there sites but they have submitted sitemap to search engines... I want to know why does they submit to search engines but make them invisible for users. Why??? ...