seo

problem with joomla 1.5.9, SEO setting yes with pop up window

Hi, I have a website www.carooolglobal.com, all the features work fine with all the SEO setting set to No. If i set any of the SEO settings to Yes, and perform a search from search form left side on home page, it is showing the results on index.php properly.but when i click on the name link from the search result, it should open the pr...

SEO - noindex, nofollow and canonical tag

I need some explanation about my question. Example on my header already added <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" /> Should I add canonical tag again to my header? <link rel=”canonical” href=”http://www.example.com/product.php?item=big-fish” /> Let me know :) canonical tag Update we know canonical tag is currently a...

Managing Descriptive URLs

I have noticed that many blogs use URLs that look like this: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VirtualCamaraderieAPersistentVideoPortalForTheRemoteWorker.aspx I assume this is done for search engine optimization. How is this read from the underlying data model? Do you really search for VirtualCamaraderieAPersistentVideoPortalForTheRemo...

TinyMCE editor replacing tags inside Joomla articles

I have a front page of my site optimized for SEO. I am using tags to mark important content. When I edit my article in admin section with TinyMCE editor, it replaces tags with tags, which I want to avoid. Any ideas how to make this web editor (TinyMCE) not replace my <strong> tags? ...

What is a more effective title seperator for SEO purposes? | or -

What is the best separator for the title tag for SEO. This <title>This is a sample title - mysite.com</title> or <title>This is a sample title | mysite.com</title> In Wordpress the SEO pack's default is |. What is the best separator as it relates to SEO? Why? ...

Is viewstate bad for SEO?

I am new to asp.net and have got some concerns about the bloated viewstate on a small site I'll be maintaining. Since I actually don't want to learn asp.net (mvc looks interesting though), my question is if I should care about this potential issue or just wait 4 years until its time to rewrite the site.... Hopefully some of you have some...

Digg.com and meta descriptions?

Hi, I'm working on the following site: http://www.fragrancecollection.com/ When I submit the site to Digg; odd characters show up in the description field. I tried forcing the character encoding to UTF-8 (which the document is saved as) via meta tags; but that did nothing. I tried replacing complex characters with simpler literals (su...

301 Redirect after a route is matched but before controller execution

I'd like to add a trailing slash to any url's that match a valid route but do not currently end in a slash, i.e. www.example.com/url After a url is matched to a valid route I would like to 301 redirect to the same url but add the trailing slash i.e. www.example.com/url/ I've spent some time looking into it but I can't seem to figure it...

301 redirect and SEO

I am using a link on my site name "sign_up". When you click on sign it, it checks what language you have selected and what curreny, and permanently redirects you to the correct page using a 301 redirect. Is this bad for SEO? Keep in mind, this is the way it will remain. I'm not eventually going to get rid of it? ...

Linking to scripts or images will change page rank?

If i create some useful services like some dynamic free photos or some useful java scripts, for example http://www.mysite.com/ipaddress.jpg and then other websites use this image or script in their webpages... dose it count for link popularity for me (inbound link) and does it increase my website ranks from google point of view? ...

Search Engine Website Index Description?

For example when you Google "stackoverflow" the first result links to http://stackoverflow.com with a description, "A language-independent collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers." How is Stack Overflow or any other site working to set that description? I am about to put a website online and would like to get ...

How should google crawl my blog?

I was wondering how (or if) I should guide Googlebot through my blog. Should I only allow visiting pages with single entries or should it also crawl the main page (which also has full entries)? My concern is that the main page changes when I add a new post and google keeps the old version for some time. I also find directing people to th...

Multiple Domain name

I have a customer that been on the web for some time. They have bought a domain name that describe it product, and a second one more up to date. Now that company has evolved to something more general and has bought a 3rd domain - something like: vegetables.com (2005) ecolo-vegetables.com (2006) good-health-eating.com (2009) Here are ...

Why and how does the googlebot use my website's search engine?

Looking through my search logs from time to time, I notice that by far the biggest user of my search engine is the google-bot. What gives? Is it looking for content that might not be directly accessible through navigation? If so, how does it know which words and phrases to look for (they're surprisingly relevant). Does it check the most ...

making un-visible a specific part of url generated by javascript + codeigniter

Hi friends, http://www.blabla.com/our_work/client/client-name#/uploads/18.jpg I use CodeIgniter, and this is the url I have. I use a gallery script at the page, and it generates #/uploads/18.jpg such thing at url :( is there any way to make it unvisible or sth . maybe with htaccess. i dont know. i dont want to spend an another day ...

Redirect 301 with hash part (anchor) #

Hello everyone, One of our website has URL like this : exemple.oursite.com. We decided to move our site with an URL like this www.oursite.com/exemple. To do this, we wrote a rewrite rule in our Apache server that redirect to our new URL with a code 301. Many websites link to us with URLs of the form exemple.oursite.com/#id=23. The pro...

How to make ASP.NET MVC links written in different alphabet

I have an ASP.NET MVC application and I want to make links written in Cyrillic within the application. What are possible pitfalls from the developing point of view? To be more precise: now the link looks like:     http://mysite.ru/books and I want to make it look like:     http://mysite.ru/книги or maybe even:     http://мойсайт.ру...

Setting up HTTP Redirect for SEO in IIS7

Hi, I want all requests to http://mydomain.com to be 301 redirected to http://www.mydomain.com for SEO purposes. In order to do this, can I use IIS7's HTTP redirect method? I tried setting the HTTP redirect to www.mydomain.com, but this led to a permanent loop. Edit: URL Rewrite will do the job, and I am going to use it, unless somebo...

Get Search Engines to link to sub-pages instead of index

I wrote a blogging system from scratch (http://seanhess.net). I have the last 10 posts displayed on the index page /, and each post has it's own page /post/a_simple_post. I'm getting a good rank in google when I search for specific info from my posts, but google links to the index page instead of the post page. How do I get the search en...

What is the best seo solution for deep linking a flex app/site?

There are several quality solutions for deep linking a flex application or site. For seo purposes which one produces the best indexing results? Asual's SWFAddress, Adobe's BrowserManager or urlKit. All three of which seem viable and easy to implement. Update This guy at unitedmindset seems to have pulled it off using the BrowserManage...