We have a website which we recently migrated to ASP.NET MVC. All of the URLs are now different from the original website. Google still has all of our old URLs, so if anyone finds us in a search, currently they will get a 404. I have a catchall route that catches bad URLs, including all of the old ones. In a perfect world I would like...
Hi.I'm building a web site that's showcasing a large amount of products. I want the URL to be human-friendly and optimized for search engines, so I want the filtering of products to be reflected in the URL. For example, a possible URL path for filtering the products would be website.com/Type/Car/Country/Usa/Manufacturer/Ford/Year/2007 ...
One SEO advice we got was to move all javascript to external files, so the code could be removed from the text. For fixed scripts this is not a problem, but some scripts need to be generated as they depend on some ClientId that is generated by asp.net. Can I use the ScriptManager (from asp.net Ajax or from Telerik) to send this script to...
I've built a new PHP site for a customer and want to redirect the top ranking Google results from the old site structure to the new one. I've put several dozen Redirect 301's in a .htaccess in the documentroot, and while some work fine I'm having issues with a bunch of others. This works fine: Redirect 301 /nl/flash/banner_new.swf htt...
I'm creating a new layout for a site and I would prefer to use a grid-based css framework such as Blueprint (which is the only one I have experience with). But does anyone know of a way I could place my main content above my navigation and sidebar in the html in order to improve SEO? Thanks! ...
Hi, I'm wondering if Google search is aware of tags such as <nav>, <aside>, <section>, etc. that are being added by HTML 5? My navigation comes before my content and I have too many links in it for good SEO. I'd like to use <nav> if Google recognised it rather than using js or a css work around. Thanks, Denis ...
A bit of an SEO question here. I've got a site with a ton of pages, of content. I know lots of the content is the same on each page. I thought that Search Engines keyed off of the differences in page content so that they could promote the correct data, but when I look at the summary in google and bing, the summary shows my 'feedback'...
Well, I have a Silverlight application with many internal pages, and I want search engine to index my Silverlight content. Besides I want to manage my Silverlight content for search engine and reader effectively. How can I do Search Engine Optimization “SEO” for Silverlight? Thanks ...
i.e. http://www.somesite.com/subject?page=3 If query strings are used to control the pagination, won't search engines only be able to index the first page (i.e. the page without the query string)? This is usually how I've seen pagination done, but I'm wondering if there is a better way for search engine indexing? ...
I have this html code and want to use the text in the divs who are children to "divHiddenTexts" for a javascript slider and I want search engines be able to find the text. What I don't want is a penalty for hiding the text with CSS which is discussed in this question SEO : Is h1 tag that’s hidden using display:none given prominence by Se...
I encountered many sites including stackoverflow.com whose page source do not show META tags like keywords, description. I am just wandering is it because they blocked it by some sort of tech or they just drop them since, as I know, those tags are not so much valuable as before. If they blacked them, then what kind of software or tech ...
I'm working with an e-commerce site that is heavily data-driven and dynamically generated, so many of the links are generated dynamically as well. The problem is that the system we use is not open source, so whatever links are generated by the system can't be changed. I'm using ISAPI Rewrite to rewrite requests from friendly URLs to the ...
If you have to take a site down for some type of unavoidable maintenance task (and it's not a big enough site that you have a backup server), what HTTP status code should you have your server return to minimize the possibility that search engines will think the site is gone? I found this list of status codes from W3C, of which the follo...
Standard SEO caveat: It's a black box, and the algorithms are proprietary, and trying to predict and game the search engines is a crappy way to make a living. That said, what are the baseline steps you want to take to make sure your content is visible to the major search engines (Google, Bing, etc.) I'm specifically curious as to what ...
Hello, I'm running a website with 3 domains redirecting to that domain (without a index file, just by admin panel at the provider). Is there a way to SEO these redirecting domains? When I was thinking about this I realized that by redirecting you probably can't upload a .htaccess because you don't have webspace. I think it's not possib...
Simple question: Am I wrong in reccomending against Wordpress SEOs? Now, I don't want to start a flame war or anything like that, but I'm just curious if my viewpoint is consistent with other developers / hosts out there. I work at a small company, and we specialize in Microsoft-based hosting and CMS solutions, particularly a popular o...
Good Day! I have a photostudio site running on a Wordpress. It's have a blog and a bunch of static pages. In blog we post some news and the static pages contains info about our services. We have idea to add some relevant URLs from our blog to those static pages. The links would be acquired from our blog by Wordpress Related Posts plugi...
Hi all, I'm working on a large ites re-write that has now come to included a redesign. I have been reading up on HTML 5 and wanted to know what cons are out there to have me avoid adopting it for this design implmentation? The design needs to work in A-grade browsers (yes including IE6 :( ), so I'm wondering how / etc will be rendered...
I need help removing the unnecessary PHPBB header title on my forum for SEO purposes. I need some type of hack or something to get this removed. I want to have the title of a certain topic followed by a category and then the name of the forum. THanks GUys! ...
How can I tell if a google bot is reading my javascript generated content? I have an AJAX script that generates some text dynamically on a page... this content does not change by user, but simply by date/time. I am not sure how I can tell if google sees it. ...