At my work we have various web pages that, my boss feels, are being ranked lower than they should be because "mywebsite.org/category/" looks like a different URL to search engines than "mywebsite.org/category/index.php" does, even though they show the same file. I don't think it works this way but he's convinced. Maybe I'm wrong though...
Googlebot has been occasionally indexing one of our sites with a bad query string parameter. I am not sure how it is getting this query string parameter (there don't appear to be any sites linking to us with bad links, and nothing in our site is inserting the bad value). The bad parameter causes the site to throw a 500 error, as we expec...
If you look at the url of the stackoverflow.com you can see that the url is like: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask or http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1284899/designing-a-website-for-both-javascript-script-support-and-not-support or some very popular websites like wikipedia have the same format (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQ) ...
This should be an easy one for someone: Will the <noscript> element cause the HTML page to serve only the content within the <noscript> tag itself to google crawlers and hide all the rest of my static content causing it so not to be indexed? Thanks! ...
My company's web-site is all about online games, so accessibility is not high on our priority list. SEO best practices, however, are. Searching on the net we couldn't find any discussion of whether or not ARIA is such a best practice (which is a kind of answer already :-). I found this surprising because using ARIA roles seems like a nat...
I am especially interested in Google search results. Some web-sites use category IDs in their URLs while others use a more contemporary method of "friendly urls". I.e: Old URLs: mywebsite.com/23151/32/ New URLs: mywebsite.com/my-category/my-page If the new method is used, is the page's rank going to increase? (provided that all other ...
As I read Pro CSS Technique, one point I am very interested in is "Avoiding Nonstructural Tags like Div and Span". Then I just realize that if my site contains more than two hundreds Divs and Spans per page; how does the Search Engine Crawler suffer from those and how does it index my pages? ...
Hi, I am primarily a software developer however I tend to delve in some web development from time to time. I have recently been asked to have a look at a friends website as they are wanting to improve their position in search engine results i.e. google/yahoo etc. I am aware there is no guarentee that their position will change, however,...
Is there any way we can have two different Permalinks in a Wordpress blog? This is because lot of us starts blogging when we have limited knowledge of SEO and end up in some URLs which are not that SE friendly. Hence lot of pages from Blogs are already indexed by search engine and we do not want to spoil old URLs. Thus I want to creat...
How can I capture user interaction on a website? How many links a user has clicked. From where user has come. I want to create my own logic. I don't want to use any statistics tool. How can I accomplish this? Thanks in advance ...
I am implementing slideshow. I have two options for paging between images: 1) to implement javascript page reload which definitely counts towards unique page view. 2) to implement ajax light box control which i am not sure is unique page view for each image. I need more information for the second scenario. ...
We're coming from GWT projects and because of problems with SEO not liking GWT for our next project we're going to move clear of GWT (mainly because seo is a high priority for this next project). In choosing a new framework, I'm looking at Wicket and liking what I've seen so far. I've only done a few tutorials, but in looking at the wa...
Hi there, I am looking at writing an ecommerce platform just for working practice and a small project of mine. I am at the stage where i want to start writing the URL's and SEO friednly URL's. My problem is i have wrote the system to have unlimited categories / sub categories and making my navigation is causing me some problems. my id...
Hi, I have been reading up on SEO tactics and I stumbled across a very respected SEO company that says they use/implement "information sites". These sites would be used as a "starting page" for a product or service. They say that they are optimized to accommodate current search engine algorithms. This sounds a lot like the use of doorw...
Class Product < ActiveRecord::Base has_friendly_id :name, :use_slug => true end What is the most efficient method to store the slugs within the 'products' table. I have complex find queries, and the joins with the 'slugs' table give me performance bottlenecks. ...
In awstats I get a table with all the key words and phrases used to find my website. I would like to capture this myself however each search engine url is in a different format. When google is the referer I can use the variable q from the querystring as the search term (e.g. google.com?q=my+keywords) however another search engine may h...
This may sound like a stupid question, perhaps it is. But I'm only trying to make sure there's no secret information hiding from me. Alright, so if I have the option of putting in extra effort to develop in plain html and hook up my back-end via ajax, do I go for it? Meaning, I could use PHP/JSP to include files such as headers, footer...
I was wondering if there are any SEO side effects if I put my <script> and <style> tags anywhere other than in HEAD. Or is it just due to the XHTML rules that this is bad? ...
We have done many website redesigns before for companies looking to bring themselves into the 21st century. Most of them have low page rank when we are handed the project, so it is usually not a big concern of ours to maintain page rank. However, we have recently obtained a client that is coming from a PHP-based architecture (we are a ...
There have been many debates about this topic already here, but none of them fully answered my question so I figured I would pose it and hope I get one or two decent answers. We're planning on relaunching our company website in the next few months. Our current site, for the most part, is text-driven and because of this we rank very well...