We have a flash "gateway" page displayed to users (only once) before they enter our corporate website. This flash page is default.aspx, served as default page by the server. The issue is that Yahoo and other SE pick up the text from the body of the page, which happens to be the Javascript/Flash requirements warning in the noscript tag. ...
In my ASP.NET MVC application i am using Chinese Category Name, it was displayed as %E8%82%B2%E5%84%BF in IE's URL address, but the actual value is '育儿'. I want to know how can I convert '育儿' into %E8%82%B2%E5%84%BF in C# and how can I convert it back, too. Is it possible display '育儿' in the URL link directly? Will it be good for SEO? ...
We need to make changes to an app that will cause all its URLS to change, we dont want to lose value and too many urls to 301. I am looking to change a mod rewritten URL to a non written one. My thoughts would be to Leave the mod rewritten URLS active (Temporarily) Place a canonical tag witht the NEW correct URL Make sure no links are ...
It seems like Google can index certain sites or forums (I can't name any offhand as its been months since I last saw one) and when accessing you are prompted with a request to register or login. How would I make my site open for Google to index and have a regular login for others? ...
The setup is: www.domainA.com www.domainB.com both actually hosted on one web server (Apache) 123.123.123.123/domainA 123.123.123.123/domainB I have setup a hidden forward from the domains to the web server directories which works fine, however, produces duplicate content (since it is also available by addressing the web server d...
I am using ASP.NET with MasterPages. Thus i cant just place this link in my pages that reference my MasterPage. <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.erate.co.za/" /> I need to place this link in though my Page Load of each one of my pages. How would i do this through code? I am using VB.NET but C# will also help me in the right dire...
If I name my HTML file "Banks.html" located at www.example.com/Banks.html, but all the content is about Cats and all my other SEO tags are about Cats on the page, will it affect my page's SEO? Can you name your files whatever you want, as long as you have the page title, description, and the rest of the SEO done properly? ...
i am creating a revised website for a firm that has an existing website. Many of the pages are the same topic and text with a new design. Should i use the same file paths as the prior site to avoid any drop in google or other search engine rankings ...
I am using ASP.NET with VB.NET I have realize that SEO does not like my page URL's that contain questions marks such as this......... http://www.erate.co.za/CompanyProfile.aspx?ID=112 Is it possible to change my URL from that to say http://www.erate.co.za/CompanyProfile/USA Is this even possible? If so how would i or can i do this...
Hello, I am looking to implement a similar url as stackoverflow to an eshop: http://wwww.shop.com/products/123123/product-name But i have a few concerns: 1. does google consider it duplicate content as the page: http://wwww.shop.com/products/123123/ I knew that google alwasy goes down the url, does it not consider the numbers as ...
Hi to everyone. I was asked for my final degree project to build a custom SEO Content Management System; the point is that the request is to implement PageRank alghoritm for the inner search engine of this CMS, to order the results of the query by the PR. Is it possible? How may I start with this? The CMS is build on PHP and MySql (or P...
Do search engines care if I use relative paths in my internal links instead of absolute paths? <a href="/">My site root</a> <a href="http://mysite.com/">My site root</a> ...
After a site redesign, I've got a couple of pages that need to be redirected. Everything is staying on the same domain, just a couple of things have been reorganised and/or renamed. They are of the form: /contact.php is now: /contact-us.php Using the .htaccess file, I've added this line, which is the one I find recommended most: Red...
Hi, I'm trying to redirect pages from several old domains on one new domain on a page-to-page basis, that is: page 1: http://www.example.org/default.asp?id=1 redirects to http://www.example2.org/newpage.html page 2: http://www.example2.org/default.asp?id=2 redirects to http://www.example.org/contact.html ...and so on. Every old page w...
Hi, I have created 3 Landing Pages. What is the best way to reference them in Google? 1) Save it in my sitemap.xml? 2) created real links in my site that redirect to these pages ? (hidden link ?) why you prefer one technique over another? ...
So a method I often use to create nice SEO links that use images is the text-indent: -9999px; trick. Basically, I create a block-level anchor with a background image. I set its text-indent to a large negative number so you don't see it and that's good for SEO. When I click on the link though, the outline of it shoots off the page (i.e. i...
We have a web application that has a defect and is updating all pages Last Modified Header to the date of the last publish. We are in the process of fixing the defect, but we wanted to know if this defect might impact our SE results for this site. Basically each time a page on the site get's updated all pages updates the last modifie...
What search do when they found different status code? 302 301 404 etc... I knew they would ignore the pages with 404 status code but what about the other statuses do search engines crawl the source or destination page? ...
If you google a specific entity, occasionally the website listed first is given a little listing of content, sort of like a mini site-map that the user can click on to navigate the linked site, bypassing the home page. My question is this: Can I control this mini-sitemap when I am PR1? If so, how do I do so? I'm trying to build a list ...
We have several pages of our site indexed using old non-SEO friendly URLS such as http://www.domain.com/DocumentDetails.aspx?id=555. Recently we implemented routing that uses slugs stored in the database and looks up the slug to forward you to the right page using routing, for example: http://www.domain.com/Documents/Title-of-the-Documen...