I am working on a ASP application and the code, template and files are organized in a way that does not allow me to alter anything outside the body tag. So I am thinking about inserting the meta tags inside the body -- like this: <!-- FEW ASP INCLUDES --> <html> <head> <!-- FALLBACK TITLE AND DESCRIPTION --> <title>Default T...
Hi folks, if I take my website offline (eg. for an IIS7 site, I'm using the app_offline.htm file), then all requests goto my maintenance page. But, Google (and other search engines) don't 'know' that? they try to hit http://www.blahblah.com/whatever and it returns the maintenance page (and a 404 http status .. which IMO is BAD .. shoul...
Thanks in advance! duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/252437/looking-for-an-seo-book http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1321097/seo-where-do-i-start ...
I am now in charge of refactoring HTML and CSS for the site of my company. As I have seen the current CSS code, it is following naming convention for IDs and Classes (camel Notation). But, last week I did the demo to everyone in the office; then one guy expressed an idea about using underscore or dash between the names that contain more ...
I built a site using webstudio 4.0, since I am a novice I figured this was an easy platform to get the job done. I recently had a more advanced programmer suggest that the code created in dream weaver would be far superior to that generated by web studio in regards to SEO. Is this true? ...
As developing stage comes to the end, SEO is just to begin. Let's say,there are enormous SEO methods,but just post the one which you think most effective! ...
Hello Everyone, Can anyone give me some example website which are using news sitemap.. I just want to know the format of news sitemap. Please send me the format and the how need to be the url location... ...
Hello according to wikipedia:PageRank A probability is expressed as a numeric value between 0 and 1. A 0.5 probability is commonly expressed as a "50% chance" of something happening. Hence, a PageRank of 0.5 means there is a 50% chance that a person clicking on a random link will be directed to the document with the 0...
A couple short questions relating to SEO - Does an image link with alt text (yes, followed) pass same "link juice" as a normal text link? Anyone in favor of Joel starting an "SEOverflow.com"? Or is there another site where I can post questions more related to markting on the web? ...
Hi, I want to make http://mysite.com/id255/ to http://mysite.com/gora-beach-inn/. My php looks like: $result = mysql_query(" SELECT id, header FROM Article "); while($data = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){ mysql_query(" UPDATE Article SET seo = '".MakeSeo($data['header'])."' WHERE datum = '".$data['datum']."...
I'm trying to use something like jQuery biggerlink or just simple window.location for making bigger and more accessible links. What I'm wondering is what happens with SEO in these cases — I have anchor link in the containing element, but does Google penalize such actions since I'm not really clicking on link. Also, are there any other so...
What would be the benefit of having a back link with no anchor text? A friend of mine got a message asking if he would do a naked back link on his blog. ...
Is it possible to fine-tune directives to google to such an extent that it will ignore part of a page, yet still index the rest? There are a couple of different issues we've come across which would be helped by this, such as: rss feed/news ticker-type text on a page displaying content from an external source users entering contact pho...
I am logging every visit to my website and determining if the visitor is human is important. I have searched the web and found many interesting ideas on how to detect if the visitor is human. if the visitor is logged in and passed captcha detecting mouse events Detecting if the user has a browser [user agent] detecting mouse clicks [...
Hello I am a student carrying out a study to enhance a search engine's existing algorithm. I want to know how I can evaluate the search engine - which I have improved - to quantify how much the algorithm was improved. How should I go about comparing the old and new algorithm? Thanks ...
Hi My customer wants me to get rid of the dll and ? & characters in the url and use SEO friendly urls. How can I go about this URL - rewrite? Currently I have something like: http://www.ultimateholidayplanner.com/uhp.dll/AccList?PN=AccommodationSearch.htm That needs to turn into something like: http://www.ultimateholidayplanner.com...
Hi all, So the quick background is that I have a page listing a set of results and for each I display a thumbnail (image tag), short description (paragraph tag) and title (header tag). The result item links to it's brochure. I want each result (about 100px in height and full width) to be a single link rather than have the image and tit...
Hi everyone, I have a question regarding title tags. I have been using them on every link on my site in the hope that it will be good for SEO. Because I have so many title tags in use it looks very crazy to actually visit. No matter where you point there's another title popup. Is there any way to prevent these hovers (the ones that show...
I guess what I mean is, if I make a site that uses AJAX to load some content that I also want search engines to find -- if I make the page work sans-javascript (say, when javascript isn't present, a link goes to site.com?c=somecontent rather than calling a function with $("#content").load("somecontent.html");), will the search engine fol...
Are MySQL queries executed/indexed by search engine bots? ...