Looks like we are going to have to start load balancing our webservers here soon. We have a feature request to edit robots.txt dynamically which is not a problem for one host -- however once we get our load balancer up and going -- it sounds like I will have to scp the file over to the other host(s). This sounds extremely 'bad'. How wo...
Is .html extension better than .php and .aspx for SEO ? or extension less url is better then all ...
I am trying to deter bots from surfing my pages. So I want to force a login from all Ip Address that are not the top 4 search engines. Is this possible? ...
Which one is better: 1. www.example.com/category/123/books 2. www.example.com/category/123-books I see stackoverflow uses option 1. Are there any diferences for search engines on these url formats? ...
Do search engines treat the alt text of an image placed within an h1 tag the same way they would treat regular text placed in an h1 tag? I gave a search through here looking for an answer to this question, but was only able to find information on image replacement and the infamous h1 debate. For example would: <h1><img src="#" alt="Co...
It has come to my attention that http://www.example.com/Home/About is considered completely different from http://www.example.com/homE/abouT, yet they are the same page and both have header response of 200. These URL's should either be all lower or upper case and any variation should return a 301 and redirect to the all lower or upper c...
Say the path of your URL is: /thisisa"quote/helloworld/ Then how do you create the rel=canonical URL? Is this kosher? <link rel="canonical" href="/thisisa&quot;/helloworld/" /> UPDATE To clarify, I'm getting a form submission, I need to convert part of the query string into the URL. So the steps are: .htaccess does the redi...
Will google ignore words that are inside the elements that are set to "display: none" in css? Example: <div id="under_meny" style="display:none;">About Us | Contact Us</div> It looks maybe a bit strange that I want to hide a menu like that, but there is a submenu. And will the user to activate it. But I do not want it to go beyond SE...
Hey guys, I'm developing a site at the moment which requires localization to a number of different countries. We own our site's name on many of the countries' TLDs (though not all of them). From a developer's perspective, many things are simplified if we could simply redirect all traffic to "domainname.co.uk" to "uk.domainnname.com" (or...
I have a fancy, graphically intensive design to convert to HTML. Its navigation has awful (non-standard ofcourse) fonts. I don't like text-replacements techniques that much. So I'm wondering if image maps would be good for navigation? Are they good or bad for SEO? ...
Why would you not use https on your public facing website? For SEO purposes? For performance reasons? Why don't more companies use https on their public facing site. Even the founder of mint.com mentions not using https on his public facing site" http://cnettv.cnet.com/rr03-mint-ceo-aaron-patzer/9742-1%5F53-50076867.html 19min into the...
Hello, I am currently building a webiste for a client whereby I am using CSS for the menu (not javascript). For the rollovers, have a background image that contains the regular state and the rollover. an example code is: <a id="foo" href="bar.php" ><span>BAR</span></a> I hide the <span> and use the background image instead. My Quest...
I have been googling for this but no one appears to have the answer. This post describes the problem well: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg198576.html Server is Windows 2008 FastCGI PHP 5 Anyone solved this problem? ...
I'm currently working on an in-house CMS and have come to a bit of a standstill. I'm trying to make it easy to paginate between pages of posts in a blog, and can't decide on how it should be tackled. The real problem only arises when I need to allow a user to choose how many results to display per page or the order to sort posts in. My ...
SEO and 301 redirects - Can they have relative paths or must they be absolute? When doing a 301 redirect for a page, are the BOTs/Spiders going to treat a 301 that goes to a relative path (redirect="../") the same as one that goes to an absolute path (redirect="http://www.somewebsite.com/apage/"). For example I have a parent page with ...
Couple of days ago we Totally revamped our web site. Since the whole structure is changed, when we put our new web site online, we redirected the URL(URL is the same between old site and new) to our backup site, whose URL is http/;backup.***.com. Search engines do not know this site exists, and I do not want they know. The whole process ...
When designing my homepage, I feel like the common knowledge is that it is bad to just have one big picture in the center that gives all of the content. The "right" way to do it would be to chop up the large layed out image into several small backgrounds and make the text use standard html with css background images for layout. Is the ...
We are working on a website of a brewery using Drupal. As minors under 18 are not allowed to view the website, any page accessed is passed through a module (legalage) and if the user clicks "continue" so as to confirm his/her age being more than 18 the site is shown to the user saving the legal age as true. The problem is when search e...
Adobe made a deal with Google so that google engine reads SWF contents for SEO. The whole thing has to do with indexing some static swf content and not crawling it any further, but that's at least something. Example Does anybody know if similar efforts were/will be made for Silverlight? At least will Bing support reading Silverlight cont...