Suppose you have an old legacy website, with an in-house php CMS. http://mysite.com/index.php?page=3&c=7 Now, for some reason, you re-structured your website in Wordpress, with SEO friendly URL's, registered a Google Analytics account, and needs to update your system, so when http://mysite.com/ is set on the browser, now it poi...
Hi, can anyone recommend a website crawler that can show me all of the links in my site? ...
I Produced a page which I have no intention to let Search Engines find and claw it. The advisable solution is robot.txt. But it is not applicable in my situation. So I isolated this page from my site by clearing all links from other pages to this page, and never put its URL in external sites. Logically, then, it is impossible for sea...
Don't know if anyone can help out, but on this page http://industry.bnet.com/retail/10004450/gap-stands-behind-flailing-banana-republic/?tag=content;col1 Can Google (or any other search engine) see the content that is hidden in the right splash where it says "More Posts" (click it to see everything) or can they only see the first 5 lin...
Hey, I have created a sitemap for my site and it complies with the protocol set by http://www.sitemaps.org/ Google has been told about this sitemap via webmaster tools. It has tracked all the urls within the sitemap (500+ urls) but has only indexed 1 of them. The last time google downloaded the sitemap was on the 21st of Oct 2009. Whe...
Is there a difference between php header redirect and .htaccess redirect by the SEO of the site? 10x ...
Hi All, What are other ways of making your website searchable by Google, other than submitting the link directly to Google. Submitting links to yahoo is a breeze, gets crawled for a day or two... Google though takes a while... Thanks... ...
We are replacing an old classic asp website with a .NET 3.5 solution. We need to redirect all of the classic ASP requests to aspx pages (i.e. contactus.asp, may now route to /contact-us/default.aspx). What I woudl like is for the requests to hit global.asax so I can do something like If url == "bob.asp" Response.Status = "301 Mov...
I'm designing a hosted software-as-a-service application that's like a highly specialized version of 37Signal's Highrise product. In that context, where SEO is a non-issue, is it worth implementing "pretty URLs" instead of going with numeric IDs (e.g. customers/john-smith instead of customers/1234)? I notice that a lot of web applicati...
Hi all, not really a problem more of a question. If you could tell the difference between google bot and other users browsing your site, and then you load different content in depending if it is one or the other, is there anyway google could find out? After all, they don't send a human to visually check things. ...
Hi all, i found out that google will only index the top level URL from my site but i have a blog in my site as well that i want it to be listed in blog directories. so my question is: since i name the blog under www.mydomain.com/blog.html it is certain that google will only take www.mydomain.com in to consideartion. so what if i name...
I racked my brain to figure this issue out, but got no luck！ So my SO guys, help me! We created a page in our site five days ago, and every thing was done as usual.(means we used template to create the page.) The trouble is, so farm I have not find my page in any of the search engines, even though Google and Bing crawled my site(namely ...
If i want to only allow crawlers to access index.php, will this work? User-agent: * Disallow: / Allow: /index.php ...
Hi! I'm new to mod_rewrite and need to do something for my client. Suppose I have the www.mydomain.com/products.php?prod_id=32. This product has a section (clothes) and a name (shirt). These names and sections are unique. In a SEO-Friendly Url, it should be www.mydomain.com/products/clothes/shirt/. I know I can create RewriteRule ^...
I am developing an international web site - multiple countries, multiple languages. I am trying to create SEO friendly URLs. For example the catalog consists of cartesian product Regions x Categories. A typical catalog url has 7 levels of hierarchy: www.site.com/en/Catalog/Browse/10/28/London/Category1 The route format is as follows: ...
We have a domain and now we need to setup an online store. Which is better for search engines and for people (easy to remember, etc.) - a directory (site.com/shop/) or a subdomain (shop.site.com)? ...
I am a big proponent of using super clean urls for all pages and lists. Generally my pagination urls are just example.com/section/page/2 and tags are example.com/tags/tagname. I generally even try to leave the row id out of the url. But how would you guys suggest doing a filter list? Say you have a list of cars and you want to sort by ...
Web frameworks such as Rails and Django has built-in support for "slugs" which are used to generate readable and SEO-friendly URLs: Slugs in Rails Slugs in Django A slug string typically contains only of the characters a-z, 0-9 and - and can hence be written without URL-escaping (think "foo%20bar"). I'm looking for a Java slug funct...
Hi We have a website which is coded Java with Struts Framework. The WebSite's Urls are not seo friendly. All of them are like below ../buyerApplication.do&companyId=2323 Now We want to make these URLs SEO friendly and I searched and found these solutions: tuckey.org/urlrewrite : but i don't rely on this system. adding title end o...
A customer has asked this morning why he isn't showing up at all in the "Google Suggest" (I think it's called) dropdown. He complains that one of his competitors is the first ranked result in the Google Suggest dropdown. The competitor's business name is made up of common words (e.g. Widget Manufacturing) so, sure, he does show up. My c...