seo

SEO, links and headers

From an SEO perspective, what should I consider when deciding between these three markup structures? (or others if I'm missing something obvious) <h2><a href="...">My Title</a></h2> <p>...intro text...</p> <a href="..."><h2>My Title</h2></a> <p>...intro text...</p> <h2>My Title</h2> <p>...intro text... Read more about <a href="...">My...

How do I let google index my table of contents?

Hi, I am not sure my title is correct or not since I have no idea on SEO. What I want to do is, let google show extra links of my website just like yahoo.com. When you search 'yahoo' on google, google shows Mail, Games, My Yahoo, Messenger, Finanace, Fantasy, Sports, and Movies. How do I add these extra links on my website? ...

How to deal with "#" in a query string in mod_rewrite?

I asked this question about rewriting old "ugly" links into seo friendly ones. I need to "extract" some information after the "sharp" symbol in some urls. I've created a regular expression to it but it can't seen to work. After my question, I created this logic for this url for example, script.php?mode=full&id=23: RewriteCond %{THE_RE...

Why does Googlebot traverse a newly added site in ascending order of URL-length?

Googlebot (Googlebot/2.1) appears to crawl URL:s on a newly added sites in an order corresponding to the length of the URL: .. GET /ivjwiej/ HTTP/1.1" 200 .. "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/ .. .. GET /voeoovo/ HTTP/1.1" 200 .. "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/ .. .. GET /zeooviee/ HTTP/1.1" 200 .. "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googl...

How Can I Deal With Those Dead Links After Revamping My Web Site?

Couple of months ago, we revamped our web site. We adopted totally new site structure, specifically merged several pages into one. Everything looks charming. However, there are lots of dead links which produce a large number of 404 errors. So how can I do with it? If I leave it alone, could it bite back someday, say eating up my pr? On...

Language Strings in URLs

What would be a good way to handle URLs on a website that offers multiple languages, but has one primary language (in my case, English). What should be the address of the home page in English? http://example.com/? http://example.com/en/? http://example.com/english/? Other? What should be the address of the home page in another language...

robots.txt syntax question.

Hello guys. I have a few doubts about this robots file. User-agent: * Disallow: /administrator/ Disallow: /css/ Disallow: /func/ Disallow: /images/ Disallow: /inc/ Disallow: /js/ Disallow: /login/ Disallow: /recover/ Disallow: /Scripts/ Disallow: /store/com-handler/ Disallow: /store/img/ Disallow: /store/theme/ Disallow: /store/StoreSys...

SEO friendly URL in Classic ASP?

I have website developed in classic ASP. The URL is not SEO friendly at present. Please suggest how I can make the SEO friendly URL for my website in ASP. Is there any supporting functions which can help in creating SEO friendly URL in ASP? URL for product Information page like this : http://www.yourdomain.com/store/template/template2...

Clone a website from one domain to another

Hi guys, What would be the best approach for the following.... Website 1 - has 300+ individual .html product pages (no database involved) The products/content from Website 1 need replicating on Website 2, Website 3, Website 4 and Website 5. Each site is location based e.g glossop-bikes.co.uk, buxton-bikes.co.uk, hyde-bikes.co.uk etc....

OsCommerce - Remove osCsid in urls

I discovered that Google has indexed the osCsid parameter in some of my URLs at my osCommerce application. I tried to find a solution but I don't want to do something if I'm not sure what I'm doing. I only have access to the FTP and not the CMS system. Is it possible to solve this problem through the FTP? ...

Duplicate content with forwarding from TLD to different 'start page'

I came across something interesting today. See this site. Notice that the TLD automatically forwards to /about-alc/. This is because, the home section is actually called 'About ALC'. I recently used a site map generator, and it said 'Duplicate content' for the TLD and the /about-alc/ Is this not a good approach? Should I just throw a...

Do hidden attributes in CSS style table of pages lower the website power?

In CSS style table of website pages I have used a lot of hidden attributes like overflow:hidden and display:none; Does this has effect for SEO? Is this friendly for search engines (SE)? Can it be punished by search engine (SE)? Can hidden attributes in CSS style table of pages lower the website power? ...

Search Engine Friendly POST in php and MySql

i have one blog where users come and post their views. i store all information in mysql Data Base, when i use following syntax to retrieve information Datasbe using PHP viewpost.php?pid=12 but after Google many tips for SEO, i found that this syntax is not good, i need to change it to some other way which is readable to search engine....

How to Develop a Successful Sitemap

I have been browsing around on the internet and researching effective sitemap web pages. I have encountered these two sitemaps and questioning their effectiveness. http://www.webanswers.com/sitemap/ http://www.answerbag.com/sitemap/ Are these sitemaps effective? ...

Org or com domain for open source project site?

Let's say I have an open project called Some Project. Would you recommend hosting the project site under someproject.com or someproject.org, and why? I realize that .org suits an open source project better, but I'm afraid that on longer term, I may want to (cough...) start making money out of it, and .org would become misleading, while m...

SEO Score Script?

I'm looking for a PHP script that can: Be downloaded and installed on my website Give my site or any other entered url a SEO score Suggest improvements for the entered site Is there somethiing open-source available that does this? Maybe even a paid service that allows me to call a web service from my site? ...

SEO with Magento.

My client just contacted me with the following fixes that he received from his own SEO person. His website is using Magento and his SEO person knows that. a) remove the frame from the template b) add static html pages for each category item c) revise each page to have a title and meta description d) add 100-200 words per page as a pr...

Anchored AJAX and SEO workaround?

You all know how to build AJAX sites with those 300ms trigger for checking anchors (hash links) in URL and then loading proper page with AJAX. But, these anchor links are nothing to search engines =( I've thought of making some kind of workaround. All JS code remains the same, but, this little thing (I'm with JQuery, sorry): $('a').liv...

Is %20 in site urls and and file name can create any problem on any server or browser(web/mobile) or OS or device etc ?

Is %20 in site urls and and file name can create any problem on any server or browser or device etc ? Is it bad for SEO ? ...

Best practices for converting an existing website into a website with SEF URL

I've got a website that was created about an year ago and its been constantly revised since then. The website is coded in classic ASP, contains about ~50 pages -- some are multi-purpose, and contains old-school style links such as: /news.asp?PageIndex=4 /news.asp?SearchString=Obama /news.asp?SearchString=Obama&PageIndex=4 /news.asp?News...