I don't want to repeat alt text in title again? is this possible with any javascript , jquery, css solution? or any solution which can disable to show alt=text and enable title=texr and as a tooltip? ...
I am looking at writing a .net application that uses the Google AJAX Search API to determine where our website falls for a given term compared to a competitor. I can find alot about the old SOAP API however for the new AJAX api I cannot find any information on the following: Is this sort of use allowed as the Terms of use are vague I...
If I submit a sitemap.xml which does not contain all of the pages of my site, will this affect my search ranking? For example: If my sitemap only contained pages that had been created in the last month and didn't include all the pages from the past year, would Google treat these missing pages differently? ...
Hi, My "Privacy Policy" page is seen more important by Google than other really more important pages on my website. I'm currently creating a script to generate a sitemap, should I bother with the priority? How do you effectively assign priorities to pages? I consider one of my page important but the page have less content than another...
hi I am currently working on improving the SEO on a website containing dropdown list menu. currently when you select options and then submit a javascript is redirecting you to the next page I heard from some people that i could put the link i want indexed in the value of the dropdown list and that google crawler would trap it as a link ...
I'm working on an SEO app that (among other things) shows the number of incoming links to your site over time. There are a few ways to get this data. Scraping Google "link:yoursite.com" results gives you some (not all) of the links they know about, but they aren't too happy if you are doing lots of scraping. Similarly Yahoo has their ...
Part 1: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1749520/how-can-i-make-my-mysql-database-records-visible-to-search-engines I have tried to figure out how to create a site-map for my classifieds website, however, I dont understand the way it works with php and database websites. I have understood that I need all links on a html page, right? ...
I have created several Q about correctly mapping a website with a database so that google can index it properly. However, need more info. My website is a classifieds website (PHP). Users can search ads on my site. Searching for 'BMW' will bring up only the titles of all 'bmw' ads and display them as a search result. (like google kindof)...
Hi all, I would really like to hear your opinions about search engine optimizations for an Ajax based website. The study case is the following: http://projects.trapexit.org/ What are your SEO hints for such an application? Many thanks. ...
I am creating a site-map with all urls on my site! I have a classifieds site, so I'm using a mysql database. What format should I create the 'static' page which contains all the urls and is 'auto incremented' for each ad created on my site ? Thanks ...
I have a classifieds database which is displayed to users depending on their query, in a php file! I'm currently struggling (and learning alot) with creating a xml site map. Also, users in the future doing the same thing will definetely find my posts and your help very useful as there is very little info about this out there (atleast th...
If i made a site and site looking well in all a grade browsers but if site shows some errors in both XHTML and CSS validation then is there any benefit to solve those errors? Is site with 10 validation errors better than site with 35 validation errors or both are same for search engine? Does search engine read css file? Does CSS valida...
Hi, I am currently using the Yii framework, and I would like to know if anyone has any clue on how to setup a SEO friendly url like www.twitter.com/ automatically in Yii? I know how to do so this manually in the config/main.php but I would like to be able to dynamically generate it. I have been able to do it in Grails as well. In Yii, wh...
Hi there, I have a site Index.html and there is a categories menu generated from database. Menu consists of HTML anchors, but href attribute is always something like "Index.html#cat=xyz" because content of each category is generated through AJAX call. <a href="Index.html#cat=1" onclick="javascript:LoadHref("cat","1");"></a><br /> <a hre...
Hi - I have recently joined a company, and have got a new task. To work out how googlebot has dropped us. We have a server, if anyone, googlebot or user, vists the site, it does a geo-location and if the IP is USA it serves domainX.com (US brand) otherwise domainY.com (UK brand). Yes if you give one domain, in New York, you will be 30...
Hi All, I have a doubt with my website which is related to movies. I am creating my website in two versions for all the Industries like XYZ/ Tollywood / movie-news (For english version). xyz/telugu-movie-news (telugu version) Similar type for Bollywood and Kollywood too.. But my doubt is there are some other languages like Bhojpuri, ...
How long can a URL be? Before bad for SEO ...
I've been researching on building web applications in a true client-server fashion. This type of architecture basically consists of : A thin server, merely a headless api that : handles security concerns processes core business logic provides data persistence A fat client, with a desktop-like design that : caches data, and ...
I'm looking to pick up a book that discusses search engine optimization from the programmer's perspective. Any ideas? ...
I have a situation where we have two code bases that need to stay intact.. example: http://mysite.com And a new site http://www.mysite.com The old site (no WWW) supports some legacy code and has the rule: User-agent: * Disallow: / But in the new version (with WWW) there is no robots.txt. Is google looking to the old (no WWW) robots...