We have a bunch of landingpages: http://ourdomain/landingpage. Each landingpage is unique in terms of title, texts, metatags, ... We mostly use these landingpages for adwords traffic, but also for offsite SEO links and banner campaigns. Today when a user enters a landingpage, a cookie (session variable) is set and then the user is 301 r...
I'm developing a website that helps people understand rap lyrics. Users see the lyrics of a rap song and can click certain lyrics to see an explanation: (click here for more) As you can see, each explanation has a permalink (in this case http://RapExegesis.com/2636). Here's what happens when you visit one of these permalinks in your b...
hi, i have a blog build in wordpress, And my domain name is like example.com (i can't give you the original name, because some times the editors will mark this question as SPAM :( , and if any one really want to check directly from my site will add at the end of the question.) http://example.com and the blog name is http://example.com/...
Hi all, I am using JBoss Seam on a Jetty web server and am having some issues with the query parameters breaking links when they appear in google searches. The first parameter is one JBoss Seam uses to track conversations, cid or conversationId. This is a minor issue as Google is complaining I am submitting different urls with the sam...
I'd like to internationalize my site such that it's accessible in many languages. The language setting will be detected in the request data automatically, and can be overridden in the user's settings / stored in the session. My question pertains to how I should display the various versions of the same page based upon language in terms ...
Is "&" character in url allowed? What is the impact to url if it's illegal and is present. I'm looking for an answer from an SEO standpoint. Example: rootdomain.com/Black&Decker/products ...
First, it seems this question is not program related, however I still make up my mind to post this question here since there is opaque definition on it. If you think it is wrong feel free to delete it. I am curious about how Google and other search engines determine keywords? Do they just find keywords like we do by using CTRL+F and cou...
As an SEO metric I'd like to programmatically get the number of by Google indexed pages. (if I search "site:mydomain.com" I want the get number of pages found). Is there any lib for this or do I need to parse a google request? ...
Hi,would it be possible to generate a XML sitemap for search engines automatically by iterating the routes and the controllers' action of an applicacion? if you could provide me with an idea or so I would appreciate it. Thanks. ...
Hi, Just wanted to get a few opinions really, i'm trying to increase the loading speed of my site, and one way that google pagespeed has suggested is to remove the unused CSS from my css file for each page. At the moment I am using one master CSS file for every page on the site. My question is would having individual CSS files for eac...
My site assigns each user a fake subdomain along the lines of http://username.mysite.com/ which redirects to http://mysite.com/shop/username The second link is the one used internally, is assigned as link rel="canonical", and what I want to display in the browser as the correct url, the subdomain is basically just a convenience fo...
I posted a source code on codeplex and to my surprise found that it appeared on google within 13 hours. Also when i made some changes to my account on codeplex those changes reflected on google within a matter of minutes. How did that happen ? Is there some extra importance that google pays to sites like Codeplex, Stackoverflow etc to ma...
Hi, I'm creating a bulletin board system, and now I'm implementing a 'delete topic' feature for admins. If someone opens the deleted topic, the server cannot find it, so it must be 404. On the other hand, the topic has existed sometime, so I must use 410. Implementing the 410 would require a new table called deleted_topics, and so would...
As far as I can tell I shouldn't be using ÅÄÖ (somthing like they have no visual representation in ASCII??). So what is considered more SEO friendly? Replacing i.e. all "ä" with "a" or "ae"? (The CMS Umbraco replaces with ae and I'm leaning towards this). EDIT: Summary of how some Swedish sites does it: aftonbladet.se/ ä => a (http:...
In the top answer in What should a developer know before building a public web site? one of the SEO recommendations is: Rewrite requests asking for yourdomain.com to www.yourdomain.com to prevent splitting the google ranking between both sites Does this work the other way also? I would like to use mydomain.com instead of www.mydomain....
I've a web site that generates kml files. An uri like this: /tokml?gid=2846 Generates a file like this: Mt. Dana Summit Trail.kml Using Header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Mt. Dana Summit Trail.kml"'); in a PHP script and running on Apache http server. But a Google search on filetype:kml will not give any results from my we...
Is there any way to allow search engines to list JSON or XML ajax data ? ...
I have stopped to insert "img" tags for the logo of the page. Because its not an image that is part of the content, its a design element but its still a information I want to have control over. So I just write the title in a "a" element as display: block, overflow: hidden and I push the text out with some padding. I think thats a good so...
I am creating a flash site and am trying to make it SEO. I'm thinking a possible solution would be to render html to any search engine bot, or to anyone who needs accessibility, and rendering the flash site for the rest of the users. First question is, is this acceptable for google, and SEO in general? This would mean I would redirect...
Hey there, I have just asked these two questions, one on flash seo url best practices and one on url redirects for seo in flash, and it got me to read more about cloaking and sneaky javascript redirects. In that cloaking and sneaky javascript redirects article, it says: "Provide the textual contents of JavaScript in a noscript tag....