I can't seem to find any information on how google determines if you are cloaking your content. How, from a technical standpoint, do you think they are determining this? Are they sending in things other than the googlebot and comparing it to the googlebot results? Do they have a team of human beings comparing? Or can they somehow tel...
When getting indexed by search engines, is there a difference if the public side of a site is served via HTTPS or via HTTP? I am trying to optimize my site so that all search engines can find the site. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/internet/google/googlebot-spoofer/index.htm ...
This question is related to a few tools that are returning errors and that I am not sure what to do about them, if anything. At: http://andylangton.co.uk/online-tools/http-status-analyser if I analyze http://drchrono.com I get "Status code is 301. Status is Moved Permanently to https://drchrono.com/." This makes sense but if I then a...
How do website pages gets indexed by the search engines? Does this depends on number of times the page is visited? I have a site whose default page got indexed but not the other pages which are at the same level as that of default! ...
I've submitted sitemap.xml files to google webmaster tools and it says that i has all of the page in total but under "indexed" it says "--"? How long does it take for Google to start indexing? This was a couple of days ago. ...
Hey guys, I'm trying to switch our links over to T4MVC, and I'm having a small problem with parameters that aren't part of an action's signature. We have a route that goes something like this: http://www.mydomain.com/{fooKey}/{barKey}/{barID} ==> leads to BarController.Details(barID). fooKey and barKey are only added to the links fo...
In terms of SEO: what's the best way to encode characters such as ÅÄÖ? I've used , in titles etc. But in google webmaster tools they end up as: "Sök bland inkomna förfrågningar från Stockholm inom Golvvård. Offerta.se" Doen't google recognize these? ...
For example: <img alt="Facebook logo" src="http://facebook.com/images/facebook-logo.gif" title="Link to home page"/> Which has more importance for Search engine, Alt text or image file name or title or all? ...
I have been reading a lot about cloaking and redirects, and am wondering how this fits into rendering and layouts in Rails... Two parts: 1) If I have different data formats to render in (json, xml, html, and iphone), and they all use the same url, differing by the ".format" at the end, is this considered "content duplication"? It seem...
What is the best way to create an alert bar with css but without javascript on the top of the page, like the one StackOverflow has for saying "Stack Overflow works best with JavaScript enabled"? I've heard this is bad for SEO as it's duplicate content on every page. How do I prevent that? ...
I found comments like this in top of many css files on many websites /* Theme Name: CSSnewbie V2 Theme URI: http://www.cssnewbie.com Description: Second version of CSSnewbie, based on Carrington theme by Crowd Favorite, designed by Jeremy Harrington of Crawlspace|Media, and developed by Rob Glazebrook. Version: 1.0.1 Author: Rob L Glaz...
How would I go about making my site use organic urls (like http://www.mysite.com/aboutus) - i don't want to use a CMS - my site is powered from index.php is there anyway of getting the text after the / so that I can select that page from the database? I'd rather not do /?aboutus Thank you :D ...
We are having problems getting Google to index our site. We decided it was easiest to just use https for the entire site. Do we need to change it so that the anonymous, "public", areas of the site are not encrypted for them to be indexed? ...
We're trying to get our company website to be better indexed by Google and other search engines, and at this point I'm not quite sure what's missing. All of our text content is loaded in by our flash application via XML files. In summer, we wrote a PHP script that reads out all the XML files, and generates google friendly index.html fil...
If I have an iPhone version of my site, what are the things I need to make sure of so it doesn't interfere with SEO? I've read quite a bit now about cloaking and sneaky javascript redirects, and am wondering how this fits into iPhone and Desktop websites playing together. If my iPhone site has a totally different layout, where say the ...
What are the standards for managing URL redirects if you base your URL's off properties of the data that might change a few times, like the "title"? I have a website with lots of images and I want to make the urls look like this: http://www.mySite.com/images/132123/my-cool-image-title Now say a bunch of people bookmark the image, and ...
Is it possible to set a default folder to access instead of a file like "index.html". What I'd like to to is make it so that when a person visits my site they get redirected to a folder within the root of the domain. I am using a blogging engine and I need it to show up as the homepage but I don't want to install it in the root because...
We design and host websites for our clients/sales force. We have our own domain: http://www.firstheartland.com Our agents fill out a series of forms on our website that are loaded into a database. The database then renders the website as a database driven website. /repwebsites/repSite.cfm?link=&rep=rick.higgins /repwebsites/repSit...
Hello, I have deleted a folder called forums from my website from 3 months. but in my Google Webmaster Tools it keeps saying that e.g. /forums/member.php?u=1092 is missing (404). is there any way to stop these messages and tell google that i am not going to re-upload it? is this going to affect on my SEO ranking? I tried this code, bu...
As the title says, I need a search engine... for mysql searching. My website is PHP based. I was going with sphinx but my hosting company doesn't support full-text indexes! So a search engine to be used without full-text! It should be pretty powerful, and must include atleast these functions below: When searching for 'bmw 520' only ...