Hello all, How do sites that offer SERP tracking work? I mean, under the Google ToS - scraping is forbidden on search results. I have seen huge sites, I won't name any, offer SERP tracking services (paid) and these guys have not been spotted or Google choses to ignore them! Why? Clearly not a programming question, hopefully its ok as...
I'm trying to make our (very heavily AJAX based) website more search engine friendly. We have a system where certain urls redirect to the main page after setting session variables to change the behavior of the main page. This is acheived using the Controller.Redirect method to create an ActionResult. So for instance, the main page is: ...
Hi, I've got a SitemapActionResult that overrides the ActionResult, and delivers a SEO sitemap.xml when http://www.sprelle.no/Home/SiteMap is hit. So far so good. What I would like, though, is to serve the sitemap.xml when Google visits /sitemap.xml. For that to work, I need a route that sees "sitemap.xml" and directs to /Home/Sitemap. ...
With Navigation Framework, Silverlight becomes better suited for content pages. The next big thing would be to make it crawlable. I think one of the approaches could be abstracting the content in a database and using it within a Silverlight page for humans or returning a plain HTML for crawlers. Did anybody try to make their Silverlight ...
Hello everyone, I've recently been involved in the redevelopment of a website (a search engine for health professionals: http://www.tripdatabase.com), and one of the goals was to make it more search engine "friendly", not through any black magic, but through better xhtml compliance, more keyword-rich urls, and a comprehensive sitemap (...
Hi, Is there some ways to develop a SEO friendly flash site? I read in an article that flash sites are not SEO friendly one. But my friend said that there must be some techniques. Please let me know, if it's possible. ...
Hello, Can this : link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/page.html" Solve the upper case duplicate content issue when robots visit : http://example.com/Page.html (with a capital "P" in Page.html) ? Thank you for your answer Francois ...
When users entering domain www.example.com, it has to check for the country from the IP and should redirected to some other language specific domain eg: www.example.co.in. Will the search engine crawler recognize both www.example.com and www.example.co.in? Will this effect the search engine ranking? Someone could guide me on the disadva...
I have a number of links <a href="/somepage.html" class="link"></a> and class has background image wich changes on :hover attribute. Now the problem is how can I put any text inside <a></a> tags for google to catch but also that it doesn't appear cause if it will show it will mess up my background image. EDIT: How about this: <...
First of all I want to state that I've just started with Drupal so I'm a noob. I'll try to explain what I think is a powerful URL and Alias system. Lets say we have some structured content with some subcontent shared between main sections. The main sections could be Visitor, Customer and Website. Now every main section has it's own men...
Does google follow buttons and form inputs when crawling websites? I'm adding rel="nofollow" tags to links I don't want google to follow but I'm not sure if I need to add them to buttons. For example an 'add to cart' button. Thanks ...
I have an online store with different categories in the main navigatio. Ie. Category A, Category B etc. I also have a link in the main nav called 'Sale Items'. It points to a page which lists items which are on sale from both Category A and Category B. Should I add a rel="nofollow" tag to the Sale Items link? ...
I have never used a CMS before nor have I built a E-commerce site before so I have several questions regarding this and choosing one: My background: I am not a programmer: I am a designer and I am proficient with using HTML and CSS, as well as having some experience using and "tweeking" some Jquery Plugins such as sliders, picture vie...
Hi, Can someone please help me trying to figure out how to simply write the meta tags in an asp.net page. The meta tags have been inserted in the page and I just want to loop through them and write the keywords tag. I don't have a probably adding dynamically, just reading. Thanks in advance. ...
Hi guys, how beneficial is having a shared IP versus a dedicated IP. Is that important to SEO? ...
I know this has been asked before but im curious to see if things have changed. I'm looking for a html/css fixed 3 column layout with the main content (middle) area located first (of the 3 columns) in the DOM - for SEO. Any ideas? ...
Hey guys, If I run our website (www.deversus.com) through a meta analyzer, such as the one at http://www.seocentro.com/tools/search-engines/metatag-analyzer.html our meta description/keywords are not found, but they do exist in the source code. Our website is using SilverStripe - I've checked a few other websites that use SS (even silve...
I am going to build a website. Now my question which is the best option for text to be displayed. It should be kept in ppt, pdf, or on html pages to get more SEO benefits and good results at SERP ...
I know most of the Users of Stackoverflow would have knowledge about Search Engine Optimization(SEO).. Any tips and tricks about SEO for your fellow web developers ... EDIT: Good book about SEO? Good blogs/websites about SEO? ...
Hello. I am writting my own small framework and I am going to implement friendly URLs there. mod_rewrite is great. But I want to be able to handle several types of friendly URLS at once: /index.php?ac=user&an=showprofile (fallback variant, the worst) /index.php/user/showprofile (supposedly, can be disabled by security settings) index.p...