How do you use the Web platform installer to install the SEO Toolkit from http://www.microsoft.com/web/spotlight/seo/? If I choose application, I have to choose an application through a file dialog. If I choose OK, I get a 'The product you are trying to install is not supported on your operation system" message. What!? I am using Window...
According to this page it would seem like they don't, in the sense that they don't actually run it, but that page is 2 years old (judging from the copyright info). The reason I'm asking this question is because we use Javascript to replace text on our site with other more typographically sound content. We're worried that this may affect...
Is there an easy way to get the MvcRouteHandler to convert all hyphens in the action and controller sections of an incoming URL to underscores as hyphens are not supported in method or class names. This would be so that I could support such structures as sample.com/test-page/edit-details mapping to Action edit_details and Controller tes...
I have a page that has two parts that are slower loading. As they are already ASCXes, it would be trivial to render them asynchronously with jQuery. That would mean, obviously, that the content in question isn't pumped to the browser on the first trip, but rather 200ms or so behind it. Do the spiders evaluate the content that loads via...
I wrote a site using ASP.NET MVC, and although it is not completely SEO optimized at this point I figured it is a good start. What I'm finding is that when I use Google's Webmaster Tools to fetch my site (to see what a GoogleBot sees) it sees this. HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: public, max-age=1148 Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml; ...
Are there any services out there, that can parse a website and give some sort of feedback to how search-engine friendly that website is? And perhaps even suggest changes to the mark-up to improve indexing? Think W3Cs validation services. ...
I'm using asp.net/C# and I'm looking to create unique(?) uris for a small CMS system I am creating. I am generating the uri segment from my articles title, so for example if the title is "My amazing article" the uri would be www.website.com/news/my-amazing-article There are two parts to this. Firstly, which characters do you think I n...
Hi, Is there a widely used standard way on how to index ajax loaded content (for search engines)? For example, indexing HTML content that would dynamically be inserted into a page. Thanks ...
The question I have is a bit of a ethical one. I read here that Google gives a little more influence to sites that are optimized to load quickly. Obviously this makes Google's job easier, using less resources and it is a better experience for everyone, so why not reward it? The actual process of finding bottlenecks and improving page ...
I saw on the google when search "code project", some keywords and a text field and a button to search that google has generated for "code project" keyword also for "manchester university" in the same way. How is it possible to show key words and text field/button for our website on google? As it shows for "code project" and "manchester...
My own CMS automatically adds new parameters to links in a page to specify a given language. It works quite well but it doesn't always put the var in the same position, giving me a link to same page/language: www.xxx.yy/index.php?mod=blog&page=3&lang=en or www.xxx.yy/index.php?mod=blog&lang=en&page=3 Will search engines be smart eno...
Hello. I'm using Code Igniter to build a simple website, one thing about Code Igniter its that its pretty easy to do Rewrite Rules. But anyway, that ain't the problem. But lets consider this situation, in this website most webpage itens, if the name its to be spelled correctly the name as special characters ( á à é è .... mostly used i...
Hi, what is better, a domain with subdirectories or whole new domains for those directories? I have a website divided by 12 directories which are the main purpose of the website like: example.com/subject1 example.com/subject2 I was wondering what is better for me, new domains for subject1 and subject2, like subject1.com and subj...
My boss wants to change our dynamic web site into static one, in order to make it more interactive between users. However, I strongly believe big revamping may cause ranking turbulence, and we really can not afford to it. The reason is we changed the structure of our web site couple of months ago. Specifically speaking, we eliminated lo...
How can i get private pages of my web site being crawled and indexed by google ? maybe it's not very "conventionnal", but i want my private page "links" displayed in google index, but next require a registration to display the page. ...
I'm developing a site for which one of the main components is an events calendar. For users, the calendar is offered in 3 formats an interactive AJAX web calendar (monthly view) an iCal subscription feed a downloadable PDF None of these seem particularly search-engine friendly. What would be the best way to make sure the individual...
Hi folks, a friend of mine told me that the company he works at are redoing their SEO for their large website. Large == both number of pages and traffic they get a day. Currently they have a (quote) deeply nested site , which i'm assuming means /x/y/z/a/b/c.. or something. I also know it's very unRESTful from some of the pages i've als...
I wish to perform a social network analysis on a bunch of blogs, plotting who is linking to who (not just by their blogroll but also inside their posts). What software can perform such crawling/data-collecting/mapping ? Thanks! ...
I've got a url type:- http://www.example.com/products.php?cat=1 which I am able to rewrite to:- http://www.example.com/myproduct1 using the following .htaccess rule:- RewriteRule ^myproduct1$ products.php?cat=1. What rule would I need to enter if I wanted to rewrite to:- http://www.example.com/myfolder1/myproduct1/? ...
Hi All, I have a custom CMS for the performing arts center in my town about to launch. They will have artists/events/media, etc. on the site via the interface I've built for them in php/mysql. My question has to do with google indexing and the CMS content. Odds are they won't be deleting archived shows (which will have a url like s...