Sometime ago google used to update their index and backlinks every 3-4 months. It used to be a big update. Recently I noticed that the updates are way too frequent. has anyone else noticed these sort of changes in Google crawling, indexing and backlink updates? ...
I have some web site. There are some pages rendered using iframes to show page content instead of flat regular page. The reason is that before and after my content I show header and footer (some logo + basic html) of some other sites, which I can't change, and use iframes to prevent css problems (when header's and footer's css will overr...
I know this question has been asked several times. But the answers seem to vary: some say its important for search engines, others say the SEO improvement is negligible. Can anyone please explain to me if it is worth the time to validate html, from an SEO perspective? In other words, if a company with an existing site were to hire a...
When adding new DB records to a ListView, I want to update the date/time stamp of the containing ASPX page for SEO purposes. Is this possible and how might I go about it? UPDATE: I found Touch for Windows, bu would still prefer any kind of clever hack just to do this programmatically: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/File-Managemen...
Hi everybody, Where would I start off with this? I know how to add meta tags to the page, I guess Page#onBeforeRender is a good place to do so. But: how do I determine whether the current URL containts "?wicket:"? Calling ((WebRequest)getRequest()).getHttpServletRequest().getRequestURL() only returns the part before the questionmark...
I am looking to produce an MVC site which has complete control of the url structure using routing. routes.MapRoute( "BlogView", // Route name "view/{blogurl}", // URL with parameters new...
Hi I have developed a multi-lingual site in ASP.NET, whcih detects the user's system culture, and displays content in the appropriate language. This is all working nicely, but my client has since had an SEO audit. The SEO agency has expressed a concern that this is no good SEO, as ther are not unique URLs for each language. They have ...
I need to swap the visual order of 2 elements using CSS HTML order: <div id="text-content"> .... </div> <div id="header-image"> .... </div> Visual order required: ______________________ | image | | (fixed height) | |______________________| ______________________ | text | | (v...
Anybody got any experience in mapping a domain to an MVC area? Here's our situation: Old system (still active but will soon redirect to new store): www.example.com - our main site where we send traffic store.example.com - our store site which is a completely separate site that is indexed in google New system: www.example.com - sam...
If i only use <meta name="description" content="lorem impsum." /> I heard search engines does not give importance to Keywords. <meta name="keywords" content="some, words" /> So is it ok to not to use Keywords? ...
What it does? is there any pros to add this in for all browser? ...
I have a webforms (framework 3.5) site with a TON of dynamic content. Depending on the url, one or many content items will be sent to the client. I need a way to generate meta keywords for SEO based on the contents of the page (or part of the page, if possible). I've done a little research and am not really turning up anything that addr...
I have ListViews and DataPagers in place throughout my site. Most of them are wrapped in an UpdatePanel for better UX. However, when I start using AJAX to improve UX, I lose value in SEO. What's the right way to get the best of both worlds? I see that I can add the QueryStringField parameter to the DataPager, which will automatically r...
What are pros to use extension-less url? in any terms. like http://yoursite.com/mypage.html http://yoursite.com/mypage.php http://yoursite.com/mypage.aspx to http://yoursite.com/mypage and is it possible to have extension-less url for every page? Update: Is extension less url better for site security? ...
Hello there, I'm about to open a new website wich have 15.000 pages (ecommerce store). Of course, i will not publish all this pages at the same time, but i'm looking for infos on how much pages should i start with without going to the sandbox. For example, could i start with a 50 pages website or is it too much ? Then, have you an idea...
I'm writing an engine for a website and I'm considering whether to add a field to let the author write a description of the page or not. If I decide to do this, it will be used as the meta description. Google (and possibly other search engines) usually displays it in the search results, instead of the snippets. I'm wondering if that's a...
Hey folks. I have a client who's old website was called toastkid.com. I set up a new site, alekskrotoski.com, and had the old www.toastkid.com domain point to the new site. I have a 301 redirect working, so when you go to www.toastkid.com the address bar updates to alekskrotoski.com. So, the 301 is definitely working fine. However, ...
How to dynamically create urls/links like: www.restaurant.com/restaurant/restaurant-name-without-some-characters-like-space-coma-etc/132 what are the keywords i can use to google some articles on this topic? (how to genererate and handle this kind of urls inside asp.net mvc) There are some questions: How to generate links? (store slugs...
I'd like to help my site's SEO as much as I can. We have a very large site that is based in San Fran, CA, but covers topics all over USA and Europe. If we put our GeoURL as SF, CA, will this hurt our SEO - making Google thinking all of the content is SF, CA related? Or does that not matter? ...
I have noticed that some websites prefix the titles of their links with blocked::. For example: <a href="http://www.a-url.com" title="blocked::http://www.a-url.com">www.a-url.com</a> I have questions about how this affects browsers and search engines: Is this meant to have some effect on the browser? If so, what is the int...