How do I tell search engines about my flash content?
I use the embed & object tag combo to display SWF's. Just like we use alt for img, how do I tell search engines what content my SWF contains? ...
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Allow SE indexing on index.html only.
What would be the shortest method to block * and only allow just Major Search Engines to index the index page of the site only? User-agent: * Disallow: / User-agent: Googlebot Disallow: / Allow: index.html User-agent: Slurp Disallow: / Allow: index.html User-agent: msn Disallow: / Allow: index.html Would this work? ...
Does a Search engine rate the alt attribute on image tags?
Do search engines rate also the alt atribute in image tags? In my opinion the alt attribute was for blind peoples. ...
SEO issue red characters in source code? > Why? Syntax highlighting? browser source code?
SEO issue red characters Hi all I'm building webstes using dreamweaver, but when I look at the source code it is red for " characters. I'm told anything appearing in red puts off Google's seo. Does anyone know why this appears in red? For example when I view code source on the site i get the gt; in red <a href="miss-sold-mortgag...
Django i18n and SEO
Hi, how do you prepare i18n in your websites? I mean what do you do avoid the situation when you search for i18ned websites in Polish you get English description cause English is the default one. Thanks in advance, Etam. ...
What is the benefit to using <acronym> and <abbr>?
Should i give my time to change terms and abbreviations to <acronym> and <abbr>? Is it worth to use? What are pros to use both tags? Is it useful for SEO and screen reader? ...
Is it possible to use Google-friendly URLs in WSS 3.0 site?
Hello I have website designed in WSS 3.0 (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0). Can i re-write URLs to Google / SEO friendly URLs? If yes then please do let me know how to do it? Thanks, Rau. ...
<h1>, <h2>, <h3>... tags, inline within paragraphs (<p>)
Hi, I'm trying to have <hx> tags inside paragraphs, like: <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aliquam pulvinar tincidunt neque, at blandit leo mattis vitae. Cras <h2>placerat</h2> justo vel risus porta cursus. Nullam eget sem nibh. Sed <h3>mattis</h3> facilisis rhoncus. Morbi sit amet nisl lectus.</p> But I alw...
Scribd Search Engine Optimization Features for PDF
Hi. All recently noticed that PDF documents in Scribd are also SEO friendly for search engines. For example the link http://www.scribd.com/doc/17135767/FREE-by-Chris-Anderson If you open the page and see the HTML source code, the plain text from the PDF is not presented. However if you open the cached version of the page from Google sea...
Eliminating Expensive Back End System Calls and SEO
We have a web site which makes expensive calls to a back end system to display product availability. I'd like to eliminate these calls for page views that are not actual customers. My first thought was to filter on user agent and if the requester is a spider / search engine crawler, to display a "Call for availability" or some such ...
H2 comes before h1 in source, Is it ok?
IF i use <h2> for left sidebar heading and use <h1> for main center content area heading then actually in source and and if CSS is disabled , in both condition <h2> comes before <h1>. Is it ok? or i should not use <h2> for left sidebar headings? Update: 5 Feb Example image added Why I'm asking because i always read in many articles...
Is it best practice to use same text in browser <title> and in <H1>?
Is it best to use whatever we want to use in <h1> Should be same in <title>? Is it good for SEO, Accessibility, Usability, in any terms? <title>How to decide What should be chosen to make heading bold <strong> or <h3/h4/h5>? - Stack Overflow</title> <h1>How to decide What should be chosen to make heading bold <strong>...
Does the CSS property "text-transform" affect SEO results?
I am building a site with a ton of 1999 style capitalization of navigation and headings. I have been simply adding in the text content as it appears (capitalized), but the other designer on the project insists on using lower case text in his HTML and capitalizing it with an applied style: .tedious {text-transform:uppercase;} I underst...
SEO - How to programmatically check if a website has been Banned by Google
Hi All, if your website links to another site that has been blacklisted by Google this is bad for your ranking Sites like onlinealley helps you to know if there're problems with a website you are linking to. Does any Google API Exist .. or how are websites like this checking if a url is banned? Are they checking the 'PageRank value' or s...
SEO - what to do when google thinks "avatar review" and "avatar movie review" are different
I am trying to design SEO for a new website and I am running into SEO challenges which I am not quite sure how to solve. The presumption is of course that the structure of your url - title all are important to rank your page higher for certain keywords. i.e. http://www.mymoviesite.com/Avatar/Review http://www.mymoviesite.com/Avatar/M...
Prevent bot from crawling certain areas of site.
Hey, I don't know much about SEO and how web spiders work, so forgive my ignorance here. I'm creating a site (using ASP.NET-MVC) which has areas that displays information retrieved from the database. The data is unique to the user, so there's no real server-side output caching going on. However, since the data can contain things the us...
How do I create google xml sitemap and robot.txt file?
Hi I'm a bit of a beginner at seo, Could anyone tell me how I create and xml sitemap and robots.txt file for my site. Is there some kind of generator for them? Thanks for your help Regards Judi ...
end tag for element "div" which is not open? html validation errors?
Hi Does anyone know what these mean, I'm validating my website but I'm getting these weird messages about tags. I have and opening div at the top of the page but I still get these errors? Are they false warnings? Thanks for all your help Regards Judi # Error Line 195, Column 7: end tag for element "div" which is not open </div...
How to make search engine query in Mysql&PHP?
Hello, I want to make a search engine in an intranet. Now i use this clause in PHP. $k = explode(" ",$_GET[key]); $sql = "select entreprise.*, employee.* where entreprise.* or employee.* like '%$k[0]%' or '%$k[1]%'"; But it seems doesn't work. Do you know where is wrong? Thanks in advance. Edit: $sql = "select * from entreprise...
Does inline css and javascript really affects to site SEO?
Does inline css and javascript really affects to site SEO? ...