I am looking for a library, either open source or paid, that allows me to check a number of domains ranking for keywords, preferably across multiple search engines. In addition it needs to be able to check the number of inbound links to a site. I know I could write this using the Google API / Yahoo Site Explorer, but I was looking for so...
I was wondering how much does organic searches, on google specially, impacts on visits for a website, in general? I've been looking for some reliable source, with statistics, can't find it, though. I'd like to be able to say "Today, xx% of site visits come from organic searches", with some reference backing the information. Thank you ...
Greetings! I started doing some seo optimization on one of my projects and decided to give the SenSEO plugin shot. But I'm wondering what the real world value of its feedback is. If your project scores A or B with the plugin, does it show up at the top of the searches? Thanks ...
Let's say I have an app and in that app I need to view and edit "documents". I was thinking of this URL design. To pull up the default view of document with the ID "x123": http://domain/app/document-x123 To edit the same document: http://domain/app/document-x123/edit Delete http://domain/app/document-x123/delete This is more from...
I made a website that has a hierarchical structure and has search engine friendly (SEF) URLs like: /seeds-1/ /seeds-1/fruits-2/ /seeds-1/fruits-2/black-berries-5/ /seeds-1/fruits-2/blue-berries-6/ /seeds-1/fruits-2/strawberries-7/ /seeds-1/vegetables-3/ /seeds-1/vegetables-3/potato-8/ /seeds-1/vegetables-3/onion-9/ /seeds-1/vegetables-3...
I have some geo targeting code whcih I want to behave in a particular way if the site is being spidered by a robot e.g. google etc. Is there any way to infer this? ...
Are there any tools for finding if a page is SEO complaint and if it's not then suggest something to make that page SEO complaint? Also note that I want to do this research on offline pages i.e. these pages are not on web yet. ...
For example would the following code penalize you in regards to SEO? <h2>Singles events across the UK! <span>Including Bristol, Manchester, London, Birmingham & Newcastle.</span></h2> Would the content inside the <span> tags be regarded as less important? ...
I would like to know the best practices concerning the usage of a drop-down menu in my website along with search engine optimization. Currently, the content of the menu uses almost 50% of the HTML code, but doesn't describe at all the real content of the page. Should I move my menu at the end of the HTML code and replace it visually at ...
I recently implemented a fix to create separate landing pages depending on whether or not the user has javascript enabled. Basically the way it works is this. The default page is an HTML page w/ no javascript. Basic version of the site. Upon landing on it, there is a script that says if javascript is enabled then go to another page. Th...
What's the best way to automatically detect mobile vs. full screen devices and redirect to mobile site automatically? I'm concerned about SEO so it is safe to do a detection with PHP and redirect to mobile version without unwillingly sending Google to that mobile version? If PHP is ok, what are good libraries to use? ...
For instance, you search for 'company x, Austin TX' and Google returns a map at the top of the page with a marker on it, the location of company x, and company x's website. How is that information collected? Does someone at the business address have to somehow manually associate the physical address with a web address? ...
I have an application that makes a series of WCF calls that return JSON via JSONP. In turn javascript code will then bind that returned data to HTML controls. When a bot / spider hits my application, no data would be indexed because javascript would not execute in the bot. What are some good patterns for dealing with this problem? Id...
Is it ok to hide any thing temporarily or forever using display:none? in dynamic site where many component of page coming from different plugins etc and many time if client doesn't want any thing on page then i use dispaly:none to hide things from page . I do not remove thing from actual source because client can come back ask to enable ...
Hello, I'd like to basically have a Title field and a Title for URL field. So basically the user inputs a movie name: "From Paris With Love" and it would be in the field below as "from-paris-with-love". However I was wondering if there's something similar already out there and knew someone here would know! ;) Aaron EDIT: http://w...
How many total <meta> tag available in X/HTML and Which should be used and which not? see this tool http://www.ulhas.net/tools/tu-metagen is there any pros to use all other meta tags other than meta description? note: Google doesn't give any importance to meta keywords. ...
Whats the best recommended way yo hide my staging website from search engines, i Googled it and found some says that i should put a metatag, and some said that i should put a text file inside my website directory, i want to know the standard way. my current website is in asp.net, while i believe that it must be a common way for any webs...
I've been searching the web and can't find an answer to the question of how using Cufon affects SEO (the way bots from Google, Bing, Yahoo... read the page). I know the original text is still there, but it is inside a tag, inside a tag, and is next to a tag (instead of next to the word that should be next to it). In other words, do ...
Hi I'm beginning to write what may grow to be a large commercial website. The business has several facets, so I'm considering a 'widget' based UI not dissimilar to the BBC homepage (http://www.bbc.co.uk). I'm writing a content management system that would allow an administrator to compose pages using a selection of pre-defined widgets...
I would like to change the page names of a ASP.NET site to make them more meaningful and more SEO friendly. My new page names with be more descriptive (ex: My_SEO_Friendly_Page_Name.aspx) My question is, is it enough to change the page names for SEO or do I have to implement the URL rewrite. What are the differences of one over the oth...