seo

Short URL or long URL for SEO

I am implementing cs-cart for a web site. Which one is better for SEO if possible with a reason or reference. Site sells books stamps cds etc. www.domain.com/book/Java.html (or) www.domain.com/book/programming/Java.html or www.domain.com/Java.html Some says short URLs are good. But isnt it good that stating which category the pro...

(Recursive) Regular expression for .htaccess file

I'm trying to modify my web page, which I currently use QueryStrings to display pages, and want to change website URLs to "search engine friendly" ones. I'm a newbie in regular expressions and also in .htaccess file, and I want to change URLs from http://someaddress.bla/index.php?lang=en&rootCategory=$rootCaty&leafCategory=$lea...

Http Status Code 301 to a page that return 410

I have been asked by a client to return a 410 Status code for some URLs in a previous version of there site. I have two options for how to programe this (based on constraints outside the scope of this request) Option 1 this is easy to implement: use an existing old urls redirector (301 status code) to redirect all those urls to a singl...

Search engine optimization for text with different colors

We're trying to do SEO on our company website. Our company logo is just text (in image form), but has two colors in it. Our company name appears a lot in our website text/copy. For example, the sentence, This is our company name: COMPANY. is coded as, This is our company name: <span class="logo_black">COMP</span><span class="logo_red...

Jquery: How to Remove Spaces from GET URL, Search

Hello, i replace the submit url from the search form with this jquery snippet: <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { $('.search-form').submit(function() { window.location.href = "/search-" + $('.search-form input:text').val() + "-" + "keyword"+ "-"+ "keyword2/" + $('.search-form input:text').val() +...

wordpress plug-in or anything that will allow us to edit the meta tags for each individual post?

Hi friends, I researched at google but couldnot find anything. Is there a plug-in or anything that will allow us to edit the meta tags for each individual post? Appreciate helps! thanks. ...

Clean up redirect rules/rewrite rules at the cost of SEO?

I'm about to work on a retail product website that has been around for about 10 years. The website ranks nicely in Google search results. The website has evolved a lot over the years so it's no surprise their .htaccess file is full of 301 redirects and rewriterules. There are so many rules it's an eye sore. Sometimes there are thre...

friendly_id / content_url without scope

class Content < ActiveRecord::Base has_friendly_id :title, :use_slug => true end How I can make a link like /about-us instead of /contents/about-us ? Should I modify the content_url method , or is there a better approach ? ...

Optimal SEO-friendly URL structure for a large database-driven website?

Our site contains several thousand company profiles with each profile containing numerous pieces of information driven by our dbase. Wondering what is the optimal URL structure from an SEO perspective of the choices outlined below given that we'll have thousands of such profiles? If none of the below, open to other suggestions. Option...

Pointers for monitoring drupal 6 site needed, difference in server aw stats and the core "statistics" data

The IP addresses logged in by the Drupal 6 core "Statistics" module are not being displayed by the AW statistics displayed by my hosting server (hostgator). I am not able to comprehend why and which statistics are more reliable ? Also I would request some light to be shed on the best practices to monitor a Drupal 6 website. Thanks for yo...

SEO: Why "indexed pages" in Webmaster Tools and the command "site:" gives so much difference?

When I go into the Webmasters Tools in Google for my website it gives me "Indexed URLs: 305,509", but when I type in Google "site:" with my url it returns about 19.000 results. How is it possible? ...

url encoded category and seo

I have a website in russian language and categories are russian words and these words must encode like this : %D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9 What would be the best URL structure for SEO and google ? www.example.com/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%/ or use category id and subcategory id www.example.com/1/4/ ...

Ruby on rails to_param with multiple fields for SEO

I am trying to make my urls prettier and still use restful resources. I understand that you can override the to_param method if you object has a name property like this: def to_param self.name end which will give you the route /:model/:name. This is all straightforward, but I have to be capable of having the same name with multiple ...

Wordpress SEO Features

I am using apache server for work with wordpress...In my application; retrieving some values from user created table and displaying it. when click on a product description which shows the full details of that product.ie, http://localhost/demotile/?productid=59961 this url am following for get the details.here how can i rewrite the url as...

Where can i learn about search engine crawling and SEO?

I have asked What should i know about search engine crawling? Now i would like to know where can i learn about search engines and search engines optimization? Instead of reading dozen of articles with most saying the same thing as another i would like to read one book or resource and find everything i need to know. ...

looking for a tag script for my website

Hi, I'm not asking someone to make a script for me, only to point me to a known script. A lot of websites have tags on the end of a article with important keyword links, mosly those are scripts used in CMS systems. I'm looking for the same sort of script but for a "normal" website without cms Does anyone knows a script like that? ...

Using an IFRAME for a simple advertisment. Is it bad for SEO?

If you look here you will see an ad that is intended to be embedded in another site as an advertisement. Here is an example of where it is embedded. The code responsible for displaying the ad in the web site is this: <iframe src="http://ads.lockedonmedia.com/zones/204" frameBorder="0" scrolling="no" style="width: 160px; height: 600px;"...

SEO/PHP: How to Convert Form-Submit URL (Get-Method) without Javascript SEO-Friendly?

hello, i have this code <form action="index.php" method="get" class="search-form"><input type="text" size="35" name="search" class="searchBox" value="" /><input type="submit" value="Start Searching!" /></form> and actually i convert the url with javascript <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { $('.search...

Wordpress SEO Features

I am trying to add some seo feuture with my wordpress(Version 2.9.2) application.But,after creating .htaccess file which not invloking.Already changed my rewrite permission in apache.How can i involk this.help me please......... ...

SEO Friendly URLs in Webforms vs MVC

From what I understand MVC has more SEO friendly urls. Or at least it is easier to achieve. Is the reason for this that you can make fake folders that are actually arguments like: question/37/WhatIsSEO Where the equivilent Webforms would be question.aspx?id=37&title=WhatIsSEO Where the title doesn't actually do anything, it is just ...