seo

Wordpress Seo features

I am working with wordpress in apache.Now am in very big trouble.I need to rewrite my url. I am trying by this code for .htaccess file <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /shopboxcms/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} gallery\_remote2\.php ...

full ajax site and SEO

Hi i am planing to start a full ajax site project, and i was wondering about SEO. The site will have urls like www.mysite.gr/#/category1 etc Can Google crawl the site. Is something that i have to noticed about full ajax and SEO Any reading suggestions are welcome Thanks ...

Is localization using Cookies search engine compatible?

I'm in the process of localizing a website. I was going to go the way of setting a cookie to the preferred language, and then display the respective language. And, if no cookie was set it would use the preferred language header, as set by the user's browser - and if the header was not set then it would default to English. So - how does ...

SEO: do crawlers understand <a href=.. links that never will be used?

Hi, I'm developing a public classified advertisement portal, where users can post their ads (ie selling cars, houses, looking for a job,..) and browse them. I want to make the listings (ie "cars", "recently added", ..) SEO-friendly, so each link to advert detail is in his canonical form, ie: <ul> .. <li> <a href="http://mysite/ad/title...

Have your WebSite recognized as a Search Engine by Chrome

If I start typing stackov.. in Chrome I can see something like 'Press Tab to search stackoverflow.com'. SO is basically recognized as a Search Engine. Do you have any idea of how to implement the same sort of feature in our WebApp? I think it should be related with OpenSearch <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescriptio...

Migrating a website to a new domain, and associated google index problem

Hi, We currently have a website at "somedomain.net/codefest". We do not own this server (or this domain name). Due to capacity problems, we are now moving to a new server. Since we do not own the old domain name, we are also moving to a new domain name. Since we'll need to abandon the old server soon, we'll be redirecting all requests...

Google SEO - does it consider a domain with a www and one without as two separate sites?

Hi, A friend of mine had a report done on an old site I built. One of the issues mentioned in the report was the following: Your website needs a www resolve. Currently you can go to http://urmarialarts.com or http://www.urmartialarts.com which means in Google's eyes you have two websites with the same content. You should ...

What is the best way to generate a sitemap?

Hi everybody, I need to build a sitemap for my website. The url will be "www.example.com/mysitemap.html". I know that there are some tools that generate automatically an XML file that contains the reachable URLs and also improve the SEO. So my questions are: How can I build this HTML page going from the generated XML? Or am I wrong and ...

Redirect folder to different server

I know you can redirect subdomains to a different server, but can you do the same with folders? Say I have example.com. I can redirect mysubdomain.example.com to a different server, but can I redirect example.com/mysubdomain to a different server? I'd like to host a rails app in that folder on a site that runs php while still maintainin...

validating .htaccess before deployment

In order to get better SEO and cleaner URLs, I tend to export certain RewriteRules directly into the .htaccess (eg, RewriteRule ^The_North_Face(.*)$ index.php?a=brands&id=27&extras=%1 [NC,L] and so forth for each brand or category). It's a lot more complex than that but today I discovered that the file is only as good as the data it's tr...

CSS drop-down menu and SEO

are multi-level CSS drop-down menus a big 'no-no' for SEO purposes. i've read mixed reviews. some say the links in the secondary navigation will not be crawled by search-engine spiders (because they're hidden) while the other say it is part of the HTML, so the spider will 'see' it. any thoughts? thanks ...

SEO: does google bot see text in hidden divs

I have login/signup popups on my site which are in hidden div by default. According to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1547426/google-seo-and-hidden-elements googlebot should NOT see it. But Google Webmaster tool says that keywords "email" and "password" are top keywords over the site. Why it is so? Why google bot sees them? Should...

SEO URL Structure

Based on the following example URL structure: mysite.com/mypage.aspx?a=red&b=green&c=blue Pages in the application use ASP.net user controls and some of these controls build a query string. To prevent duplicate keys being created e.g. &pid=12&pid=10, I am researching methods of rewriting the URL: a) mysite.com/mypage.aspx/red/green/...

URL strategy for multilingual website

Hello! I was wondering what would be the best URL strategy for a multilingual website (for an Italy based company). I was thinking about site.com/it and site.com/en, not showing any content at site.com and redirecting the visitors to the localized site when they try to access site.com. What about buying an additional domain, site.it...

Does Google crawl AJAX content?

On the home page of my site I use JQuery's ajax function to pull down a list of recent activity of users. The recent activity is displayed on the page, and each line of the recent activity includes a link to the user profile of the user who did the activity. Will Google actually make the ajax call to pull down this info and use it in c...

Asterisk in robots.txt

Wondering if following will work for google in robots.txt Disallow: /*.action I need to exclude all urls ending with .action. Is this correct? ...

what is Google web master

Hi can you give any reference, can you suggest any website please give as early as possible. ...

How long does it take Google to update all links from R 301 ?

I just changed the location of my blog, and have done the appropriate redirects. Does anyone have knowledge or experience for the delay in updating all the links across Google? Reason I ask, I wish to change the A record. So this will eliminate the .htaccess file, and thus null and void the redirect. How long must I wait prior to the u...

Is it really necessary to have a competely validated Mark Up and css for SEO purposes

Hi , While validating my CSS on http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ I am getting following errors: 1.Property zoom doesn't exist : 1 1. 2.Property -webkit-transition doesn't exist : all 200ms ease-in all 200ms ease-in 3.Property opacity doesn't exist in CSS level 2.1 4.Property -moz-border-radius doesn't exist 5.Property -webkit-b...

SEO - anchor and b tag combination for keywords

On some pages, I put keywords within anchor tags. What's better to use for Google search: <a href="some_url">keyword</a> or <a href="some_url"><b>keyword</b></a> or <b><a href="some_url">keyword</a></b> Thanks in advance! ...