Hi there, I have created a new website for a company and I would like all the previous search engine results to be redirected. Since there were quite a few pages and most of them where using an id I would like to use something generic instead of re-routing all the old pages. My first thought was to do that: Router::connect('/*', ...
I've done plenty of ASP.NET and PHP development, but I'm less familiar with how to track this sort of thing down in CF. My naive first angle of attack was to search for any reference to Google in any of the source code. No luck. I'm running the site on IIS7. Google, Bing and Yahoo all apparently "see" nothing on my site. Update: I ...
Hi to all, i am trying to use friendly url for my categories. Example Database cat_id | parent_id | name | url 1 0 cat1 cat1 2 1 cat2 cat2 My approach to do is to pass the parameter cat with url value for example show.php?cat=cat1 and in .htacce...
I have been taken in to provide some SEO guidance on a website which has been running since 2005. My problem is I want to use clean URLs. The code that handles the URL is hidden away in some class file. And with over a few thousand lines of code its a struggle to rewrite it. So I'm think, I have gone through all the products and create...
if you take a look at a previous question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2690742/mod-rewrite-title-slugs-and-htaccess I am using the solution that Col. Shrapnel proposed- but when i assign values to $_GET in the actual file and not from a request the code doesnt work. It defaults away from the file as if the $_GET variables are no...
I read that an SEO best practice is to use lowercase urls. Should I name my asp.net webforms project files lowercase as well? Visual Studio doesn't name default documents in new projects all lowercase. I'm not sure it matters since browsing to http://www.mysite.com/mypage.aspx will still work even if your page is named MyPage.aspx. C...
I have set up a few rules based on other questions but now my css breaks I did have the URL / /eshop/cart.php?products_id=bla and everything work fine. but now with my mod rewrite url- /product/product-title/ It loose the base directory. Is there an option to fix this? So i dont have to go back with the full url in all the img ...
Our Flash widget is quite popular on the web. There is a link to our web-site embedded inside the widget. Does Google count this link as a back link to the site? ...
I have a very long a unfriendly URL an I'm looking to make SEO better for the site: http://www.site.com/sub-site/index.php?page=nameofpage&locale=en_EN I would like to have this instead: http:// www.site.com/sub-site/en/nameofpage all the URLS are hard coded in the links in the form of: <a href="index.php?page=nameofpage&locale=e...
So I have a website that I recently made changes to, and one of the changes was removing a page from the site. I deleted the page, it doesn't exist anymore. However, when you search for my site, one of the results is the page that I deleted. People are clicking on the page and getting an error. How do I remove that page from the search...
Hi, My link_to tag is: <%= link_to("My test title",{:controller=>"search", :action=>"for-sale", :id=> listing.id, :title => listing.title, :search_term => search_term}) %> and produces this ugly URL: http://mysite.com/search/for-sale/12345?title=premium+ad+%2B+photo+%5Btest%5D How can I get link_to to generate: http://mysite.com/...
I'm in the process of adding 'pretty' URLs to an existing CMS, the menu is auto generated and the new 'pretty' URLs are to be handled independently as a seperate module. The auto-generated menu allways has URLs that look like this index.php?menu_id=n which ofcourse we would like to see as eg. /news or /products I'm currently at the poin...
Is it possible to have a navigation system optimized using javascript, but for the sake of search engines, have the hyperlinks still be crawlable? Or maybe a condition statement that calls HTML code only if javascript is not enabled in the browser or when crawled by a search engine? ...
I'm working on an events website so dates are very important search terms, ie: 'whats on on fri 14th september' I've seen it done in various methods for example: domain/whats-on/city-hall/14-09-2010/event-name.html domain/whats-on/city-hall/2010/09/14/event-name.html the first is 'shallower'. the second could be clearer for google to...
so far i was doing it like this: <a href="http://domain.com" title="Keyword"><img src="image.png" alt="Keyword" /></a> Now, i discovered that images can have title attribute too: <a href="http://domain.com" title="Keyword"><img src="image.png" alt="Keyword" title="Keyword"/></a> Is there any other optimization i could pull off to b...
what would be the impact on SEO of changing the text of the <h1> dynamically on the server side each time the web page loads? I'm not talking about changing the whole text, just part of it, for example if the header contains some fixed text (with keywords of course), and also contains the current date or time/the current number of logg...
I have a friend who wishes to work as a freelance web developer, but insists that tables are the way forwards for layouts. Several points he maintains in favour of tables: This is what was taught at the beginning of 10 years of programming & computer science degrees, thus it 'must' be right. Large companies use tables to achieve 'tech...
Is it possible to insert backlinks(SEO) via javascript so that they could be indexed by Google bot? My only guess was to put javascript dom manipulation script at the top of document, before document.ready. Will google index those links? ...
We're implementing a blog for a site which supports six different languages and five of them have non-Latin characters in their alphabets. We are not sure whether we should have them encoded (that is what we're doing at the moment) Létání s potravinami: Co je dovoleno? becomes l%c3%a9t%c3%a1n%c3%ad-s-potravinami-co-je-dovoleno and the b...
Search engines like to crawl and index webpages or URLs, but what if your webpages/URLs have expired content and you do not want them to be indexed after so many days? Can you put an expiration in the URL and have mod_rewrite 301 redirect pages after a given expiration date? Or maybe a cron job to add a 301 redirect header to all expir...