We have a domain which we are already blogging on in: blog.domain.com There are obviously pointers to the actual website at www.domain.com. I already see it in the google index but I'm worried google will think poorly of it when we launch because it says "Under Construction" or "Coming soon". Are there any HTTP headers or practices to...
I have a website about to launch with a forum facility. Should I put each thread into my sitemap.xml file, or will Google just find the links to each thread via the forum itself? Don't worry: it doesn't require registration to read the forum. If yes, how best to keep it up to date? Doing it by hand is obviously not an option for that am...
I've recently bumped into facelift, an alternative to sIFR and I was wondering if those who have experience with both sIFR and FLIR could shed some light on their experience with FLIR. For those of you who've not yet read about how FLIR does it, FLIR works by taking the text from targeted elements using JavaScript to then make calls to ...
If possible can anyone tell me how can I implement a search engine sitemap with asp.net. My website has content that expires frequently and new stuff comes in, that's why I wanted it updated whenever the search engine crawler comes to my site. I came across http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2005/12/02/432188.aspx which tells me tha...
I am currently finishing up my first ASP.NET MVC application and would like to implement site searching. What are some options for allowing a visitor to search the site? ...
I want place ads in my website, but I'm unsure about the commom pratices to place thes ads. By example, some cool asp.net articles sites shows ads in the middle of the article! So you read 2-3 paragraphs, read some ad, then finish the article reading... Another worry is about sabotage. One of mine customers get their Google adsense acco...
Hello people. Well, my question is simple. Does the ID affect the position of a webpage on Google ? I have links like this http://example.com/news/title-slug/15/ and people say to me that I should remove the ID from the URL. And I belive that is not true. By my logic, you can't depend on the title's slug. I know it should work per...
I am a bit stuck on the design of my seo friendly urls for mvc....Take for example the following url: http://myapp/venues/resturants.aspx?location=central&orderBy=top-rated With my mvc app i have mapped it as follows: http://myapp/venues/list/resturants/central/top-rated {controller}/{action}/{category}/{location}/{order} Now the o...
I am wondering why the link to profile looks like: http://stackoverflow.com/users/ID/NAME not simply: http://stackoverflow.com/users/ID or even better: http://stackoverflow.com/users/NAME Can there be couple users with the same name? Or can one user have many names? ...
If I have 2 domains names that points to same website. By example: microsoft.com and microsoft.net both points to microsoft.com. How search engines can distinguish that these 2 websites are the same websites and not a duplicate content? My question is because I know that Google, by example, have an duplicate content filter, and I want...
Hi, our application wants to be able to create static, searchable pages based on user profile information, which would be linkable to other public profiles. I am looking at LinkedIn as an example...it seems like they actually auto-generate the page to be a static file that is indexable and searchable. Can someone suggest how we would d...
A site I manage has seen a sudden drop in visits from google. It used to have about 300-500 daily visits until a week ago. They were 10% from a strong, competitive query; 80% were long tail queries. Now I lost both, and visits dropped by 90%. I still have There were no changes on the site for the last 3 months, and all changes since l...
SWFAddress claims that it is search-engine friendly, but how is one supposed to feed the deep-links into search engines like Google? Because in all my SWFAddress-powered websites, not a single deep-link shows up in Google. Tried and failed methods: In the hidden-HTML, a-href (hyperlink) to deep-links such as www.site.com/#/Topic1 In t...
Here's the basic scenario - I have a corpus of say 100,000 newspaper-like articles. Minimally they will all have a well-defined title, and some amount of body content. What I want to do is find runs of text in articles that ought to link to other articles. So, if article Foo has a run of text like "Students in 8th grade are being en...
Google doesn't seem to like Flash content in any other way except writing text straight into the Flash IDE to get exported statically into the SWF movie. Which means that any text drawn by ActionScript into TextField's don't get indexed? Beginning at their Webmaster Guidelines, they recommend: "Avoid hidden text" - preventing hidden ...
Does the following mean that dynamic TextFields will NOT be indexed? We currently do not attach content from external resources that are loaded by your Flash files. If your Flash file loads an HTML file, an XML file, another SWF file, etc., Google will separately index that resource, but it will not yet be considered to b...
Hi folks, is it better to have seperate country specific domains (which costs more money) or subdomains which define the country, for better SEO? eg. stackoverflow.com stackoverflow.com.au stackoverflow.co.uk vs stackoverflow.com au.stackoverflow.com uk.stackoverflow.com Assumption: int the search engine web master tools, each ...
I'm looking for the best URL schema to use for a web app that has multiple versions, namely several languages and a simplified version for use by mobile phones - both aspects can be combined, so there's an English regular and mobile version, a German regular and mobile version, etc. Goals (in order of importance): User-friendliness Se...
Take a string such as: In C#: How do I add "Quotes" around string in a comma delimited list of strings? and convert it to: in-c-how-do-i-add-quotes-around-string-in-a-comma-delimited-list-of-strings Requirements: Separate each word by a dash and remove all punctuation (taking into account not all words are separated b...
What is the impact on SEO for an e commerce site the displays products/items information driven from a database (versus each product having it's own HTML page). Will the SE find the item information ? If not, how do you overcome this issue ? ...