I'm working on this big website and I want to put it online before its fully finished... I'm working locally and the database is getting really big so I wanted to upload the website and continue to work on it in the server, but allowing people to enter, so I can test. The question is if this is good for SEO, I mean, there are a lot of ...
Hi how to make our site viewable in top ten of the google search... I want my website to be available for the user who google with search name social networking or something like ssit How to do that? ...
Hi there! I have this drupal website that revolves around a document database. By design you can only find these documents by searching the site. But I want all the results to be indexed by Googlebot and other crawlers, so I was thinking, what if I make a page that lists all the documents, and then tell the robots to visit the page to i...
how do i make my web app friendly URL? currently my app URL looks like this http://www.domain.com/Page.aspx?article=103 but I would like to display the URL to look like this http://www.domain.com/Page.aspx?Google-likes-url-friendly what would i need to do? ...
I am creating a Wordpress blog (no live link yet because it's still at a planning stage). I want to set up the following tag structure: Category 1: Services Tags: Web design, logo design, print design, etc etc. Category 2: Type of clients Tags: small businesses, large companies So each post will be tagged with one or more tags from Ca...
If I made a homepage with an embedded .swf which had buttons that linked to other html pages on my website using the getUrl() function, would those links be spiderable by google? Or should I also put in text links outside of the .swf (which would ruin the design a bit)? I know a lot of people will argue I shouldn't have flash as the mai...
I'm working on a soon-to-be-public-facing site, and we want to have our search live on day 1, and want it to be searchable but non-public during testing, so we're planning to use something whose crawling we can control -- Search Server 2010 Express. However, if I search for something in my top navigation bar, I get nearly every page as ...
Hi all, Currently we are using method_missing to catch for calls to SEO friendly actions in our controllers rather than creating actions for every conceivable value for a variable. What we want are URLS like this: /students/BobSmith and NOT /students/show/342 IS there a cleaner solution than method_missing? Thank you! ...
We're working on revising the url structure for some of our movie content, but we aren't quite sure on the best way to handle odd characters. For example, '303/302' '8 1/2 Women' 'Dude, Where's My Car?' '9-1/2 Weeks' So far, we're thinking: /movies/303-302 /movies/8-1-2-women /movies/dude-wheres-my-car /movies/9-1-2-weeks Is this t...
How I can setup my rails app to respond to such urls: http://mydomain.com/white-halogene-lamp http://mydomain.com/children-lamps http://mydomain.com/contact-form The first one should link to my products controller, and show my product with this name The second one should link to my categories controller, and show the category with t...
I know this question has been asked a million of times here at stackoverflow, but I cant get it to work so I need someone who knows to finally resolve this problem! I want that when this is inserted in the URL: http://website.com/pelicula/0221889/ http://website.com/pelicula/0221889/posters/ It really goes to this: http://website.co...
The problem with ASP.NET 4.0 routing is that the Page.RouteData.Values does not contain the paramenters after # character from the link System.Web.Routing.RouteTable.Routes.MapPageRoute("ProjectViewRoute1", "project/{title}/{idProject}#{idDesign}", "~/ProjectView.aspx"); As I said, the Page.RouteData.Values.ContainsKey("idDesign") w...
I am working on a public-facing web site which serves up articles for people to read. After some time, articles become stale and we remove them from the site. My question is this: what is the best way to handle the situation when a search engine visits a URL corresponding to a removed article? Should the app respond with a permanent redi...
I really don't like the use of select/option elements for links, but they've found their way into the designers portfolio as an option and try as I might to dissuade them from using them, I know I'm going to lose the battle without the power Google and "it's bad for SEO". I searched all over the net, and can find nothing specific to sup...
i know they are, but my co-worker doesn't believe me. He keeps telling me that google cralws the inside content and caches it just fine. According to google, it does crawl them, but doesn't guarantee doing it properly. Any thoughts why frames are bad for public web sites? ...
so ive been reading up on SEO- and heard that paths should include full http://www.etc path, does this apply for image sources and video content as well? our does it make a difference if say a video on my page is loaded via "/images/ex.mov" does this affect load time at all either way? thanks ...
Hi all, I have a new web site and I published it a few days ago.I am using database and creating web pages from database dynamically. Initially I was using querrystrings for URLs (like default.aspx?id=123&title=message-title), then I changed it to folder type URLs with 404 SEO method (like /article/123/message-title.html). Now, I am s...
Having a look at how google perceives our site at the moment and coming up short... Basically, we use a bog-standard structure of URL rewriting to make them look SEO friendly. for instance, a product URL takes shape of any string_([0-9]).html and so forth. of course, this allows us to link to whatever we want before the product id... ...
i wonder if content loaded dynamically by AJAX affect SEO/ability for search engines to index the page? i am thinking of doing a constantly loading page, something like the Tumblr dashboard where content is automatically loaded as the user scrolls down. ...
Wordpress is very highly regarded and proven to follow good practise which in turn facilitates rankings with search engines. One proven factor is the seo freindly urls. Such as the examples below; www.myblog.com/test www.myblog.com/another www.myblog.com/contact Lets say that we have two controllers, each with their won actions; Vie...