seo

SEO and the abbreviated URL

Is an abbreviated URL link also applied SEO? If I link a URL which is abbreviated to twitter(by using bit.ly), is it helped to my origin page's SEO? ...

Google Double Caches Page Content

Could anyone shed some light as to what is happening here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oLxRPeL11FAJ:www.mark-it-hot.com/who-we-are.aspx+mark+it+hot&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a ? For whatever reason on random sites Google caches parts of the code/site twice. I spent a good deal o...

Ajax Crawling on Google App Engine - Does HtmlUnit work?

http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/html-snapshot.html Does HtmlUnit work on AppEngine? If not, are there any other ways to make my GWT app crawlable by search engines? ...

what is the correct way to code incoming links for SEO?

our site is giving out 'badges' to our authors. they can post these on their personal blogs and they will serve as incoming links to our site. We want to give out the best possible code for SEO without doing anything that would get us flagged. i would like to know what you're thoughts are on the following snippet of code and if anyone...

Do search engines and/or screen readers give any importance to the new tags in HTML5?

Do search engines and/or screen readers give any importance to the new tags in HTML5? Sometimes I think I will use HTML5 with the help of JavaScript, but what is the benefit if search engines and/or screen readers will not understand the new tags? <header> and <div class="header"> are the same thing if <header> has no benefit for SEO a...

SEO URL Hierarchy

Currently I have a site developed in cakephp that has the following type of URL's: http://www.travelenvogue.com/clubs/page/accommodations/1-Ritz_Carlton_Club_Bachelor_Gulch I have heard that because our most valuable keywords "Ritz Carlton Club Bachelor Gulch" are so far to the right of the beginning of the URL that they may not be hel...

What are roles of SEO specialist in IT Comapny? How he can achieve them?

Recently, i have appointed as a SEO Specialist in my Company. i search many web sites for SEO. each web site Says that SEO is for improving rank in search engines by following different techniques. but, i have following doubts please clarify these doubts Is SEO a language or methodology? Is there any algorithms in SEO to improve websit...

What are the best tools available for SEO?

I am Using IISSEO tool that gives a report after analyzing our website. The report also contains recommondations to fix the violations in the web site. but, my doubt is that fixing the bugs is enough task for SEO specialist otherwise does he has any extra functionality? ...

Impact of multilingual URLs on SEO

Do I need to use multilanguage in my URLs? For example: http://mygermanwebsite.example/product/foo http://mygermanwebsite.example/produkte/ Does that have any effect on Google searches? For example I'm searching for "produkte", will both versions have the same ranks on Google searches? ...

Is it worth putting the root of my site in a keyword labelled subfolder?

So for example, my domain is www.companyname.com. But our company name doesn't make it obvious what we actually do. Is it worth making the root of the site something like www.companyname.com/ancient-antiques/ , with a 301 redirect from the domain root? I'm thinking not just for SEO purposes (would we need to change anything in Webmaster ...

Does hosting overseas affect seo, and where does this leave cloud computing?

Does hosting overseas affect seo, and where does this leave cloud computing? ...

SEO URL question

I am building an online store for a client.it is an add-on to his existing site - SEO wise what is a better option for him, buy a new domain name or have it as: example.com/foodstore. i was thinking: foodstore.example.com........bit hard to market the latter though? also do not want to confuse Google? ...

How to learn SEO?

Hi. Where should I start? Which articles/books/guides should I read? Any screencasts/podcasts? ...

Make Joomla component compatible with SEF/SEO

Hi I have developed a custom component for Joomla 1.5. However the urls when SEF is turned on could look a bit better e.g. display the title rather than the id, how can I make custom urls for my component when SEF for Joomla is turned on? ...

Combine websites without hurting SEO

I have a friend that I'm helping out with some web design. Basically, the guy owns a few businesses that are all complementary of each other and he wants to combine them all into a single site. There's service A and B, based on the west side of our state; and service A and B based on the east side. Each has their own website (eg, east...

How can I track my keyword rankings in search engines?

As an effort to SEO my website, I was wondering if there's a way to keep track of my keyword rankings. If so, how can I do it? What are some good suggestions to keep track of my website's rankings? ...

Looking for a SEO keywords density tool

I am looking for some text editor where i could type in or paste in article and test keywords density. Would be great if i could enter phrases and keywords i am trying to position against and it could also generate list of all keywords automatically. ps. needs utf8 support as some i found had problem with it. also better if its some j...

With redirect code should I use for geoip language redirect?

Hi, I have this URL: http://example.com/website/ then I check user country based on geoip and redirect them to: http://example.com/website/en/, http://example.com/website/pt/ etc.. Witch code should I use for this redirect 301, 302 or other? cheers ...

iFrames - how do search engines read them?

Hey, I know that search engines base part of the calculation of rankings on how many other sites point to a specific site, so I was just wondering, given the following situation: http://siteA/page.aspx contains an iFrame. This iFrame points to http://siteB/script.aspx?url=http://siteA/page.aspx. http://siteB/script.aspx generates a li...

How to mark an entire section as relevant to a link in html5

I have an index page, which consists of the content name, which is the url to the actual content. And in a element under it a longer description. Is there a way to associate this longer description to the link (for SEO) or may be it is not needed, as search engines will know this due to the content itself? html for example <dl> <dt><...