seo

Mass 301 redirect using .htaccess

I am working on a large project that involves taking thousands (30,000+) static web pages and turning it into to a CMS. The issue is many of these pages are duplicates within their directories. I want to keep the SEO intact by using 301 redirects, however, I am not sure how to go about doing such a large redirect (301). Here is an exam...

Meta tag vs robots.txt

Is it better to use meta tags* or the robots.txt file for informing spiders/crawlers to include or exclude a page? Are there any issues in using both the meta tags and the robots.txt? *Eg: <#META name="robots" content="index, follow"> ...

What is keyword stuffing?

Simple question: what is keyword stuffing? What is the recommended number of unique keywords to use in your meta tag per page? In forums ppl say 2-3 per page. In books I've seen 8-10 per page. I just want to know in numerical terms what is considered keyword stuffing. Thanks. ...

Forms with action=""

Hey guys, I just wondering if it's safe to have form actions like this one: form action="" method="post" And what is more interesting is it SEO friendly? What I want to do is that form points to the same page, so I don't need to change action, but maybe it's not SEO friendly or not so safe? Thanks, Ignas ...

which domain to use and which to forward.. SEO reasons. discuss!

Hey guys, I am developing a site for a client and they currently own two domains. howafarms.com and grassfedbeeffl.net The current site has howafarms.com traffic forward straight to grassfedbeeffl.net. My question is.. which one should I use as the main url and which should I forward. Normal logic tells me howafarms.com should be...

Does the spiders indexing your website (google bot...) have a "culture" ?

Hello, This is a SEO question : i've the choice to display a page's title according to the culture of the visitor. If it's an english : <title> <?php if ($sf_user->getCulture() == 'en') : ?> Hello, this is an english website <?php else ?> Bonjour, ceci est un site français <?php endif ?> </title> Does the bots/spid...

page contains broken hyperlinks

hi, i got the SEO error "page containd broken hyperlink". i test the URL its working fine then also it will give the same error. please give me solution for this error. thanks shankar ...

Should I worry about RSS urls for SEO?

Very quick question: should I worry about RSS urls for search engine optimization? Can I just use an obscure ID number, or should it be as clean as an HTML document link? ...

How can I remove ID veriable from URL with htaccess?

I'm sorry for complexive question. I've got a website that reading contents from MySQL database to get video information just like YouTube. I've 7 column: id, title, desc, url, date, whosadded, views. I want to do is Rewriting url's from /video.php?id=X to /title-music-video.html There's ( http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Apache/Using-...

Do links in notes posted on Facebook pass value?

The code for links posted within notes appear as so: <a href="/note_redirect.php?note_id=396569262314&h=0b433086f1b39a09b03ca717f5517705&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.justiceclaus.com" target="_blank" title="http://www.justiceclaus.com"&gt;justiceclaus.com&lt;/a&gt; As where links everywhere else are explicitly no-follow like this: <a href="h...

How to set up the 301 redirect for IIS Server?

hi, i am getting canonical issue in my web site. the error is as follows: The page with URL "http://dynamicsexchange.com/images/CRMcommunity_supersources_withspaces.jpg" can also be accessed by using URL "http://www.dynamicsexchange.com/images/CRMcommunity_supersources_withspaces.jpg". all errors i got are related to non-www and www s...

how to fix System.Net.WebException: The operation has timed out?

hi, hi i am getting System.Net.WebException: The operation has timed out error message. because of this i got many errors in SEO tool kit. so, please give me the solution to solve this problems so that i can solve all the errors in SEO. i am using C# and master page concept. Thanks in Advance M. Prasad Reddy ...

SEO Best Practices for page title, meta tag and page content

Hi, I have a question regarding search engine optimisation. I did some research on my niche and I found the following keywords to be most relevant to my niche (this is just sample text, not the real keywords): learn english learn english online learn english free Meta Tag If I were to add the keywords to the meta tag, what will the k...

Geotarget all countries except one

Hi, we have a website that offers licenses online. I hope this is the right forum for this kind of questions. We have business partners targeting the US market, and we are responsible for all of the rest of the world. We are not allowed to offer licenses to visitors from the US. We therefore want to target all countries with the except...

How do I write a route that is SEO friendly in rails?

I am changing my site over from Google App Engine to rails and I would like to keep my place in google search. Currently my site uses a URL /page?pid=microsoft-interview-questions to access the Microsoft subsection of interview questions. How would I create a route that can send this to '/tags/:id' where :id would be microsoft in this ca...

the relation between popularity and competition in SEO field

what is the relation between popularity and competition in SEO field? i don't mean the formula.i mean the conceptional relation. i mean can we say more competition cause more popularity or viseversa,more popularity cause more competition? more competition about a topic means it is general that many sites talk about it and so maybe more ...

Is content of webpage developed in Flex searchable?

Hi, If I developed my webpage entirely using Flex, is it searchable by Google and other search engines? Thank you very much. ...

SEO and Subdomains (Rails Apps)

Let's say I have the following subdomain to my root (mydomain.com): blog.mydomain.com. Does Google treat the subdomain separately from the root from an SEO perspective? Is it better to use mydomain.com/blog so that I'm optimizing my root page? Is there an best-practice RoR approach to rectifying sub-optimization issues presented by ...

Intermediate linkthrough pages, good or bad?

For a pretty complex website we are looking on how we can best create internal links between pages without creating complex logic to calculate the url for the target pages when rendering the page. For example if we wanted to link to www.domain.com/nl/holiday/hotels/holiday-inn/ we are thinking to put an intermediate linkthrough page bet...

Web crawlers and non-ASCII characters in sitemap.xml

Hi! One of our sites has non-ASCII (non-english) characters in URLs: http://example.com/kb/начало-работы/оплата I wonder how do web crawlers (particularly Googlebot) handle these situations? Do these URLs have to be encoded or otherwise processed? ...