ASP.Net controls (e.g. asp:Label) generate messy html ids (e.g. ct100_ct100_Yabba_Dabba_Doo_FinallyTheRealId). Yeah, they're ugly, but someone told me today that they're also: unfriendly for SEO increase the page size I half believe 1) and half disbelieve. I know that certain id names (e.g. "header") are keywords that search engines ...
I have a dynamic sitemap generated from ASP.NET MVC containing 17000+ urls. The Google webmaster tools dashboard acknowledges that there are 17,023 (as of this moment) urls in that map, but says that only 4 are in the index. The map was originally submitted over a month ago, and Google appears to be downloading it daily and doesn't com...
Does anyone know how I could track what search terms people are using to arrive at my site. For instance, someone searchs google for 'giant inflatable house' and clicks through to my site. I want to be able to capture those keywords and which search engine they came from. ...
I have searched a lot and have found enough about it but I am unable to apply it. I have an Ajaxhandler to request as: ..test.ashx?pagenumber=1 And I want to make it crawlable. ...
Hi, We'd like to implement a tracking system that logs which trial version signups to our website are originating from which google adwords campaign. I know that theres a glcid parameter if auto-tagging is enabled. But how can I reverse-lookup some info on the gclid that was used? For example, it would be very useful to know the searc...
Hello, What would be the best way for a URL to look like if it should contain an ID and a name? /product/123/screwdriver-black /product/screwdriver-black/123 /product/123-screwdriver-black /product/screwdriver-black-123 Thanks ...
I can't think of an example, but hopefully you get the idea. Encoded URLs have some characters replaced with those weird %20% type of codes (so I think none of the original characters/meaning is lost) whereas slugs have all the special characters stripped off and white spaces replaced usually with dashes or plus sign ('-' or '+'). ...
My website structure has a root /index.php, some files as /directory/index.php and some as /directory/(filename).php I have the following .htaccess which removes the php extensions and the "index.php" for my URLs, and forces trailing slashes on the first level directories for SEO goodness: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCon...
If you have an URL like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/123/this-is-my-question If someone creates a link on his website, but changes the name like this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/123/this-is-a-different-question-title that would cause duplicate content. Is it nessecary to check if the name in the url is the ...
I am looking for some documents on how Google crawl and index content. I read many "light" papers and articles on what you need to do to improve your ranking and make sure your content is properly indexed but I am looking for some more advanced technical documents on how Google crawl and index content. The things I would like to know mo...
I have a website which uses a fixed navigation at the top of the site. It works on browsers down to IE6 but the problem I sometimes see on the chached version on Google is that everything else (but the navigation) does not appear. Does Google think this is hidden content which may be affecting my ranking? I have put in many things to i...
If you use a full, SEO Friendly URL like http://example.com/talks/about/star-wars then you can expect your URL to get eaten up by the users that submit it to bit.ly and others. So my question is, would it be better to create your own internal shortener for links and just ignore any SEO benefit of the URL keywords in exchange for the SEO...
So, we're trying to up our application in the rankings in the search engines, and one way our SEO guy told us to do that was to register similar domains...for example we have something like http://www.myapplication.com/parks.html so..we acquired the domain parks.com (again just an example). Now when people go to http://www.parks.com ...
Hi all, I have been asked that if it is possible to restrict search results in search engines.. here is an example: I have a website and I want it to be shown only in yahoo, google, bing and ask search engines.. is there any way to do it by using any of the meta tags or by another way? thanks.. ...
Hello -- Background I work for an online media company that hosts a news site with over 75K pages. We currently use Google Sitemap Generator (installed on our server) to build dynamic XML sitemaps for our site. In fact since we have a ton of content, we use a sitemap of sitemaps. (Google only allows a maxmimum of 50K urls.) Problem T...
I have a website that presents Q&As to mathematical problems, mostly for pupils aged approx. 16-18 years old. Due to the difficulties of presenting formulas on webpages, the Q&As (formulas) are presented as images. At the moment, each webpage contains one Q&A, and there are many questions and answers. Thus, with little in the way of text...
Hi, I have a website live cricket scores , in which dynamically i am controlling the news section. I have my own custom build CMS system with PHP, where admin will add the news to the web portal. If i generate the Sitemap, all dynamically created pages wont be added to the sitemap, is this a good practice or do we need to add the dynam...
Hi, I would like to know that whether using of # in the URL is going to effect SEO. For example http://www.example.com/index.php#page-1 http://www.example.com/index.php#page-2 Both the links have UNIQUE CONTENTS (Contents of the page #page-1 is different from that of #page-2) Are the pages going to be interpreted as different page...
I wonder if anyone tried promoting a website on a country-specific domain for the wrong region? I know there is no reason to do that (unless you're crazy), but I just became curious after my client said he'd prefer to keep an old .us domain while promotion is needed for a different country I advised him to get a .com or .net and set up a...
I am working on a small multi-language website. Originally, all of the html files were in the top level directory. Each page has an English version and a Spanish version, which are different html files. I would like to put these files in their own subdirectories, en/ and es/, and then redirect the top-level domain to en/index.html (since...