My problem is that I have a site which has requires a dedicated page for every city I choose to support. Early on, I decided to use subdomains rather than a directly after my domain (ie i used la.truxmap.com rather than truxmap.com/la). I realize now that this was a major mistake because Google seems to treat la.truxmap.com as a comple...
Real World Problem: I have my app hosted on Heroku, who (to my knowledge) are unable to offer a solution for running a Headless (GUI-less) Browser - such as HTMLUnit - for generating HTML Snapshots for Googlebot to index my AJAX content. My Proposed Solution: If you haven't already, I suggest reading Google's Full Specification for M...
Hi guys, I'm developing a web app which use jQuery's ajax load function to load content from an XML file. Is it true that web crawlers don't execute JavaScript when crawling, and if so, how can I combat this? ...
How do you find out what keywords your website is ranking for? ...
Hello. I have a page which has 3 pages First page; Url: ex.com/my-good-page Title tag: My Good Page Second page Option 1: url: ex.com/my-good-page/2 Title tag: My Good Page - 2 => Added page number Option 2: url: ex.com/my-good-page?page=2 Title tag: My Good Page => No change I don't know which one to choose between option 1 and 2. T...
I am developing a public website on ASP.Net MVC and I am looking for open source libraries for SEO that give me following functionality. Vanity URLs that have URL format like "mysite.com/<category>/<title>" Sets Title of the page to something like "<site name>/<title>" Sets Meta Tags in the HTML header Puts H1 tag around page title in ...
Im trying to rewrite a url that has a query string to its SEO friendly name i.e. consider mysite.com/models?p1=v1&p2=v2&p3=v3&p4=v4&p5=v5&p6=v6 Id like it to rewrite to mysite.com/models/v1/v2/v3/v4/v5/v6 or mysite.com/models~v1~v2~v3~v4~v5~v6 whichever works better for SEO. any suggestions j ...
I'm working on building a search engine in my application, and because I don't want to have a Querystring in my URL, I'm currently using Javascript to submit the searchTerms for me. Basically I am NOT using a "form", but rather just an input <input id="searchBox" class="search" name="searchTerm" tabindex="1" onfocus=" this.className = ...
Hi, I have a simple menu hierachy in a Joomla 1.5 site: [Newsletters] -> [publisher A] -> [Newsletter A1] -> [Newsletter A2] -> [publisher B] -> [Newsletter B1] -> [Newsletter B2] When navigating this hierarchy using the menu items or breadcrumbs, the SEF URL...
We have had problems with our web pages being put into Google's Supplemental Index. We have recently corrected what we believe were all the problems that might have caused this. However, Google still seems to be taking new content and putting it straight into its Supplemental Pages index. Have we incurred some sort of Supplemental Penalt...
I plan to provide content/services across multiple (similar and related) subcategories. In general, users will only be interested in the one subcategory related to their needs. Users will be searching for the term that would be part of the domain, subdomain or URL. There's three possible strategies: primary-domain.tld, with subdomains...
I have created a mobile version of a my website which is a one-page webapp. I'm working with php server side and js+jquery on the front end. how can i auto-redirect mobile browsers to the mobile web-app in a way that's transparent to search engines? should i allow only mobile bots on the mobile site? (with robots.txt) do i need to f...
Which is more seo friendly URL from below http://www.example.com/products/market-reports http://www.example.com/products/market-reports.aspx Can anyone help? ...
Can tell me if Ektron can do these things in SEO? XHTML Compliant - Renders in XHTML compliant mark-up out of the box Canonical URLs - Able to specific a canonical URL for a single page SEO Friendly URLs - Able to create and configure SEO friendly URLs and formats XML Site Map - Able to dynamically and automatically generate an XML Si...
I wonder if there's any SEO difference between using a regular a href-link or making an element clickable by adding javascript onclick? Basic example of the my two options... <a href="myUrl">Link</a> <div onclick="javascript:yUrl">Link</div> ...
I've got an Search Engine Optimisation problem where users are able to access my site by specifying any sub-domain. This is causing duplicate page issues with SEO. For example if a user mis-types 'www' then posts a link on a forum, google is crawling 'wwww.domain.com'. Furthermore, google is also crawling 'domain.com'. I need a way of ...
At first I thought css was used for absolutely nothing but styling the document when the user viewed it in a browser. But then I realized that css is also used by search engines in indexing pages. Search engines don't index content with display: hidden I believe, and heavily penalize sites that use keyword stacking (text that is never se...
I am working currently for a project on which several parts of the website may be restricted due to an area the user resides. So that when a user accesses the page he gets redirected to a form he must complete in order the view the content. Wanting search engines to index the content, I am creating exceptions for the search engine crawl...
We have a family of sites (about games) with shared content. Each site has its own top level domain, and most content has a "home" domain, but all content is accessible on each domain. This allows a user who is logged in on, for example, the board game site, to page through their new subscribed content and see pages about RPGs or video...
Does google index pages with opacity:0 or hidden or display:none ...