I'm wondering if the link on the company logo, which usually goes the home page, should be: http://www.example.com http://www.example.com/index.html (or other index file) /index.html (or other index file) / (just the root) Does Google care or are there other rules? ...
What URL can I visit to get myself a Google API Account? While sites point to http://www.google.com/apis and talk of "easy steps", I just can't figure it out. Background: There are places on the web that offer google services if you give them your Google API account key (in my case http://www.freesitemapgenerator.com and index retriev...
I've been thinking a while about disallowing every crawler except Ask, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! from my site. The reasoning behind this is that I've never seen any traffic being generated by any of the other web-crawlers out there. My questions are: Is there any reason not to? Has anybody done this? Did you notice any negative e...
Hi everyone and thanks in advance for helping. I rely heavily on nested Master Pages in my web portal, this causes ASP.NET to generate huge ID tags for controls it creates, for example: "ctl00_ctl00_MainBody_ctl00_lblDescription" for a lblDescription Label i've created. Is there any way to reduce this clutter? Any other techniques(so...
I have a webpage that I use h1 tags multiple times within various DIVs and I style h1 for each div to be the appropriate size. For example... #content h1 { font-size:22px; } #left-nav h1 { font-size:14px; } #content .recent-news h1 { font-size:16px; } Is this alright? I am worried about SEO. What is the best way to go about ...
Most websites use - (like stackoverflow) but most PHP framework generate + encoded url. So, what is the best for SEO ? Use + or - as separators ? ...
SEO-friendly URLs are all the rage these days. But do they actually have a meaningful impact on a page's ranking in Google and other search engines? If so, why? If not, why not? (Note that I would absolutely agree that SEO-friendly URLs are nicer to use for human beings. My question is whether they actually make a difference to the rank...
I am starting to redesign and develop a site that contains a lot of text and I am thinking of ways to organize the information on the site so that it looks cleaner. On some parts of the site I would like to implement a jquery toggle effect where some content is placed in a hidden div and that content will show or hide depending on a use...
First of all, please excuse my ignorance on this...I'm totally willing to accept that my opinion on this is wrong. In fact, I suspect that it is given the sheer number of web developers that seem to disagree. :) I've read a great deal of discussion recently (both on this site and elsewhere) about "friendly URLs" but I'm not sure what ...
I've just picked up a contract to sort out a vipers-nest of e-commerce websites that a previous 'developer' left for one of my clients. There's about a couple of dozen of them using a custom shopping cart and CMS system that's too embedded to dump and works well enough, but desperately needs cleaning up, re-factoring, and bug fixing, so...
If I have a commercial site belonging to a Japanese company which will use Katakana or Kanji (non ASCII characters) for the keyword they wish to obtain good search results in google, does it still matter to put the closest english word on the site DNS Name? like: if the search word is "homepage" in Katakana: ホームページ Will the the DNS n...
Hi, After reading Jeff's article about the importance of sitemaps, so I decided to generate one for my dynamic website. I saw some articles about how to implement it with ASP.NET but every solution I saw showed how to generate it on the fly with an HTTP Handler. But that solution means that every time someone asks for the file, my cod...
I have a website with .com domain. www.example.com. At the moment it's primarily focussed on the UK. However I've been trying to work out how to cope with expanding to the US/EU without having to migrate the existing site to .co.uk and put the US site on .com. my current idea is to have uk.example.com us.example.com example.frexample.de...
Is there any SEO disadvantage in using a subdomain to host a blog on Wordpress or Blogger? I don't want to go to the trouble of creating a blog module for my site - I'd rather just set up a CNAME entry and point a subdomain to a free Wordpress or Blogger account. Will Google punish me for doing this by claiming that I have "duplicate con...
I'm trying to have SEO friendly URLs for my wordpress blog, while still having the flexibility to change a post's title at will. My permalink structure would be like this: %post_id%/%postname% However, I'd like wordpress to just consider the %post_id% from the URL when looking for the appropriate post (sort of like here on stackov...
Why some sites, most blogs, use title of the post in the url? As in: http://www.geek.com.br/blogs/832697632/posts/9360-uni-o-europ-ia-pretende-apoiar-conex-o-universal-para-celulares Will this improve google indexing? EDIT: this is a duplicate of Why do some websites add “Slugs” to the end of URLs? ...
Can anyone tell me some of the most important usability, accessibility and SEO guidelines, which must be taken into considerations while developing a good Web2.0 website ??? ...
I have Joomla 1.5.9 running on IIS7. I'm now experimenting with the SEO Settings from the Joomla global configuration page. First I toyed with Search Engine Friendly URLs (that gets rid of the queries part of URLs); that works fine. I also tried to enable the "Use Apache mod_rewrite". I installed "Microsoft URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7...
I am using different analytics tags in one of our web applications. Most of them call a javascript code for tracking. Some tags have url of gif image with querystrings. Example : http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmwv=45.542 What exactly does this url do? How do they get the values from querystring? Update: (After reading s...
The concept So, I've already made (upgraded actually) this website with its own Content Management System (CMS) that everyone likes. As with most CMS, the default behavior was the access pages with the ugly and utterly unhelpful url like such: www.mysite.edu/index.php?pageid=xxxx So the idea was to change it so that we could have "r...