Many aspects of my site are dynamic. I am using jquery. I have a div which once the DOM is ready is populated using load(). Then if a button is clicked, using load() once again, this value is replaced by another value. This kind of setup is common across my site. My homepage is essentially lots of dynamically loaded, refreshed, and ch...
I'm going to convert a client's static site, all hand coded HTML pages to Wordpress. They have a bunch of static pages that I'm going to keep as 'pages' in Wordpress. There will be some static content that I'm going to convert into blog entries (and back date them). How do I transfer their search engine rankings to the new Wordpress si...
Hello everyone, I'm trying to use modrewrite to change my urls from /foo.php to /foo and from /foo.php?lang=en to /en/foo. The problem I have is that I think I need to use 301 redirect to move the .php-less address to the .php address, or else my ranking will be splitted among these 2. But if I use [R=301] the address in the bar changes ...
According to some SEO experts and theories like Progressive Enhancement (PE), page content should be presented appropriately to users even with JS disabled. And I totally agree with this. Here is my situation, on our client's About Us page, there is a div which lists their company events. Due to space and another considerations they hi...
Hello. Are special chars like á in alt and title attributes a problem for SEO? Thanks! Diego ...
I am creating a site map for a website.I have recently come to know that instead of site map I can give footer links.So I am confused whether to have a site map or footer links or both.Can anyone suggest me? (considering both Search engine optimization and users navigation) ...
I'am building a website where I need to make an url form article title. First option is to convert all utf8 to ASCII. This can be done, because every language has some kind of Romanization available. But I don't know if, for example, for Chinese people romanticized versions of title makes any sense. Second options is to urlencode utf8 ti...
Which methods i can use to find backlinks on my site? for example i can search in google "http://stackoverflow.com" -site:http://stackoverflow.com all resulted pages can contain backlinks, i must parse all them to check it. What other good methods exists? ...
What would the best practice approach and most desirable HTTP status code be for website / application pages that should not be displayed temporarily? To outline possible alternatives - Leave user at the current URL, but return a different status code and 'maintenance' content? Possibly 503 code? SO question - http://stackoverflow.com...
Hi everyone, I am looking into implement a lazy load feature on image on a website, however I am wondering if there is any SEO downfalls to this. The script i'm looking into is the following: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46393 Bascially, when an image tag appears in the users viewing area of the browser, javascr...
I am choosing a page title structure for my website and am unsure what to choose in terms of accessibility and SEO. Is there a benefit to putting site title after the page title because of the unique part being earlier? Are there any other benefits one way or another? Example 1: Page title | Delan Azabani Example 2: Delan Azabani » Pag...
I’m trying to build a multilingual website (french and english) with proper SEO I’m using Magento 1.4.1.1 with the sample data & the default theme I’m testing locally (MAMP) on the domain : magento.dev (without the www.) So far I… - Installed the French language package - Changed the store view codes to fr & en - Set French as the de...
If I use timthumb.php for reducing images and posting them automatically with the appropiate size on my website sounds fantastic. Saves a lot of work. But would that affect the results in http://images.google.com ? Let's say I have a photo named "my-dalmatian-dog.jpg" and then I apply tinthumb.php..it would be changed to some other name...
Hey, I want do do a layout that is search engine and speed-browser friendly with content first in source code. Usually this looks like this: <body> <div id="content" style="margin-top: 200px;"> i am content, i go first </div> <div id="head" style="height: 200px; position: absolute;"> i am an header that is depre...
Hi All, Ive just released a silverlight website and Im trying to spread the word to get the ball rolling. Does anyone have any advice on SEO for Silverlight or other means to get the word out about me website. Thanks ...
If my website only responds to www.example.com, and not example.com, does this affect search rankings at all? I haven't found anything to confirm or deny this for any major search engine, and I'm curious. ...
I've been having a chat with a designer friend about text replacement and seo. I suspect I've got the wrong end of the stick, but I was under the impression that hiding content from users was bad practice. I'm aware that text is king and of separation of content & presentation. But to me this is a bit of a grey area. Is one considered be...
Hi, I have a problem with magento product links. When I search a product and then click the product link, Magento redirects me to index.php/test666.html when it supposed to be index.php/products/grocery/miso-soup/test666.html. is it possible to force Magento use product's full path? Added: I can't get it to work by enabling 'Use Cate...
I have a site. Would it help its SEO ranking if I allow B2B business customers to repost the site's blog's RSS feed (I'm thinking of using the partial RSS feed with links back to the site to "read more."), will that boost SEO rankings? What if I (1) give the business customers (They may not be very tech savvy, and therefore, I'd like to...
In only one search engine I want to get... http://mysite.com/ indexed, not... http://mysite.com/index.php I only want to allow indexing of the main page of the website, and nothing more. I do not want the bot to follow any of the links on the main page. My meta tags include the following:: <meta name="robots" content="index, nofollo...