seo

How to increase Alexa rank ?

Hello, I'm trying to sell my ad slot via BSA and the advertisers are looking for the "alexa rank" to make their call. The problem is that my alexa rank is not good at all. Alexa Rank : 2,117,406 My stats : 12,000 visits per month / 120,000 viewed pages per month Website launched 2 months ago. Domain is : Seek Team which ends up to ...

Flex 3, component Ids and URLS -- Hyphens vs. Underscores

Hi, I'm using deeplinking in a Flex 3 application. I've got a ViewStack and I'd like to use the id's of the canvases in the url. I've read that search engines prefer hyphens over underscores as word separators. So, the search engine sees "big-book" as a separate word, but "big_book" as possibly one word. Also, underscores are obscured...

SEO/Rails - How to add the title tag to every "link_to"

Hey, I'm surprised Rails creator didn't think about that, if someone can help, would be great. How can we do to change this: <%= link_to "My Title", :controller => "products" %> to this automatically: <%= link_to "My Title", :controller => "products", :title => "My Title" #basically a copy of the text %> I think it could help...

SEO implications with URL rewriting.

We server our content in http://www.domain.com/folder which is bookmarked by user and has to stay that way. Out next iteration will be http://www.domain.com/folder2. We intend to use url rewriting to keep the url http://www.domain.com/folder, but serve the content from http://www.domain.com/folder2. What are the SEO implication, will ...

how does URL rewrite work in plain english

I have read a lot about URL rewriting but I still don't get it. I understand that a URL like http://www.example.com/Blog/Posts.php?Year=2006&amp;Month=12&amp;Day=19 can be replaced with a friendlier one like http://www.example.com/Blog/2006/12/19/ and the server code can remain unchanged because there is some filter which transfo...

.htaccess http://www. and http:// : what is the influence for SEO ?

Hello, I am trying to improve my SEO rank : I use http://www.woorank.com tool I have a "sever error" that tells me: Be sure that http://roulette-chat.fr and http://www.roulette-chat.fr are not running in parallel. Redirecting requests from a non-preferred hostname is important because search engines consider URLs with ...

How do I balance POST/GET PHP pages for a database message board with SEO-minded static HTML?

Thanks in advance for whoever can help with this question. I have build a messageboard-database using html forms, PHP, and my SQL. The website allows people to post topics and then post messages for each topic. They can then vote up or down on each message. Right now, I do all that through a single PHP page and I use POST. When I u...

Meta tags; Some short questions

I am writing meta tags for my website. With meta, I mean SEO, like keywords and description. I have some questions though: Does the DOCTYPE matter when writing meta tags? Is meta case sensitive or not? Should I use comma between keywords or space? What if a keyword of your choice consists of two words, like "new ad"? What else is impo...

How to programmatically provide site structure and url path to Google search

Searching Stackoverflow on Google I get this result: Inspecting the HTML source of the Stack Overflow frontpage I can't find any reference of "A language-indipendent collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers" stuff. I thought it was something related to meta description, but it is not true. Also, where the Log In...

Meta tag redirect good or bad for search engines?

I have this meta tag to check if JavaScript is enabled: <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.example.com/activate_js.html"&gt; Is this bad in the eyes of search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo? If so, what other "safe" methods are there? ...

Do I still need to use the title attribute if my element has a `<figcaption>`?

I have a piece of code like this: <figure> <img title="An amazing image that I forgot to specify a url for"/> <figcaption>An amazing image that I forgot to specify a url for</figcaption> </figure> Is it necessary for me to specify the title attribute in addition to the figcaption element, and will not doing so result in SEO pr...

magento url rewrite

Hi everone, Can someone tell me how the rewrite cathomepagina?catid=3 to horloges-3.html in magento... cos i keep getting page not find after the 301 redirect ...

dynamic seo title for news articles

Hi, I have a news section where the pages resolve to urls like newsArticle.php?id=210 What I would like to do is use the title from the database to create seo friendly titles like newsArticle/joe-goes-to-town Any ideas how I can achieve this? Thanks, R. ...

Using DNS to Redirect Several Domains into One Single Content. Disaster?

When I searching our web site on Google I found three sites with the same content show up. I always thought we were using only one site www.foo.com, but it turn out we have www.foo.net and www.foo.info with the same content as www.foo.com. I know it is extremely bad to have the same content under different URL. And it seems we have bein...

Include the www prefix when adding a site to Google Webmaster Central?

I am wondering if I should add the www prefix when I add a website to Google Webmaster Central. Both versions of the website (http://www.website.com and http://website.com) are exactly the same so I am wondering if it makes a difference. ...

Which url is more search engine friendly ( using _ (under score) or - (dash)?

i am trying to implement routing on my website. and just want to know which typr of url is more indexed by goolgle? examples : http://www.example.com/contact_us http://www.example.com/contact-us also i have one more senario http://www.example.com/products-services http://www.example.com/products-and-services if i use "and" in ur...

SEO - Displaying extra information upon return of results - How to do this?

I would like to know how some sites (companies) are able to render their search results from Google, e.g., with extra below their search return. For example, say you go to google.com and enter "boeing". One should see extra hyperlinks below like: "Careers", "Jobs & Events", "Contact Us", etc. I really like how this looks and would lik...

Will googlebot index my index.php even with an htaccess redirect?

Using a redirect statement in my htaccess file, people who type the following into the address bar... http://example.com/index.php ...are redirected to... http://example.com/ I also have a noindex, nofollow meta tag on all my website's pages. My question is, given that redirect behavior and meta data, will googlebot index my mainp...

How many keywords are ideal for the META keywords tag?

The answers to a previous question pointed out that the keywords meta tag in HTML is used by some search engines, such as Yahoo! and Ask. Now, I know not many of us have direct knowledge of the algorithms behind different search engines, but in your experience, does the number and order of keywords have any effect? Is it better to have...

Where to learn SEO for free - basic to beginner?

Where to learn SEO for free - basic to beginner? Suggest any -Website -online book -software -tools Thanks and regards, jeet ...