I'm trying to find the right balance here, so I wanted to see if anyone knows which scenario below is better in terms of semantic markup and SEO. Using this site's logo, Scenario 1: <div id="hlogo"> <a href="/">Stack Overflow</a> </div> #hlogo a { width:250px; height:61px; display:block; background-position:0 0; ...
Scott Guthrie just blogged about the new jQuery Templates that his team has been working on, and I must say... this looks really sweet. I have a multi-part question however, where the answer will influence my decision to use them. I'm currently working on a project whereby the home page displays a list of upcoming events in your region....
Hi there, there is quite extensive discussion about this topic on another website and I am really losing my confidence. The thing is that I claim that the amount (count) of visits is NOT a criteria for increasing the PR of the particular web because: a) Google just doesn't know about every single visit on a webpage (in case it's not us...
We're looking for a web-based service that will notify us (via email) when one of our clients has an outbound broken link on their blog. - Tell us the error. - Which page has the broken outbound link. - Other features to customize it. The service can be SEO related and we might have a few thousand sites to add to it. ...
Possible Duplicate: Why google index this ? In this webpage: http://www.alvolante.it/news/pompe_benzina_%E2%80%9Ctruccate%E2%80%9D_autostrada-308391044 there is this image: http://immagini.alvolante.it/sites/default/files/imagecache/anteprima_100/images/rifornimento_benzina.jpg Why this image is indexed if in the robots.tx...
In a .NET 4 web application I've set the property "renderAllHiddenFieldsAtTopOfForm" to "false" in the web.config. Unfortunately the hidden fields are still at the top. Why is this? Does some other setting override it? "pages" property in web.config: Screenshot of top of the form: ide it? ...
I have a classifieds website. It has an index.html, which consists of a form. This form is the one users use to search for classifieds. The results of the search are displayed in an iframe in index.html, so the page wont reload or anything. However, the action of the form is a php-page, which does the work of fetching the classifieds et...
Hi! I need help with deciding how to redirect my old urls to the new ones. At this moment I have the urls like myhost.com/viewrecipe.php?id=2 But I want them to look like myhost.com/recipes/pear-pie The problem is that the website is already indexed in Google. Is there any way to write a 301 redirect for search engines to redirect t...
Well, to start with, I'm a novice ASP.Net/C# programmer, and had an experience only of a couple of projects during college and a couple of freelancing projects when I was recruited by a startup company to build their ASP.Net based website. I've just abut completed the website, and now since the company is not able to find a worthy enough...
Which StackExchange site do I use to ask questions about SEO? ...
why did not docxconverter.com show up when I type docx converter in google. The closest match is docx-converter.com. My question 1 : What are the reasons for www.docxconverter.com not showing up? My question 2 : Which among the domain www.docxconverter.com and www.docx-converter.com is friendly with keyword phrase docx converter? and W...
The short question is - what is the best practice - to use or not to use a trailing slash in URLs. There are many articles: this, this, this. However, they all seem to deal with static directory structure. What about dynamic urls, like those rewritten, or those handled by a central facility (like a web framework, for example), that for...
I am trying to create an exact mirror of a Magento production server on my local server for further development, but I have run into a few issues. On the production server, our Magento is configured to run without displaying the index.php, but after attempting a migration to my local server, the index.php is required to access any links...
Hello everybody! Does the title attribute in a link do the job of the real text in the link for SEO? i.e <a href="..." title="Web Design">Web Design</a> is it the same as: <a href="..." title="Web Design">click here</a> when trying to get a good page rank for keywords like "web design"? is it like alt attribute in an image tag? or ...
I am using Iconic's IIRF URL Rewriting Engine on IIS and the "fancy" URLs are something like this: http://some-website.com/some-function/418/some-keyword-rich-filename.html This example URL corresponds to: http://some-website.com/some-function.asp?SOME-ID=418 Now inside the some-function.asp file I need to know the page that was re...
I have 2 questions: 1 - Is there a difference in SEO between inbound links from the same site (from pages belonging to the same domain), and inbound links from other sites? are they the same value? 2 - is there a difference in SEO between (1) an inbound link with text inside it and (2) an inbound link with an image which contains an "a...
Hi, I have url structure like index.php?option=mycomponent&id=12 I would like to rewrite id=12 to something like "blue car" where blue car I can place somewhere in mysql. Is it possible? ...
Hello, I have used some tools for checking my SEO and I got the result: "Your website does not take advantage of Microformats. Microformat is a technical semantic markup that can be used to better structure the data submitted to search engines. Thanks to Microformats, Google regularly improves its search results presentation." Can some...
Lets say I have a domain already, for example www.automobile4u.com (not mine), with a website fully running and all. The title of my "Website" says: <title>Used cars - buy and sell your used cars here</title> Also, lets say I have fully SEO the website so when people searching for the term buy used cars, I end up on the second or f...
As it's valid markup, I have done the following; <div class="list"> <a href="#">Link 1</a> <a href="#">Link 2</a> </div> My question is, does it have to be written as this; <ul class="list"> <li><a href=...