Hi all My current site is running on a dedicated server on apache + php. I am creating my new site in rails and running on nginx. I want to run both sites together for a while while i slowly redirect all pages SEO rank etc to new site. My current site has say domain www.mydomain.com and new site will have www.mydomain.com/en infront ...
Does anybody know what the best SEO practice and most effective format for URLs is currently? All lowercase or mixed case? Example: http://www.mysite.com/What-is-My-Site/ OR http://www.mysite.com/what-is-my-site/ ...
Are the following urls threated the same in SEO rank or is someone better than another? If, why? language.domain.com/page domain.com/language/page ...
Hi , In my site , I added lot of AJAX function , For (dynamic pages ) , I read the below thread, i understand GOOGLE AJAX Crawler Procedure, Just am confirming , In applications am not used the links, i am using DIV, in that DIV onclick i called the ajax function , in that ajax code there is a URL , in this URL i appended...
In xhtml 1.0 hn (h1 to h6) must represent document structure, like chapters in a book, and they all descend from the body. In html5 there are section, article, header, hgroup, and it seems that hn tags descend from one of these tags, and then are not relative to the body element. like <html> <body> <h1>My personal homepage</h1> <sectio...
If I have a page that I want to be indexed, and searchable. But I have a certain keyword(s) on my page that I do not want indexed. Is there a way to do that? So that people searching for keywords on my page that I think are assocated with me, will find me. But if people are searching for keywords that happen to be on my page, that are ...
So I've been helping a friend update a listing of a local small business on google and also get the business listed in around 20 additional places that Google seems to like to use for reference in the same industry. The problem is that it's been about 3 weeks and no new citations have shown up. I know Google can take up to 90 days to re...
Hi, I have a site with some restricted content. I want my site to appear in search results, but I do not want it to get public. Is there a way by which I can allow crawlers to crawl through my site but prevent them from making it public? The closest solution I have found is Google First Click Free but even it requires me to show the c...
In order to steer visitors to the right tab, I put ？tab=1 at the end of a url. Then used JavaScript to open that tab when visitors clicked that URL. Put it in other way. One page has two "URL"(I am not sure if they are). One is www.domain.com/foo.html, the other, www.domain.com/foo.html?tab=2. Only click the last one, should the tab 2 o...
Simple question What is better: http://www.example.com/product/123/subpage/456.html or http://www.example.com/product?123/subpage/456 As far as I know they would rank the same SEO wise, but my SEO knowledge might be a little off. Also the last one seems to be easier and cleaner to implement on my end. Please explain to me which i...
Hello guys, I was looking for a concrete answer on whether i should optimize my pages for singular or plural version of target keyword. Let me give an example: I have a computers website and from homepage i have links for my primary categories / keywords: Processors Motherboards Printers Scanners etc..... Now with google adwords tool...
What steps can I take to incorporate SEO into blogger (blogspot) ? The only option available is blogger.com. (long story) I have added META tags, recently got some backlinks from popular sites, but what else can be done ? Also, is there a way to check the pagerank of the blog ? Any resources, links are welcome, I'm willing to spen...
I have several different sites running off WordPress, and the URLs tend to get fairly long and cumbersome (particularly when I try to publish them via Twitter). I recently purchased a very short domain name, and I'd like to use it as the root of a personal URL shortening service. So ... http://www.eamann.com/portfolio would become ht...
Hi, I have a web portal on Cricket News India. I have built my own customised CMS to update the news in the website. My questions are Since the data is in the database, will it be a good practice to genarate the html pages out and save it in our server. Advantages that I observe, next time if a user comes server gets the generated h...
I have been looking around for a website that can automatically provide me we content relative to either a city/state combo, or a zip code. Essentially I want to have a bit of content pertinent to where my user actually is. Does anybody know of any online services that provide something like this? I also wouldn't be opposed to spidering ...
Can anyone suggest a good tool for helping us decide on some long tail terms for using as google adwords? All the best ...
I want to start blogging on computer programming and technologies. Please recommend me a free blog to use considering: 1. most search engine friendly 2. free 3. allows ads/ google ads thanks ...
Our SEO advisors are claiming that having our URLs in the form: www.example.com/category/subcategory/ leads to better ranking in the search engines, etc., but I'm not sure if that's true/valid. Do others use this practice in their own websites? The simpler alternative for us would be to do something like: www.example.com/showcat.p...
I have a client that uses Google Base with their eCommerce store. They want to redirect all of their specific product links (i.e. white-large-shirt.htm, red-medium-shirt.htm) to the configurable url (i.e. shirt.htm). This is so the customer when clicking on the white-large-shirt link in Google Base can be redirected to the page where t...
I'm about to update my site to use CakePHP instead of an old homegrown framework. I need to write the HTAccess file to redirect the old PHP parameter URLs to the new CakePHP SEO friendly urls, but I can't get it to work. My htacess file (the one in app/webroot) looks like this at the moment: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^index.php?a...