Web frameworks such as Rails and Django has built-in support for "slugs" which are used to generate readable and SEO-friendly URLs: Slugs in Rails Slugs in Django A slug string typically contains only of the characters a-z, 0-9 and - and can hence be written without URL-escaping (think "foo%20bar"). I'm looking for a Perl slug funct...
Hello, On one of my sites have a lot of restricted pages which is only available to logged-in users, and for everyone else it outputs a default "you have to be logged in ... " view. The problem is; a lot of these pages are listed on Google with the not-logged-in-view, and it looks pretty bad when 80% of the pages in the list have the s...
In a now migrated question about human-readable URLs I allowed myself to elaborate a little hobby-horse of mine: When I encounter URLs like http://www.example.com/product/123/subpage/456.html I always think that this is an attempt on creating meaningful hierarchical URLs which, however, is not entirely hierarchical. What I mean is, y...
Hey Guys, Ive always wondered about this. I like to create super navigation menus. The website I am currently working on for example has a blog tab at the top, which has a drop down with latest blog posts and some other stuff. Should I use heading tags for Semantics and SEO? Here is my current structure: <li class="submenu superme...
Hi there, I am migrating an application from Struts2 to JSF2. In struts2 I had mapped most of the actions so that the same action returned different locale content depending on the URL. For example: http://site.com/en/content.action http://site.com/es/content.action The action returned the same JSP which showed spanish or english de...
Bear my ignorance please! I always believed there were not so much Top Domain Name Extensions. What I knew were .com, .net,.edu, ect. And I was quit happy with all of those! (ignorance=happiness?) Until recently I found more and more companies are adopting strange domain extensions like: http://del.icoi.us, http://bu.mp... and I was tota...
Hello, Here is the copy of my robots.txt content Sitemap: http://www.go4film.com/sitemap.xml User-agent: ia_archiver Disallow: / User-agent: robtexbot Disallow: / User-agent: Googlebot Allow: / Here I only allow googlebot.And block Alexa and everything So could someone please tell me if I block search engines like yahoo,ask,bing ...
I am building an e-commerce site and am wondering if having 2 identical navigation menus will hurt my SEO efforts. I have a drop-down menu at the top of the page. That lists main categories, followed by sub-categories. On my left navigation I have the same thing. Both are structured like so: <ul> <li><a href="#">Main Category 1</a...
I have a bunch of aspx (asp.net) and html pages. The site is active past 2 years and gets decent traffic. Now all this while, I have not taken care of SEO. So my pages do not have meta tags, description or H1, H2 and so on. Now I plan to add them to my pages and do this the right way. My question in any way will this negatively impact ...
I have a site that is built completely in XML and is transformed by a single XSL file. How does this affect SEO? Is it possible to store page-specific metadata? Will robots see the transformed page (the result of the XSL stylesheet) or the plain XML? ...
I understand there are a lot of questions that answer this. I'm familiar with .htaccess and nginx.conf methods, but I do not have access to such traditional configuration methods on heroku. Simone Carletti gave this answer that leverages Rails 2.x Metals, but I'm using Rails 3 and this isn't compatible. http://stackoverflow.com/questio...
Can you recommend any tools? Should we build our own? Should we create the sitemap manually? ...
I don't want the search engines to index my imprint page. How could I do that? ...
I recently rewrote a website and the structure of the URL changed. How can i clear all the old information that google has that site so that it does not conflict with the new site. ...
i want to list my web page in google,yahoo and other popular search engines first page?what can i do?i am having computer backgruoud? so can you please tell me the ways to SEO? and suggest me if any tutorails need to become well SEO? ...
If you have a database driven website based on PHP / Cakephp , how do you make the database driven pages to look like somesite.html or somesite/ - so that the pages can be indexed by Google or so that these pages can be directly linked to ...
I want my Facebook app pages to be accessible by users that have not added the application, but I do not want search engines able to index the content. I don't see a robots.txt at http://apps.facebook.com/robots.txt and the apps pages for canvas apps have: meta name="robots" content="noodp,noydir" How can I add "noindex,nofollow" to ...
I know there is a way around this, but i just do not know i have tried literally everything the BOSS API everything http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-ppc-seo-discussion-forum/278645-who-else-wants-try-my-backlinks-parser.html there is proof of one that is bypassing the 1000 limit could anybody provide extra information ? Thanks ...