The several uses to which the <title> tag is put complicates the question… As browser window or search result titles, it would seem to make little difference — there's enough room for everything and the display order is unrelated to the title. For tab and taskbar / dock titles, space is at more of a premium. Placing the page name firs...
I'm building an e-commerce website with a large database of products. Of course, is nice when Goggle indexes all products of the website. But what if some competitor wants Web Scrap the website and get all images and product descriptions? I was observing some websites with similar lists of products, and they place a CAPTCHA, so "only h...
I'm updating a website's menu system and adding SEO urls. I'll have two URLs pointing to a similar resource for a while but only one of them will be rendered on the menu. Should I leave the old URLs or delete them? If I leave them then google results wont link to 404 pages but they may be considered as spam. Should I redirect them perh...
Hello, I have a url that is easily accessible when you request it as: http://example.com/2005/01/example.html or http://example.com/2005/01/example (I actually don't know why it works without the extension. Instead, it should return the usual 404 error.) However, when I try to access the following url: http://ex...
Hello, I have Joomla 1.5.9 running with php 5.2.8, mySQL 5.1.31 on IIS7 on a vista 64 dev box. I have both SEO Settings "Search Engine Friendly URLs" and "Use Apache mod_rewrite" working correctly. I'm also setting up a hosted site (with www.mochahosting.com). They use slightly older versions of the same software: Joomla 1.5.5, php 5.2...
Mentioned stackoverflow only as an example, but if you look above the URL for ask is http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask which means /ask is a subdirectory, but they also do this for the specific question pages. How do you code this in .NET? Not a code question as much as a technique. I know this is great for SEO, but how do yo...
I have my main application site https://drchrono.com, and I have a blog sub-domain under http://blog.drchrono.com. I was told by some bloggers that the blog sub-domain of your site helps the pagerank of your main site. Does traffic to your blog sub-domain help the Google Pagerank of your site and count as traffic to your main site? ...
Something that I do not see much and wonder if any SEO guru knows the best approach that will not hurt SEO. URL Examples, which one is best? http://www.example.com/widgets/partnumber/widget-001 or http://www.example.com/widgets/widget-001/partnumber ...
In order to avoid content duplication, I would like to avoid the pages of my site being accessible by several URLs (with or without trailing slash). Currently, the URLs catalog/product/1 and catalog/product/1/ lead to the same page. My goal is that the second URL redirect to the first (redirection 301, of course). None page of my...
We are using a custom sitemap provider to populate an ASP.Net application's menu control from a recursive database table and therefore do not use the static xml web.sitemap file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0" > <siteMapNode url="" title="" description="...
Hi, I have a site which has been developed completely in flash. Now the site owners do not want to shift to a more text/html based site. So am planning to create an alternative html/text based site which the googlebot will get redirected to. (By checking the useragent). My question is that is this allowed officially by google? If not t...
If I called an ashx page as the src for a script tag and it outputs all the values and a document.write of the contents. Would this been seen by the robots or would this text not get picked up at all since its in a script tag? For example, <script src="sitemenu.ashx" type="text/javascript"></script> SEO is one of the requirements of ...
What's the recommended way to structure html that includes navigation so it's still SEO'able and accessible. For example, should the structure be more like that of a document: Skip to content (link, hidden by CSS) Navigation Content Other content (right hand panes etc) or: Skip to navigation (link, hidden by CSS) Content Navigatio...
whats the most important part of html page in terms of SEO keyword targeting- the title? ...
For some mysterious reason, Google has indexed both these adresses, that lead to the same page: /something/some-text-1055.html and /index.php?pg=something&id=1055 (short notice - the site has had friendly urls since its launch, I have no idea how google found the "index.php?" url - there are "unfriendly" urls only in the content mana...
Here's the general question that I'm asking: How do you optimise your website so that searches using common misspellings of your name find their way to you? And my specific situation: At my company, we sell online education courses. These are given a code of two letters followed by two numbers, eg: BE01, BE02, IH01. These courses have ...
I am looking to track a Pop-Over page that appears when the forum is submitted at: http://www.xebra.com/salesAssistance.html I tried adding the urchin/google analytics code to the page that is displayed in the pop-over window, but whenever I do so the status bar displays "Read http://www.google-analytics.com/" and the entire form page...
Working on routing my site and am wondering what a good standard is for naming regular pages? I was going to name them like: /Daily-Winners But I want to reserve the - multiword syntax for titles of threads, blog posts, etc., not for regular traffic pages. Is there a standard or guideline to make this more attractive for SEO? Espec...
If I want to 301 redirect (SEO required) from old static pages to new static pages, what should I do? I search in Google and find that it seems cannot be set inside the static page (meta tag) for 301 redirect. My server is Netscape Enterprise. Thanks. ...
It seems like there are a few different techniques out there, so I was hoping to get a "definitive" answer on this... On a website, it's common practice to create a logo that links to the homepage. I want to do the same, while best optimizing for search engines, screen readers, IE 6+, and browsers who have disabled CSS and/or images. E...