seo

what meta-tags in the header of an (x)html page should be enough for SEO whitout overload it?

what meta-tags in the header of an (x)html page should be enough for SEO whitout overload it? ...

Upgrade URL for SEO from mysite.com/dbtable_id/ to mysite.com/dbtable_id/article-title

I have an existing journal website with the following url structure http://mysite.com/dbtable_id/ (eg. http://mysite.com/89348/) where 89348 is the primary key id of the journal article. I want to add the title of the article to the url for SEO purposes like http://mysite.com/dbtable_id/article-title (eg. http://mysite.com/89348/hel...

301 redirect in Plone CMS (Zope)

Hi! I'm running a website hosted on Apache and Plone (based on Zope). My problem is that i have duplicate content with following urls: www.site.com www.site.nl/en www.site.com/nl and so on, every page shows the same content. Google Webmaster Tools also reports sites in the following format to be duplicate: www.site.nl/news www.site....

301 Redirect vs DNS change: Is it ever safe to kill a 301 redirect and update the DNS for a subdomain?

I have a site running at a subdomain that has been migrated to a new server and new domain name. To preserve search credits I know a 301 redirect is the proper way to handle migrating the transition. (The marketing department speaks of 301 redirects like I've never heard of.) From a technical standpoint, I don't understand how long ...

SEO - Links and GET query strings

If there are a number of links to my web site like this: www.domain.com/?linkid=101 www.domain.com/?linkid=102 www.domain.com/?linkid=103, which all get 301ed to the same page, will these be treated by Google and other search engines the same way as links that have no difference in the query string? ...

Will re-direction from home page affect search engine crawling?

There is a new domain, let's say va.in. Content is being prepared for the sub-domain a.va.in The idea is that va.in/index could contain pointers to various sections sometime in future (e.g. b.va.in, c.va.in etc.). As of now, it does not make sense to have such a page as there is just one section i.e. a.va.in If I decide to re-direct ...

Confusion about sitemap_index.xml

I've read the Google docs on sitemap formats but there's one thing they don't make clear: will search engines automatically look for and find /sitemap_index.xml or do you have to tell them about it via /robots.txt or the main /sitemap.xml? Can you not have a /sitemap.xml and still rely on /sitemap_index.xml to be found and harvested? ...

Google Adding Strange Directory Name To Site Links

Hi guys, I have just been asked to find out why a clients website be listed in Google in an interesting way. Some of the links have an extra directory with a (seemingly) random name. The url. http://www.servicedofficecompany.co.uk/resources/ Is listed by google as. http://www.servicedofficecompany.co.uk/(A(khbmZF83yQEkAAAAZGQ1OThh...

What are people's thoughts about rel="canonical"? Is anyone using it?

I just received a memo (dated Feb 29) from our pals at Mountain View. Apparently they want us to start using another tag to specify canonical urls. As someone who builds a fair amount of websites, this obviously intrigued me, but I was curious to know if anybody else had started using it? Is anybody planning to? ...

prepend category in SEO-friendly URL

I have a website that contains "items", that have an ID and title. They are divided into categories. Category indexed are viewed at URL's like example.com/tutorials example.com/maps What would be the best URL structure for the items themselves, from a SEO point of view and just semantically in general. example.com/tutorials/12/Make+...

Deny access when a false category is given

I have a website with items that can be divided into categories (items have one, not like tags). This gives me URL's like http://example.com/tutorials/12/Do-nice-things. However, the category and title in the URL are for SEO-purposes, I don't need them, just the ID. It would also work with http://example.com/somethingwrong/12/Foobar. N...

Does the position of a slug in a URL matter?

FOR SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION PURPOSES, does the location of the slug within a URL matter? There's no doubt that you could code URL slugs to work properly in any order. I'm more interested to know if search engines place different weights to portions of the URL on the right-hand-side vs the left-hand-side For example, here the slug ap...

Does Google 'understand' microformats and will it help my SEO?

Semantic HTML makes it easier for Google to crawl and 'understand' a website but what about microformats? Are microformats any more semantic/crawlable then standard HTML markup? ...

Best algorithm to index sentences.

Hello there, Imagine I have a situation where I need to index sentences. Let me explain it a little bit deeper. For example I have these sententes: The beautiful sky. Beautiful sky dream. Beautiful dream. As far as I can imagine the index should look something like this: But also I would like to do search by any of these words...

Does URL Shortening affect Page Ranking?

Recently there has been a lot of hype about URL Shortening. I guess some URL Shortening services even offer tracking stats. But, doesn't adding one more level of look-up to the original URL affect page ranking in any way? Just curious to know. ...

Multiple 301 Redirects after restyling a website (SEO)

We have updated our site recently; the old one had around 300 pages... the new one about 80 ;) This because in the old structure we had, for every argument, many pages. Instead, now we have just one page with a 'summary'. For example, the old structure about the 'car' argument was: Main page, 'cars' sub-page, 'tires' sub-page, 'engin...

SEO and Session Parameters

Hi, If we develop a site with SEO compatible, is it possible to use Session Variables? If not what is the alternative? Thanks many. Best regards. ...

How Prevent Google Duplicate Content Problem | Multi Site

I'm about to launch a multi-domain affiliate sites which have one thing in common which is content. Reading about the problem with duplicate content and Google I'm a little worried that the parent domain or sub sites could get banned from the search engine for duplicated content. If I have 100 sites with similar look and feel and basica...

Whitespace removal affecting rank?

I've recently attempted to remove all useless whitespaces/linefeeds/linebreaks from my HTML code and apparently as a result my site got delisted/google ranks dropped dramatically (from top10 to surely out of top100). Is whitespace removal a bad SEO practice or could it be that my pages had a keyword density that was too high after whites...

SEO URLs with ASP.NET MVC

Is there a definite DO and DONT when implementing seo urls? A lot of good practise seems fine for .html sites but breaks down on medium/large database sites. AFAIK the url should be www.mysite.com/category/page-name-here If I wish to make a content rich site and be default the category and page are database driven - does this prevent ...