I have recently started using Google Webmaster Tools. I was quite surprised to see just how many links google is trying to index. http://www.example.com/?c=123 http://www.example.com/?c=82 http://www.example.com/?c=234 http://www.example.com/?c=991 These are all campaigns that exist as links from partner sites. For right now they'...
How do you create the special links which show under sites in search results? Say I search for Stack Overflow at Google, I get a result close to this: The links I am asking about are outlined in red in the image above. What do you put in your page to have them show in search results, or how are they created? Thank you, Brett ...
I am working on a project where I have to find out the keyword density of thepage on the basis of URL of that page. I googled a lot but no help and scripts were found, I found a paid tool http://www.selfseo.com/store/_catalog/php_scripts/_keyword_density_checker_php_script But I am not aware actually what "keyword Density of a page" act...
I'd like to start using "SEO Friendly Urls" but the notion of generating and looking up large, unique text "ids" seems to be a significant performance challenge relative to simply looking up by an integer. Now, I know this isn't as "human friendly", but if I switched from http://mysite.com/products/details?id=1000 to http://mysite.co...
We have an ecommerce site right now that carries a range of brands. The brand pages carry urls as follows: http://www.<DOMAIN>.com/catalog/brand/view?id=2 We need to utilize more friendly (seo-friendly) urls such as: http://www.<DOMAIN>.com/<BRAND> but such that it would resolve #1 above. Is this done in .htacc...
I have a web site that spits out links to third party sites. Now these third parties want MY site to track their clicks. How do I do this without ruining the SEO-friendly nature of a plain link? Currently an ad link is just an anchor: <a href="http://adsiteA.com">Come Visit Site A!</a> I can easily change the links to something ...
When outputting images from Photoshop that are over 31 characters I get a compatibility message? Is there a downside to making image names (or any filenames) too long? I want to make sure my web app displays my images correctly in all major browsers, including mobile, and that my image names get picked up by Google for indexing. For ex...
Say on my old site I have one level categories of products, with one category being "BMW Cars".. inside of that, I have some products : "328i" , "M3", "M5", "X5"... so basically it is a big mix of everything - cause in the beginning we didnt separate the product line into finer categories. Now we are building a new site, and have a 2 le...
I'm constructing a site with tutorials and other things. I'm trying to find a good URL structure. However, I have a conflict: tutorials/ <-- list of all tutorials tutorials/a-very-cool-tutorial <-- points to the very cool tutorial tutorials/java <-- a list of tutorials tagged java tutorials/java+soap <-- a list of tutorials tagged java ...
Hi, I want to stay way from GET params. Don't want to use POST and I have at least two different categories to build the URL for. The visitors are first asked to choose a location wich can be one of, for example: http://foo.com/United-States/ || http://foo.com/United-States/California/ || http://foo.com/United-States/California/San-...
Well, I changed my file extensions to .shtml and google still has them indexed as .html. I've tried uploading a sitemap and other things to google webmaster tools but with no luck. Is there any other way I can force google to crawl my site? Im guessing thats the only way the links will update. ...
Alright, so let's say I'm writing a forum application, and I want pretty URLs. However, all my tables use numeric IDs, so I'm not sure the best way to format the URLs for those resources. Let's pretend I'm trying to get a topic with ID 123456 and title This is a forum post. I've seen it done a couple ways: www.example.com/topic/123456 ...
Hello everyone! Do you know a good CMS/Blogger application that could run over GoogleAppEngine (GAE) and that have Google Friendly Urls? I need to install an application like this for a small company, so they could publish their work and blog some interesting stuffs. Do you know any good and mature application? Thanks in advance, ...
I've got half a dozen legacy dynamic URLs and it turns out redirecting them all will require 18 Rewrite directives in my .htaccess file - that seems messy to me. What I can do however, is redirect all of them to my new start page with a single Redirect directive. It's a tiny site and all the pages people might come in from via google se...
I noticed that various systems use various characters as the replacent for illegal ones in urls. Is there a reason to use one or the other or should I just pick the one that looks best to me The options I have seen so far include: - _ + and simply removing all illegal characters. ...
Hi, I'm using the permalink_fu plugin to create permalinks from titles. My problem is: If the title contains german characters, they are just replaced with '_'. What I need is something that replaces ä with ae ü with ue ö with oe I fount String.tr but the problem here is that it replaces 1 character with 1 replacement, so it would wor...
Hi, I'm thinking about a good SEO Url strategy for a blog application. I'm not sure - and maybe it's just the same - but what is better? With or without .html /blog/entry_permalink_name.hml VS /blog/entry_permalink_name What do you think? ...
For an example of what I mean, search on Google for "Last.fm". The first result will be www.last.fm and 8 additional links are listed; "Listen", "Log in", "Music", "Download", "Charts", "Sign up", "Jazz music", and "Users". I looked around in their HTML but couldn't figure out where this information was supplied to Google. Any help? Tha...
Google image search seems to do a poor job on a site I run in identifying which image on a page should be indexed. In addition it doesn't seem to link that image with lots of the associated data. Are there any ways of focusing attention for spiders on particular images and associated data, do they need to be within the same tags, or ad...
A customer is asking if there is anything we can do to remove "/Pages" from his Internet-facing MOSS publishing site. Some Googling reveals that some clever use of HTTPModules may be able to hide the presence of Pages, but I've yet to see an end-to-end working solution. Have any of you come up against this particular requirement, and i...