seo

How can I generate URL slugs in Perl?

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...

Would 401 Error be a good choice?

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...

Human-readable URLs: preferably hierarchical too?

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...

Should I use heading tags in my navigation menus.

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...

JSF2, i18n and SEO

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...

Quirky URl, Something I Am Missing?

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...

is it good idea to block bots from website through robots.txt

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 ...

SEO: 2 Navigation Menus

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...

ASP.NET and HTML pages - some advice needed from Search Engine perspective

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 ...

How does XML+XSLT affect SEO?

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? ...

How to redirect without www using Rails 3 / Rack?

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...

Are there any good tools to generate a Google Sitemap?

Can you recommend any tools? Should we build our own? Should we create the sitemap manually? ...

How to prevent search engines from indexing a single page of my website?

I don't want the search engines to index my imprint page. How could I do that? ...

Google Seo advise

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. ...

how to get my page in google's,yahoo and other search engines first page?

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? ...

How to make PHP / Cakephp database driven pages that are indexed as static pages by Google

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 ...

Can I set the meta robots tag in a Facebook Canvas app?

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 ...

Yahoo site explorer 1000 limit bypass

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 ...