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Are images with non-standard extensions (such as “.ashx”, instead of “.png” or “.jpg”) bad for SEO?
Certain CMS' running on IIS like Sitecore do not give image files appropriate file formats like .png or .jpg by default, but instead link to images as:
<img src="/media/Some Folder/EX-IMG.ashx" ...
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Does domain suffix affect SEO? [duplicate]
my first question here! I have a question regarding URL suffixes. Say I have a company, let's call it example-it. If I then purchase the domain www.example.it, thus incorporating the company name into ...
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Would this be considered keyword stuffing URL?
I have about 130 products on my site, and i want the URL to look like this,
site.com/unique-product-name-ratings-reviews-prices
Since I have 130 of these pages, I am concerned about the ...
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“Included” search phrases in URLs/titles/H1s and SEO
When designing a new URL/folder structure for our website, we faced one interesting problem related to choosing best keywords from SEO perspective. We call it "included search phrases". It will be ...
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Are there some permalink typology better than others for SEO?
I am pretty new in WordPress and on my blog I am using permalinks.
I have seen that there are 5 topologies of permalinks and I don't know if some types are better than others for search engines for ...
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Image folder name for SEO [duplicate]
We develop and sell ActiveX and .NET controls through our website. After doing some redesign works, every product will have its own top-level folder on the webserver. For instance, the home page for ...
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234 views
What is the way to properly implement a Facebook Like button on a page for best SEO purposes?
On our site we want to put a Facebook Like button/widget-thingy. It is possible to create a like button, where the URL associated with the button is the page it sits on, rather than a Facebook page.
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SEO implications of having multiple languages available at same URL
I am in the process of translating a set of websites to multiple languages. Would there be any negative implications if I were to serve each different language from identical URLs?
I fully intend to ...
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I am moving my site from a virtual directory to a dedicated server, can I save me SEO urls via a web.config change?
I have been hosting my site in a shared environment at http://www.example.com/MYSITE/ for a while and I've built up a following there, I have decent ranking in Google and Bing, as well as I've been ...
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“C# grid control”: how to encode this in URL from SEO perspective?
We are developing a WinForms grid control, and selling it thru our website worldwide. At the current stage of SEO works, we found that there are many popular search phrases with the "c#" word we can ...
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Would this be considered keyword stuffing?
we have a website with a lot of galleries filled under a couple of different categories. A while ago we migrated all the URLs from for example:
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143 views
Do i need to have a separate page for each article on my website?
I am using a database to store data such as articles, titles, meta and so on. Do I need to Have a separate page for each article so that my articles show up in the list when searched on Google?
Is is ...
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What is the effect of Dynamic URL's on SEO
I have around 150 dynamic URL's as below
http://mydomain.com/training/register.php?key=01ue3be299a-6bc1-1030-a2db-e4115bd593d8
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URL Naming practise
Hi wanted to check if at the end of the URL (http://www.abcd.com/product-name/subproduct,default,sc.html) we have characters like default,sc and then .html, does having default,sc have an impact on ...
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Should initials of names be seperated by a dot or by a hyphen for seo purposes
I wanted to use names with initials in the URL. For example if j.k. Brothers is the initials and name then is it good to make my URL like so:
sitename.com/j.k.brothers/listing/
Or would it be ...
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Help with choosing the best URLS for a Picture Blog site on Wordpress
I would like to select the best SEO friendly URL format for my WordPress based picture site. But I am not sure about the impact of SEO in the following formats. In other words I want a better format ...
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Will multilingual URL fix give me SEO juice?
I'm working on a fairly large site, which has multilingual options, but not correctly implemented:
Currently:
www.example.com/this-is-a-url-of-a-certain-page
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Separate URLs for localised content
Should pages which are almost identical, bar a few minor changes for particular locations, share the same URL? I am not talking of pages in different languages, but pages which have minor differences ...
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Get google to index JavaScript pages as separate pages
I have a product page with say 10 products, that loads up all the content when the page loads. Then JavaScript hides content till a product is selected. Then JavaScript hides and unhides information. ...
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SoLoMo landingpage localized regionalized down to cities and SEO sitemap.xml
I'm working on an SoLoMo (social local mobile) web application. How would you realize the site and the landingpages that they are seo and crawler friendly? Any best-practises out there?
I know there ...
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Does maintaining URL structure matter between different sites on the same domain?
I have a client that has a yearly event. Each year they create a new, complete website for their event in a subdirectory on their event's domain. Last year their URL had this structure:
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Redirection & SEO related stuff while moving to a new blog
I have a WordPress blog and recently I have setup a new blog lets call the old blog as blog old and new blog as blog new. What I did is moved the content, photos, pictures and all 250 posts from blog ...
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for a blog with posts and categories what are all the best ways to create user friendly and seo friendly urls [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL?
I am creating a module in my website which displays ringtones.
It is like creating blog posts and categories, and it will ...
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How important are SEO Friendly URLs [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is a URL with a query string better or worse for SEO then one without one?
Currently, my URLs look something like http://mydomain.ext/question/5 where question is the ...
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Job Search Engine Url Structure Issue [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL?
I am working on a job board, and i'm trying to figure out a good design for URL structure.
Some things that I have found ...
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Should my “convenience” link that redirects to page 1 be a permanent or temporary redirect?
So, I have a simple blog. Included in my blog is tags. There are two ways to reach the first page of the posts belonging to a tag though. There is /tags/foobar and there is /tags/foobar/1 (where ...
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Is placing one or two keywords in the URLs still good for SEO?
My urls do not seem to have my main keywords in them. Is this bad for SEO? Should I include them?
Of course I do not mean actually writing one keyword after each other, but have an organically / ...
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141 views
Is it okay to use apostrophe's in the URL? Are there any negative consequences?
In particular I'm interested in any SEO consequences.
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405 views
What should filenames and URLs of images contain for SEO benefit?
We know that good site architecture usually looks like this:
example-company.com/
example-company.com/about/
example-company.com/contact/
example-company.com/products/
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How to get the pageURL, page title, page H1 in excel/csv format [closed]
Is there any online tool to get the URL, title, H1 in Excel/CSV format of all the pages in a website.
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Link form correct, or, punishable by search engines?
I have the following dilemma with the links of a WordPress blog that I work with, I don't know if the way it creates the link to the images is ok or not so good.
For example:
Article URL: ...
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mod_rewrite and SEO friendliness
My website has an atypical structure and I'm not sure if this could create problems in the long run, specially for SEO positioning purposes.
I have a unique, large PHP script, and I use the Apache ...
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SEO URL structure for tag search on site
I am looking to add tags to each product on my site e.g. brown, x products under £x, second hand x, refurbished x etc.
Once you click these tags it will then search for other tags that are similar. I ...
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Multilingual website URL & SEO
For example, I see most of the Google's properties is using the hl query string, e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/?hl=zh-TW
and compare the above URL with
http://www.youtube.com/zh-TW/..
From the SEO ...
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Should a URL match the page's title?
Should the URL of a page match its title? For example:
Http://example.com/about-cats.html
<title>About Cats</title>
Furthermore, if that title were to be changed by the page's author, ...
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Which URL is SEO friendly?
I have to choose between two usernames, one comprises of just my first name i.e. http://example.com/john while the other comprises of full name i.e. http://example.com/johnsmith.
Which of the above ...
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How do I word my url so that it doesn't get blocked or appear spammy
I'm creating a fairly large site. Will my links appear spammy if I use the same word as in the pathfile in the url? For example:
www.example.com/apples/great-apple-recipes
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Title of the page in search results and title of google's cached version are different. Why?
Check this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:gunlawsbystate.com+kansas+gun+laws
The title of the first result is "Kansas Gun Laws - Gun Laws By State". Although, on the page google has cached the ...
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Using subdomains or directories for main categories?
I have a website which references places to travel to in the world. Those places are (of course) grouped by countries.
Here is an example of an actual URL of my website:
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Are generic keywords in url bad for SEO? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Squeezing all the SEO out of a URL as possible
Need help with URL structure. Let's say I'm a manufacturer of Wire EDM machines. Is it bad for me to put the keywords ...
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Recovery from URL structure change?
in July this year, we have changed the URL structure of the website from:
Post: domain.com/blog/post/986/dance/heart-beats-dance-video-by-chinatsu/
Category: domain.com/blog/index/cosplay/
...
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Do extra words in url affect SEO?
Often for technical reasons we end up with some extra words in a url that we would not want to optimize for as they would have no bearing on the content.
Examples would be:
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312 views
url naming convention for improved seo and page rank [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL?
Using url rewriting methods, what is a better way to organize the structure of the URLs of your website for SEO and user ...
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Separate urls for a set of pages sharing 80% duplicate content
Issue:
Currently my site has one particular page which has country specific data. So I've URLs like :
mysite.com/sale-united-states
mysite.com/sale-united-kingdom
mysite.com/sale-sweden
etc.
All ...
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In terms of SEO, is it better to have a URL broken down by folder, or with dashed names?
I am creating a friendly url interpreter for my website. I have read dozens of similar topics on this site, but none that seem to address my particular situation. What I want to know is if it's ...
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How to inform search engines that my site support multilanguages?
The website i am working on is translated to 8 languages (English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hindi, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese).
Each time the user select a language, the URL stays the same as ...
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How to handle URLs with diacritic characters
I am wondering how to handle URLs which correspond to strings containing diacritic (á, ǚ, ´...). I believe what we're seeing mostly are URLs where diacritic characters where converted to their closest ...
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Should I nest the URLs of pages in the same category?
This is a rather simple question:
Say that on my website I have four pages:
About (general overview)
About our Products
Abour our Clients
Abour our Workspace
Should the URLs of the four pages be ...
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1answer
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Depth of URLs and SEO [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL?
Does the depth of an URL affect SEO/Pagerank? Is there any max or optimal level for URL depth?
If you have, lets say, a ...
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2answers
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Worth changing the URL structure to incorporate keywords?
I am migrating my blog from PHP to ASP.NET and while recoding the whole website, I figured I might as well improve the URL structure.
This is how an url looks like now:
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