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SEO - Big revamp of my URL structure - please suggestions [duplicate]
I have a big network of sites in many countries. There are over 30-40 Million indexed pages in 34 countries, what will be re-indexed hopefully and will be redirected with 301 to the new URL structure, ...
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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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URL re-write for indexed pages [duplicate]
I have a blog with around 40 posts, and i want to change the URL structure these posts. this is my old URL something like:
http://domain.com/blog/2013/02/04/string-here.html
i want to set the URL ...
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Is it bad to use Japanese characters in search-friendly URLs?
I'm new to SEO and I'm implementing SEO-friendly URLs in my site.
The code works perfectly, however I would like to know if using Japanese characters (Kanji / Hiragana / Katakana) in the URL affects ...
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do we have to add/remove a trailing slash for pagination page numbers in the url. how seo considers that?
My module is paginated. I want to either add a trailing slash or remove a trailing slash.
For now i am thinking of adding a trailing slashes to all URLS.
What will be the effect on adding a trailing ...
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redirection time duration [closed]
I am using a seo function to generate clean urls :
$link = BASEURL.'/myword/'.$details['id'].'_'.SEO(clean(str_replace(' ','-',$details['title']))).$plist;
in my php file there's lines to do the ...
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Changing uri-design SEO
I think I need to redesign my uri-collections of my site.
Right now I am using the following structure by a mistake:
/fruits for the whole collection
/fruit/banana for an item in the collection
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Job Search Engine Url Structure Issue [duplicate]
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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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Increase traffic to a site through a site on subdomain [duplicate]
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Subdomain versus subdirectory
We have two sites, one is mainly a portfolio site (built with Yii framework) and the other is a digital shop (built with open cart) where ...
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URL-rewriting on Plesk using ISAPI_rewrite3 Lite
I am using Plesk Windows based web server with Windows 2008 server OS with IIS-6 for my e-commerce website.
I want to rewrite URLs for all dynamic pages, So I installed ISAPI_Rewrite 3 Lite on my web ...
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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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url naming convention for improved seo and page rank [duplicate]
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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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Force google to just index rewrited urls
Let's think we have a website with a URL like http://www.domain.com/webdesign/
that rewrites http://www.domain.com/?article=1.
now when i search my keyword in Google, it will show up ...
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Are urls with ?page=something bad for SEO? [duplicate]
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Is a URL with a query string better or worse for SEO then one without one?
I have a listing of members on my homepage. My dynamic urls are quite simple:
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Can Google Index Rewriten URLs?
Can Google index rewriten URLs? I mean, if I have the link
<a href="http://mydomain.com/document">Grab the document!</a>
and if I instruct Apache to rewrite http://mydomain.com/document ...
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SEO/performance - building blog article page [duplicate]
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What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?
I've been using WP up and until now, but want to spread my wings and build a bespoke blog for my ...
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Redirecting URLs when launching a new website - how to avoid dropping page rank
i have over 100 urls in my website which i need to redirect:
E.g.
/page/how-to-bake-chocolate-cookies/ will redirect to /cookies/how-to-bake-chocolate-cookies/
/page/contact/ will redirect to ...
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How to allow nonsense characters as web url for example: & * Ö :: and more
I have a database which contain many name with combination of those characters. Once i will reload them, they will become public web url.
So that visitor if open this url (its valid??): ...
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Using ending .html for URL re-write?
For re-writing URLs to generate SEO friendly pretty URLs, it was usually recommended to use the ending extension (normally .html), as without the extension, the URL seems to be incomplete. Probably, ...
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Having google index canonicals but users using parameters - correct?
I'm working on a site that has a search facility with multiple parameters that look up property listings. The possible parameters are:
City, Area, Building Type, Min. Bedrooms, Max Rental Price, ...
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Search Engine Friendly URLs with Query String
I have content that can be accessed from various ways. For example my content is reviews and I have three type of reviews:
/customer-reviews/11/slug.html
/third-party-reviews/11/slug.html
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What impact (if any) will using the term 'portal' in my subdomain names, have on SEO for my website?
I am building a portal for a specific category of information. I am trying to decide whether to use subdomains like:
www.portal.mysite.com/home.html (home page)
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Sitemap and url are laid out differently from each other
There is a website and the layout looks something like below:
home->approved->
education entertainment business
| ...
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How do search engines handle URL's when it comes to SEO?
I am building a website using Symfony. At the moment, the "raw" URL's being used are like this:
www.localhost.com/mainpage/home
www.localhost.com/events/1/name-of-the-event
When the development of ...
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Adding names to slug of URL
On webpages generated from user generated content, I create slugs for the URLs based on the title (just like stackoverflow does):
http://www.example.com/photo/day_at_park
If there's more than one ...
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When is it worth it to make my URLs “pretty”?
We are in 2011, search engines are now using hundreds or thousands of parameters to weight a page. The URL is only one of them, is it still so much of an impact in the search results? People are ...
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SEO - reducing URL length
Take a recent question:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6479771/properties-of-inner-exception-are-disposed
Instead of having an integer, if we base 36 encode the question ID we get 3uvtn, cutting ...
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Different urls to same page and redirect
I have 3 urls leading to same page
// as most pages are in google, my previous website's version
http://mysite.com/1234.aspx
// shortcut
http://mysite.com/1234
// SEO url
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SEO : urls : best place for the id
I would like to know what's the best location for an id in a SEO optimized URL:
http://www.site.com/id/slug-title
http://www.site.com/slug-title-id
What do you think ?
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Apache: Virtual Host and .htacess for URL Rewriting not working
I have configured a virtual host in my local machine and every thing is working fine.
Now I want to use SEO friendly urls. To achieve this I have used the .htaccess file.
My virtual host ...
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Displaying “index.php” in URL
Is there a best practice/convention to have www.example.com as opposed to www.example.com/index.php in a site's URL? I made the links to the homepage relative (i.e. href="index.php") as opposed to ...
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what are benefits of URL rewriting?
URL rewriting has become quite popular but I think it only adds more complexity to the Web. They call the old fashioned URL's, "dirty URL" so I'll use that term.
They argue that with rewriting, it ...
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Which of these 3 URL-Rewritings are better seo friendly URLs?
Imagine my current flat-file non-cms website with an URL like http://website.com/en/tomato
This is of course very unsexy and could be anything really from tomato soup, tomato the music band, tomato ...
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Ars Technica .ars URL suffix — Vanity or SEO Benefit?
The Technology website Ars Technica has adjusted their URL rewrite rules to end with a .ars. Traditionally, sites have taken advantage of this URL rewriting capability to completely eliminate file ...
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Which URL format is better? domain.com/[id]/title OR domain.com/title/[id].html [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
SEO : urls : best place for the id
My site uses URL rewriting in both formats (for different things), but I'm wondering which one is the better approach?
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Best SEO practices for mobile URLs: 301, rel=canonical, or something else?
I am developing a site with a mobile version and am trying to figure the appropriate way to manage the URLs for search engines. So far I've considered:
Having a separate mobile site (m.example.com) ...
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Moving large website to new CMS - URL changes
I was wondering if you have any tipps on the following situation.
I'm going to move a large website to a new Content Management System, here are some details on the site:
online news magazine with ...
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Should I use subdomains or subfolders for my user groups?
I run a photography website where each user has its own subdomain (i.e. user.site.com). I'm thinking of adding user groups but I'm unable to decide if I should also associate a separate subdomain or ...
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#! in URL: Is there any merit to using the shebang (#!) in URL if there is no AJAX-loaded content, but otherwise dynamic page generation?
Is there any reason, possibly SEO related, to using the shebang (aka "hashbang") in rewritten URLs on a dynamic site, but one that does not use AJAX?
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SEO and Changeable-But-Optional URL's
Is there any sort of downside for a URL being changeable?
Take any stack exchange question for example. The URL looks something like this:
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URL rewrite - should I write a fake file suffix (.html) or something more realistic to the platform? (like .asp or .cfm)
First, I'd like to preface this question by stating that I insist upon publishing a file name suffix, but only on the outer most entity of our site, the detail pages. I do realize the suffix is not ...
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SEO: do we need to redirect also pages with final slash?
i read on Google SEO REPORT CARD that for search engines this page:
http://www.domain.com/somepath
is a different page than this one:
http://www.domain.com/somepath/ (note the final slash '/')
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How does Google handle “clean” URLs is the URL is always changing due to edits?
So, since some "clean" URL system pull the wording directly from content I was wondering how Google handles this?
Here's an example of content changes changing the URLs:
Version 1 of the Title:
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SEO benefits of URL as: www.example.com/category/subcategory/ [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
debating between different kinds of URL and see if one is more seo-friendly than other…
Our SEO advisors are claiming that having our URLs in the form:
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Good Practice for Formatting SEO-Friendly URLs?
Does anybody know what the best SEO practice and most effective format for URLs is currently?
All lowercase or mixed case? Example:
http://www.mysite.com/What-is-My-Site/
OR
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Should I differentiate parameters in my URLs?
I think I read somewhere that it was a good practice to have certain "totally dynamic and irrelevant" parameters excluded from the nice URL rewriting techniques. Like here on the StackOverflow galaxy, ...
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Debating between different kinds of URL and see if one is more seo-friendly than other…
So something like domain.com\x\y\z\t and domain.com\x?var1=y&var2=z&var3=t (var1, var2 and var3 will be replaced by legit words that make more sense).
Which one is more SEO friendly? For my ...
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How can I rewrite an old URL using variables to a static html page?
I am an htaccess newbee
I am trying to redirect the old URLS for my site to the new URLS for my site.
The old site used variables in the URL but the new site uses SEO friendly URLs.
When I try to ...
