A URL, or Uniform Resource Locator, is an address for a file or resource that specifies where that resource is, and how to go about retrieving it.
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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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website forwarding, keeping original URL
We have example.org (our main site) registered and hosted on an american server.
We bought example.gr domain name in Greece, a local registrar.
We made .gr point at .org DNS all right.
A visitor types ...
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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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Organizing website files
I want to start creating my website but I have a few questions.
http://website.com/directory/webpage - in this kind of website, it does not display a .php or .HTML extension at the end. How to ...
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Spiders crawling broken links
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Unknown bot crawling the same broken (HTTP 400) URL over and over again. Different User Agent and different country of origin.
The Problem
It seems at least once a week we're getting a big ...
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Remove dynamic generated end of URL
I have a Joomla 2.5 website with joomshopping and AceSEF extension component.
SEF URL generation works just fine except one issue.
For some reason, there are dynamic parts generated in the end of ...
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Does changing the URL of your website helps getting out of Google sandbox?
I believe one of my websites went into Google's sandbox, because it was under construction. I know there is a debate about whether the sandbox exists, but when I read about it, it really seems like it ...
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Why is ww35 used in some URLs? [duplicate]
A question asked on my website here http://www.wrangle.in/topic/av5b5ymlhoyc/what-is-the-difference-between-www-or-ww
I want to give them answer but I didn't find anywhere on google. So I thought ...
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My website accepts anything infront of www.domain.com
I'm experiencing something very strange.
Whatever I type in the browser like for instance:
qqqqq.mydomain.com the homepage loads. There is even a URL indexed in google which goes something like ...
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Making Search Queries Indexable
Looking around, most sites (eg. Amazon) encode the parameters of searches into query string. This means that search engines cannot index these queries.
Why don't such sites use URLs rather than query ...
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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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Does the average user care about the URL? [closed]
I was having discussion with a co-worker for a project regarding URLs. My question is does the average user care how the URLs are formatted? Whether it's descriptive or relevant to the content they ...
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Custom short URLs
I'm creating a WordPress site for a client and he mentioned that he would like his own custom URL shortening when sharing to Twitter.
How do I go about setting up one of these? If I had to guess, I ...
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Why are URLs with my domain name at the end showing up in analytics?
I have a multi-language WordPress site that has been live since the last 3 months and today when I checked Analytics, I saw a lot of weird URLs:
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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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How to remove Ever crawled web Pages by Google
I know that we can use noindex, nofollow and robots for excluding the pages from Google Index. This process takes a long long time to clean up website from Google Index. In Webmaster Tools => Index ...
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Why is there are tilde (~) sign in most university URLs
My university provides a web URL and some hosting space and the URL is like http://homepages.iitb.ac.in/~pritampebam.
Almost all universities I've come across seem to use this structure where there ...
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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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Facebook thinks my site may be unsafe! [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Website falsely blocked because of spam. Does anyone know how we should proceed?
Whenever anybody clicks on a link that I've posted on any Facebook Page (including my ...
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How do I use htaccess to make a short URL to a MediaWiki page?
I'd like to rewrite /liam to /index.php/Liam_Edwards-Playne. I've currently written this below in the appropriate .htaccess file but it is still returning a 404:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/liam$ ...
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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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Hide a Subdomain from Google/Search Engine SEO Result?
I have a subomain which I do not want to be listed in any search engine result. Let say I have:
http://www.example.com
http://child.example.com
How can I hide all URLs of child.example.com domain ...
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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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Support same url in different forms
I have seen many websites supporting multiple forms of the same URL. For example consider www.example.com/question1/ OR www.example.com/Question1/ OR www.example.com/QUESTION1/ etc. all lead to one ...
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Robots.txt never downloaded but some blocked URLs in GWT
There is something I don't understand in Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) for my Wordpress site.
In menu "Blocked URLs", it mention that my robots.txt has never been downloaded but there are some blocked ...
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Website beta stage - how long typical? [closed]
How long is a website typically in the beta stage for? Read that work started on amirite.com three years ago and it only came out of beta in September 2012, so was wondering how much of those three ...
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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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No Obvious Answer - Query-Strings and Javascript
Say I have this main page /my-site/all-my-bath-soaps which lists all my products.
It has a search filter text box that uses javascript to filter the products they want to see on that page (the URL ...
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How to index Facebook & Twitter company pages by location?
I own a regional business directory and want to collect and add URLs of company Facebook Pages and Twitter pages by location (City and/or Zip code). What would be the best method to accomplish this ...
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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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What is the feature that imports URL information into facebook and google+?
What I am trying to do.
I want to be able to import heading, short description and an image into my website, just using a link.
I am using Joomla but can switch to any CMS, or try to build an ...
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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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What is the best way to deal with a homepage url change
The url for my homepage has changed. What is the best way to announce at the previous location that it has moved to the new location (so that search engines -- Google -- also take notice)?
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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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How to take off .html from domain.com/page.html
I am using cPanel to build a website and I am not sure how to take the .html or .php file extension off my webpages. Usually I will use a python framework and I do the routing manually but I am not ...
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Where does the URL parameter “?chocaid=397” come from?
In Google Webmaster Tools, I noticed that my front page was indexed two times:
example.com/
example.com/?chocaid=397
I know that I could fix this with the use of link type canonical, but I wonder: ...
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Bookmark login_email at new PayPal URL [closed]
I have used this Bookmark in Firefox so that my email would be autofilled and I only had to write in my password. PayPal has recently changed its login URL. Has anybody figured out a method to achieve ...
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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 do I make sure my website does not get blocked at my office for "potential harmful content? Do I need to adjust settings?
I created a new website that it is blocked from my office admnis for "potential harmful content".
Is there a setting that I need to change? Do I need some sort of certificate or plugin installed?
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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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Multiple Google Analytics code for url under same domain
I have one domain: www.example.com, and www.example.com/sales. The analytic code on both urls are different.
So when I login to my Google account it displays two separate analytic accounts. on ...
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Link tracking: Amazon or Google way [closed]
When doing a shopping site, the best way is to reference some successful stores, like Amazon.
In the area of link tracking, for example, to see which section of your frontpage yield better ...
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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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Compare domain names effectiveness
I have a business, it's not purely online, but its presence is mainly online.
I have purchased different domain names which I liked. Is there any service that allows you to compare their ...
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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 ...
