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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How to have my customized extension?
I have recently found a .htaccess trick in which I can remove file extension from the URL, example.com/file.html looks like example.com/file
Now my humor says that I can replace any extension to my ...
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What is good URI design?
How should a good URI be designed? What are the factors to consider? What are the pros and cons of the variants?
Factors that makes up a good URI
Stability over time
Short
Give the user an idea ...
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Same product name in different categories
I have two questions about URL structure for SEO.
I have one product belongs to multiple categories. Is this OK for SEO OR shall I give them different product names?
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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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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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How to forward a “domain.com” to “www.domain.com”?
I am using GoDaddy for my domains. Lately I've noticed that none of my domain.com addresses are mapping to the server correctly. I used "Forward" option from Domain Manager and forwarded it to ...
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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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When the canonical page itself changes url
This is a continuation of the question: How to handle canonical url changes like Stack Overflow.
Say I have the canon url:
questions/11/car <---canonically-linked-from--- questions/11/
What ...
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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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URL redirection to same domain on different server
We have existing domain on non-IIS server and now we have moved it to IIS server. Client want us to redirect the URL from existing server to new server with same domain name.
We will modify the ...
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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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What does the double slash mean in URLs?
What does the double slash mean ? (I'm not referring to the beginning right after http:).
For example:
http://www.imywebsite.gov/sectionA/sectionB//section/page/
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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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Only 10% of my site are indexed [duplicate]
I'm newbie in Google Webmaster Tools and I use sitemap.xml to submit urls.
The problem is that I've submitted 150 urls and only 17 are indexed! Is that a problem or they will be indexed later?
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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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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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What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL?
I'm working for a website to convert the website URL to an SEO friendly URL. I plan to use this:
mysite.com/category-name/pageid-123-page-name
I looked at some similarly categorized, highly ranked ...
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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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Which method is better to add www. before domain name
I have search through google and found 2 methods to add "www" before domain name. first is by adding a CNAME and second is using rewrite mod in .htaccess file.
I just want to know which method is ...
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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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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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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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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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Avoid the login popup when using http-auth
I have an Apache. Under the DOCUMENTROOT is a folder with an .htpasswd file for http-auth. If I open the browser and request the content in the folder I get an Popup to login.
Is there a way to avoid ...
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Shopping Cart URL Structure
In regards to URL structure when it comes to guests and authenticated users, am I able to track traffic associated with both paths, but at the same time track total conversions going through the ...
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Friendly URLs: is there a max length for search engines?
People from stackoverflow have been working closely with google team to help them make the panda algorithm more efficient, so I guess they've learned a lot from the google team.
Thus they may have ...
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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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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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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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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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Chrome causing 404's ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”?
Since the last weeks we see many 404's on our sites caused by Chrome adding /cache/[hex-string]/ to the current page URL.
The hex strings we have seen are:
e9c5ecc3f9d7fa1291240700c8da0728
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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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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 will google treat http://yoursite.com/page?a=1 and http://yoursite.com/page?a=2 will it treat them different?
how will google treat yoursite.com/page?a=1 and yoursite.com/page?a=2 will it treat them different or same url.
Or is there any solution i want google to treat same page but with different content. ...
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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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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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Joomla sometimes messes up URLs, probably cache involved
Every once in while my Joomla site messes up link's URLs. For example, something like this:
http://www.sism.org/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userslist&listid=4&Itemid=123
Become ...
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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 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 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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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 ...
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Is trailing slash automagically added on click of home page URL in browser?
I am asking this because whenever I mouseover a link to a home page (e.g. http://www.example.com), I notice that a trailing slash is always added (as observed on the status bar of the browser) whether ...
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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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How to remove trailing slashes from URL with .htaccess?
The situation
Across the entire domain, we'd like the URLs to hide file extensions and remove trailing slashes, independent of the domain name itself (as in, works on any domain).
Sample of our ...
