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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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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Confirm if trailing slash is acceptable for a file, rather than a directory
I have been reading on here and Google results for a few hours now including this question and the links therein and many others. Including a URI building styleguide from the w3c and others.
I have ...
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Error 404 (Not Found)!
My website is www.sbsangpi.com and I checked the IP address of my website is (173.194.72.121).
Whenever I browse 173.194.72.121, I got message "ERROR 404(Not Found)!!!"
I use blogger and redirected ...
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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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Should I transliterate my URL paths?
I looked around and can't find any info on this, I must be searching the wrong terms or something because it must be a common question.
If you have non-ASCII characters in your URLs, Firefox and ...
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Is some version of IE9 lowercasing URLs?
I have some pages that require a case sensitive input in the URL. Like /page/MT with 'MT' being the param. I've noticed lots of error reports lately where 'MT' is converted to 'mt', which is ...
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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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The adress without WWW points to the old server
I have just changed Web host but I have a small problem, the domain.com site points to my new server but www.domain.com is always on my former server.
How to remedy it?
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Web Server Directory / URL question
Ok..So I know this is an easy question, but I just don't know. Given the URL:
http://mail.google.com/
What is mail? Is that a directory or what?
I have a domain, and I want to put a webpage on an ...
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Google Analytics - how to track multiple sections of a site at once?
I need to track the pageviews and goal completions for the Blogs section of my website, and I used to do this simply by searching the word "/blog/" under Content, which would pull all of our Blog ...
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How to redirect an old url to a new url via htaccess? Website uses Wordpress [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
.htaccess Redirect Old Threads
We had quite a hefty news site which had very ugly urls from a custom cms. We have since relaunched and moved all the content over to ...
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URL for separate mobile site
I've had a look through this site and found several similar questions but none which address my current needs.
Normally I create responsive sites but on occasion I will create a 'desktop' and a ...
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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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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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Point website's root to a different website's subdirectory [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to hide website's real address
I need to point a certain website's root directory to a different website's subdirectory, e.g. when you access site1.com, it will ...
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How to hide website's real address
I'm building a website for public use.
It's a sharing website - everyone is allowed to download specific content, but I want to make sure nobody knows where all the files are kept, so I've decided ...
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How do I forward/redirect a website from a folder in a subdomain to another server?
I have a client with a site at subdomain.example.com/folder
I've cloned it locally in MAMP. Once I've made some changes, I need to host it at an alternative physical server. (I intend to use a ...
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Link to pages on site without .html extension appearing in browser?
I've modified my .htaccess file to allow access to html files without having to include the extension on the end, for example:
www.mysite.com/document
directs to
www.mysite.com/document.html
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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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Removing .html and index.html from URL
I'm having some problems trying to
Remove the .html extension from URLs
Removing 'index.html' from an URL
1) To remove the extension I have tried using this in my htaccess file.
RewriteEngine on
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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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Does URL encoding create duplicate content?
An SEO expert was testing my site, and noticed that my URLs contained the special character :. He said that would create duplicate content, because google would interpret any url containing : as two ...
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Best way to redirect in IIS
We have a website that has two URLs (one for the US side and another for the Canadian side which is then broken into Canadian English and Canadian French). For the purposes of my question, I will ...
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Rewriting URL to get Wordpress “permalink” type URL
I have created an ASP.NET site to replace a WordPress site that creates permalinks in the format:
http://example.com/the-name-of-my-post
I would like these URLs redirected to:
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creating subdomain(sub.domain.com) and redirecting to another server (sub.domain.org) whiles maintaining .com in the url
Redirecting to different server but same domain.
I have 2 servers on different hosts. One has domain.com and the other domain.org. domain.org has more resources.
Now i want to create a sub domain on ...
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Multilingual Support on a PHP Website
I have a very basic PHP website that is currently setup for two languages like so:
lang.en.php - English strings
lang.es.php - Espanol strings
en/ - folder with PHP pages (PHP first processes the ...
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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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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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How does Wikipedia handle URL's such that “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP/IP” is possible?
Notice the slash in "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP/IP" How does it not misinterpret TCP as a subfolder?
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Uniform url in different device [closed]
I noticed almost all of StackExchange's sites uses the same url in mobile browser, I think this is cool because when I share something on my phone, people viewing the link would not see a mobile ...
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Which web framework uses 'eservice_enu' as part of its default path? [closed]
I've seen http://example.com/eservice_enu/ all over the place, especially on sites that handle payments. Which framework is this?
I realize any site could choose this path component arbitrarily.
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Should a link validator report 302 redirects as broken links?
A while ago, sparkfun.com changed their URL structure from
/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9266
to
/products/9266
This is nice, right? We don't need to know that it is (or was) a PHP ...
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apache rewriting url doesn't work(using godaddy hosting)
I'm using a framework to create my website(codeigniter) by default the urls are like this:mysite.com/index.php?/etc/etc/etc.
And I'm trying to remove the index.php?, I tried to remove it by doing ...
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Potential issues with multiple home pages
I have a site where I want to have two different home pages: a general description page for anonymous users, and a dashboard page for logged-in users.
I am debating between two implementations:
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article url format for google news sitemap
I have 2 questions about url for google news sitemap.
Is it good that I use= url for sitemap witch like ...
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Displaying urls with case sensitivity
I just bought the domain name http://www.startupsandfinance.com/. During the registration process I tried to buy it like http://www.StartupsandFinance.com/ but could not do that because they ignored ...
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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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URL rewrite and domain frame
I have registered the domain www.posti.sh at nic.sh. The website is on the server www.myskoob.com/postish. Unfortunately, nic.sh does not support frames, i.e. that the domain stays posti.sh as it ...
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How can I make Google Analytics understand URL encoding?
I have a page on my site that has the following URL:
solr?filters=type%3Aphoto (let's call this URL A)
Any link to this page on my site reads:
solr?filters=type%3Aphoto
The "%3A" is a URL encoded ...
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Including title page name in PHP URLs
How do I show titles of the page in URLs?
Currently: http://websitename.com/index.php?c_id=18&start=0&m_id=1
Change To: ...
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phishing attack. Where do I start the cleanup?
I'm a newbie webmaster. I've got a domain and a site... and no clue about the web (I'm OK with files and programs... )
I got a message from google that my site is a possible phishing site, with a ...
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Getting a domain sub-directory url for a new server
I have an web application server running tomcat and i need to publish my APIs to internet users. However I don't have a domain name for this server and I can only put the ip address of this server ...
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Understanding Ajax crawling of search site
I have a couple of questions about Ajax crawling of a website, which is kind of search engine itself.
The base article explains the mechanism of making AJAX applications crawlable. All this stuff ...
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Are urls with ?page=something bad for SEO? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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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Do url shortening services shorten the id or directly the url?
Assuming the urls are saved to a database where they each have id and the URL saved.
For example a URL www.example.com (let's say with id 1000) would possibly be shortened to www.url.com/c1hd5 etc.
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Is there any problem with using two slashes in the middle of a URL? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What does the double slash mean in URLs?
I'm working on a mod_rewrite URL structure as follows:
http://example.com/search/filter1/filter2/filter3/filter4
There are ...
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Is SEO affected negatively by having densely encoded identifiers of content in URLs?
This isn't about where to put the id of a piece of unique content in URLs, but more about densely packing the URL (or, does it just not matter).
Take for example, a hypothetical post in a blog:
...
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URL length and content optimised for SEO [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL?
I have done some reading on what URLS should look like for search engine optimisation, but I am curious to know how mine ...
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How to handle canonical url changes like Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow sites all have pretty urls which include the question title. In the HTML it also have canonical url for that page.
I just found out that when I change the question title, the url is ...
