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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Slashes in URLs and SEO
My question is simple: Is there any disadvantage (in terms of SEO and search engine behavior) to using / instead of other delimiters in URLs like http://example.com/en/items/1234/page3?
I vaguely ...
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How can I force a certain URL for Google to use in search results?
Each page on my site can be accessed by a shortened URL and normal "long" URLs. The shortened URL redirects to the long URL and the long URL includes an optional title that's not parsed (much like 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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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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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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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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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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how the search engines interpret the exclamation mark in the url
I wonder how the search engines - Yahoo, bing, google ... - interpret the exclamation mark (!) in the url:
www.site.com/product!651031
www.site.com/category!651031
I could not find documentation ...
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In terms of SEO is using a forward slash in the url best practice?
domain.com/test which is a content not a folder and I would expect it to be without a forward s lash at the end for that reason, am I wrong?
thanks
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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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Can prefixing a dash reduce the search engine rating?
If I prefix a dash to GUIDs in my URLs on my Web site, in this manner:
example.com/some/folders/-35x2ne5r579n32/page-name
Will my SEO rating be affected?
Background: On my site, people can look up ...
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Clarify “canonical” word: Can someone please list the various uses of this word in SEO context, and point out correct or incorrect uses of it?
I think the authoritative use of the word "canonical" in the SEO discipline dates back to this 2006 blog post by Matt Cuts on cononicalization:
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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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Are shorter URIs better from an SEO perspective? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Are shorter URLS better for SEO?
I'm creating SEO friendly URIs on my site. Is there a big difference between these different options?
/this-is-my-title
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Choosing URLs for website offering products and services
Assuming that I offer very few services and/or products. Is, from SEO benefit point of view, it better to construct URL (http probably doesn't matter) such as:
www.mysite.com/services/nameofservice
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How do I redirect an English language URL to an Arabic language URL?
I have a link that's currently formatted like this:
http://site.com/news/view/1.html
I want to it redirect it to:
http://site.com/خبر/عنوان-الخبر
where خبر is equal to news and
عنوان-الخبر is ...
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Why is www. working but no-www is not?
Right now my site runs on http://www.example.com but I need to run that without www also i.e example.com
Can some body tell me here that how can i do that?
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Google non-SSL search not passing the “q” parameter with keyword
I am building a web analytics application for search engine traffic only and right now I am looking into providing some information about keywords that google does not show. Like not provided keyword.
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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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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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Redirect a url to another url in IIS 7.5
I have no idea why this isn't working. I've tried creating map rules and then rewritng and redirecting the url. I've tried just redirecting it with a simple rewrite rule and no matter what, the only ...
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Using a hyphen in the domain name [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name ?
I am looking to buy a domain where the obvious choices have already been purchased.
Example: domaintest.com or ...
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http://url works but www.url doesnt
My website http://bakasura.in works fine. when i try to visit it via www.bakasura.in it doesnt work.
What is the problem ?
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web address begins with www1. not www
Go Here: http://www1.w3schools.com/css/css_reference_atoz.asp
Why does the website URL begin with http://www1 rather than http://www?
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eShop product urls SEO, with or without category folder
What product url is better from SEO perspective for an eShop
www.site.com/main-category/sub-category/sub-category2/product-name.html
www.site.com/products/product-name.html
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Free link checker for large website?
Can anyone recommend a free, thorough online link checker for a fairly large website?
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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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What is the shortest valid and available numerical domain name? [closed]
559.com is unavailable:
10019976.com is available:
But how can I figure out the lowest number available as a ".com" domain name?
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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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Impact of below URL structure for eCommerce Site (in terms of SEO)
Currently we are thinking of two possible URL structures for Products page and Product Detail Page and which one should we go with ?
1st Approach:
/products/ - Displays Products
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Can you rewrite the root?
Not sure how to word this one but will explain most I can.
I am trying to make the following happen.
Re-write this http://domain.name
To this http://domain.name/home/
Is it possible ?
update
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How to redirect any URL to lowercase URL?
I have this .htaccess files:
ErrorDocument 404 /index.html
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) ...
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What is the difference between URLS with hashtags and hashtags with exclamation marks
What is difference SEO differencence between:
/index.php#mystate
/index.php#!mystate
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Facebook company pages, why some are simple urls and some are strange long urls?
I'm trying to set up this damn FB page for the company where I'm working for.
I think it's probably useless stuff, but I want to give a try.
I came up with this page:
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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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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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Should URLs categorize pages?
Say an online marketplace has catalogs of products. If there's a catalog called "Transformers" which contains a product named "Megatron", which set of URLs are ideal?
1) No categorization:
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Same page in different “locations” on same site - duplicate content? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
The same page, or rather the same content on a page is accessible from two very similar ...
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Am I correctly handling duplicate URLs for my homepage?
I own a Job Search site named www.conservationjobboard.com and have a concern about how the domain is viewed by search engines. The issue is that when the site was first designed, the default page was ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How do you hide file extension in URL?
I would like to drop the .aspx extension from my webpages. One reason is that I'm not sure I will stick to ASP.NET WebForms technology. How do you do it?
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Do accented words affect page rank?
I'm from Argentina and we use accents in words. Is this URL is worst for pagerank:
http://www.example.com/técnico-en-computación/
than this one:
http://www.example.com/tecnico-en-computacion/
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