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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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 ...
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Multilingual website URL & SEO
For example, I see most of the Google's properties is using the hl query string, e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/?hl=zh-TW
and compare the above URL with
http://www.youtube.com/zh-TW/..
From the SEO ...
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Should a URL match the page's title?
Should the URL of a page match its title? For example:
Http://example.com/about-cats.html
<title>About Cats</title>
Furthermore, if that title were to be changed by the page's author, ...
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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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Google on capital letters in url
I created one of my websites with the following url structure:
http://domain.com/Animal/Pig
http://domain.com/Pigs
If I change the url map to lower case letters instead, will google reindex those ...
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How do I word my url so that it doesn't get blocked or appear spammy
I'm creating a fairly large site. Will my links appear spammy if I use the same word as in the pathfile in the url? For example:
www.example.com/apples/great-apple-recipes
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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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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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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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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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Recovery from URL structure change?
in July this year, we have changed the URL structure of the website from:
Post: domain.com/blog/post/986/dance/heart-beats-dance-video-by-chinatsu/
Category: domain.com/blog/index/cosplay/
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Apache URL Rewrite
I'm trying and failing to get a URL rewrite working, firstly I'm doing it in the vhost declaration, is that right?
What I'm trying to do is take any URL which has;
view.php?id=[a 1 or multidigit ...
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What's the deal with URLs for Yandex.Metrica not prepended with “http”?
The description of Yandex.Metrica explicitly says that URLs like //mc.yandex.ru/metrika/watch.js (no http: in front) that the web site owner has to insert into his pages are not erroneous. So for ...
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Why is “www.mysite.com” different from “mysite.com”?
In any browser if I use www.mysite.com or just mysite.com the web page is correctly retrieved, but I am having trouble with Google Analytics and Facebook App.
Facebook:
To be able to get Likes, I ...
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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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sitemap for non-CMS based website
I've just finished a new version of my website but now I don't know how to generate a correct sitemap.
Now the website is based on PHP files and folder and in blog folder there is Wordpress.
This is ...
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Why would a website's URL scheme be changed from short and user-friendly URLs to long URLs?
I wonder why some website changes their short and user-friendly URLs to long URLs - examples:
cricinfo.com ----> espncricinfo.com
indiafm.com ---> bollywoodhungama.com
Why would a webmaster ...
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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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url naming convention for improved seo and page rank [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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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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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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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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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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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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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Formatting/Selecting URL for best search engine results
This is kind of a newb question, but my boss asked me and I wasn't sure exactly how to answer. Id like to get some opinions from others that have hit this issue before.
Scenario:
We are wanting to ...
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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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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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Does the keyword blog in url impove seo?
I have seen a couple of site which has high number of hits. They are mostly tutorial sites and blogs that address software issue/errors. I wonder if the keyword "blog" has a very positive effect in ...
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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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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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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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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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SEO and URL Shorteners
When you have a link from lets say twitter that is t.co/foo that links back to your website how does that effect SEO and how do the major search engines handle Shortened URLs?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Accented characters representation in the URL
We have support for various languages in our website, including Spanish, French and Swedish.
For now, the links in the site are NOT encoded before sent to the browser, sending the real accented chars ...
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Streaming audio from a webpage
I want to be able to stream audio from another webpage through mine, but i do not know how to find the url for each audio file located on a separate webpage. It would also be extremely helpful to do ...
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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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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 ...
