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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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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What's the extent of the “damage” to having a broken URL found by the spiders (showing in Google Webmaster Tools)?
An error with our URL rewrite rules caused some pages to be not found (404 errors) when Google crawled our site.
I regularly watch for errors and fix database or coding issues when they arise. We ...
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How do I know whether a site is a daughter site of another?
Given http://www.ocfaustralia.org/ and site 2 http://griffith.ocfaustralia.org/, is there a way for me to tell whether site 2 is a daughter site for site 1?
That is, if I were to remove site 1 would ...
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“C# grid control”: how to encode this in URL from SEO perspective?
We are developing a WinForms grid control, and selling it thru our website worldwide. At the current stage of SEO works, we found that there are many popular search phrases with the "c#" word we can ...
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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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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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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 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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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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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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What is Easiest Way to Change URL Structure of Dynamic PHP Website?
I am a SEO guy and always facing this problem, that PHP sites make dynamic URL with IDs. This is not SEO friendly structure—like this /article.php?id=2987—and need to be changed like this ...
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What happens if the Canonical URL is the same as the actual page URL?
I might be asking a trivial question here, but how do the search engines treat loops created via rel="canonical" tag?
My scenario is that being a site having dynamic content, I have URLs as follows:
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Is it okay to use persian utf-8 characters in our urls?
It's best for SEO purposes that we use the main page keywords in our urls
For example stackoverflow uses this technique too.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/show-utf8-characters-in-console
I ...
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Address bar showing long URL
I recently upgraded my hosting account to Deluxe where I can host multiple websites. I added a domain name and created a folder in the root directory giving it the same name as my domain name and ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Google Webmaster Tools -> URL-Parameter after Migration from Magento
After migrating from magento to a different e-commerce system I can find lots of URL-Parameters with millions of monitored sites:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/8CDVm.png
Is it safe to reset those? Or ...
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CMS Made Simple: Why does home page return a 404 under www subdomain?
Anyone know why my homepage wont load with the www prefix.
Links such as
www.mysite.net/about-us
will load fine
but
www.mysite.net
returns a 404.
Everypage works including the home page if I ...
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How do I track a hosted URL on Namecheap.com with Google Analytics
I'm hosting a URL with NameCheap, and it is a URL frame for a blogspot.com account. I'm using Google Analytics to track the blogspot.com account, but I'd like to be able to track the NameCheap frame ...
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Displaying “index.php” in URL
Is there a best practice/convention to have www.example.com as opposed to www.example.com/index.php in a site's URL? I made the links to the homepage relative (i.e. href="index.php") as opposed to ...
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How Do I Prevent Users from Accessing a Page More Then Once?
Hi
I have a URL say for example http://www.xyz.com/form1.html. Now i need to hide this URL since I dont want people to keep coming back to this URL and using it. What I mean is I need this URL to be ...
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SEO benefits of URL as: www.example.com/category/subcategory/ [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
debating between different kinds of URL and see if one is more seo-friendly than other…
Our SEO advisors are claiming that having our URLs in the form:
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Set the base url of any menu item in Joomla
I'm not sure if this belongs here, superuser or stackoverflow
I'm using virtual domains, which means that www.company.com has one template www.community.com has another template user accounts are ...
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Can I use UTM urls in Google Analytics to track the performance of different *sections* of my site?
If I start using the UTM links in Google Analytics to try and track the conversion rate on for instance, search results, or product recommendations, will I be getting an accurate representation of ...
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Force url to use www [duplicate]
I'm confused about how to force my url to use www in the address.
I have a .htaccess code like this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
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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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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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301 redirects. What's best way to get list of all my URL's to start the process of redirecting?
New Magento version of a site about to launch. What the best way to create a list of URLs on my site that ensures I haven't missed any - so i can do redirects on them? And do I want to redirect all ...
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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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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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seo and php get variables
I'm building my own blogging system for my own website. If all I preload them using php get variables, will Google recognize and index them as different pages or do I need to do something in addition ...
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Is it ok to have case-insensitive URI?
If I have a URL like /writes/about/star-wars, and it is also accessible to users by /wRitEs/ABOUT/star-WARS, is that considered another page? Is a page allowed to have any combo of upper/lower-case ...
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Which of these URL scenarios is best for big link menus? [seo /user friendly urls]
Me and a good friend of mine are exploring the possibilities of either of the three scenarios for a website where each webpage has a menusystem with about 130 links.:
SCENARIO 1
the pages menu ...
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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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How to suppress PHPSESSID in URL for Googlebot?
I use cookie based sessions, and they work for normal interaction with our site. However, when Googlebot comes crawling our PHP framework, Yii, needs to append ?PHPSESSID to each URL, which doesn't ...
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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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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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How to check if someone is using my website resources?
How can I check whether someone is using the resources hosted on my website?
I have a website (coded in PHP) and I have uploaded a few images there. I want to know who is using those images on other ...
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URL formatting for a project
I'm currently in the process of developing a website for a client, and we're having disagreement on the url format for the site. I am recommending he do a format such as this:
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SEO - which URL's are the best?
In my application I have users who can post offers. An offer belongs to a category and a subcategory. The title of the offer can be long (~80 characters)
My options to have url's uniqueness, are:
i) ...
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IS SO URL static or Dynamic?
I understand that dynamic URL would be of the form page=123, while static would be with the post name in it.
SO has http://stackoverflow.com/questions/[ID]/[title] format.
Since the [title] is ...
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Using Dynamic URLs with more than one Variable in a Sitemap?
I have a site map with generated dynamic urls that I need included in the sitemap. However, the sitemap seems to be generating an error on the & character, so that pages with more than one ...
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Google has cached query string based dynamic page, but how/why?
I have a multipage form which works largely by posting the form details in query strings to the url. I know this isn't ideal and i've already changed it.
However, what was happening is that google ...
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Search Engine Friendly URLs with Query String
I have content that can be accessed from various ways. For example my content is reviews and I have three type of reviews:
/customer-reviews/11/slug.html
/third-party-reviews/11/slug.html
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Looking for a mailing list system with click tracking capability
we are looking for a mail system with the ability to know it a client has visited the link.
Our idea is to prepare a mail for a certain group of customers, on that mail we will include a url to our ...
