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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Why treat these as different URLs?
These are all strictly different urls:
http://www.example.com/page
http://www.example.com/pAge
http://www.example.com/page/
http://www.example.com/paGE/
I get that it conforms to the strict ISO ...
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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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How to track specific Referrals with Google Analytics
How do I have to alter a Referral link to my website to specifically track it with Google Analytics? I already discovered the URL Builder but isn't there are shorter way?
For example:
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Procedure to register an URL
this is a newbie question.
I want to set-up a web site (let call it www.mywebsite.com) on a server I own with a public IP address:
What is the precise procedure to register the URL? What I mean ...
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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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Moving Sharing buttons when blog posts change urls [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Retrieve Facebook Like count after changing URL structure for entire website
I want to move a blog from http://blog.wordfruit.com to http://wordfruit.com/blog
With ...
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Working with different URL structures
As I'm quite newbie to this field, I've doubts and there are some I couldn't find on Google, i.e:
If I'm not wrong, index.html makes it possible to avoid to add the filename to the url, ...
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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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How do search engines handle URL's when it comes to SEO?
I am building a website using Symfony. At the moment, the "raw" URL's being used are like this:
www.localhost.com/mainpage/home
www.localhost.com/events/1/name-of-the-event
When the development of ...
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What is difference between URI and URL
I have read these pages http://www.w3.org/TR/uri-clarification/http://www.damnhandy.com/2007/11/19/uri-vs-url-whats-the-difference/
I know basic about URL,URN,URI! and little on their difference! but ...
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Is it correct to have domains with more than 3 levels?
I've been arguing for some time about this topic, now I'd like the opinion of professionals.
My point is that a domain should be made of 2 or 3 levels at most, like:
mysite.com
blog.mysite.com
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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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Can Apache “Correct” URL Case?
Let's say I keep every word of file names capitalized. For example, Home.php or MultipleWordTitle.html.
Is there any way for Apache to redirect requests for incorrectly-cased URLs to the capitalized ...
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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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http://www.example.com/http://www.example.com/ in Apache log?
I run a website, let's say www.example.com. On it I have a path and file, say www.example.com/path/file.html.
The Apache log lists GET requests like: GET /path/file.html HTTP/1.1
Which is correct, ...
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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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what is a no-text[0-9] requests?
I have a bunch of requests coming through on my site which looks like the one below:
example.com/page/no-text-1154169030774935240
Is this hacking attempts or search engines?
EDIT: my question is ...
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How should incorrectly encoded URLs be handled?
Just recently noticed that some sites link with the URL incorrectly percent-encoded, to which my server (LAMP) responds with a 404 Not Found.
For example, for a URL of mine like this:
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SEO - which URL's are the best?
I'm using .htaccess with RewriteRule to create SEO-friendly URL's. However, I have a few questions about this:
First of all, I noticed many websites end their URL's with .html (or another ...
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what would happen to my domains if my domain provider company bankrupted
I am thinking to transfer all my domains to one registerer so that the control will be easy.
But I am a little bit worried about the following question;
what would happen to my domains if my domain ...
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SEO - reducing URL length
Take a recent question:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6479771/properties-of-inner-exception-are-disposed
Instead of having an integer, if we base 36 encode the question ID we get 3uvtn, cutting ...
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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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why does stackoverflow question urls have the question id before seo friendly 'question'
Take for example this random question Tool or plugin required to show out in which html files a given css selectors is used, notice that the relevant part is /questions/16999.
Now, it being possible ...
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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 ...
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product in multiple categories - duplicate content problem [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Content appearing under multiple categories; anything I can do to prevent duplicate penalty?
What is the best practice to display a product that may be in several ...
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Mobile URL strategy
I am going to be using jQuery Mobile to create a mobile version of my site.
My question is about the best practice on the location of the mobile site, specifically, the URL. I am looking into two ...
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SEO : urls : best place for the id
I would like to know what's the best location for an id in a SEO optimized URL:
http://www.site.com/id/slug-title
http://www.site.com/slug-title-id
What do you think ?
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SEO: targeted or generic URLs performance
I'm working on a website that sells DYI products. 2 of the products categories are save-paint and save-cabling. Since the products can help you save money they could also be part of a save-money ...
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which URL should I chose for mobile?
I was looking everywhere (as well as on Google's blog) and could not find a straight answer to this question: which URL is the best for mobile from an SEO perspective? Is there a difference between:
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Google Analytics - Goals setup regular expression match
I have urls like the following:
http://example.com/item/1
http://example.com/item/1341
http://example.com/item/33324
I want to set up a funnel in Google Analytics and I understand that I can use a ...
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Language Specific URLs for SEO
I'm currently building a website that is not targeted to an English speaking audience. So my thoughts are that if I were to make the URLs in the language of choice (in this case Spanish) then would ...
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How to optimise the url for search engines?
I have a php template which has one index.php and all the different pages (content1.html, content2.html etc) are shown on the index.phppage. So for example I can open ...
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Tricky mod_rewrite challenge
I list about 9,000 records on my little site. At the moment I'm showing them with a dynamic page, like
http://domain.com/records.php?id=019031
But I'd like to start using meaningful URLs like this ...
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Can I use asterisks in URLs?
Are there any reasons I shouldn't use an asterisk (*) in a URL?
Background:
With asterisks, I could provide these nice and user friendly (or what do you think??) URLs:
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Is a URL with a query string better or worse for SEO then one without one?
I want to know, is there a huge difference in terms of SEO between these URLs:
mysite.com/ontario/toronto/listings
or
mysite.com/listings.php?p=ontario&c=toronto
Will one URL rank ...
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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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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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Google ranking - difference between example.com and example.com/?ref=id
Does it impact a site's Google ranking if I link to the site with a "referrer" query-string? e.g: example.com/?ref=mysite instead of example.com ?
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Url's with same content , but different: trailing slash and .html
I have a website with the following url:
http://www.site.com/folder/
But I also have the following url:
http://www.site.com/folder.html
Is this really bad for Google SEO ?
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Duplicate content - linking to other versions of same page [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Two URLs pointing to almost the same content
If I have a page, that has this url:
domain.com/category/something/
but can also be accessed through these urls:
...
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Hide a file showing up in google search [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to protect PDF file from indexing?
Hi guys,
Really basic question here I'm sure - I'm not a webmaster however am thrown into it sometimes!!
We have a particular ...
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siteground hosting forwarding
I would like to ask (maybe simple) question for you.
I have a website which is called let's say
www.website1.com
on different hosting provider(siteground) I have
www.website2.com
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Does the main URL of the website matter most in Google?
Say I have a website/blog about 'tech news' at my URL mattynews.com, and my website is dedicated for 'tech news' with friendly SEO, and someone else has a site with the URL technews.com - will they ...
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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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Is SEO effected when URL changes from .php to not including .php [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
SEO - Changing file extension
Hi,
Is SEO effected when URL changes from .php to not including .php? For example, if you change a URL from ...
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What does WWW do?
To be clear: I am not asking whether or not I should use www in my url, or what the pros and cons are, that topic is well covered. I also wasn't sure if this was a Stack Overflow, Server Fault, or ...
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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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Targeting Multiple Zones in the US best URL method required
This is kind of a newbie 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 ...
