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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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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SEO: adding an unecessary description key in dynamic url is it good or not?
in the typical DB driven cms/ecommerce site you will have items pages at urls in some form similar to:
http://www.domain.com/item.php?id=36
1) Is it good for SEO purpose to add a sort of ...
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Does the average user care about the URL? [closed]
I was having discussion with a co-worker for a project regarding URLs. My question is does the average user care how the URLs are formatted? Whether it's descriptive or relevant to the content they ...
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Link form correct, or, punishable by search engines?
I have the following dilemma with the links of a WordPress blog that I work with, I don't know if the way it creates the link to the images is ok or not so good.
For example:
Article URL: ...
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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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Will multilingual URL fix give me SEO juice?
I'm working on a fairly large site, which has multilingual options, but not correctly implemented:
Currently:
www.example.com/this-is-a-url-of-a-certain-page
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Should my “convenience” link that redirects to page 1 be a permanent or temporary redirect?
So, I have a simple blog. Included in my blog is tags. There are two ways to reach the first page of the posts belonging to a tag though. There is /tags/foobar and there is /tags/foobar/1 (where ...
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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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adding slugs to the URLs afterwards
we have a website for last 5 months and we did not used slug at bottom level elements
so urls was like
/apps/webmasters/badges/1100
would it make sense to add name to the URL after that point and ...
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What is the term used to describe multiple domains pointing to the same web service?
Where the same site is available via
account761.Mainsite.com/
OR
Mycustomdomain.com/
And of course has the exact same modules and sections and pages under these "roots"
Back in the day, ...
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Should I use a canonical URL?
I'm currently in the process of building a charts website with music from Soundcloud.
The charts will be 'cleared' every week.
My base URL will be: http://example.com/
Which will contain the charts ...
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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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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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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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Tracking based on URL referral?
Users on my site are given unique URL's for me to then track how many people they have referred to my site.
IE: http://www.example.com/FQ3DL (FQ3DL being the unique code/url)
The first thing I'd ...
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Find child domains of a URL
Is there a way to find all the child domains of a URL?
e.g. parent url: www.example.com
Sample child domains:
www.a.example.com
www.abracadabra.example.com
www.zoo.example.com
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Multiple Google Analytics code for url under same domain
I have one domain: www.example.com, and www.example.com/sales. The analytic code on both urls are different.
So when I login to my Google account it displays two separate analytic accounts. on ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Removing URL styles with CSS + SEO
I want to display a grid of images 4x4 with thumbnails and a title above each of them. I want to highlight the thumbnail and title and add a hyperlink to it. This works well in our CMS.
I would like ...
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how to hide domain hosting forward path
I have one hosting account with domain.com and we are hosting about 5 different websites. I have 5 folders in the hosting account each one with a unique "/name", and of course 5 www.12345.coms. I have ...
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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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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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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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Link absolute URIs correctly when loading pages locally
When developing pages, I like to load them in my browser locally to see how they look rather than have to deploy them to the server every time. I'm using Lift and server deployment takes a few ...
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Does the url path have to be same with the actualy categories we have setup?
Say for example we got an eshop, with a category "car spare parts" that includes a category called "tires" which has our product in there.
We have created a menu on the left where the visitor clicks ...
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How to use Canonical and Original-Source Correctly, on multilingual website?
was wondering wether searchengines index this correctly in a multilingual website:
Currently, the htaccess eats nice urls on pages like
/de/somepage and rewrites them invisibly to /somepage?ln=de
so ...
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how to re categorize all the articles on my site
I started a blog some months before. I tried to maintain them in a proper category. So people can search/get contents easily. But now i feel, all the articles are being messed up.
Please suggest a ...
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Are all URLs in Drupal in the “body” of “pages” hardcode, or is there a way to localize them?
Currently links, images, files, etc.
http://1.1.1.1/drupal/../<resource_name.ext>
Is it possible to do:
/../<resource_name.ext>
If the questions is not clear, just let me know. ...
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Would this be considered keyword stuffing URL?
I have about 130 products on my site, and i want the URL to look like this,
site.com/unique-product-name-ratings-reviews-prices
Since I have 130 of these pages, I am concerned about the ...
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“Included” search phrases in URLs/titles/H1s and SEO
When designing a new URL/folder structure for our website, we faced one interesting problem related to choosing best keywords from SEO perspective. We call it "included search phrases". It will be ...
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Are there some permalink typology better than others for SEO?
I am pretty new in WordPress and on my blog I am using permalinks.
I have seen that there are 5 topologies of permalinks and I don't know if some types are better than others for search engines for ...
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Image folder name for SEO [duplicate]
We develop and sell ActiveX and .NET controls through our website. After doing some redesign works, every product will have its own top-level folder on the webserver. For instance, the home page for ...
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Backslash character %5c in URL makes relative links fail
Please can anyone help? Somehow Google has indexed the page:
http://www.wiseowl.co.uk/courseware%5Cms-office.htm
This looks fine, but the page should be:
...
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URL Naming practise
Hi wanted to check if at the end of the URL (http://www.abcd.com/product-name/subproduct,default,sc.html) we have characters like default,sc and then .html, does having default,sc have an impact on ...
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No Obvious Answer - Query-Strings and Javascript
Say I have this main page /my-site/all-my-bath-soaps which lists all my products.
It has a search filter text box that uses javascript to filter the products they want to see on that page (the URL ...
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How do I make sure my website does not get blocked at my office for "potential harmful content? Do I need to adjust settings?
I created a new website that it is blocked from my office admnis for "potential harmful content".
Is there a setting that I need to change? Do I need some sort of certificate or plugin installed?
...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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