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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mod_rewrite change . to -
I'm moving my site and the URL structure has changed because of the new CMS. The urls would be similar to http://www.example.com/my.products.htm on the new site we are changing the URLs to this ...
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Do keyword-based filenames and URLs really matter?
We've developed a dynamic web application which uses URLs such as product.cfm?id=42 but our marketing team says we should use search friendly URLs and put our keywords into the URLs (so it would be ...
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When choosing a domain does including your brand affect SEO performance?
I've been asked to build a "landing page" for a local branch of an international corporation. While the corporation has a well-established domain name, the local office wants to use a unique, ...
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Squeezing all the SEO out of a URL as possible
I am working on an ecommerce site, I told our SEO consultant that I plan to make the URL scheme: /products/<id>/<name>. This is similar to Stackoverflow's URLs which are ...
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How to block access to a sub-site with mod_rewrite?
Let's say I have the sites siteA.com and siteB.com. They are hosted such that siteB.com actually points to siteA.com/siteB.
How can I block someone from visiting siteA.com/siteB using mod_rewrite?
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In a URI, what does the suffix “.do” stand for?
I see URI ending in ".do" on some enterprise websites. I've always been curious to know what that stands for, but my Google searches have so far not turned up an answer.
Here is an example from ATT ...
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Will Google preserve URL parameters when indexing my site if the explicit in the site and/or site map
I have written some functionality that opens tabbed content on page when visiting a page via a URL with certain parameters.
What i have been asked is that will Google, or any other search engine, ...
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Why use a Top Level Domain
I am trying to understand the use of Top Level Domains. Do they help from a SEO perspective? Lets say I have a US site and a Canada site. For US, I create www.foo.com and for Canada I create ...
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Which Document Requires A Single Uri For Web Resources?
I know that giving short, clear URI that do not change with time is considered good manners, but I need to create a system that is designed not to have them. But to do this I need to go back and find ...
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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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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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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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How to solve this problem with my subdomain?
I have my site hosted at http://blog.rgksugan.in.
I have set a subdomain in it for my blog.
But after landing on my blog whatever other links I click i get the link as
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Should I use subdomains or subfolders for my user groups?
I run a photography website where each user has its own subdomain (i.e. user.site.com). I'm thinking of adding user groups but I'm unable to decide if I should also associate a separate subdomain or ...
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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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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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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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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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What URL should I use for my blog archives?
I'm starting a new blog and I have the ability to publish my archives (old post urls that will receive most of my search traffic) anywhere I choose without any repercussions. I've been taking some ...
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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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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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I want to run a URL shortener for my own usage, what do I need to do?
I am tired of using external URL shorteners, my favorite "tr.im" went out of business. I know there are some that will do reporting for me, but I want to run my own, so I can see the usage myself, for ...
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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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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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SEO and Changeable-But-Optional URL's
Is there any sort of downside for a URL being changeable?
Take any stack exchange question for example. The URL looks something like this:
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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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Multi Language URLs
I'm building an online store that will be supported in 3 languages: English, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese.
My question is whether or not it is a good idea to make language specific ...
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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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What is the http://go2.wordpress.com/ redirect?
Hi I see a wordpress.com blog and on the latest post there is a redirect for the external links via "http://go2.wordpress.com/" redirect. This redirect is obfuscated - on hovering the link it displays ...
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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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Optimizing with filtered results?
I'm finishing up development on a tourist information website that lists hotels, restaurants, bars, among other things for an up-and-coming tourist area in Cambodia:
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URI design for many-to-many relationship: advice needed
I'm stuck designing URIs for a many-to-many relationship between users and other resources. Specifically I'm having difficulty predicting the consequences of different approaches.
Given a resources ...
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include full category hierarchy in url or only the “leaf”?
I'm currently redesigning a site that organizes information into categories. Some of these categories contain subcategories (and some of those contain even more subcategories).
I'm trying to decide ...
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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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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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Subdomains or folders?
I'm working on a services type web application and I have to choose how to set up the URLs for the customers. Which solution is better, as a subdomain (e.g.: client.myservice.com) or as a folder ...
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Combine websites without hurting SEO
I have a friend that I'm helping out with some web design. Basically, the guy owns a few businesses that are all complementary of each other and he wants to combine them all into a single site. ...
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URL paths and their effect on SEO
We are developing a website where there will be two distinct types of content: galleries and photos.
It makes little sense to use URL paths like /gallery/photo as some photos can appear in more than ...
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How to allow custom domains from end-users?
This is one of the things that has interested me for awhile, and I know that the service I am developing would greatly benefit from this.
Various sites (Ning, Tumblr, Wordpress, etc) allow users to ...
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Why is it preferable to use paths with slashes instead of query-string variables in a web page URL?
Why is it preferable to use paths with slashes instead of query-string variables in a web page URL?
