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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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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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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Sitemap XML version vs simple text (urls list) version, do you know what are the pros?
I usualy submit simple text urls list as sitemap on Google webmaster tools. It's just a matter of simplicity, a simple text file is lightweight, easier to read also for humans (actually for me). :)
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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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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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SEO: do we need to redirect also pages with final slash?
i read on Google SEO REPORT CARD that for search engines this page:
http://www.domain.com/somepath
is a different page than this one:
http://www.domain.com/somepath/ (note the final slash '/')
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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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Are shorter URLS better for SEO?
Many people shorten their URLs. But as per my understanding it creates overhead of extra redirection, other can not guess about the target article with their url, and it should be less friendly for ...
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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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Should a canonical URL be search engine friendly?
I'm using Drupal with search engine friendly URLs. The way Drupal works is that there's two ways to reference a node with SEF URLS switched on:
The SEF way, eg. ...
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Clean URL: with or without “?”
Simple question
What is better:
http://www.example.com/product/123/subpage/456.html
or
http://www.example.com/product?123/subpage/456
As far as I know they would rank the same SEO wise, but my ...
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Good Practice for Formatting SEO-Friendly URLs?
Does anybody know what the best SEO practice and most effective format for URLs is currently?
All lowercase or mixed case? Example:
http://www.mysite.com/What-is-My-Site/
OR
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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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Why is www. working but no-www is not?
Right now my site runs on http://www.example.com but I need to run that without www also i.e example.com
Can some body tell me here that how can i do that?
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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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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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Should I use a file extension or not?
I've always wondered about this and never found a good solution.
But this question reminded me of it.
When I have a URL on my website it can be displayed and accessed any of the following ways:
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Poor Man's Clean URLs vs. Mod_Rewrite
At the company where I work, we're getting ready to design a new web site, and there's some disagreement about how to do clean URLs. Over the past year we've been making small improvements to our ...
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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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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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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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Are there any technical issues with having an 'internationalized' domain name?
In my language there are numerous characters that are not allowed in the standard domain name. However, most of these can be easily replaced with safe equivalents (mostly dropping accents í becomes i ...
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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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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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What is good URI design?
How should a good URI be designed? What are the factors to consider? What are the pros and cons of the variants?
Factors that makes up a good URI
Stability over time
Short
Give the user an idea ...
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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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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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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 do you remove invalid characters when creating a friendly url (ie how do you create a slug)?
Say I have this webpage: http://ww.xyz.com/Product.aspx?CategoryId=1
If the name of CategoryId=1 is "Dogs" I would like to convert the URL into something like this: http://ww.xyz.com/Products/Dogs
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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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Should I include “www” in my canonical URLs? What are the pros and cons?
What are the pros and cons of having http://www.example.com/ vs http://example.com/?
For example a problem I'm aware of is that if I use a domain without www I can't set a cookie for the current ...
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How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization?
When I set up a site in multiple languages, how should I set up my urls for search engines and usability?
Let's say my site is www.example.com, and I'm translating into French and Spanish. What is ...
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URLs: Should I use hyphens or underscores?
Which is better for search engines?
example.com/my_cool_page.html or example.com/my-cool-page.html
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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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How important is a unique number in URLs for inclusion in Google News?
Various SEO consultancies have recommended that to get a site included in Google News, the URLs have to conform to a rather strict, and non-obvious format namely that they have to:
Display a ...
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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?
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URL strategy for multilingual website [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I get search engines to crawl my site and see a localised view of my data?
I was wondering what would be the best URL strategy for a multilingual website (for an ...
