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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Are images with non-standard extensions (such as “.ashx”, instead of “.png” or “.jpg”) bad for SEO?
Certain CMS' running on IIS like Sitecore do not give image files appropriate file formats like .png or .jpg by default, but instead link to images as:
<img src="/media/Some Folder/EX-IMG.ashx" ...
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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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Using subdomains or directories for main categories?
I have a website which references places to travel to in the world. Those places are (of course) grouped by countries.
Here is an example of an actual URL of my website:
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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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Does domain suffix affect SEO? [duplicate]
my first question here! I have a question regarding URL suffixes. Say I have a company, let's call it example-it. If I then purchase the domain www.example.it, thus incorporating the company name into ...
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Why extensions are hidden in URL?
I know HTML and CSS like a mid level still not a pro. Many times I see in URL extensions are hidden (e.g. .html, .php) but everybody is not doing this.
Why do they do that? Is it for security, or for ...
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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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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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Wordpress plugins or any other script for adding unique post-string / sub-string based on a defined URL [closed]
I wants to add some sub-string and sometimse post-string automatically on URLs linked on my site. For Example: if in a post I have added an URL like http://www.site.com.
And I want to add a ...
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URL requests with [object] in place of parameter values
We're seeing requests to our server with the literal [object] replacing the values where parameters should be. For example: http://example.com/users/[object].
I've found some suggestions that it ...
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How can I force Google to re-index my site?
I changed the structure of my URLs.
The pages are already indexed by Google and have the following structure:
http://mypage.com/myfolder/page.apsx
The new structure is:
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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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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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Redirect a url to another url in IIS 7.5
I have no idea why this isn't working. I've tried creating map rules and then rewritng and redirecting the url. I've tried just redirecting it with a simple rewrite rule and no matter what, the only ...
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URL rewrite and domain frame
I have registered the domain www.posti.sh at nic.sh. The website is on the server www.myskoob.com/postish. Unfortunately, nic.sh does not support frames, i.e. that the domain stays posti.sh as it ...
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How do I forward/redirect a website from a folder in a subdomain to another server?
I have a client with a site at subdomain.example.com/folder
I've cloned it locally in MAMP. Once I've made some changes, I need to host it at an alternative physical server. (I intend to use a ...
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Google non-SSL search not passing the “q” parameter with keyword
I am building a web analytics application for search engine traffic only and right now I am looking into providing some information about keywords that google does not show. Like not provided keyword.
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How to retrieve PageRank for a blogger blog?
I know this sounds like a stupid/obvious question, but when I try to retrieve the page rank of my blog using online tools, I don't get any result.
My blog is know as ...
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Need some help on tomcat URL mod_rewrite or mod_jk
I am trying to remove the context name from the URL of my server.
Current URL - http://www.domainname.com/MyApp/
What I need to make is to make it available at - www.domainname.com/
So it is only ...
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2answers
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What is the effect of Dynamic URL's on SEO
I have around 150 dynamic URL's as below
http://mydomain.com/training/register.php?key=01ue3be299a-6bc1-1030-a2db-e4115bd593d8
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1answer
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Trouble with .htacess redirection
I use this redirect rule to redirect users from www.domain.com/admin to www.domain.com/wp-admin on a WordPress site.
RedirectMatch 301 \@admin http://www.domain.com/wp-admin
The problem is that ...
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What is the feature that imports URL information into facebook and google+?
What I am trying to do.
I want to be able to import heading, short description and an image into my website, just using a link.
I am using Joomla but can switch to any CMS, or try to build an ...
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1answer
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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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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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1answer
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What is the way to properly implement a Facebook Like button on a page for best SEO purposes?
On our site we want to put a Facebook Like button/widget-thingy. It is possible to create a like button, where the URL associated with the button is the page it sits on, rather than a Facebook page.
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2answers
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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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map a sub page of a domain to google sites
I control a subpage of a site: economics.university.edu/summerschool
I have access to CNAME, etc. However I want to use Google sites to create the site and then map the URL above to my Google site. ...
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2answers
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URL for a blogger blog issue
I am hosting the URL (www.getyourpansoff.com) of a friend as an add-on in a bluehost account. I want to use this URL for her blog (get-your-pans-off.blogspot.com).
I have configured the URL in the ...
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1answer
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Redirecting a subdomain from wordpress.com to an external web address
I have a question about redirecting a subdomain of a blog hosted on wordpress.com to an external URL.
Given the following:
1) I own a domain name foobar.com purchased from another registrar (not ...
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How to handle URLs with diacritic characters
I am wondering how to handle URLs which correspond to strings containing diacritic (á, ǚ, ´...). I believe what we're seeing mostly are URLs where diacritic characters where converted to their closest ...
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Remove dynamic generated end of URL
I have a Joomla 2.5 website with joomshopping and AceSEF extension component.
SEF URL generation works just fine except one issue.
For some reason, there are dynamic parts generated in the end of ...
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2answers
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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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Robots.txt never downloaded but some blocked URLs in GWT
There is something I don't understand in Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) for my Wordpress site.
In menu "Blocked URLs", it mention that my robots.txt has never been downloaded but there are some blocked ...
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2answers
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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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1answer
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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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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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SEO implications of having multiple languages available at same URL
I am in the process of translating a set of websites to multiple languages. Would there be any negative implications if I were to serve each different language from identical URLs?
I fully intend to ...
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Which web framework uses 'eservice_enu' as part of its default path? [closed]
I've seen http://example.com/eservice_enu/ all over the place, especially on sites that handle payments. Which framework is this?
I realize any site could choose this path component arbitrarily.
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app URI scheme fallback URLs
I am working on a mobile friendly website and liked the idea of having my URLs open in native apps; like say to Google Maps or Facebook using custom URI protocols eg fb:// or comgooglemaps://. ...
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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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I am moving my site from a virtual directory to a dedicated server, can I save me SEO urls via a web.config change?
I have been hosting my site in a shared environment at http://www.example.com/MYSITE/ for a while and I've built up a following there, I have decent ranking in Google and Bing, as well as I've been ...
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1answer
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URL masking with .htaccess
I need a hardcore programmer to help me with URL masking.
So this is my situation.
My website www.michaelfotograf.dk/blog/ is the main site that needs to be configured.
I have another ...
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2answers
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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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What is the difference between URL's with and without trailing slash
Should we always add the final / or avoid it ?
Example
/url-without-trailing-slash
/url-with-a-trailing-slash/
Does it make a difference?
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Does Google Analytic count mismatching/unconfigured URLs?
Say url www.mysite.com is registered in Google Analytics and the tracking ID is UA-12345678-90.
What happens if another site with URL www.anothersite.com uses this ID too? Does analytic count visits ...
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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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votes
3answers
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Why are URLs with my domain name at the end showing up in analytics?
I have a multi-language WordPress site that has been live since the last 3 months and today when I checked Analytics, I saw a lot of weird URLs:
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2answers
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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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1answer
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Updating Old Site To New. Which Content Management System Lets Me Retain My Old URL? [duplicate]
My old site is done in HTML with .html as file extension.
To allow all those users who visit sites by typing a specific page url, and URL structure being good, I do not retain every single old url as ...
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Would this be considered keyword stuffing?
we have a website with a lot of galleries filled under a couple of different categories. A while ago we migrated all the URLs from for example:
...
