New answers tagged url
1
There are many approaches you can take to resolve this problem which are:
Rel Canonical See: How to use rel canonical properly
.htaccess See: Convert forward backslashes into forward slashes (Look for same header).
noindex See: 2 main ways to prevent search engines from indexing specific pages.
Personally I would opt to use the rel canonical as this will ...
0
Web sites typically duplicate a lot in the URL because URLs are often based on folder structure. Having keywords at the end is more spammy than having them at the beginning where they might be used to specify the template in which the data is shown, or the folder in which the data is stored.
Because so many sites duplicate keywords across all their URLs, I ...
1
The repetition of -ratings-reviews-prices in the URL would probably be considered spammy as it would appear on every single product page without variation in the position and, if you are not careful, without the appropriate context. In other words, if you do it, you had better have actual prices, ratings, and reviews on each page to avoid a different ...
0
Totally agree as explain by "Stephen Ostermiller" but I would like to mentioned the trick behind that to hide extension of URLs. And for that you have to use .htaccess rewrite rule, here is the script that help you out:
Redirect external .php requests to extensionless URL
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(.+)\.php([#?][^\ ]*)?\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.php$ ...
0
That can be normal.
If you're building an app for this, one thing that might be worth looking into is integrating the top search query data from Google's Webmaster Tools (since it does include these queries, even if no referrer was sent for the request). There's a rough "API" to get that data (see the blog post) with a reference implementation in Python, ...
0
If the content is different at each URL, then Googlebot will treat URL as its own page. You have different URLs, different content, you will have multiple pages in the Google index.
But you might not want all the version indexed. It sounds like they are registration pages for different groups of people or for different purposes. Maybe you only want one ...
0
Your .htaccess looks like you are using Wordpress. Is this true? If that is the case, just go to Settings -> General and change WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) to versions with 'www'.
18
There are several reasons to remove extensions from URLs
To make the URLs look cleaner.
To make URLs easier to type.
To make URLs easier to remember.
To make URLs more SEO keyword friendly
To be able to change technologies -- If you ever want to move your site from one technology to the other, its easiest to do so without users even knowing if there are ...
4
All Web servers have one or more "default files". It's the file that will be displayed whenever a visitor goes to a URL that ends in a slash '/', i.e. a folder.
If the default file name on your web server is index.php and a visitor goes to www.example.com/pagename/, they are actually accessing www.example.com/pagename/index.php
If there is no trailing /, ...
1
When using international characters in your URLs there are a few issues to be aware of:
Percent URL encoding requires a character set. To display the URL correctly in the web browser, you should use "UTF-8" character set when percent URL encoding your slug. See: What is the proper way to URL encode Unicode characters?
If there are lots of encoded ...
0
Many online pagerank checkers use cached results and therefor the results can be old or you may even find that your site is not listed.
Use a ToolBar
You should use a toolbar for your browser to view real time page ranks, here's a few:
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Chrome
Pagerank for technotes.tostaky.biz
The current pagerank on the front page for ...
-1
If you have the list of those URLs then you can delete those URLs with of help of Google Webmaster tool. Visit the link for complete pictorial description: http://infoheap.com/how-to-remove-urls-from-google-index-using-webmaster-tools/
0
Problem comes from encoding of robots.txt file. UTF-8 encoding is recommended by Google.
0
For our conversion, I ran Xenu's Link Sleuth against the site to gather all the URLs on the site and exported it to a file I then imported into MS Access for processing.
I then purchased Scott Belosavich's URL Rewrite Import/Export module, did the full export to find the fields necessary for import, aligned this with the table I had and then generated all ...
0
The URL isn't important for SEO. And it's really logic, because otherwise everyone would spam it.
Just look at the most popular newspapers, which only use numbers in their URL, in order to keep it shorter.
1
As long as the URLs are static there are only minor differences.
URL become part of the SERP and like with your page's title not
all characters are shown. So I decided against having the date as
part of my URL to make the URL shorter. This makes them also better
readable when written somewhere else.
Also I replace all special characters with the minus (-) ...
Top 50 recent answers are included
