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url naming convention for improved seo and page rank [duplicate]
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What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL?
Using url rewriting methods, what is a better way to organize the structure of the URLs of your website for SEO and user ...
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How to calculate unicode URLs length for SEO?
As you know, URL Length is important for SEO.
There is a ambiguity in URL length calculation for Unicode URLs.
How search engines view my Unicode URLs?
For Example the following URLs are same, ...
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Does a filename's location (relative to the root) effect it's SEO?
I apologize if this answer is already somewhere else, I've searched for a while and come up empty.
My company has hired a 3rd party SEO company to help with our rankings. Most of the suggestions ...
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Abandoning high ranking website but using URL for SEO benefits
I have two websites. A pet products (e.g. petsite.com) website and a dog products (e.g. dogsite.com) website. Petsite runs on Prestashop and Dogsite runs on EKMPowershop. All the goods sold on ...
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Handling duplicate content caused by 'new' smart-url structure
I used to have an URL structure like this:
mydomain.com/search.php?key=value
which I've since changed to:
mydomain.com/key/value.
I've changed all the internal links in my site, but Google still ...
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Does changing the picture folder path of older website affect SEO?
I have a 2 years old WordPress based picture website. Now I am planning to use CDN for my website. But the problem is I have to move my picture folder to a subdomain.
For instance my current path is ...
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Creating temp/fake URLs for user generated content
I'm working on a site that hosts classified listings. I'm currently using hash/query params and Ajax to display content.
Example: www.site.com/viewpost?id=34089
We are now interested in making ...
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Do directory names and URL's paths make a difference for SEO?
Using a very simple example with cars, this seems to make more sense:
site.com/cars/audi/convertibles/red/
But since a person is likely to search for red convertible or red audi convertible, would ...
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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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URL structure for content that is updated daily
A small, simple site I am working on displays a single page with the day's best offers on it. The user is able to move back and forth between previous days. Which of the following URL structures works ...
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URL encoding - what difference to SEO? + or _ or - [duplicate]
I have a URL e.g.:
http://mysite.com/tracks/backing-track/101153/ABBA/Super+Trouper
QUESTION does it make a difference to SEO when using + or - or _ in the URL between words? Is one more readable ...
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The effect in Google of the word "the" in a URL?
Keywords in your URL are extremely weighted, and I am aware of most bad practices, but the question as to whether the word "the" in a URL, as in www.thewebdesigner.com, is a bad idea or not is very ...
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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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How to handle duplicate product pages for SEO?
I am using the following URL format to display products: mysite.com/category1/product.
Now I am finding certain products fall into more than 1 category and I would like the product to be listed in ...
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One Page Website, with jump links, but hide, display:none all other content except jump link clicked [duplicate]
I'm wondering how this website design/structure will work for SEO. I have example.com that I'm building. The only actual URL for the website is example.com. However, it will appear to the user that ...
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Do accented words affect page rank?
I'm from Argentina and we use accents in words. Is this URL is worst for pagerank:
/técnico-en-computación/ VS /tecnico-en-computacion/
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Pros and cons of language-specific URL's?
I've googled a bit if it's better to use language-specific URL's and most of the answers said yes. For example, for the about page it is better to use:
/en/about-us/
/de/uber-uns/
Than it is to use:
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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:
http://domain.com/blog/post/1225/bakemonogatari-cosplay-...
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Do i need to have a separate page for each article on my website?
I am using a database to store data such as articles, titles, meta and so on. Do I need to Have a separate page for each article so that my articles show up in the list when searched on Google?
Is is ...
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Should initials of names be seperated by a dot or by a hyphen for seo purposes
I wanted to use names with initials in the URL. For example if j.k. Brothers is the initials and name then is it good to make my URL like so:
sitename.com/j.k.brothers/listing/
Or would it be better ...
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Slashes in URLs and SEO
My question is simple: Is there any disadvantage (in terms of SEO and search engine behavior) to using / instead of other delimiters in URLs like http://example.com/en/items/1234/page3?
I vaguely ...
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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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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
http://www.mysite.com/...
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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. http://example.com/blog/the-answer-to-...
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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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#! in URL: Is there any merit to using the shebang (#!) in URL if there is no AJAX-loaded content, but otherwise dynamic page generation?
Is there any reason, possibly SEO related, to using the shebang (aka "hashbang") in rewritten URLs on a dynamic site, but one that does not use AJAX?
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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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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: http://...
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Using a hyphen in the domain name [duplicate]
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Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name ?
I am looking to buy a domain where the obvious choices have already been purchased.
Example: domaintest.com or domaintest.co....
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Targeting Multiple Zones in the US best URL method required
This is kind of a newbie question, but my boss asked me and I wasn't sure exactly how to answer. Id like to get some opinions from others that have hit this issue before.
Scenario:
We are wanting to ...
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Including title page name in PHP URLs
How do I show titles of the page in URLs?
Currently: http://websitename.com/index.php?c_id=18&start=0&m_id=1
Change To: http://websitename.com/index.php?c_id=title_of_the_page&start=0&...
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need help with making seo friendly links [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Good Practice for Formatting SEO-Friendly URLs?
I'm looking into seo-ing my urls and i was wording which of these link structures was better to use:
1) www.mydomain.com/...
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Depth of URLs and SEO [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL?
Does the depth of an URL affect SEO/Pagerank? Is there any max or optimal level for URL depth?
If you have, lets say, a website ...
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Same product name in different categories
I have two questions about URL structure for SEO.
I have one product belongs to multiple categories. Is this OK for SEO OR shall I give them different product names?
example.com/shirts/denim/...
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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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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
www.example.com/this-is-the-same-url-...
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Separate URLs for localised content
Should pages which are almost identical, bar a few minor changes for particular locations, share the same URL? I am not talking of pages in different languages, but pages which have minor differences ...
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Get google to index JavaScript pages as separate pages
I have a product page with say 10 products, that loads up all the content when the page loads. Then JavaScript hides content till a product is selected. Then JavaScript hides and unhides information. ...
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SoLoMo landingpage localized regionalized down to cities and SEO sitemap.xml
I'm working on an SoLoMo (social local mobile) web application. How would you realize the site and the landingpages that they are seo and crawler friendly? Any best-practises out there?
I know there ...
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Does maintaining URL structure matter between different sites on the same domain?
I have a client that has a yearly event. Each year they create a new, complete website for their event in a subdirectory on their event's domain. Last year their URL had this structure:
http://event....
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Is it okay to use apostrophe's in the URL? Are there any negative consequences?
In particular I'm interested in any SEO consequences.
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