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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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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 www....
obautista
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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 /questions/<id&...
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Which URL format is better? example.com/[id]/title OR example.com/title/[id].html [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
SEO : urls : best place for the id
My site uses URL rewriting in both formats (for different things), but I'm wondering which one is the better approach?
http://www.example....
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Google shows subdomain of main site instead of add on domain URL
I use Lunarpages and have set up a few add on domains to my main account. These show up as sub-domains of my main account, but they can be reached by using the new domain I've created.
So:
...
Welsher
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http://url works but www.url doesnt
My website http://bakasura.in works fine. when i try to visit it via www.bakasura.in it doesnt work.
What is the problem ?
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How to handle old URLs (from previous setup) after migrating to Drupal?
What would the best way to setup (configure) URLs used in previous versions of a site after a site is converted to a new Drupal site?
bob
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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 forward an "example.com" to "www.example.com"?
I am using GoDaddy for my domains. Lately I've noticed that none of my example.com addresses are mapping to the server correctly. I used "Forward" option from Domain Manager and forwarded it to www....
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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 ...
Redbull Fan
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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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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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Google analyzing URL
We all know Google analyzes URLs in order to get relevance. That's why JavaScriptoptimizer.com hits the first place for the "javascript optimizer" query.
These are my questions:
Does Google ...
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Googlebot requesting invalid URL
I have a web app which emails me exceptions automatically. This morning there was an error relating to a url: /Catalog/LiveCatalog?id=ylwpfqzts
id is invalid (should be a guid) and caused an error ...
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Changing title <h1> of page, is it necessary to change URL?
I am planning to update content on an already performing page and expand the content on page. In order to accommodate the extra content, updating the title of the page is necessary and I think could ...
user4963
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What does a double slash in the URL path mean?
What do double slashes often found in URLs mean?
For example:
http://www.example.com/A/B//C/
Please note: I'm not referring to the beginning right after http:.
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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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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 ...
Rob Goldstein
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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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Address bar showing long URL
I recently upgraded my hosting account to Deluxe where I can host multiple websites. I added a domain name and created a folder in the root directory giving it the same name as my domain name and ...
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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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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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how will google treat http://yoursite.com/page?a=1 and http://yoursite.com/page?a=2 will it treat them different?
how will google treat yoursite.com/page?a=1 and yoursite.com/page?a=2 will it treat them different or same url.
Or is there any solution i want google to treat same page but with different content. ...
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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:
www.facebook.com/pages/Poste-...
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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
http://rgksugan.in/blog/...
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WWW.example.com or HTTP://example.com – which one is futureproof?
http://example.com
www.example.com
http://www.example.com
example.com
Which of these would you choose as your favourite to work with from 2016 onward? Which domain name would you mention to your ...
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What is the best file extension for an SEO friendly URL?
I'm working for a website to convert the website URL to an SEO friendly URL. I plan to use this:
example.com/category-name/pageid-123-page-name
I looked at some similarly categorized, highly ranked ...
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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
user353829
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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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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:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-...
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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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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 description ...
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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:
webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/3079/should-i-use-a-...
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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 a 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. Thanks!
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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:
www.example....
matt_tm
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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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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
http://www.mysite.com/...
Slinky
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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:
http://www.gosihanoukville.com/...
Mike