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Tagged with search-engines url
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Can I define the letter case of a Domain Name?
I want to purchase a second level domain (on the web platform Altervista.org) with the .com extension. Since within the domain verification process I can type characters in both upper and lower case ...
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Hide a Subdomain from Google/Search Engine SEO Result?
I have a subomain which I do not want to be listed in any search engine result. Let say I have:
http://www.example.com
http://child.example.com
How can I hide all URLs of child.example.com domain ...
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Which of these 3 URL-Rewritings are better SEO friendly URLs?
Imagine my current flat-file no-CMS website with an URL like http://example.com/en/tomato.
This is of course very unsexy and could be anything really from tomato soup, tomato the music band, tomato ...
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How to optimise the url for search engines?
I have a php template which has one index.php and all the different pages (content1.html, content2.html, etc) are shown on the index.phppage. So for example I can open www.example.com/index.php?...
phpheini
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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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Would having a './' in a URL cause any trouble with search engines?
For code simplicity, some of my URLs in my website might contain a ./
For example:
www.example.com/./something
The ./ is automatically stripped-out by the browser, and the resulting URL is:
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Same page in different "locations" on same site - duplicate content? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
The same page, or rather the same content on a page is accessible from two very similar URLs, ...
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Train search engines to learn domain names that are not spelt correctly
I'm in the process of building a web app called Vybecast. I brought vybecast.com (and various other vybecast.tld's) a while back. Since then I've managed to secure and purchase vibecast.com (and also ...
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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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Which URL is SEO friendly?
I have to choose between two usernames, one comprises of just my first name i.e. http://example.com/john while the other comprises of full name i.e. http://example.com/johnsmith.
Which of the above ...
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Dealing with broken links and dead pages on search engines
I recently had to reconstruct the way my website runs. Along with that I have to change the way my urls are formatted. My website is not terribly popular (hoping changes will fix that) but I do have ...
Paramount
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What happens if the Canonical URL is the same as the actual page URL?
I might be asking a trivial question here, but how do the search engines treat loops created via rel="canonical" tag?
My scenario is that being a site having dynamic content, I have URLs as follows:
...
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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 ...
Jacob_1980
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how the search engines interpret the exclamation mark in the url
I wonder how the search engines - Yahoo, bing, google ... - interpret the exclamation mark (!) in the url:
www.site.com/product!651031
www.site.com/category!651031
I could not find documentation on ...
Lelis
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Where is the best place for page's ID in a user friendly URL? [duplicate]
I searched within the site but none where addressing exactly my question, So I ask it here:
Which one of these structures for a user-friendly url is the best with regards to search engines and user ...
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Making Search Queries Indexable
Looking around, most sites (eg. Amazon) encode the parameters of searches into query string. This means that search engines cannot index these queries.
Why don't such sites use URLs rather than query ...
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SEO: targeted or generic URLs performance
I'm working on a website that sells DYI products. 2 of the products categories are save-paint and save-cabling. Since the products can help you save money they could also be part of a save-money ...
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Advice on URL structure [duplicate]
I'm looking for some advice on my URL structure for a project I'm working on. I'm a web developer so my SEO knowledge is relatively limited. My website's purpose is to essentially provide specialised ...
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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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Are there disadvantages an literal + instead of an encoded + (%2B) in an URL?
A client of mine has a product ending with a plus-sign (e.g. Google+) and would like the webpage of this product to have an URL that is human-readable (i.e. an URL that doesn't contain %2B).
Since ...
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How should I create URLs for database generated content that can be indexed by search engines? [duplicate]
I have learned how to retrieve data from a database to a single page by using a form, so I would not need to create many pages to show the elements of a catalog. The concern that I have is how to make ...
user35454
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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, ...
Ahmad
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What are the pro and cons of using friendly URLs compared to query parameters (and vice versa)? [duplicate]
I am noticing that more and more sites prefer using "friendly URLs" over adding information as query parameters. For example:
domain.com/product/3343/
compared to
domain.com?page=product&id=...
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Language Specific URLs for SEO
I'm currently building a website that is not targeted to an English speaking audience. So my thoughts are that if I were to make the URLs in the language of choice (in this case Spanish) then would ...
matsko
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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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Is using !# for AJAX URLs the standard when it comes to SEO?
Will URLs like this site.com/!#users only be crawled by Google's search engine bots, or is this a standard adopted by all search engines (e.g., Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc...)?
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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
http://mydomain.com/training/register.php?key=02ue3be299a-9bc1-1030-a2db-...
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Descriptive URL's from user generated content | Worth it? | How to handle in case of edit | Which of my ideas is good practise?
I am building a quiz site.
User can create quizzes and choose a title for their quiz.
I was thinking about using the title with the ID in the URL and here I have multiple ideas, which all have multple ...
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Should I change all the URL paths on my website to include keywords for SEO and should I rename my cart and checkout pages too? [duplicate]
I'm trying to make my site as SEO optimized as possible and have a question.
Do I change the name of my "cart.php" and "checkout.php" pages to have keywords in them?
For example, here's the current ...
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How to make search engines crawl and index dynamic AJAX pages? [closed]
I have a following website with some products: http://www.lay-z.net/beanbags.php
When a user clicks on a product it makes a call to the database and fills the site with necessary information: http://...
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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 length and content optimised for SEO [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL?
I have done some reading on what URLS should look like for search engine optimisation, but I am curious to know how mine would ...
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"good" way to redirect users and robots for internationalization?
I have a website in Spanish and English.
When there isn't any subdomain selected the preferred language is taken from the browser preferred language or a cookie.
I have the following URLs
es....
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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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How to preserve Search Engine Rank after domain change with 301 Redirect?
Before you mark this question a duplicate, read the question properly.
I have had a domain http://muzic.asia and because of low quality TLD it's SEO rankings were less (For some keywords it ranked ...
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Do short URLs like goo.gl, bitly etc. affect your website ranking? [duplicate]
I need to know whether using short URLs to back-link to pages affects your website ranking in the Google search results.
user3828753
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Adding .html to the URL while it is not a HTML page hurt to SEO?
If I added .html to the URLs of my website while the pages are not in HTML, will it hurt SEOof my site or will it be helful to my site in search engine rankings?
For example, say my domain is www....
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Old content, new URL's, how to keep the old URL's still working? 301 redirects? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to tell google that i have changed my website urls?
I don;t know how to ask the question but situation is this. I have the old site with a lot of content that has recently ...
Ska
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url naming convention for improved seo and page rank [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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 ...
