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Tagged with url-format or url
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When choosing a domain does including your brand affect SEO performance?
I've been asked to build a "landing page" for a local branch of an international corporation. While the corporation has a well-established domain name, the local office wants to use a unique, ...
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Should I use a file extension or not?
I've always wondered about this and never found a good solution.
But this question reminded me of it.
When I have a URL on my website it can be displayed and accessed any of the following ways:
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Poor Man's Clean URLs vs. Mod_Rewrite
At the company where I work, we're getting ready to design a new web site, and there's some disagreement about how to do clean URLs. Over the past year we've been making small improvements to our ...
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Include full category hierarchy in URL or only the "leaf"?
I am currently redesigning a site that organizes information into categories. Some of these categories contain subcategories (and some of those contain even more subcategories).
I'm trying to decide ...
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URI design for many-to-many relationship: advice needed
I'm stuck designing URIs for a many-to-many relationship between users and other resources. Specifically I'm having difficulty predicting the consequences of different approaches.
Given a resources ...
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Set the base url of any menu item in Joomla
I'm not sure if this belongs here, superuser or stackoverflow
I'm using virtual domains, which means that www.company.com has one template www.community.com has another template user accounts are ...
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Are there any technical issues with having an 'internationalized' domain name?
In my language there are numerous characters that are not allowed in the standard domain name. However, most of these can be easily replaced with safe equivalents (mostly dropping accents í becomes i ...
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Using Dynamic URLs with more than one Variable in a Sitemap?
I have a site map with generated dynamic urls that I need included in the sitemap. However, the sitemap seems to be generating an error on the & character, so that pages with more than one ...
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Can I use UTM urls in Google Analytics to track the performance of different *sections* of my site?
If I start using the UTM links in Google Analytics to try and track the conversion rate on for instance, search results, or product recommendations, will I be getting an accurate representation of ...
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Does it make a difference if your URL path ends in a trailing slash or not?
Does it make any difference to SEO ratings what-so-ever if your url has a trailing slash:
http://www.example.com/some/slug/paths/
as opposed to one that does not:
http://www.example.com/some/slug/...
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What is good URI design?
How should a good URI be designed? What are the factors to consider? What are the pros and cons of the variants?
Factors that makes up a good URI
Stability over time
Short
Give the user an idea what ...
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Would it be better to use subdomains or folders when each client needs a section of the site?
I'm working on a services type web application and I have to choose how to set up the URLs for the customers. Which solution is better, as a subdomain (e.g.: client.myservice.com) or as a folder (e.g.:...
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eShop product urls SEO, with or without category folder
What product url is better from SEO perspective for an eShop
www.site.com/main-category/sub-category/sub-category2/product-name.html
www.site.com/products/product-name.html
www.site.com/product-name....
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Combine websites without hurting SEO
I have a friend that I'm helping out with some web design. Basically, the guy owns a few businesses that are all complementary of each other and he wants to combine them all into a single site. There'...
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URL paths and their effect on SEO
We are developing a website where there will be two distinct types of content: galleries and photos.
It makes little sense to use URL paths like /gallery/photo as some photos can appear in more than ...
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How do you remove invalid characters when creating a friendly url (ie how do you create a slug)?
Say I have this webpage: http://ww.xyz.com/Product.aspx?CategoryId=1
If the name of CategoryId=1 is "Dogs" I would like to convert the URL into something like this: http://ww.xyz.com/Products/Dogs
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How to allow custom domains from end-users?
This is one of the things that has interested me for awhile, and I know that the service I am developing would greatly benefit from this.
Various sites (Ning, Tumblr, Wordpress, etc) allow users to ...
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Should I include "www" in my website's 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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Which special characters are safe to use in url?
Which special characters are safe to use in url?
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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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URLs: Should I use hyphens, underscores or plus symbols?
Which is better for search engines?
example.com/my_cool_page.html
example.com/my-cool-page.html
example.com/my+cool+page.html
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Do keyword-based filenames and URLs really matter?
We've developed a dynamic web application which uses URLs such as product.cfm?id=42 but our marketing team says we should use search friendly URLs and put our keywords into the URLs (so it would be ...
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How important is a unique number in URLs for inclusion in Google News?
Various SEO consultancies have recommended that to get a site included in Google News, the URLs have to conform to a rather strict, and non-obvious format namely that they have to:
Display a three-...
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Why is it preferable to use paths with slashes instead of query-string variables in a web page URL?
Why is it preferable to use paths with slashes instead of query-string variables in a web page URL?
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URL strategy for multilingual website [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I get search engines to crawl my site and see a localised view of my data?
I was wondering what would be the best URL strategy for a multilingual website (for an Italy ...
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