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Confusion regarding SEO and a name, c name and 301 redirects [migrated]
I have a VPS with and a domain from different hosters. I would like to know about the best practices for setting up the redirects regarding SEO as I am really confused about the different options.
I ...
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SEO Consultant Wants System Credentials
An SEO consultant has asked (demanded) credentials to the web environment so he can do ... Whatever it is that they do.
I'm new to the company but an experienced Systems Engineer. I've just now been ...
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Should a “temporary” redirect page use a 301 redirect?
Let's say that foo.com is where I eventually want to host a website, when it's ready, and blog.foo.com is where I'm currently hosting a website. Until foo.com is ready, is it okay to do a permanent ...
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How to make apache error log not to log some false lines
I have a website running on joomla, plesk, apache.
I get a lot of lines like the following in the error log
[Sun Feb 19 13:30:00 2012] [error] [client 44.111.40.24] File does not exist: ...
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IIS: Multiple domains for one site
I've a site which can be acceded through multiple domains (ie mydomain.com, mydomain.com.ar, mydomain.net, etc). Right now I have in the IIS one site and in the properties I added each domain as a ...
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Emailing hundreds of thousands of users for a newletter, company server or service? [closed]
My company has a website with a lot of visitors per day.
We are planning to email hundreds of thousands of users.
I read somewhere that your email reputation is build on your domain, we have very good ...
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Virtuemart SEF urls in lighttpd webserver
I'm new to this page and I would like to post a question about seo friendly urls..
Here is my problem..
my site has the following prducts version:
Joomla:1.5.22
Virtuemart:1.1.9 stable
Web ...
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htaccess and ending slash
Trying to add ending slash to all urls. Here is the code:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
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how to land www.example.com/subfolder on /index.asp not /index.html
In attempt to answer my question I did:
read Miscrosoft "using virtual directories"
read over a dozen + posts on stackoverflow / codingforum / dmxzone without a clear answer
for my ...
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How can I 301 redirect all traffic from one URL pattern to another?
I’ve been grappling with a basic rewrite rule as we’ve changed a template name from template-a to template-b and need to 301 all links to the new template-b URLs. Example:
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Is there a way to disallow robots crawling through IIS Management Console for entire site
Can I do the same as robots.txt through IIS settings?
Telling
User-agent: * Disallow: /
in host header or through web.config?
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Is it possible to remove the .php extension WITHOUT using mod_rewrite?
I'm managing an e-commerce site for a customer that was built using JShop on Apache. For SEO reasons links are like:
http://www.domain.com/shop/section/3151/1/flowers
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The proper way to redirect from http:// to /www in IIS7
I've noticed recently that Google and a number of other SEO tools are a little confused about where my site is located. They seem to be unsure about whether it's www. or non www. SEO Moze's Site ...
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Domain Masking / Cloaking?
I don't know whats the correct term for it, but what I'd like is to forward users visiting domain1.com to domain2.com without changing the url in their address bar at all, ie. show contents from ...
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What is difference between ALIAS domain and MASK redirect and CNAME?
Please explain someone to me, what is difference in terminology between ALIAS domain and MASK redirect and CNAME settings?
What are they used for, with some examples please.
And what are their ...
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Nginx simple redirect old uri to new uri
I've got problems with simple SEO friendly redirect. Web page has changed and I'd like to redirect old uris to new ones. For example I'd like to redirect /contact to /contact.html
I've tried
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IIS7 Multiple Sites with redirection on domains for SEO purposes
For SEO purposes with IIS6, I had always set up two sites, one bound to www.domain.com and another site to domain.com that redirects to www.domain.com where the actual site lived.
I really hate the ...
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Is there an advantage to redirecting vs rewriting when “hiding” the 'www' domain prefix?
Using virtual hosts I have gotten into the habit of using this:
<VirtualHost: *:80>
ServerName www.example.com
Redirect permanent / http://example.com/
</VirtualHost>
Yet I ...
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Serving images from another hostname vs Apache overload for the rewrites
We are trying to improve further the speed of some sites with older HTML in order as well to obtain better SEO results. We have now applied some minify measures, combined html, css etc.
We use a small ...
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Recoomend company to take care or webserver and wordpress management?
I'm interested in setting up a professional WordPress site but I'd like to explore the pssibilities to leave the management of the webserver and even WordPress' management to a company that guarantees ...
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301 redirect or disallow on robots.txt?
I recently asked for 301 redirection on ServerFault and I didn't get a proper solution to my problem, but now I have a new idea: use the robots.txt to disallow certain URLs from my site to be ...
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Is this a valid robots.txt file?
I have this robots.txt file:
User-agent: *
Sitemap: Path_to_sitemap.xml
My Q is, should I have something else in there as well? Like allow All or something?
Thanks
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Does hosting multiple sites on one server hurt your SEO?
I have a handful of (content unrelated) sites with decent PRs and I'm considering hosting them all on the same server. I've heard that if you do this, internal linking between two seperate domains on ...
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safe 301 redirection using htaccess for two domains
I have two domains, a new domain (newdomain.com) and and old legacy domain (olddomain.com). I want to safely redirect the old domain to the new domain. Easy enough.
At the moment I am doing this ...
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How to stop Google crawling certain pages?
My site has dynamic pages which look like
www.mysite.com/?page&news_id=1
This is changed into www.mysite.com/news/1 by mod rewrite rules in my site.
How do I stop Google from indexing some ...
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Lighttpd redirect from www.domain.com to domain.com
I need to permanently redirect all www.domain.com to domain.com in Lighttpd.
Here's relevant part of my lighttpd.conf:
$HTTP["host"] =~ "^www\.domain\.com$" {
url.redirect = (
"^/(.*)" ...
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Subdomain is preventing my search results from rising as expected in page rank
My problem is that I have a site which has requires a dedicated page for every city I choose to support. Early on, I decided to use subdomains rather than a directly after my domain (ie i used ...
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What happens if a website does not have a robots.txt file?
If the robots.txt file is missing in the root directory of a website, how are things treated as:
the site is not indexed at all
the site is indexed without any restrictions
It should logically be ...
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Domain name change with minimum seo impact
I am owner of an existing (3 yr. old) domain http://www.22shrutiharmonium.com and my website appears at the top of the search results in case of some search phrases like "22 shruti" , "22 shruti ...
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.htaccess file? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Mod_Rewrite Rules but Were Afraid to Ask?
How to create .htaccess file for 301 permanent redirect. I am looking for exact code ...
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seems to block /my-beautiful-sef-url-123
I have robots.txt that looks like this:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /system/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /index.php
The obvious goal has been to prevent all the ugly URLs from being indexed, as they ...
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How long does it take Google to update all links from R 301?
I just changed the location of my blog, and have done the appropriate redirects. Does anyone have knowledge or experience for the delay in updating all the links across Google?
Reason I ask, I wish ...
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Forward domain for flavors.me yet retain own_domain.com/blog
I wish to have my flavors.me use my own domain, yet still wish to retain access to own_domain.com/blog
The way flavors.me works now is that I must have the DNS A record point at their IP. Which ...
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Redirect folder to different server
Just for clarity, I already posted this on StackOverflow and got advice that this better fits in ServerFault.com so here goes:
I know you can redirect subdomains to a different server, but can you do ...
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Can nameserver issues affect SEO?
take a look at the DNS errors on this site. Might it affect how google indexes the site? The site is not even returned in searches http://www.intodns.com/legacytrustuk.org
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Do CNAME DNS entries affect SEO?
I am setting up a website for a client which I will be hosting and maintaining, and I am trying to determine what will be the most pain free setup. My thought is to do the following:
1) Set up the ...
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Trying to test Domain Collapsing / Consoldiation validity for SEO purposes
At work, we're trying to determine the effectiveness of domain collapsing for SEO purposes. Our current structure is to have multiple web apps served from different servers, such as
PUBLIC URLS - ...
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IIS 301 Redirect from “/index.html” to “/” for SEO Canonicalization
I used the technique explained here for IIS (http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php), but this appears to result in an infinite loop when applied to "/index.htm" and redirected to "/". ...
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HTTP: 204 No Content Header
I just registered a new domain and at the moment it sends a 403.
Is the HTTP-Header "204 No Content" a good header for a domain
with no content at the moment,
because I'm working on the site and the ...
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What SEO software do you use to analyze your websites? [closed]
I'm looking for a tool that would help you manage the SEO work like improving and tracking things like keywords, description, pages links, analyze concurrent websites.
I'm not looking for black SEO ...
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301 redirects and SEO
I have a site which uses the following structure,
domain.com/12/43/45/some-post/
When people link to my site some cms's remove the trailing slash and turn it into,
domain.com/12/43/45/some-post
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Can I protect my sitemap.xml so that only searchengines can download it?
I'm planning of adding a bunch of aggregated lists of pages in my sitemaps that I don't want make it too easy for outsiders to screnscrape. Can I protect my sitemap.xml so that only searchengines can ...
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Search-engine friendly DNS redirection
Is it possible to redirect one domain to another using DNS protocol (and not HTTP prococol), and that redirection being friendly to search engines?? i.e. such that search engines know that the two ...
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IIS 6 permanent redirect to deal with a google indexing issue
My company changed domain names about an year ago. When searching for the company name, Google still displays the old url (for the purpose of this post, oldsite.com)
I have used IIS 6 to set up a ...
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Local internet presence for SEO
I have a website hosted in the UK, but we're starting websites in other countries around the world.
I've heard that if the French version of your website is physically hosted in France, then it gets ...
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Google index troubles
I have set up this simple blog, which is about travel from a girl's point of view. The site is based on a Wordpress template and the content is pretty straighforward.
When the site was launched on ...
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IIS 6 - Setting up 301 redirect for non-www to www for SEO
Someone in the marketing department ran an SEO tool against our public website and found that about half of the links to our website go to www.mycompany.com, and half go to mycompany.com. Both of ...
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Putting language selectors in the domain name or as part of the URL path
I mean what is better to have
www.my-domain.de/start.html
www.my-domain.com/start.html
or
www.my-domain.com/de/start.html
www.my-domain.com/en/start.html
I'm mostly concerned with SEO here (i ...
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SEO - Multiple URL Paths
I have a web application that provides information related to the weather. I am trying to make this information as discoverable as possible. My question is, is it a good idea to post the same content, ...
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Subdomains vs multiple domain names
I have the domain name for www.foo.co.uk.
I am looking to use it as a landing page that will allow people to go to 1 of 2 sections of my site (both having separate blogs).
So I have the idea I could ...
