Questions tagged [seo]
SEO is search engine optimization, altering a web site so as to improve its ranking in search engines.
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.htaccess rule to change hosts for SEO
I want to migrate one of my client's website from a free host to paid host. Currently, the site/domain is being hosted inside a sub-folder (used this tut: https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/347) at the ...
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How to forward to Amazon S3 when in maintenance mode with nginx using 503?
During website maintenance, it is sometimes necessary to shutdown our website.
Our current method is to touch a file which will trigger the web server (nginx) to redirect traffic to a maintenance ...
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How to efficiently permanently redirect 150.000 images?
For SEO purposes I need to rename around 150.000 images, then I'd like to permanently redirect the previous url locations requests to the new locations.
The current url to every image is something ...
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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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Is there a way to tell robots not to look at a directory?
I have a directory full of images, that I do not want viewed by robots, is there a way to make this directory private?
Thanks!
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htaccess, errordocument and joomla rewrite
I need to setup a 404 error handling in my .htaccess, besides handling some 301 redirects for the links of an old website.
The new site is made with Joomla, the old site was written in asp.
Sef urls ...
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Ip-failover and geolocalization
I have a server (from OVH) located in France with French ip. However most of the people coming to my website are from Poland. From what I read having a Polish ip address could lead to better search ...
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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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DNS wildcard entry from *.domain.com to www.domain.com
If a user enters ww2.domain.com he should be redirected to www.domain.com. This should be possible for all sort of subdomains (e.g. xxx.domain.com, ww.domain.com, ...). How should I set up the DNS ...
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A record for www [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What’s the point in having “www” in a URL?
My present DNS configuration for my website's A record is as below
Name Value
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example.com ...
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Prevent users to access to website using port 8080 (apache) when using Varnish (on port 80)
My configuration is very simple :
To avoid duplicate content, I want to prevent user to go on my website by hitting directly apache (which is running on port 8080).
I have setup a Varnish server ...
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How to deal with downtime of web server without losing SEO ranking?
I am having a website which I'm planning to keep in maintenance mode for about 2 days without losing SEO ranking. According to Google blog post, we can do this by having a 503 Service Temporarily ...
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set all apache sites offline with temporary static cached original pages
I would like to set all virtualhosts on my server down for maintenance for some time.
The temporary page should contain something like
sorry, the page www.xxx.com is down for maintenance. you can ...
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Is 301 redirects enough for RSS feeds, or will some readers fail?
I am in the process of moving an entire site from ID based pages to user friendly / descriptive urls, and I would like to move the blogs as well.
My problem is then, that I am uncertain if 301 ...
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Sticky Load Balancing with AWS
I have just setup a load balancer with AWS for a few instances as search engine crawlers were bringing down the site (it has millions of pages). Parts of the site allow you to login so I selected:
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Apache2 - rewrite a bunch of specified pathname URLs to one URL
I need to rewrite a bunch of urls (about 100 or so) for SEO purposes, and there may be more being added in the future (probably another 50-100 later on). I need a flexible way of doing this and so ...
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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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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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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 reading ...
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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:
/trusted-installers/...
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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
http://www.domain.com/shop/...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 often ...
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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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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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.htaccess file? [duplicate]
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 that we ...
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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 all ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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odd query strings in Googlebot requests
Google's indexing bot (edit: yes, it's Google, IP resolves) seems to be adding arbitrary query strings to our home page.
xx.xxx.xx.xxx - - [30/Jun/2009:10:14:37 -0400] "GET /?key=61680 HTTP/1.1" 200 ...
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URL Dash Disadvantage
Anyone know any hard facts about the disadvantage of having a dash in your URL? Heard some disparaging words about having dashes in your URL and it just so happens that our company has a dashes in ...
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