SEO is search engine optimization, altering a web site so as to improve its ranking in search engines.
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How can I return a 503 status in apache without invoking external scripts
I need to return a 503 status code from one of my sites while it's down for maintenance, in the time-honoured SE_firendly fashion. I can't seem to work out how to do this without invoking external ...
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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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1answer
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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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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 ...
5
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1answer
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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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2answers
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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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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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2answers
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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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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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1answer
2k views
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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4answers
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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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2answers
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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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4answers
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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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2answers
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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 ...
2
votes
1answer
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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 ...
2
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1answer
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Another website in a IIS subfolder
A friend of mine has an ASP.NET site hosted on windows server with IIS7 web server. He wants to install a wordpress blog without using subdomains for SEO reasons. In practice, he would like to have a ...
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2answers
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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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1answer
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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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3answers
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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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3answers
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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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1answer
69 views
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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3answers
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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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2answers
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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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2answers
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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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4answers
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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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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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2answers
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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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vote
1answer
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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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2answers
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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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vote
1answer
563 views
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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1answer
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404 error on existing file for bots
My website works fine for users, but apache2 gives 404 error for some pages to bot requests (google and yandex). How can I solve this problem?
one row from apache access.log:
66.249.76.215 - - ...
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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 ...
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1answer
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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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3answers
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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 ...
0
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6answers
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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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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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2answers
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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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1answer
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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 ...
0
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1answer
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Get google to stop crawling old pages
Ok, so I have a bit of an odd problem. Our site is crawled by google a LOT. There are a few reasons for this, that aren't really easy to change. One of which being you can access localized versions of ...
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2answers
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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} !/$
...
0
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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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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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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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2answers
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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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1answer
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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
...
0
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2answers
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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 ...
