I want to have a different alias for a part of my website, but are the results from that alias be considered part of the main website by the search engines ?
Today I have a forum in the main website www.example.com/forum/, the keywords are used by the SE for the ranking of www.example.com, but I'm need to replace that old forum, but don't want to kill the old one immediately, so I'm going to create forum.example.com.
But are the results from the forum alias be used by the search engines to grow the popularity of www.example.com, or will it just boost forum.example.com without any impact for the main ?
Thank you for your answers.
Ok it's my mistake I searched for the keyword Alias, but it's subdomain the right one.
I found what I was searching for http://www.webseoanalytics.com/blog/multiple-domains-vs-subdomains-vs-folders-in-seo/
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Sorry to bother you perhaps again, but I can't get it working after trying at least 30 answers already given on this subject!!
I use a somewhat deep directory structure and the I would like to rewrite the address browser bar of all subdirectories been replaced by one: simply (www.)example.com/subdirname. Even if I redirect from within the subdirectories to a higher level.
In other words:
So I have: http://www.example.com/subdirname ----> this what I would like to show every time. Here is also my main index.html located.
Then the structure beneath is e.g. www.example.com/subname/text/image/magazine/xxx.html
I have tried all the REWRITE CODES available (well, practically). But nothing works.
Can and will someone please give me the ultimate answer how to code this in htaccess? Please don't forget to tell me please, in which directory I should place this htaccess (allthough I tried all).
By the way, I don't care about SEO - the (sub-)pages don't have to be 'searchable'.
By the way, this is a site which I like to protect a little against theft, since it concerns my living of bookselling.
Thanks a lot beforehand!
Rokus
There is one way to do this, a frame redirect.
That'll always show the same URL in the address bar - but it's trivial to find the actual URL for anyone with the slightest bit of technical knowledge.
Users will also be unable to link to a specific page or magazine.
If you have intellectual property you want to protect, it might be worth looking into other, more suitable ways to do so.
Consider this:
example.com is equivalent to domain.com/example
this is also true
example.com/subfolder is equivalent to example.com/example/subfolder
as a result of the domain mapping / .htaccess
is this bad?
to further elaborate, I am hosting multiple domains on the same ip
Search engines has the concept of duplicate content and that is exactly what will happen in your case.
If example.com/subfolder and example.com/example/subfolder have same content and is not marked as canonical of one another, then search engines considers them as duplicate. Your own page competes against each other, which will hurt the SEO values. In order to solve it, pick your preferred domain and do <linl rel=canonical href='your preferred domain' /> the other one to that.
I would like to recreate old pages that were online 2 years ago. Unfortunately, all I have is the old htaccess file. Is there a way to find all used URLs?
Thanks in advance!
.htaccess does not store any information about pages or their urls. The only possible information to get is a redirection mechanism and/or some information regarding folders structure, if such was used. If you paste the source of your file here, one could help you with this. In general - in the most optimistic scenario you will just get a set of rules in the form of
regular Expression --> server query
(unless author did enumerate all the urls instead of using regular expressions)
Check the http://archive.org/web/web.php for some cached versions of your website.
I'm in the process of rewriting all the URLs on my site that end with .php and/or have dynamic URLs so that they're static and more search engine friendly.
I'm trying to decide if I should rewrite file names as simple strings of words, or if I should add .html to the end of everything. For example, is it better to have a URL like
www.example.com/view-profiles
or
www.example.com/view-profiles.html
???
Does anyone know if the search engines favor doing it one way or another? I've looked all over Stack Overflow (and several other resources) but can't find an answer to this specific question.
Thanks!
SEO optimized URLs should be according to this logic (listed in priority)
unique (1 URL == 1 ressource)
permanent (they do not change)
manageable (1 logic per site section, no complicated exceptions)
easily scaleable logic
short
with a targeted keyword phrase
based on this
www.example.com/view-profiles
would be the better choice.
said that:
google has something i call "dust crawling prevention" (see paper: "do not crawl in dust" from this google http://research.google.com/pubs/author6593.html) so if google discovers a URL it must decide if it is worth crawling that specific page.
as google gives URLs with an .html a "bonus" credit of trust "this is an HTML page i probably want to crawl it".
said that: if your site mostly consists out of HTML pages that have actual textual content , this "bonus" is not needed.
i personally only add the .html to HTML sitemap pages that consists only out of long lists and only if i have a few millions of it, as i have seen a slightly better crawlrate above these pages. for all other pages i strictly keep the Franzsche URL logic mentioned above.
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p.s.: please see https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/ for not programming related SEO questions
Right, here's the story:
We have had a website for one of our brands now for many years, the site design was very bad and recently did a complete overhaul, mostly design, but also some of the backend code.
The original site was using links such as this example.com/products/item/127 and thus I wanted to change them to be move user friendly, especially to include the product name, the same link now reads example.com/product/127/my-jucy-product/.
Since our switch over we have seen our Google results take a beating (we were on the first page for our normal search terms, now we're nearer the 4th!). The other problem we're having is that the links to the old products haven't updated to the new links despite me coding a 301 redirect from old to new. The 301 is not being fired from .htaccess, but in our PHP framework.
I had a look at how the site is being loaded from a old link that is still in Google and here's what firebug is reporting:
GET <google link> 302 Found
GET example.com/products/item/127 302 Found
GET example.com/products/item/127 301 Moved Permanently
GET example.com/product/127/my-jucy-product/ 302 Found
So the Google link has a 302, good. But when the old link comes in our framework is returning a 302! It's only afterwards when it finally hits the right part of the framework does it 301, so here's my question:
Is the reason our old links have not changed and our Google Ranking has significantly nose dived because Google is seeing a 302 before the 301?
At the time I was reluctant to mess with our .htaccess because it had become pretty complicated and I was under some pretty intense time constraints, now I'm wondering whether this was an incorrect disicion and perhaps I should revisit it.
Many thanks!
Edit
Bugger, just signed up to the Webmaster Tools and I'm getting redirect errors all over the place, hundreds of them! I think this is my problem.
Edit 2
So on closer inspection it looks as if it is because I was being lazy and not using .htaccess to redirect my URLs, I wanted to avoid doing this as it was easier at the time just to throw a PHP header, regardless I have now started convert our framework to depend more on the .htaccess, not only has this solved the problem (well, we'll see when I get a google crawl) but it has also improved the speed dramatically!
One thing to look at is canonical links (which is how SO does it). This means you don't need to do redirects, old links will still work and search engines will get updated accordingly.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html
There's no telling how Google will adjust its PageRank witch's brew on a day to day basis, but in general, you should expect to see a (temporary) drop in PR following a mass 301 redirect of legacy URLs. It often just takes a little time (a month, maybe two) for things to percolate.
Note this does not answer your question about whether the 302 is hurting you. Just pointing out that, even if it's not hurting you, you should still see a drop in PR temporarily, on the basis of the mass 301 redirect alone.
I think noone except of google can answer your question with 100% confidence.
302 temporary redirect most probably prevents google to update the old link to new one and this situation COULD have effect on page ranks.
I'd first of make sure that all old pages are accessible and redirected immediately with 301.