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ASP.net MVC support for URL’s with hyphens

C# version of John’s Post for anyone who would prefer it: C# and VB version on my blog public class HyphenatedRouteHandler : MvcRouteHandler{ protected override IHttpHandler GetHttpHandler(RequestContext requestContext) { requestContext.RouteData.Values[“controller”] = requestContext.RouteData.Values[“controller”].ToString().Replace(“-“, “_”); requestContext.RouteData.Values[“action”] = requestContext.RouteData.Values[“action”].ToString().Replace(“-“, “_”); return base.GetHttpHandler(requestContext); } } …and the new route: routes.Add( new Route(“{controller}/{action}/{id}”, new RouteValueDictionary( new { controller = “Default”, … Read more

Do Google or other search engines execute JavaScript?

There have been some experiments performed for SEO purposes which indicate that at least the big players (Google, for example) can and do follow some simple JavaScript. They avoid sneaky redirects and such, but some basic content manipulation does seem to get through. (I don’t have a link handy for Google themselves confirming or denying … Read more

How to properly use h1 in HTML5

As I state in my comment and you quote in the W3C, h1 is a heading and not a title. Each sectioning element can have its own heading element(s). You cannot think of h1 as being the title of a page only but as the heading of that particular section of the page. Just like … Read more

Best JSON-LD practices: using multiple elements?

There is no benefit in having single or multiple data blocks, other than limitations around how you might store and manage schema data in your website. For example, you might need them separate if different components within your website are responsible for generating each data block independently. Alternatively, if your website is able to manage … Read more

HTML5 i tag validity with icons

Don’t use i. The i element has a meaning which isn’t appropriate for general icons: […] a span of text in an alternate voice or mood, or otherwise offset from the normal prose in a manner indicating a different quality of text, such as a taxonomic designation, a technical term, an idiomatic phrase from another … Read more

Is text-indent: -9999px a bad technique for replacing text with images, and what are the alternatives?

A good reason not to use the -9999px method is that the browser has to draw a 9999px box for each element that this is applied to. Obviously, that potentially creates quite a performance hit, especially if you’re applying it to multiple elements. Alternative methods include this one (from zeldman.com): text-indent: 100%; white-space: nowrap; overflow: … Read more

What is the correct use of schema.org SiteNavigationElement?

If SiteNavigationElement is meant for the whole navigation (i.e., a navigation link list), your first example is correct. If SiteNavigationElement is meant for a single navigation entry (i.e., a link in the navigation link list), your second example is correct. I think Schema.org doesn’t unambiguously define which variant is meant, as they only say: A … Read more

Google displaying website title differently in search results

Google Search may change webpage titles they show in the result page (since 2012-01): We use many signals to decide which title to show to users, primarily the <title> tag if the webmaster specified one. But for some pages, a single title might not be the best one to show for all queries, and so … Read more

Google SEO and hidden elements

hide your menu with javascript on pageload. this way google will still analyse your text. it ignores display:none elements, as well as elements which textcolor is the same as background color, thus making it invisible to the human eye sources: i read it in a book a long time ago. there are sites on the … Read more

Can I Use Multiple ItemProps in a Span Tag for schema.org Rich Snippets?

The usual HTML way would be to use one attribute and separate several values with space characters. Looking into the Microdata specification, you’ll notice that this is the case for the itemprop attribute, too: The itemprop attribute, if specified, must have a value that is an unordered set of unique space-separated tokens […] So this … Read more