HTML+RDFa 1.1 and Microdata extend HTML5’s meta element. HTML+RDFa 1.1 (W3C Recommendation) defines: If the RDFa @property attribute is present on the meta element, neither the @name, @http-equiv, nor @charset attributes are required and the @content attribute MUST be specified. Microdata (W3C Note) defines: If a meta element has an itemprop attribute, the name, http-equiv, … Read more
RedirectMatch uses a regular expression that is matched against the URL path. And your regular expression /contact.php just means any URL path that contains /contact.php but not just any URL path that is exactly /contact.php. So use the anchors for the start and end of the string (^ and $): RedirectMatch 301 ^/contact\.php$ /contact-us.php
Here’s a solutions if you want to disallow query strings: Disallow: /*?* or if you want to be more precise on your query string: Disallow: /*?dir=*&order=*&p=* You can also add to the robots.txt which url to allow Allow: /new-printer$ The $ will make sure only the /new-printer will be allowed. More info: http://code.google.com/web/controlcrawlindex/docs/robots_txt.html http://sanzon.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/advanced-usage-of-robotstxt-w-querystrings/
“Hash-Bang” navigation, as it’s sometimes called, … http://example.com/path/to/#!/some-ajax-state …is a temporary solution for a temporary problem that is quickly becoming a non-issue thanks to modern browser standards. In all likelihood, Twitter will phase it out, as Facebook is already doing. It is the combination of several concepts… In the past, a link served two purposes: … Read more
The slugs make the URL more user-friendly and you know what to expect when you click a link. Search engines such as Google, rank the pages higher if the searchword is in the URL.
While #2 might be “easier” for you as a developer, it only provides search engine crawling. And yes, if Google finds out your serving different content, you might be penalized (I’m not an expert on that, but I have heard of it happening). Both SEO and accessibility (not just for disabled person, but accessibility via … Read more
I will try to answer your questions based on our experiences in the last month of developing a SPA with HTML5 mode. How do I get Googlebot to use ?_escaped_fragment_= instead of the direct links. This is actually quite simple but easy to overlook. In fact, there are two different ways to get Googlebot to … Read more
This is of course invalid as per HTML4.01. META tags are only allowed within HEAD (just like, say, TITLE) so by putting it into a BODY, you’re essentially creating an invalid markup. From the cursory tests, it seems that some browsers (e.g. Firefox 3.5 and Safari 4) actually put these elements into HEAD when creating … Read more
To simply remove that, you can do a basic replace in /catalog/controller/common/seo_url.php Find: return $link; Before it on a new line put: $link = str_replace(‘index.php?route=common/home’, ”, $link); Edit by TheBlackBenzKid: If you want full SEO just use this line instead of the above: $link = str_replace(‘index.php?route=”, “‘, $link); Also make sure SEO URLs is turned … Read more
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