FAQ: Search Engine Optimization

ellora · October 15, 2004, 10:16am

That did help. Thanks, vinyl-junkie. May I have a link to php anthology 1?

vinyl_junkie · October 15, 2004, 11:14am

There is no link to an article, if that’s what you’re looking for. PHP Anthology is actually two PHP books that SitePoint has published. You can read all about them here.

ellora · October 15, 2004, 3:09pm

vinyl-junkie, I think now I am in your location

Thanks for the link.

Expressweb · October 19, 2004, 4:33am

Very nice information … Even from Basics to ultimite seo explaination …

Even reosurce URL is one of added advantages ususally not disclose by senior seo members

thanks

Expressweb · October 19, 2004, 4:34am

Very nice information … Even from Basics to ultimite seo explaination …

Even resource URL is one of added advantage ususally not disclose by senior seo members

thanks

Expressweb · October 19, 2004, 4:36am

Very nice information … Even from Basics to ultimite seo explaination …

Even resource URL is one of added advantage which ususally not disclose by senior seo members

thanks

Blueveil · October 20, 2004, 7:12am

I’m trying to improve the ranking of one of my ecommerce site; what is the best way to raise your PR ? linking, google ads? What would be the best way to improve ecommerce sales? Raise PR, ads? links?

icky_bu · October 22, 2004, 4:15pm

Hrm… did you read ALL the posts before you submitted this reply?
Actually, just the first post that Stymie wrote would be enough for you to keep yourself entertained for the next couple of weeks

akayeo · October 31, 2004, 1:43pm

This is exactly what I was looking for!

j0n · November 20, 2004, 4:45pm

Very nice thread, i’m sure this will help alot of people. Thank you.

mntoner · November 23, 2004, 3:36pm

Question: my site is PHP based and the home page is index.php
There is also a file called index.html which is a simple javascript forwarding to index.php

Is this search engine unfriendly??

stymiee · November 23, 2004, 3:37pm

I would recommend using a 301 redirect to do that for you. It will have the same effect, will work in browsers that don’t use javascript, and forward any PR index.html has to index.php.

mntoner · November 23, 2004, 3:41pm

Thanks very much. I’ve done that

vinyl_junkie · November 24, 2004, 4:30am

Search engines generally don’t like javascript, so don’t ever depend on that for redirects.

MikeWasHere05 · December 1, 2004, 10:48pm

Great post!

comedyman · January 6, 2005, 6:16am

This was a very helpful FAQ. Thanks.

on_way_to_fame · January 8, 2005, 12:56am

One thing you could do is use a robots.txt file to prevent search engines from crawling pages with outbound links.

Lets say i have a page where i display ads…but dont want PR to go out…wont my advertisers mind it ? Is there a way advertisers can actually find out, if i am using my robot.txt for stopping the page from being indexed?

Btw a very very helpful post stymiee…you have done a fabulous job.

stymiee · January 8, 2005, 1:03am

If they know enough to look for your robots.txt it will be obvious to them if they know what to look for. There’s no way to hide that file since, if you did, the search engines wouldn’t be able to find it either.

Thank you.

on_way_to_fame · January 8, 2005, 5:58am

In other words…doing it…may affect the relation with advertisers…if i am making sense…

stymiee · January 8, 2005, 5:32pm

It may, if they are after PR. If not, you’re cool.