I have a website with a default home page of index.html, let's call the website: www.brianbauer.com ( that is my name BTW).
www.brianbauer.com operates something like a "treasure hunt". by clicking on various hot-spots on each HTML page access via brianbauer.com, you get redirected to the next html page. this continues for some period of user-clicks. One of the ideas is that on each visit, it is not obvious how the user reached a specific webpage. all they know is that they kept clicking and ended up at some final HTML page. but every click that brings up a new HTML page, still shows "http://www.brianbauer.com" in the Address bar. This is a game, nothing "wrong" going on here.
1. All of the HTML pages are owned by me, and I authored them all.
2. No illegal or unscruptulous activty of any kind going on.
3. all HTML pages in scope are under the root domain of brianbauer.com
the idea is that as users look at pictures and read a narrative, they make choices. a typical webpage might have 4 choices. depending on your choice, the next HTML page you see is determined.
I have created site maps that are basically decision trees.
think of it like a digital corn-maze. It's important that the full URL path to the current HTML page that they are looking at is masked, and should only show "www.brianbauer.com". it is true that someone more sophisticated could look at sourcecode, record their screen, keep notes, etc. but the mask will accomplish 90% of my goal.
as for being able to bookmark a certain webpage that they have "discovered"? the whole point is that they should not be able to....
I am NOT trying to mask my domain, that is easy. I am trying to simply maske what appears in the Address bar as users hit HTML pages which are children of that domain.
Thank you for the help.
Brian
There is something called CNAME cloak it might be one option.
Another option could be using ajax and replace content of the page.
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I'm trying to make my site more SEO friendly and I' noticing that whenever I go to an product through either a tag or a different page (2,3,4 ect) that it adds it to the URL.
For example:
www.wisdomsurvival.com/Guardian-Survival-kit/culinary-can-of-preparedness-seeds.html?page=2
I would like to remove ?page=2 from the path
Opencart 1.5.4
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: My main goal is to have one URL for each page instead of multiple paths. For example:
http://www.wisdomsurvival.com/person-guardian-preparedness-package-camping-bug-out
http://www.wisdomsurvival.com/camping-and-bug-out/person-guardian-preparedness-package-camping-bug-out
The first URL is a direct link, the second comes from clicking from a category, the third (not shown because I can only post 2 links) comes from clicking from a subcategory and the fourth (also not shown) from a manufacturer list.
I need to have them all either redirect to the first URL or just go directly to the first URL without redirecting, along with any other URLS such as the ones that have the page ID path or tag path.
I recognise that theme :-)
Where is the ?page=2 coming from as the link works perfectly without it. You need to trace the source of the link. First try the template views and see if it is a simple link edit in the layout that will accomplish what you need.
If not you may find the information is coded in the controller if it is being dynamically generated. Again you should be able to edit the code that generates the link there.
If not you may find that it is in a model that is being called. Again, just find the model and edit the link structure you find there.
The url on your page will only be a reflection of the url you generated somewhere else in order for the link to be followed in the first place.
Usually when I am building with opencart I find the theme modules are often not coded very well in terms of SEO. Fortunately with opencart these things are usually very easy to remedy.
Top trick -> I often stick additional bits into my urls that have no impact on the page generated but Google picks up on as keywords anyway.
If you post your code if you are having problems reformatting the link formats I will have a look for you,
Hope that helps,
Paul.
Is there a way in GWT to make it so that external sources can link to pages that aren't EntryPoints and have not yet been visited?
The end goal is to allow users to provide URLs to other users that link to a page that is not an EntryPoint. An example is how the GWT history feature works, where after you visit a page (such as http://<ip address>:<port>/MyEntryPointClass.html#NotEntryPointClass), even if you click to a different page and then enter that URL into the address panel, it takes you back to that page. However, if you've never visited that page before, it just takes you back to the entry point page. I have only been able to find solutions where a GWT page links to an external source, and not the other way around which is what I need.
You can use Activities and Places pattern. In your entry point class add:
historyHandler.handleCurrentHistory();
and it will take your user to the default place if no place is specified in the URL, or to the place set in the URL.
So I have a basic (Wordpress powered) portfolio site where most of the content lives on the homepage, and then I'm using a custom posts category for the featured projects, so users can click through and get more info on the project at its category-single.php page. So the idea is it's a pretty flat site in terms of structure.
So flat, in fact, that the site navigation in the header simply links to content that is all on the home page (About, Work, What, Contact are all sections on the home page that get scrolled down to when you click).
What I want to happen is when the user is on the home page, and clicks one of the top nav links, the page scrolls down to that section (no problem here - I've got this part working just fine), and then when the user is on another page of the site (think one level deep, a custom post page) if they click the header nav links it returns them to the homepage and scrolls them down to that section. I'm thinking in terms of basic url anchor structure, like http://somesite.com/page#specific_section where that link takes the user to a specific section on somesite.com/page.
However the trouble I seem to be having is with creating these url's correctly. I've written them as mysite.com#about, mysite.com#work, mysite.com#contact, mysite.com#page-top, but instead of trigging the user to go to the homepage, the browser is interpreting those links as instructions to look for those sections on the current page.
What am I doing wrong, and what is the correct way to accomplish this?
The thing I'm trying to consider additionally, is whether I need to create PHP logic that displays the links one way on the homepage, and another way on the rest of the site.
What you need to do is use the actual filenames of the pages in question, like:
mysite.com/aboutme.html#qualifications
`mysite.com/portfolio.html#ZirTech
For links to the homepage, try either using the root relative path or fully qualifying the link like so:
http://www.mysite.com/#section fully qualified
/#section relative path
You shouldn't need to implement them a different way on the homepage - just implement them properly throughout the site.
When you write the URLs as mysite.com#work, mysite.com#contact, mysite.com#page-top the browser looks for the page in question, because it is not instructed to go to another page (you need to add "/" to redirect it).
If you want them to point to the main page, set them as
mysite.com/index.php#work, mysite.com/index.php#contact, mysite.com/index.php#page-top
Maybe it is possible without index.php, but I'm a bit lazy to test now:
mysite.com/#work, mysite.com/#contact, mysite.com/#page-top
I couldn't find an answer to this on the web. I have a site, where I try to avoid hard refreshes as much as possible. It's a sequences of photos, and upon a user click of a central div, a little page (a RoR partial) loads within that div with a new photo in it.
The user keeps clicking, the photo keeps changing, and the URL of the page never changes. The title of the photo does change though. And so I want the web crawlers to see this...
Is there any advantage to having a hard refresh or not in this scenario? Will the Web Crawlers see the title of the photo in the div, and index my home page? Or at least the url of the inner div?
I hope this makes sense! Thanks!
It all depends on what you mean by a hard refresh. If all of the pictures, and their related data (title etc.) are loaded when the page first loads, and the click is just a javascript event that changes the css a bit to display the next picture then that has no negative effect on SEO. If clicking that link makes an ajax request back to your server to retrieve the image, then it will never get picked up by the search engine web crawler, and will not contribute to SEO.
If you aren't sure if this click is an ajax request, or just a css change, you can look at your html source to figure it out. If all your image tags are in your html source then it's not making an ajax request. If you only see one (or zero) then it is making an ajax request.
If the page title would never change, then there's no benefit. But if you're loading a new image, the page title should change for optimal SEO.
There's a workaround, though. Just make it to where you can access the images specifically with a static page and make sure Google spiders it. You can keep the normal page flow as-is using this method.
Edit: I should add that I had a site that got 60% of it's traffic from Google Image searches, so I'd say you'd definitely want them indexed separately.
I have a site with over 100 pages. We need to go live with products that are soon available, however, many site pages will not be prepared at the time of release.
In order to move forward, I would like to reference a "coming soon" page with links to pages that are current and available.
Is there an easy way to forward a URL to a Coming Soon page?
Is this valid, or is there a better way?
Found this at:
http://www.web-source.net/html_redirect.htm
"Place the following HTML redirect code between the and tags of your HTML code.
meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html"
Does this negatively affect you if the search engines crawl through your site?
Thank you!
The code you listed will work. However, I would never do this:
You could just show the page you wanted to show immediately, without a redirect. This will be faster for the visitor, as they don't need to load two pages.
If you must use a redirect, why not create it programmatically, for example by instructing your web server (e.g. Apache) to redirect certain pages?
I would not link to pages that don't exist yet. Most visitors will dislike that - clicking on something to find out "come back later" is a disappointment. We've all seen those coming soon pages, with the content never arriving, or only after months or even years. Either leave out those links (or perhaps put a "work in progress sign" without a link), or add the items only after they've been finished.
Search engines should work well with redirect pages, although it is unlikely your "coming soon" page will show up anywhere in the top the rankings anyway.
Perhaps a better or "more correct way" would be to do the redirection at the header level. Using PHP, you would call
<?php
header("Location: http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html");
There's also ways to do this in Apache (assuming you are using it) and .htaccess-files. See http://www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/web-redirection.shtml for more info about that.