I need some ideas i am using url rewriter for seo purposes.. maybe I shouldnt be doing this i am not sure if you have any comments on this let me know
I am making sure that all requests get directed to www.mydomai.com for
www.mydomian.com/home and www.mydomain.com/home/index as there all the same page but with mvc obviously you could get to them by all of these urls.. I am thinking this could cause duplicate content issues with seo so i wrote some rules
This works fine any request to any of these urls redirects to www.mydomin.com
the problem that i have is that i have a partial form post that updates to the home controller It will not post back as in the net panel it says url permenatly moved I am guessing this is to do with my url rewriting. Any ideas
If anyone else has this problem I have fixed it... I am using the url writer to make urls friendly ie making them all lowercase to avoid duplicates and taking the trailing slash off to ensure that I have no links that are slightly different going to the same place.. Forms do not like this if you call them with capital letters in the names.. It initiates the form via ajax but when you go to update it says 301 removed in the net tab for updatepost. You need to ensure you call them with lower case controller and action..
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I need to format this canonical URL and I cant figure out how! I've looked around the web and this site a lot and I've realized that I need a specific answer.
Problem Description:
My BLOG's desktop view has (say) URL: www.x.com/page.html
The same page in mobile view URL would be: www.x.com/page.html?m=1
Its all good and dandy to this point, but the problem comes when I use facebook comments with this. It parses url based on this: www.x.com/page.html
So, it is identifying ?m=1 in the end of the first URL as an entirely different URL.
i.e
It is treating those two URL as different
Both of them are URL for the same page and I want them to be treated the same
Could anyone provide me a way to check if the loading page is ?m=1 and if it is ?m=1 then remove the ?m=1 when sending it to facebook?
I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IT IF THE SOLUTION IS INLINE if it is not inline, oh well, I just need a solution right now.
Current code snippet used is this:
<fb:comments colorscheme='light' expr:href='data:post.url' expr:title='data:post.title' expr:xid='data:post.id' height='110' width='560'/>
Let me break the question into small parts(incase someone is not a native speaker and wants to help/learn about this problem)
I want to detect if the loading page has ?m=1 in its URL or not. The canonical URL for this is data:post.url applied as
expr:href='data:post.url'
If a ?m=1 is detected from data:post.URL , I want to remove it and send the remaining URL into expr:href= so that both my URLs
are identified the same when my website displays facebook comments.
Click the image link below to look at this image please. This is the same URL but the
comments are being sent to me as if they're from different URLs. I
want them to appear under the same thread.
This is it--> http://i.stack.imgur.com/M7fK2.png
I haven't found this particular answer anywhere and I am hopeful that
some creative solutions will pop out in this site!
In your code
<fb:comments colorscheme='light' expr:href='data:post.url' expr:title='data:post.title' expr:xid='data:post.id' height='110' width='560'/>
Use data:post.canonicalUrl instead of data:post.url
This is the Blogger's layout tag for getting the Canonical URL of a blog post (This will always default to the blogspot.com domain, so there won't be ccTLD issues as well)
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.
I am not particularly familiar with DotNetNuke, so please correct me if I am using any wrong terminology.
I have a client who has a bunch of links that are hardcoded in an HTML module. The URL's looks like the following:
http://www.siteurl.org/level1/level2/level3/level4/pageName.aspx
So the URL for the page is basically made from how the menu is constructed. When I change any order in the menu, this breaks the hardcoded links. Is there a way to use something like an ID instead for the URL so no matter what my menu looks like, the page will be resolved properly?
You could use an ID for the pages, linking to
http://www.siteurl.org/default.aspx?tabid=## where ## is the ID for each page.
Now the key will be to find the proper IDs which you could do by looking at the HTML source of the Admin/Pages page.
That being said, the proper thing to do, would be to not MOVE or RENAME pages, this breaks all the old URLS (as you're experiencing) as well as those pages/urls in any search indexes.
A better way, though more work, would be to create a new page at the new PATH (where you move things to) and then redirect the old page to the new page (in the page settings). This requires quite a bit of work, but is the best way currently to handle old URLs, I have a video example of this at http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/Video-Library/Viewer/VideoId/213/Renaming-A-Page-In-DotNetNuke-.aspx
I have a pager on a table using ajax and I would like each such request also to change the browser's url, so when I hit refresh button I won't skip back to first page. I was fighting the Url parameter of AjaxOptions, but it keeps winning over me. Please help.
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You can safely change the URL past the hash mark without redirecting the page. However, the user can (in most browsers) navigate through these changes with the Back and Forwards buttons. This technique is usually called "history."
Because the technique is difficult to get working in all browsers, you'll want to use a framework. Take a look at http://www.mikage.to/jquery/jquery_history.html.
I can also recommend ExtJS's history stuff too. Take a look at this example:
http://www.extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/history/history.html#main-tabs:tab2
Again, notice that not only does the URL change when the user does stuff, but changing the URL (via Back and Forward) also affects the page. This is good, awesome even, but means it must be done very carefully.
There is not really a quick and easy way to do this, here is an article on the topic. The problem is that not only does the Ajax have to generate the URLs, it also has to take those URLs into account when loading the page to get the appropriate content.
I run a small e-commerce site that over the last few years has built up a reasonable search engine status.
I've been working on a new site that uses new URL formats and I am worried about how to deal with all the broken links and customer frustration for users finding out dated links through search engines.
Can anyone offer advice on how to mitigate / minimize the damage? The old site was done in ASP.NET the new in ASP.NET MVC
Thanks for any help you can be.
You will need some sort of parallel structure. Ideally, the old site with the old URLs remains fully accessible for some time, but does not get indexed any more.
If that's not feasible, and since you are saying that the site is small, you could establish a URL mapping old-new and have a 404 handler that attempts to redirect to the new content.
You should create permanent redirects for the links you want to preserve (routelevel). This way searchengines will update their references to the new locations.
As cdonner says, you want to have a handler that reroutes the traffic to its appropriate destination. Even more important though, is you want to make sure when you redirect the client, you send a status code of 301 (permanently moved) instead of 404. The search engines will rate you negatively if there are a lot of 404 errors on your site and you will see your standing decrease instead of increase.
You could set up your old site's .htaccess file to redirect traffic to the new site. Beyond that, you could use mod_rewrite to map requests to pages on the old site to the same (or similar) pages on the new one.
This is the way I do it migrating from an old ASP classic site:
Sub Application_BeginRequest(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
Dim fullOriginalpath As String = Request.Url.ToString.ToLower
If (fullOriginalpath.Contains("/viewitem.asp?itemid=")) Then
Context.Response.StatusCode = 301
Context.Response.Redirect("/item/" + getItemIDFromPath(fullOriginalpath))
ElseIf (fullOriginalpath.Contains("/search.asp")) Then
Context.Response.StatusCode = 301
Context.Response.Redirect("/search/")
ElseIf (fullOriginalpath.EndsWith("/default.asp")) Then
Context.Response.StatusCode = 301
Context.Response.Redirect("/")
End If
End Sub
Sounds like you have it figured out, but just wanted to add one more option - the canonical tag - which may have advantages if for any reason you needed to keep both the old url and the new URL active. You can create a copy of the page at the old URL and then add the "canonical" tag, which tells the search engines "please credit the link credits of this page to the following page: www.site.com/newpage"
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.yoursite.com" /> this line goes in before </head>
For example if you have lots of links to certain key pages and those links are pointed to the old URL's, this may be a help.
A 301 also redirects the link credits, and generally moved pages you'll want to use a 301 redirect. Oh and if you use a URL rewrite rule and all the URL's change in the same way, you can probably use regex in the rewrite rule to handle all of them in a single step.