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I have a website that I want to work as a public-facing employee profile for people in my company. Each employee has a page like http://companyname.com/[EmployeeName], and then users on the site have simple links between each other's profiles: for instance, all the people who work together have "works with" links between their profiles. The idea is for the profiles to be simple, lightweight pages, with editable content by the user, so that the companies/customers we work with can know the people here better. So - something like linkedin, but branded with our own company logo + design.
I want to know how these pages will respond to google pagerank. Will internal links between employees increase the pagerank of the user's profile? Will the pagerank still work given that I am doing some url-rewriting to make the profiles have the companyname.com/[employeename] format? If someone searches on google for an employee's name, will the profiles appear correctly in the search results?
When developing the site, I assumed 'yes' to all these things, but now we are getting ready to launch I need confirmation that these assumptions were correct. Also, are there any other complications that I should know about?
I want to know how these pages will respond to google pagerank. Will
internal links between employees increase the pagerank of the user's
profile?
PageRank is per page, so any page that is accessible to Google will have PageRank. PageRank can be increased by accumulating links from other pages. These include pages from the same website.
Will the pagerank still work given that I am doing some url-rewriting
to make the profiles have the companyname.com/[employeename] format?
User agents (i.e. browsers and search engines) don't know what URL rewriting is. They only see the URL they are provided and the content that is provided when that URL is requested. So your pages will still have PR when using mod_rewrite.
If someone searches on google for an employee's name, will the
profiles appear correctly in the search results?
Yes.
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It's been a month that I use a service that monitors my website and if the website is down email alerts are sent for me.
I checked my visitors last day and found that almost 5000 visits have been added two my site since using this service and this service is generating fake traffic for my web site.This service watches HTTP protocol and if HTTP service is down the email is sent.
My concern is that I don't know that this fake traffic affects my SEO or not! If yes I prefer not to use monitoring tools for my website.
Maybe you will have some trouble indirectly, because these visits can spoil your traffic quality. For example, if they increase bounce rate, that is a bad signal for Google. Besides that, you should create another view in Analytics, and apply filters to remove traffic from these sources in order to have a real insight into your traffic.
That tool should identify as a robot, so their visits are not counted in Analytics. If that's not the case, I would recommend changing the tool.
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We are an ecommmerce retailer and after reading this privacy policy we got seriously confused. The feature we wants to implement on our website it to provide discount for sharing and plus one our google plus page so would need serious help as we don't want to get in trouble with this policies. We wants to give discount in behalf of plus one to our google plus page so that they will receive our promotions and other marketing details on their profile so whether this policy affect us or not ? We understand the importance for plus one our website pages as it will affect google search ranking but we don't think that it will affect anything with plus one google plus page. We need serious help to move ahead with implementing this feature as soon as possible.
From the Google+ +1 Button Policy: "Publishers may not promote prizes, monies, or monetary equivalents in exchange for Google+ button clicks."
(https://developers.google.com/+/plugins/buttons-policy)
Unfortunately, your intention to offer a discount in exchange for a +1 is a direct violation of this.
You should consider starting a Google+ Page and engaging with your users through the page. You can promote your business through your posts and get more followers. Also, with a Google+ Page, you can create a Badge for your site that will link back to your Page to increase social engagement.
(https://developers.google.com/+/plugins/badge/)
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When searching your name on Google, the first few results that are listed are mostly your profiles on Linkedin, Twitter, etc.
I would like to know that when a user creates a new account on Linkedin for example, how is Google made aware of this page of this new user in particular? Is it through the use of google analytics on the page or is the link published to Google explicitly in some global directory?
This question has intrigued me quite a bit. Any light on this would be of great help!
To know answer of this question, you need to know how Google crawler work. Kindly refer this page first: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=70897#1
Google crawler finds new pages by visiting those links on already indexed pages and adds those newly crawled pages to their search index.
Now, when you create new profile on linkedin, the link of your newly created profile will definitely added in group you joined, your friend's list or any other places of linkedin website. When google crawler visit those page, they will find your profile link and will index them.
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I want to tell Google that i add a new post on my site. How to announce Google that index my page again?
I know that it is possible to index the site map, but as a possible re-indexed from a single post (page)?
after adding your post. change the last modified date of updated pages in your sitemap, (if you are using WordPress or Blogspot, you can use sitemap plugins to do this automatically).
then resubmit the sitemap in Webmaster Tools (both Bing and Google)
alternatively try the following method to tell search engines that you have updated your website
Ping Google Bot
type following URL in address bar of your browser
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=[your sitemap web address]
for example:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http://www.example.com/sitemap-file.xml
Ping Bing Bot
type following URL in address bar of your browser
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=[your sitemap web address]
for example:
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://www.exmaple.com/sitemap.xml
It's not possible. Google automatically figures out frequency of your updates. If you update your site more often then google will check it more often.
I think the best thing you can do is submit a sitemap to Google every time you update your site. I dont think you can actully tell them to re-index. There are add-ons for popular CMS's and Blog hosting software that will auto-submit site maps.
You can submit your new post to google blog search via xml-prc pings.
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://xmlrpc.scripting.com/weblogsCom.html
It seems google crawls the page few seconds after ping.
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I need to programatically pull a list of Hotel names and addresses based on a city and state or zip code. I am looking for a public API that can accommodate real-time searching. I have evaluated Yahoo Local Search, Google Local and Kayak APIs but have found them unusable for the following reasons:
Yahoo Local - Commercial use not allowed
Google Local - Must attribute to Google (ok), cannot intersperse results with other data,
cannot save any of the data
Kayak - Limit to 1000 queries a day
Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!
I recommend Booking and Expedia APIs.
In my search for hotel APIs I have found only one API giving unrestricted open access to their hotel database and allowing you to book their hotels:
Expedia's EAN http://developer.ean.com/
You need to sign for their affiliate program, which is very easy. You get immediate access to their hotel databases plus you can make availability/booking requests with several response options, including JSON, which is more convenient and lightweight than the (unfortunately) more widespread XML.
As you immediately access their API, you can start developing and testing, but still need their approval to launch the site, basically to make sure it provides the needed quality and security, which is reasonable.
They also offer "deep linking", i.e. you may customize your requests by adding parameters. Then if it sufficient for your purpose (for mine it is not), you don't even need to store their content on your server.
I have also signed for HotelsCombined program: (link removed as this site doesn't seem to let me put more links)
However, they do not immediately allow you to use their API even for testing. From their answer:
"Apologies for the inconvenience caused, but it’s simply a business decision to limit access to our rich hotel content. Please kindly check back within the next 2-3 months, where we will be able to judge your traffic, and in turn judge your status on standard data feeds."
I have also signed for Booking.com affiliate program: (link removed as this site doesn't seem to let me put more links)
Unfortunately, again, they limit access, from their answer: "Please do note that, since there's a high amount of time and cost involved in the XML integration, we are only able to offer the XML integration to a small amount of partners with a high potential."
I did not explore Tripadvisor as they seem only to offer top 10 hotels and only as widgets, but most importantly for me, they wouldn't allow booking through them.
I've checked the hotelbase.org mentioned above, they have very extensive list but not as rich as by Expedia, also they don't seem to have images and don't allow booking either.
Try contacting Orbitz.com's affiliate team, and checking out Booking.com's api (http://xml.booking.com/), both have good API's.
Expedia has a Mashery-built API through EAN (Expedia Affiliate Network)that exposes hotel data and is incredibly easy to sign up for:
http://developer.ean.com/docs/hotels/version_3/request_hotel_list/Examples/
Check out api.hotelsbase.org - its a free xml hotel api