I have a page which has 3 pages
First page;
Url: ex.com/my-good-page
Title tag: My Good Page
Second page
Option 1:
url: ex.com/my-good-page/2
Title tag: My Good Page - 2 => Added page number
Option 2:
url: ex.com/my-good-page?page=2
Title tag: My Good Page => No change
I don't know which one to choose between option 1 and 2.
Title tag should be unique. Is it still good for paging? So I should choose option 1?
Could you give me advise?
I thought option 1 was good.
But, I want google search give the first page result on top not the page 2~..
And I found popular sites are using option 2. This confused me.
SEOChat.com uses option 2 approach. ?pp=12 with the same title tag.
Stackoverflow, which got popular rapidly, also use ?page=2&sort=name approach.
I heard Option 1 was good, but I found popular sites use option 2!
Any opinion?
I would use...
http://example.com/my-good-page-2
http://example.com/my-good-page/2
Personnaly I would chose the first option, I think it allow to "split" the content better. It is easier to read site/article/page than site/article?page=number, also the htacess rule will be easier with site/article/page.
My last point is that choosing to use site/article syntax is to go away from the old GET syntax (for many reasons, seo, aestetic, etc), so by puttin ?page=1 it looks like you don't know what you want.
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I have read a little about this but could not find a definitive answer anywhere. So, I thought of asking this question here.
I am building a Travel Guide which has lots of information divided into tabs. Each tab has its own content and keywords which I would like to rank for in SEO. Here's a screenshot of what my structure will be:
Each tab has unique content with its own keywords,images,videos,etc. So, for example, I would like to rank well when people search for 'Top things to do in Bali' and 'best time to visit bali' and show that particular tab by means of anchored links. So, it will be example.com/bali.html#top-things and example.com/bali.html#best-time respectively.
Do anchored links have any SEO value? Will they even show up on search v/s a normal link. So, if I am trying to rank for the keyword Top things in Bali, which URL is better? example.com/bali.html#top-things or example.com/bali/top-things
Thanks for your help.
For a search engine, the anchors don't matter : Wikipedia uses them intensively, but I still haven't seen any link pointing to a specific anchored content from any SERP.
In a way, that's easy to understand : an anchor can be something like this :
<a name="my_anchor">My Anchor</a>
Or something like this, which is far more semantically right :
<anyHTMLTag id="anchor_name">my content here</anyHTMLTag>
Because an anchor can link to any id on the page.
Regarding your example, Google and other search engines will consider all of your content to be different paragraphs of the same page. If your purpose is to draw attention to a very specific zone of your page from the SERPs, that won't work.
Some years ago, when Google did not https encode their results page, a hook could have been used (Detecting the search query), but that's not the case anymore.
Interlinking is important part of SEO. Keep in mind while you creating Anchored make it in Heading tag that will be more effective. anchored text is use full to target Keywords that also important and It is easy to share your pages links.
The anchor link syntax for you website content will be equal to
<a href="" text="" target="_blank" > Your target keyword </a>
Select the target text from your content that you want to include anchor link.
Question is the following, we have site with video. Where address is video title, which can changing all the time. For example user upload video and name it "nice video" then he rename it to "nice video in London". So in this case URL also changed from "http://example.com/video123/nice-video" to http://example.com/video123/nice-video-in-london.
From my research I found that dailymotion using canonical pointing to the page without any keywords in the URL (example.com/video123). So question which URL will be in SERP?
Question, how should we care of this? Thank you so much in advance for any suggestions on it.
Regards,
Constantine
Answer: You will put in the canonical link the link of the page that you intent to give the credit to. The page that is gonna show on SERP is the one its' link is INSIDE the canonical link tag and not the one that HAS the tag.
Why:
Page0 = http://example.com/video123/nice-video-in-london
Page1= http://example.com/video123/nice-video
The canonical link is used so u can make clear to the crawl bots the page is a "dublicated content" and the original is the "canonical link". So in your example the search engine is looking at the page 0 which is "http://example.com/video123/nice-video-in-london" and find a canonical tag. The search engine understands that this is a dublicated content and looks at the link in the canonical tag (canonical=---->original page1"http://example.com/video123/nice-video"<----) and realises that every traffic u are getting from page 1 should be added to the traffic of page 0. And for that reason the page 1 --->video123/nice-video-in-london.<--- is getting zero traffic while the page 0 --->video123/nice-video<--- is getting traffic accounted for both pages AND this page will show on SERP for obvious i think reasons.
Let me know if u have more questions on that or if you need some more details on how or why it works that way.
I've got a page whose title as "mysite.com - CAT STEVENS".
Google finds mysite easily (above the fold) if the search phrase is CAT STEVENS.
In other words, when the search phrase is CAT STEVENS, my page shows up above the fold.
But, if someone were to search YUSUF ISLAM instead, my page does not show up at all.
Which of the following 2 options below would you recommend to me so that when YUSUF ISLAM is searched, I can appear above the fold too?
1- Simply change the current title
from "mysite.com - CAT STEVENS"
to "mysite.com - CAT STEVENS / YUSUF ISLAM"
and wait for Google to reindex the page.
I'm afraid of this change, cause it may hurt the current excellent placement.
2- Or create a new page under my web site, whose title is
mysite.com - YUSUF ISLAM
and place a 301 redirect on that page to the first page "mysite.com - CAT STEVENS" page, the one with the excellent placement.
this option to me seems to be a better solution cause it does not touch the currently ranked page. At least, I'f safe for those who searched CAT STEVENS.
and with a 301 redirect, I don't get the google's wrath due to duplicate content violation.
What say you?
I wouldn't change the title yet. I would update the content to include the fact that they are the same person. And make it real content, not just add the name and walk away. Maybe tell when and how he changed his name, where in his career he was when he made the change. Quality content is always the most important element.
Wait at least 3 weeks and see if you are getting traffic from that keyword.
The additional page may water down your high ranking page since the content will have to be similar. So, I wouldn't add a page - it is the same person, so it makes sense that the content should be appended.
I just found out that Google recently decided to start using their own "title" when they display their search results. Also, after checking Yahoo and Bing I saw that the way they are displaying their results are the same but in completely different way than Google.
I guess my question would be, if there is an actual "correct" way of adding titles to my pages in order for Google to display what I want them to and this way get the same results with Yahoo/Bing that are currently using the page's title as a search result (sometimes they pick up the first tag and use it as title).
Any recommendations or links to follow for more studying would be appreciated.
There's nothing you can really do about it. Google will choose what title to display based on criteria they have not made public. This usually is the page's title as found in the <title> tag but if Google feels a different title better summarizes the page's content they may choose to display something else.
You can try to change your page titles to better reflect the page's content and see if that helps.
Using optimal keyword prominency in meta tags according to guidelines... and Google will pick up your meta tags. See our news portal's source and metas (keywords: hírek, választás 2014, etc.): http://valasztas2014.hir24.hu/
I have setup some dropdown menus allowing users to find pages on my website by selecting options across multiple dropdowns:
eg. Color of Car, Year
This would generate a link like: mysite.xyz/blue/2010/
The only problem is, because this link is dynamically assembled with Javascript, I've also had to assemble each possible combination from the dropdowns into a list like:
<noscript>
No javascript enabled? Here are all the links:
<a href='mysite.xyz/blue/2009/'>mysite.xyz/blue/2009/</a>
<a href='mysite.xyz/blue/2010/'>mysite.xyz/blue/2010/</a>
<a href='mysite.xyz/red/2009/'>mysite.xyz/red/2009/</a>
<a href='mysite.xyz/red/2010/'>mysite.xyz/red/2010/</a>
</noscript>
My question is, if I put these in a tag like this, will I be penalized or anything by search engines such as Google? I've already been doing so for some navigational stuff which required offsets etc. However, now I would be listing a whole list of links here too. I want to provide them here, moreso so that google can actually index my pages - but for those without javascript, they can still navigate too.
Your thoughts? Also.. even though I have some links that appear to have been indexed, I AM NOT 100% SURE, which is why I'm asking :P
If the noscript code represents an alternative to the javascript code, then it should be fine I think, but Google does try to spot fishy seo and may penalize, so it's better to avoid doing this when possible.
In your case, consider spending some time making a drop down menu such that you can have the links on the page in a list item and use javascript + css to simulate a drop down menu, this way you will not need to use the noscript tag.
A decade ago, I made my website using image links for internal navigation (this at a time when CSS was brand-new and HTML4 Transitional was normal). I then added text navigation links at the bottom of the page.
I believe this (and your idea) is a common enough technique that, as long as you really aren't trying to do something sketchy, Google et al should interpret correctly.
I think the noscript tag is irrelevant, but having a giant list of links links may make their algorithms think you're doing some fishy SEO. Like having a wall of keywords.
Google (or whoever) would index these, and as long as you're not going overboard with a bunch of BS links I don't see a problem. Though from an SEO standpoint, it's not good to create menus from javascript or flash. I might look for an alternative that uses anchor tags with some CSS to dress it up.