I have a website with links similar to:  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4183948/css-set-background   if I change links to:  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4183948_css-set-background   ( / to _ )  does it improve my website's SEO rank?  if it does why most of websites avoid doing that?
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I am working on an ecommerce site, I told our SEO consultant that I plan to make the URL scheme: /products/&lt;id&gt;/&lt;name&gt;. This is similar to Stackoverflow's URLs which are /questions/&lt;id&gt;/&lt;title&gt;.  He asked me if I could change the URL scheme to /p/&lt;id&gt;/&lt;name&gt; instead. I know why he wants this change, the word "products" isn't needed to find the correct product, and it doesn't offer any SEO, so shortening it to just p would make the relevant keywords in the &lt;name&gt; weigh more.  His main priority is maximizing SEO, but the part that I don't think he is considering is how this effects the semantics of the site. Also having the word "products" looks like it has meaning and a reason for being there, just having a p looks chaotic and ugly to me. I also don't think it makes that much of a difference does it? Stackoverflow doesn't use /q/&lt;id&gt;/&lt;title&gt; and they do just fine, I do realize that theres many factors at play here though, not just the URL.  So I want some outside opinions on which is the better way and why?
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Is there a \urlstyle{tt} (or something else to that effect) for \href to make it the same font as \url links? I'm happy with any monospace font, as long as they both (\url and \href) show up the same.
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How do I best approach common SEO techniques for a website with images as the main content?  The problem here is the content is all image based, so other than Friendly URLS, H1/H2 tags, Sitemap, RSS Feed, Alt Img, what else can be done to gain search rankings?  I realise most search engines (if not all) are text based and text is how they better understand the business and "usefulness" of a site and therefore compare it with other sites, but other than social media and driving constant traffic what is the best thing to do or focus on?
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I am working on a website for a client, and even though the site ranks extremely well for various different keywords (which is good), if I search for the site's name the homepage does not appear even on the second page on Google. I have to add the .com so it will appear.  But, for big brands like Best Buy, Nike and millions of others it is enough to just search for the brand itself and the first or second suggestion on Google is the brand's homepage.  How can I raise my brand's authority in Google so it will appear in Google on the first page when some searches for it?  I have tried changing the breadcrumbs so instead of "HOME" it is now the brandname, linked to the homepage. I thought that it will help with internal linking if the anchor text is the brand's name instead of the word "HOME".  Any ideas please?
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My website changed significantly this month.  Amongst the changes was the website's title.  Two weeks ago, I finally used Webmaster Tools and submitted the page.  So far, Yahoo and Bing have updated the title in the search results, but not Google.  I've resubmitted via Webmaster Tools the website, and the bots have crawled the page, and have added "content keywords".  But the title still doesn't match.  The "content keywords" lists many of the words in the new title (but contains keywords of the existing title also).  Must say that 4 of the top 5 key words in the "significance" list are the new title's.  Still, no change.  Any remedies for this problem?  Is adding the "alt" tag for the logo significant enough to trigger the change?  There isn't an appropriate place to put the company name between  tags on the front page.  Any suggestions?  Thanks.
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My site is fairly new, e.g. example.com. I need to optimize the home page(example.com) for a keyword, e.g. healthy-food.   Does redirecting home page to example.com/healthy-food, would help in terms of SEO, since URL contains keyword the page is targeting for.  The issue with adding extra redirection is that it adds additional latency of 300ms while accessing the homepage, which I would like to avoid.  I do not want to put same content on example.com and example.com/healthy-food, since it will flag duplicate content.   Please advise.
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I want to know, is there a huge difference in terms of SEO between these URLs:  example.com/ontario/toronto/listings   or  example.com/listings.php?p=ontario&amp;c=toronto   Will one URL rank higher than the other? Is there a huge difference here?
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Link building is the process of manually building links in any way possible to show the site in question as having more of a value to search engines than it did previously. Therefore it's surely a black-hat SEO activity?    I'm at the stage where I'm trying to promote an online store I'm in the process of launching at the company I work for. I've done most of the initial legwork - domain, server, software, products, on-page SEO, etc. All that's left now is to promote, promote, promote.  I (like many others) would like most of our traffic to come from organic searches because it's both free and passive in many respects (yes, my time isn't free and so on, but let's assume it is for now) so it's a question of ranking well for what I think (based on my keyword research) the terms are that people search for where our site would be the most appropriate. As I said before, all on-page SEO is taken care of, meaning broadly speaking, how well we rank for said terms is down to how many links (or rather, 'how many links of a good quality') I can get pointing to my site and products with appropriate anchor text over our competitors (competitors being not necessarily other online stores, but sites that rank well for those terms regardless of their purpose).  I'm not new to the concepts of SEO, I understand the majority of concepts (it's actually quite simple, though most 'SEO' firms insist it isn't and will throw ridiculous terminology into the mix to boost their 'professional image') and whilst I understand everything, I just can't fathom why anyone would seek to try and build links manually. Link building entails essentially pestering webmasters to link to your site in question, when it's probably the last thing they care about doing for that particular day. Sure there are rare occasions when the site your building links for is genuinely relevant and interesting to the webmaster you're approaching for a link, but in some industries - especially the more 'niche' industries, these kinds of sites are far and few between.  Rather than simply requesting links, many articles now go into the psychology of essentially manipulating people (webmasters, yes, they're people) into linking to their site under the pretences of a false relationship/friendship (sure, you can say it's genuine all you like but you would never have contacted them if you weren't after a link) and spending time on said relationship to the stage where they might link to you... once.  Manual link building seems (well, IS) a very long-winded process with what is essentially very little reward when you consider that you won't continue to gain links if you stop. Major search engines use link counts as an organic method of determining which sites are relevant to what search terms and how they should rank and by building links, you are technically devaluing their efforts to evaluate your site. Surely by this measure, link-building isn't a white-hat process?  I believe the smarter approach (if you were going to approach the webmaster of a site whose audience may find your site interesting and request they link to it) would be simply to send an email with a link asking them to take a look... then if they genuinely found it interesting they might link to it.... and I fear I may have just contradicted myself with my earlier psychology approach.  Should 'link-building' as an activity consist of creating link-worthy exceptional content that is likely to accrue links naturally with age as opposed to the headless-chicken/goose-chase approach many SEO firms seem to undertake?
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I don't know much more about SEO, but it's interesting to learn about it. When I tried to search my website with an associated keyword or you can say with the exact name of the domain, I got some suggestions by Google. Here's .  First of all, I don't want to spamming here, I just want prove my question and want to give a hint about what I am talking here. The above link display the Did You Mean, I know the specific reason why Google shows this, but I want to know the Google's guidelines and some guidance by you experts so that if someone search for the particular keyword then Google hide that Did You Mean and display the result.
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I have a few payment brand images that need to go in the footer of a website, the footer is very dark grey, to the point where making the logos grey-scale wouldn't be much of a good idea, especially as we still need the logos to stand out.  For example I took the following logo:   And changed it to fit with our very dominant red theme:    Is this good in terms of the user's perspective? Is this legal or misrepresenting the brand? If so is completely changing a logo to white acceptable for dark backgrounds?
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I want to change the background image in the Nautilus file browser. My idea is to put my own style in the background. I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 and Nautilus is version 3.  I know that I have to change the nautilus.css file of the theme, but the problem is that there is not a parameter for the background. I just want to apply an image but I can't find the file or parameter to change it.  The CSS file is in the directory /home/UserName/.theme/MyTheme/gtk-3.0/apps. I've changed the nautilus.css file. I wrote two new lines using CSS style but I don't know where the correct place is to put it. The lines are:   background-image: url("carbon.jpg"); background-repeat: repeat;   Obviously I put the image called carbon.jpg in the same directory of nautilus.css, but this change doesn't work because I need to know whichs class displays the Nautilus file browsing frame. If I find this class I guess that this code will work.  If someone knows how to do it, please tell me because I really want to make this change.
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For example, if I wrap my content with &lt;div&gt; tags (for no reason, just for arguments sake), would that cause a difference to search engines? Does thinner markup improve SEO?    &lt;body&gt;     &lt;div&gt;         &lt;div&gt;             &lt;div&gt;                 &lt;main&gt;                     &lt;p&gt;Text text text text text...&lt;/p&gt;                 &lt;/main&gt;             &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;     &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt;   versus  &lt;body&gt;     &lt;div&gt;         &lt;main&gt;             &lt;p&gt;Text text text text text...&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;/main&gt;     &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt;   versus  &lt;body&gt;     &lt;main&gt;         &lt;p&gt;Text text text text text...&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/main&gt; &lt;/body&gt;   From an SEO standpoint, are these all equal or not?
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How can I change the background color only for the current page? I found that I can change the color with \pagecolor{color} but that unfortunately changes the color for all pages after this command. Any ideas how to limit this command only to the current page?
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Let's say we have an image exhibition website that has got a lot of images but next to nothing content. The focus keyword for this website is "Artistic wallpapers". What would be the best approach w.r.t SEO for such a website.  Here are a few things I can imagine:   Submitting sitemaps ( image and web ) Having a good pagespeed score. Nice navigation Breadcrumbs sharing the website content on Social media. Having appropriate titles.   Having worked on all these things, what can be done if Search engines are picking wrong keywords ( For example views, votes, ratings) Can anything be done so that Search engines don't track these specific items? Also, is it a good practice to have all the pages submitted to Search engines at once?
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So I have created a Site Page that has the "New Experience" look and I would like to change its style a little. Nothing major, just the height, width, color, etc. However, I can not seem to figure it out.   For example, I tried to change the height of the .pageHeader to a smaller value.   .pageHeader{ height: 150px !important } //for example of CSS in file   Here is a reference image of the page i'm trying to change    I tried adding   &lt;link href="../SiteAssets/file.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"&gt;   to the .aspx page using SharePoint Designer and it didn't work.    I also tried adding   &lt;SharePoint:CssRegistration ID="CssRegistration" Name="SiteAssets/file.css" runat="server" /&gt;   to the .aspx page and it didn't work    I tried to use the "Embed" feature to add the CSS; however, it complains and says,     This embed code doesn't seem to work. We only support iframe based embeds.   Question:   How can I add custom CSS to this type page?  I can't seem to figure it out and I'm not sure exactly why the page will not load the file.  Is this even possible?
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Possible Duplicate:          Maybe this is more for SuperUser website, but as it appears all stack exchange use the same approach I'll ask it globally.  On posts, we can add links to external websites. The link to the various external websites are a light blue with no underline (I mean the HTML a href link). Now, underline in the world of HTML = a link!! Simple as that. Don't get me wrong, I'm a web dev/designer and I rather not use the underline (it's nicer on the eye) but I can't comment now on the amount of time I've replied to a post to only realize I've missed the link in the original question! Well, not only have I waisted the OP time by having to re-alert me I'm repeating his data, I've been marked down (well, it is my fault!) but worse, I may have spent a long time researching the answer!  I also know it could be my screen calibration etc, but, on SuperUser could we either have a darker colour or a rule so links are underlined through out?  EDIT As per Frédéric Hamidi , this has been asked before, but it was asked in 2009 so I'd like this to be a new consideration (if possible).
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I just wanted to know if it's ok to modify/remove links pointing to the designer of the theme.  In my case I have "theme by" and the site's logotype, would it be ok to remove the logotype and write the site's name? Or remove it altoghether?  Does it have to do with the particular designer of the theme?  Thanks