SEO for multilingual sites: language-specific results without changing URL?

Here is my full answer about how you should structure your URLs for multilingual sites. There are many acceptable ways to structure your site for both SEO and internationalization. Each have advantages and disadvantages. Top Level Domains Buy the same domain name at multiple top level country domains like example.com, example.es and example.de. Advantages Fully … Read more

What is the difference between and in HTML, and do they affect website rankings?

<s> and <del> both still exist in the HTML specification. The <del> element represents a removal from the document. The <s> represents contents that are no longer accurate or no longer relevant. That is to say that they actually represent different things semantically. Specifically <del> would be used if you had an existing document and … Read more

Can I Use Multiple ItemProps in a Span Tag for schema.org Rich Snippets?

The usual HTML way would be to use one attribute and separate several values with space characters. Looking into the Microdata specification, you’ll notice that this is the case for the itemprop attribute, too: The itemprop attribute, if specified, must have a value that is an unordered set of unique space-separated tokens […] So this … Read more

Is there a standardized (meta?) tag for the date of a website?

There have been a few WHATWG Meta Extension proposals, referenced in the HTML5 specification which could cater for the creation date of a page. “Accepted” Proposals dcterms.available – The date the resource became available. dcterms.created – The creation date of the resource. dcterms.dateAccepted – The date the resource was accepted. dcterms.submitted – The date the … Read more

Is there a way to make search bots ignore certain text? [closed]

There is a simple way to tell google to not index parts of your documents, that is using googleon and googleoff: <p>This is normal (X)HTML content that will be indexed by Google.</p> <!–googleoff: index–> <p>This (X)HTML content will NOT be indexed by Google.</p> <!–googleon: index–> In this example, the second paragraph will not be indexed … Read more

Can an “SEO Friendly” url contain a unique ID?

Be careful with allowing a page to render using the same method as Stack overflow. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/820493/random-text-can-cause-problems Black hats can this to cause duplicate content penalty for long tail competitors (trust me). Here are two things you can do to protect yourself from this. HTTP 301 redirect any inbound display url that matches your ID but … Read more

Difference between tag and tag

<title> is a required element on any HTML page to be valid markup, and will be what is displayed as the page title in your browser’s tab/window title. For instance, try inputting the following markup into the W3C Markup Validator (via “Direct Input”): <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head></head> <body></body> </html> This will produce an error that … Read more

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