Comments for Embrace The Valley http://www.jamesburton.net Digital Inspiration and Ideas Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:50:35 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Chained 301 redirects should be avoided for SEO, but Google will follow 2 or 3 stacked redirects by Pauliina Jamsa http://www.jamesburton.net/chained-301-redirects-google-search-impact/#comment-113 Pauliina Jamsa Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:50:35 +0000 http://www.jamesburton.net/?p=78#comment-113 Very interesting article! The main trouble with 301 redirects is that no one remembers or knows that the page they want to redirect already has a 301 or 302 redirect in place. Fortunately usually creating a 301 redirect for 302 redirect doesn't work and it is easy to identify, but if the client wants a 301 redirect for a certain url we may create chained redirects by accident. Occasionally this is intentional, so thank you for the justifications to explain why it should be avoided! Very interesting article! The main trouble with 301 redirects is that no one remembers or knows that the page they want to redirect already has a 301 or 302 redirect in place. Fortunately usually creating a 301 redirect for 302 redirect doesn’t work and it is easy to identify, but if the client wants a 301 redirect for a certain url we may create chained redirects by accident. Occasionally this is intentional, so thank you for the justifications to explain why it should be avoided!

]]> Comment on Chained 301 redirects should be avoided for SEO, but Google will follow 2 or 3 stacked redirects by kevin blumer http://www.jamesburton.net/chained-301-redirects-google-search-impact/#comment-98 kevin blumer Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:24:15 +0000 http://www.jamesburton.net/?p=78#comment-98 Ive just done a redirect i am Gunnar see how long it takes Google to catch up its a pain but i had to redirect it because i was renaming directory and it was getting very cluttered i have also done it for a bit of a test for my biggest blog since that has a page rank of 3 it will be quite painfull to lose that. Ive just done a redirect i am Gunnar see how long it takes Google to catch up its a pain but i had to redirect it because i was renaming directory and it was getting very cluttered i have also done it for a bit of a test for my biggest blog since that has a page rank of 3 it will be quite painfull to lose that.

]]> Comment on URL Localisation for International SEO by James Burton http://www.jamesburton.net/url-design-for-international-seo/#comment-96 James Burton Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:32:54 +0000 http://www.jamesburton.net/?p=36#comment-96 Hi Lesley, While I'm yet to read conclusive evidence to say that URL localisation helps increase SEO traffic for Cyrillic languages. It would seem logical to me that Cyrillic languages just like any other non-Roman alphabet languages would benefit from URLs encoded in the users native language. Why? The URL is an important factor in ranking a page in search engines and if the URL doesn't contain any keywords relevant to the users search then it is going to be of use. Plus from a consumer's perspective a URL is a helpful signpost to where they are an what they are looking at, keeping this native to the users language is therefore important. My only concern is the number of browsers that actually encode the URL, as from a consumers perspective this isn't helpful and can be a little ugly. I'm trying to get do some QA research on browser support for UTF-8 and localised URLs and will post to my blog when complete to help with this. Thanks, James Hi Lesley,

While I’m yet to read conclusive evidence to say that URL localisation helps increase SEO traffic for Cyrillic languages. It would seem logical to me that Cyrillic languages just like any other non-Roman alphabet languages would benefit from URLs encoded in the users native language.

Why?
The URL is an important factor in ranking a page in search engines and if the URL doesn’t contain any keywords relevant to the users search then it is going to be of use.

Plus from a consumer’s perspective a URL is a helpful signpost to where they are an what they are looking at, keeping this native to the users language is therefore important.

My only concern is the number of browsers that actually encode the URL, as from a consumers perspective this isn’t helpful and can be a little ugly. I’m trying to get do some QA research on browser support for UTF-8 and localised URLs and will post to my blog when complete to help with this.

Thanks,
James

]]> Comment on URL Localisation for International SEO by Lesley http://www.jamesburton.net/url-design-for-international-seo/#comment-58 Lesley Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:29:22 +0000 http://www.jamesburton.net/?p=36#comment-58 Hi I wanted to know your thoughts on the Cyrillic langauge URLs, it was suggested to me to translate using the Roman Alphabet. Do you have any thoughts on this. Thanks lesley Hi

I wanted to know your thoughts on the Cyrillic langauge URLs, it was suggested to me to translate using the Roman Alphabet.

Do you have any thoughts on this.

Thanks
lesley

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