Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'urls'

I don't think this is exactly related to Google mixing up titles and URLs from yesterday (if you have examples, please comment, so Matt can address them at Google). But over at Search Engine Roundtable Forums, PPCBlogger showed us an...

Posted on April 11, 2008 7:01 AM

There are reports from several sources including WebmasterWorld that Google is having a tough time mapping the proper URLs with the associated page titles for those URLs. One report says that Google is treating searches for portal A on a...

Posted on April 10, 2008 8:35 AM

Earlier this week, we reported that Ask.com Crawler Inserting Url-Encoded Spaces in URLs Causing 404 Errors. In short, Ask.com's crawlers were crawling badly formed URLs, causing tons of 404 errors in web server log files. Vivek Pathak, Ask.com's Infrastructure Product...

Posted on January 4, 2008 7:03 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread is reporting several webmasters noticing that Ask.com's crawler has recently been generating tons of 404 (file not found) errors on their sites. The issue appears to stem from Ask.com auto inserting URL-Encoded spaces into the URL. URL-encoded...

Posted on December 31, 2007 6:53 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums thread asks, can multiple hyphens in a domain name raise a red flag with a search engine? For example, if you have a domain name that is something like www.buy-shoes-now-online-for-cheap.com, would that type of domain raise a...

Posted on November 28, 2007 7:44 AM

In April Google released a way to remove URLs in Google from within Google Webmaster Tools. There has been very little chatter about reincluding content that you have removed in the past. With Google it is very easy to reinclude...

Posted on September 4, 2007 7:24 AM

Matt Cutts finally chimed in on the big buzz about Hyphens & Underscores Are Now Treated Equally in Google.com, which was broken by Stephan Spencer at News.com. Matt said, he "didn’t quite say that in the talk." What he did...

Posted on August 10, 2007 7:44 AM

Until today, Google treated dashes and underscores in the URL differently. A dash (hyphen) between two words in the URL (i.e. keyword-phrase) would tell Google that those are two different words (i.e. keyword +phrase). In the past, an underscore between...

Posted on July 24, 2007 8:22 AM

In mid April, Google released a new way to remove content from Google. Since then, people have been using it but there has been a lot of confusion on how it works and doesn't work. A Google Group thread has...

Posted on June 27, 2007 7:49 AM

As the discussion on duplicate content drones on (to the dismay of some), it's only natural that some really excellent how to guides come about. Part of the duplicate content discussion is the best way to avoid domain and canonical...

Posted on January 8, 2007 11:51 AM

We have confirmation over the long debated topic on if the keywords in the URL or file names help with rankings. Some SEOs say it does not help, some SEOs say it may hurt (still true - be smart), some...

Posted on September 1, 2006 7:21 AM