Comments on: Guest post: Vanessa Fox on Organic Site Review session

By: Kam

Kam — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:13:03 +0000

Vanessa and Matt,

Thanks for this post. I’m not an expert into websites. I’m volunteer for this spiritual website that we maintain to update the devotees with our mission activities, events etc.

Recently, I’ve been concerned about our website not being listed (only few pages are displayed) by search engines. In this post I’ve found that “hyphens are often better than underscores” – I’ll start implementing it as most of the pages I’ve created have underscores. Also I created a sitemap.xml and have submitted to google using webmaster tools

By: Giles

Giles — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:45:21 +0000

Which would be better – the hypen, underscore, directory etc.,? Also why do I get so much trouble for now having dates in my sitemap – it’s not accepted but for me as the user, I don’t want them…hmm

By: Johan

Johan — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:28:59 +0000

The hyphen is better and information Matt has provided is true but it is a Google only bug/feature as the underscore is a well used separator.

By: Johan

Johan — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:26:55 +0000

Misleading information Matt!. “&id=” is indeed typically a session id however “?id=” is typically a page and is 100% index able and used my millions of database driven websites.

By: Alex bell

Alex bell — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:14:18 +0000

Hello,
Thanks Vanessa for the nice post.i also agree i m getting more results as compare to anyone else !!

Thanks for your attention and prompt response to my letter.

Regards
Alex Bell.

By: ADAC

ADAC — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:30:38 +0000

Interesting point on the short FAQ pages. I hadn’t really thought about the fact that longer pages might get better results (more visits) due to the fact they have a wider range of keywords. I’ve always worked on trying to concentrate subjects so they would rank on more specific terms.

By: shahbaz

shahbaz — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:50:15 +0000

Nice post .. hope it will help … But I have quite good results for index.html then anyone else !!

By: Nat Dunn

Nat Dunn — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:56:12 +0000

Hi Matt (and Vanessa),

I’m interested in this comment:

“You could make the entire article available for free to users who access it from external links and then require login for any additional articles.”

We plan to offer free books online but required a user to register to read beyond the first chapter. I’m a little confused by the suggestion above. If we link to the book from another website, track the http referrer and allow the whole book to be viewed when people come from that site, but not from other sites, would that be helpful for SEO or would that be considered cheating?

Thanks!

Nat

By: Lyndon

Lyndon — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:24:59 +0000

Okay..
Firstly, hi folks.
Secondly, thank you for the fantastic article.

Now to get cranky

So, does no one else spot how damaging the distinction between a – and a _ (hyphen/underscore) is going to be to a lot of sites?
There are some out there that have been following a naming convention for several years… there are others using CMS’s that use one or the other with no real choice between the two…

… and someone(s) somewhere decided to go ahead and make such a fundemental and serious decision without making it major knowledge?

Just wondering if anyone else finds that sort of thing not only annoying and concerning, but more than a little … well, irresponsible ?

Regards,
Lyndon

By: Vinsent

Vinsent — Sat, 12 May 2007 09:41:55 +0000

Bad example, as 1500 words on a real estate home page would be absurd.
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Dont confuse what Vanessa’s point is with intelligent site architecture.