... of course it wasn't too difficult to solve this problem. In Foundation I could assign the right classes... so there is no need to work with visibility classes in this case.. and produce dublicated div's.

Thank you, but in practice how does it work without file-extension?

As I understood its fine if I put the following link to link on my homepage-index:

http://inlinear.com/     <--- without anything...

As well when I link to the products page:

http://inlinear.com/products/ <--- again without anything (index.php)

But in case of a specific page for example in the products-folder:

http://inlinear.com/products/my-product-1.php     <--- how can I live without extension?

I googled and found this .htaccess code. Seems it takes away .php and ads a "/"... is this the best practice?:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews

Turn mod_rewrite on

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

Adding a trailing slash

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule . %{REQUEST_URI}/ [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*?)/?$ /$1.php [L]

Is this what you mean?

Dear all,

starting with my .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.inlinear.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://inlinear.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.html 
RewriteRule ^(.)index.html$ http://inlinear.com/ [R=301,L]

1. I redirect all URL-requests with www. to the non www-version...
2. all requests with "index.html" will be redirected to "domain.com/"

My questions are:

A) When linking from a page to my frontpage (home) the best practice is?: "http://domain.com/" the best and NOT: "http://domain.com/index.php"

B) When linking to the index of a subfolder "http://domain.com/products/index.php" I should link also to: "http://domain.com/products/" and not put also the index.php..., right?

C) When I define the canonical ULR, should I also define it just: "http://domain.com/products/" or in this case I should link to the definite file: "http://domain.com/products**/index.php**"

Is A) B) the best practice? and C) ?

Thanks for all replies!
Holger

Checking Keyword-density is just to primitive... what is your recommendation for the subject WDFPIDF?
The SEO-Tool onpage.org (german) offers an interesting tool to analyse your text. But there are differences between languages and factors like proximities, synonyms etc. What are your experiences?

• tools?
• does mOz develop a tool for this? This would be a nice Feature for the On-Page Grader!

best regards,
Holger

Thanks, thats what I was thinking, too and the link you gave me was the best I found before on this subject as well ;).
Right now I'm experimenting with the foundation framework where the visibility class solved my problem quickly but from a SEO-point of view I got a new problem. So I must study more on this...

THX

I have text in the right column of my responsive layout which will show up below the the principal content on small devices.

To do this I use visibility classes for DIVs. So I have a DIV with with a unique style text that is visible only on large screen sizes. I copied the same text into another div which shows only up only on small devices while the other div will be hidden in this moment. Technically I have the same text twice on my page. So this might be duplicate content detected as SPAM?

I'm concerned because hidden text on page via expand-collapsable textblocks will be read by bots and in my case they will detect it twice?Does anybody have experiences on this issue?bestHolger

I think you can test this issue best with a "Text-Only-Browser" to see how search engines see your page.

Here are some links:
If your page is already indexed with Google, put in the following URL:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:example.com
Google will show in the grey cache-info box a link "text-only-version"

The Safari-Browser shows a "reader Icon" if there is a lot of text on a page...
Or you may check this link for more Text-Browsers: http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/blog/seo-tools/5-text-only-browsers/

Hope this helps!

Hi Andrew, it takes only a few hours!... (also websites that post news will not wait 3 months ;)) But I think it depends on your trust and page rank which helps to get new links indexed faster. I have my own domain more than 10 years, got very few but good backlinks and never found time to optimize my own site but at least it has a PR4. I lately tested how blogging helpes to rank for keywords and made very good experiences. At night I posted a short article, submitted it with WMT ...fetch as google... And the next morning the new page ranked already very well !! So upload your page and submit it to google. And check next morning... It worked for my WP Blog. Thats my experience Best regards, Holger

When I have a long article about a single topic with sub-topics I can make it user friendlier when I limit the text and hide text just showing the next headlines, by using expandable-collapsible div's.

My doubt is if Google is really able to read onclick textlinks (with javaScript) or if it could be "seen" as hidden text?

I think I read in the SEOmoz Users Guide, that all javaScript "manipulated" contend will not be crawled. So from SEOmoz's Point of View I should better make use of old school named anchors and a side-navigation to jump to the sub-topics?

(I had a similar question in my post before, but I did not use the perfect terms to describe what I really wanted. Also my text is not too long (<1000 Words) that I should use pagination with rel="next" and rel="prev" attributes.)

THANKS for every answer

I think you can test this issue best with a "Text-Only-Browser" to see how search engines see your page.

Here are some links:
If your page is already indexed with Google, put in the following URL:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:example.com
Google will show in the grey cache-info box a link "text-only-version"

The Safari-Browser shows a "reader Icon" if there is a lot of text on a page...
Or you may check this link for more Text-Browsers: http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/blog/seo-tools/5-text-only-browsers/

Hope this helps!

Checking Keyword-density is just to primitive... what is your recommendation for the subject WDFPIDF?
The SEO-Tool onpage.org (german) offers an interesting tool to analyse your text. But there are differences between languages and factors like proximities, synonyms etc. What are your experiences?

• tools?
• does mOz develop a tool for this? This would be a nice Feature for the On-Page Grader!

best regards,
Holger