My inner pages of my website show up as: www.everest1953.co.uk/#/george-mallory/4536945697 I have just had a reply back from the sitebuilder host saying that they can not remove the # and number. How will this affect my SEO in the eyes of search engines? Thank you.
ive never seen anywhere that the # sign causes harm. now the fact that your site is in flash is definitely not a good thing as supposed to text and html
Well, I never came across any such thing where some one is using # as subfolder/subpage, even if you click on your home page it has http://www.everest1953.co.uk/# as well.. subscribing to this thread anticipating some one provide a suitable answer.
First of all I have never seen anything like this before(the URL). Moonfruit.com hosted website. The URL itself had great SEO value in the past along with the domain name. Today, it still has same, but very low value as lot's of websites started stuffing keywords in URLs like: *.com/pizza/london/pizza-instant-delivery-0-24-bestpizza-online.html My observations: With this URL structure, it is very hard to maintain link structure integrity. You have ~70 invalid links, it drops the site's trust factor. Check your website with dead-links[dot]com. There is a SEO term:bad neighbourhood. Some believe it means you link to (or get links from) very low quality websites. Some believe it really means the low quality websites hosted along with your site, on the same IP address. I have no idea what this Google term really means, but looking at statistics my sites hosted on dedicated server are performing better then the ones hosted on a shared accounts. One thing is for sure, you have a very good website and it would deserve better hosting then this one. If you plan to move the website to a better hosting, I would suggest Hostgator[dot].com as they have an excellent support. In case you need an even better solution, I have a dedicated server where two IP addresses are reserved to PR5+ websites only(self-PR).
it won't cause any damage at all, don't worry. Since you have a flash website that won't rank well though ..
Nobody said yesterday klo sign # is dangerous, now you say no problem, I do not know which is true,, hehehe
But I prefer the pages to be nearer to the domain name(home) as much as possible. In the above link structure (The factor #)we are creating one un-necessary space between home page(domain) and inner page. It may create additional distance for spiders between home page and inner page and the SEO value of the site may decrease.
Since # is what is used for a named anchor I think you will have an issue. Google may ignore everything after the #. I have been looking at some of the PR of internal pages and personally I do not think it makes sense. Every url with a # is PR5 the same as the home page. When you google a specific url http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=e.../#/info/4536934970&btnG=Search&meta=&aq=f&oq= You get this result; www.everest1953.co.uk/info/4536934970 (no #) When you click on this link from the SERPS you get redirected to the page with the # http://www.everest1953.co.uk/#/info/4536934970 I think Google is treating all URLs with the # the same as the home page hence why they are all PR5. The numbers in the URL are not an issue. But the # is in my professional opinion.
DING DING DING! We have a winner! Free chicken dinner! The hash mark ('#') in the URL is used for named anchors... example.com/page.html example.com/page.html#abc example.com/page.html#def example.com/page.html#ghi Are all seen and indexed as the same URL by the engines. The URLs containing the hash are seen simply as anchors to different positions on that page. Everything after the # is ignored and not considered part of the page's URL. As such, you're likely going to confuse the hell out of the engines and they'll constantly be replacing the cache and indexed version of your "home page" with whichever page's content they crawled last. Google was experimenting a few months back with having something similar to sitelinks that pointed to multiple named anchors on PAGE X when PAGE X showed up in the SERPs. They were doing this so that users could jump directly to the section of a page that was most relevant to their search. But I'm not sure if they're still testing it. Regardless, to my knowledge all the major engines ignore everything after #. I would recommend ditching Sitebuilder in favor of something else. WordPress is an awesome way to build a site like your existing site. You can get some decent free themes for WordPress (though I would highly recommend purchasing a copy of Thesis by diythemes.com for around $85. It is an incredibly professional looking theme, VERY SEO friendly, highly customizable and easy to maintain through upgrades of both WP and Thesis, and has a large support community. Many major SEOs use this as their theme.) You could easily build out your existing site using WordPress with static pages as well as blog pages.
This is what I want to ask my domain problem ... but it http www PR 3 PR 3 down .... so what is causing so happened that