My website (music lyrics) contains literally thousands of pages. The user submits song lyrics and the site gets another new page added. This got me wondering and I have 3 points if anyone can help answer these..... When I add the song lyrics to my website is their any benefit in adding either www.theurlofmywebsite.com or http://www.theurlofmywebsite.com or just thenameofmywebsite without http or the www. (Is any of the 3 choices better than the other?) Would search engines disregard it for PR purposes as the backlink is in effect coming from your own site? Are there any benefits in adding anything to a page footer that would benefit the website overall? Keywords, search words, URL, anything beneficial? I am new to website ownership hence the query..... I am also doing all the usual things, directory submissions, advertising etc.
Backlinks within your own site are important, including the anchor text. So rather than having www. theurlofmywebsite.com or the other possibilities you mention, try and use the site main anchor text eg 'Song Lyrics - Home' That should then point to either http://yoursite. com or http://www.yoursite. com, according to which you use - the important thing is to choose one and stick with it, and do a 301 redirect (in your ht access file) so that any links pointing to the 'wrong' version get treated as if they were pointing at the correct version.
The answer is Get Links Relevant or one way links and you can get Higher PR Indexed pages Rankings and traffic
For internal links I have heard (from one person only) that it might be better to use the full link as in: href="http://mysite.com/page.html" rather than just href="page.html". But my feeling is that it doesn't matter at all and I don't bother doing it myself as it makes it more difficult to develop the site on your own hard drive. Another tip that seems to be more strongly agreed upon is to use href="/" when linking to your main page, rather than href="index.html". Not sure of the reasoning behind it though.
The reasoning for that is here: http://clsc.net/research/google-302-page-hijack.htm And at this time, it can still happen: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=217061 I suggest changing it once the page is ready to be uploaded.
I dont think google likes that very much ? Or do they ? I was trying to verify one of my sites for their Sitemap program and they busted me off for having this done to my site ( i had to verify by using the meta tag method later ).
Thats a bit confusing.... So whats the last WAY out for such thing...I am too waiting for this answer so that i can move ahead....
americantruckbuyer, I'm not sure which question you are waiting for an answer to... however I have no great doubts about using a 301 redirect to direct domainname.com to www. domainname.com I've done it on several sites and never had any problems at all. The code for this has been given lots of times in these forums - check out http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=293413 from yesterday or do a search on 301 redirects, there is an enormous old thread on them somewhere here as well There are lots of people here who are expert on them, unfortunately I'm not one of them, I just used the code as suggested by someone else.
Use a good status code and header checker, be certain that you are putting out a 301. 302 status codes are the default, and Google is having problems with them once again...
You know, links from same site doesn't affect PR to much. Not as much as extrenal incoming links. But it can help to detect your site structure for search engines. For search engines there is not much use of things like footer - this is mainly for users convenience.
i think this is very important with the backlinks as one member pointed out on the top of this forum...
it's allways better to redirect without www option to with www option. i also arrange it from google webmaster tools panel