Hi, I've been working on an XML training website recently, and would much appreciate it if someone could scan over the website and see if I have over/under SEO the website. The URL is: http://www.xmltraining.com Another question regards URL optimization, currently I am using the title of the web pages in the URL in mixed case (upper and lower case), I have read that lowercase URL's are favoured by Google, is this true? I have noticed that keywords in lowercase URLS are highlighted, but uppercase words are not highlighted. Thanks!
"I have noticed that keywords in lowercase URLS are highlighted, but uppercase words are not highlighted." Interesting! I never noticed that before but it does seem to be true. I wonder if they like lower case better for some reason, I can't see it being the case?!
Google is supposed to be case insensitive. So are browsers. So you really can't have mixed cases in URLs except for marketing purposes.
my understanding of it is that Apache is case sensitive (ms windows servers are not). As far as domain names the browser will still find the correct DNS (case insensitive) and hence the site but if it is domain/file.htm then that is not the same as domain/File.htm (Apache) (change "showthread" to "Showthread" HERE to see what i mean in the addy bar). I read somewhere, think in another forum possibly, that if you did a search for File.htm on a page called File.htm it would find it, but if it is called file.htm they might not... where if it was called file.htm then a search either lower or upper case would have found it. I did do a test on a few of my own pages and found that changing it to all lower case helped... with .htaccess redirects for the pages i moved. Discalmer... i am just a joe doe web person not an SEO expert so take my comments with a pinch of salt unless someone else confirms what i say.