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URL with query disables caching?
Does having a query string attached to a URL cause browsers to never cache it? For instance, my site does something like this:
/radar-picture.png?v=sep2013
And it would appear that FireFox never ...
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Is it recommend to create sitemaps with query strings (i.e. URL parameters)?
I am considering creating a "My products" page on a site where a user will be able to search for product information. This page will also display the product information.
I need google to know about ...
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IIS 7 URL Rewrite Rule using query string variable
Trying to create a URL Rewrite rule for IIS 7.5 to read the query string parameter and redirect requests to a new URL structure - for example:
http://www.example.com/people/profile.aspx?dw
to a new ...
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Best way to handle query string params no longer used [duplicate]
A client's SEO "expert" has recently asked us to redirect hundreds of URLs to the home page but we're not sure if her request is the best way of going about it.
Here's the situation:
The clients ...
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What are the pro and cons of using friendly URLs compared to query parameters (and vice versa)? [duplicate]
I am noticing that more and more sites prefer using "friendly URLs" over adding information as query parameters. For example:
domain.com/product/3343/
compared to
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How do I redirect a URL using rewrite in .htaccess that has a question mark and forward slash where page.html is the variable?
Hello and thanks to all who contribute to this seemingly mind boggling puzzle. I apologize in advance if .htaccess questions belong on server fault.
So I have to move a domain to our hosting servers, ...
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Making Search Queries Indexable
Looking around, most sites (eg. Amazon) encode the parameters of searches into query string. This means that search engines cannot index these queries.
Why don't such sites use URLs rather than query ...
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Pass IMG SRC via GET and echo it? Is that really secure?
I was wondering how I can make a really simple GET and echo request more secure
The code:
$src = $_GET['src'];
echo "<img src='$src' />";
Basically, I have a URL like ...
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Apache rewrite rule that matches a specific query string
I need to rewrite a specific wordpress url to a 404 error:
?page_id=15 => 404
How can I match the query string? Apparently Apache doesn't feed that to the rewrite mod...
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Google and querystring parameter capitalization?
I looked all over the web, but I could not find an answer to this. We all know that Google treats different capitalization of Urls as potentially duplicate content.
My question is, what about ...
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Does Google Analytics automatically handle URLs containing a jsessionid?
When a user visits my web site, the first page they load has a jsessionid appended to the URL like this:
http://foo.com/Welcome.do;jsessionid=1234567890abcdef
Note that the jsessionid parameter is ...
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how to deal with URLs containing lot of spammy keywords?
I'm writing a big index of documents and I'm dealing with URLs
as example I will use the car industry:
somesite.com/manifacturer-mazda_model-miata_engine-1600cc_gas_color-red_hard-top-spider_[[A LOT ...
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Just discovered something I never knew about 404 - could someone explain this
I had always thought that placing anything spurious after the 404 which the server didn't understand would result in a 404; however I had a closer look at a WordPress site which I was building and ...
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Analytics referrer forum thread
When I'm in analytics I sometimes get a referral from a forum, something like:
http://forums.example.com
Then when I click on it, it gives me a page like:
/viewTopic.php
Is there any way to get ...
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Google Analytics include querystring
I've taken an advert out on a site with instruction to point it to:
http://www.example.com/?source=gmb
In Analytics, how do I go about analysing it's data? I can't find anywhere to see people who ...
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How should incorrectly encoded URLs be handled?
Just recently noticed that some sites link with the URL incorrectly percent-encoded, to which my server (LAMP) responds with a 404 Not Found.
For example, for a URL of mine like this:
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How can I identify unknown query string fragments that are coming to my site?
In the Google Analytics content overview for a site that I work on, the home page is getting many pageviews with some unfamiliar query string fragments, example:
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Where is the query string pagewanted=all coming from?
On my site I use CodeIgniter, which does not allow any use of query strings. Any unacceptable characters in a URL result in a 400 error.
In Google Webmaster Tools I'm seeing several crawl errors ...
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Serve pages based on search query AND avoid cloaking
I have a website offering translation services in several languages (www.your-translations.com), as well as many articles for translators and translation software.
Most visitors come from search ...
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Why is it preferable to use paths with slashes instead of query-string variables in a web page URL?
Why is it preferable to use paths with slashes instead of query-string variables in a web page URL?
