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multiple encoded requests from crawlers
Some crawlers repeatedly try to access URLs on my page that are multiple encoded in a strange way. An example: Bing bot tries to access (which gives a 404)
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Passing Arabic values in parameters results in % spaces
I have built an .htaccess clean URL, this part works perfect in my .htaccess:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /road.php\s [NC]
RewriteRule . نقفورالثانيفوكاس/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^نقفورالثانيفوكاس/$ ...
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Google Webmaster Tools crawl errors due to Google decoding links that were urlencoded by Codeigniter
In our pages we have internal links that are urlencoded because the URL may sometime contain special characters such as () or !
So in our source code we have a link: ...
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When is a URL encoded?
When there are spaces in a URL like
http://example.com/this is not url enocoded
it is obvious, that the URL will end up as
http://example.com/this%20is%20not%20url%20encoded
When and what will ...
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Do Google sitemap URLs need to be double urlencoded?
Do Google sitemap URLs need to be double urlencoded?
I am submitting my sitemaps to Google and Google is having difficulty navigating to URLs that contain urlencoded characters. An example of a ...
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Google Webmaster tools - painlessly change 300,000 urls
I have a site with over 300,000 products. Many of these products have non-alphanumeric characters in their names. I have encoded these, rendering thousands of links that look like this:
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URLs in Google Webmaster Tools are shown with “percent-encoding”
Our site is using Greek characters for some pages. So in Webmaster Tools -> Crawl -> Crawl Errors, the URLs are shown in a format like:
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Are there disadvantages an literal + instead of an encoded + (%2B) in an URL?
A client of mine has a product ending with a plus-sign (e.g. Google+) and would like the webpage of this product to have an URL that is human-readable (i.e. an URL that doesn't contain %2B).
Since ...
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Do some mail clients automatically urldecode %2b strings?
We have an email address verification process on our website. The site first generates an appropriate key as a string
mykey
It then encodes that key as a bunch of bytes
&$dac~ʌ����!
It then ...
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URL encoding - what difference to SEO? + or _ or - [duplicate]
I have a URL e.g.:
http://mysite.com/tracks/backing-track/101153/ABBA/Super+Trouper
QUESTION does it make a difference to SEO when using + or - or _ in the URL between words? Is one more readable ...
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“C# grid control”: how to encode this in URL from SEO perspective?
We are developing a WinForms grid control, and selling it thru our website worldwide. At the current stage of SEO works, we found that there are many popular search phrases with the "c#" word we can ...
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SEO issue with long UTF-8/ non-English URL?
I have URLs in Thai language e.g. วิธีการหลีกเลี่ยงข้อผิดพลาดทั้ง-8-ในชีวิตการแต่งงาน. Once it's encoded into ASCII, it becomes extremely long - 466 characters. SEOQuake prompts me that this is an ...
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Will URL encoding the image names affect Google
Just wondering if it makes any difference to Google whether or not I URL encode the image names when linking to them.
For example if I have an image named "test-1234-!.jpg", does it make a difference ...
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How to handle URLs with diacritic characters
I am wondering how to handle URLs which correspond to strings containing diacritic (á, ǚ, ´...). I believe what we're seeing mostly are URLs where diacritic characters where converted to their closest ...
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Does URL encoding create duplicate content?
An SEO expert was testing my site, and noticed that my URLs contained the special character :. He said that would create duplicate content, because google would interpret any url containing : as two ...
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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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Should plus be encoded in mailto: hyperlinks?
When placing an email address with an address tag (aka sub-addressing) in a mailto hyperlink …
<a href="mailto:[email protected]">mail us now!</a>
… should the plus ...
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Javascript and PHP how should I en/decode my data
I would like to know in what encryption should I encode my data and why. First of all, I use GET method because it is search engine inside website. Second, I use RTL language (hebrew). And third which ...
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URLEncode of full URL
I am using the PHP urlencode() function to escape chars for anchor tags ().
Why can't I use the function on a full URL such as
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What browser is sending user agent beginning mozilla/5.0+, tramslates & into &
We've got a website which has been running for a few years now. One of our customers has just started having an intermittent problem. Looking at our iis6.0 logs the service works correctly when they ...
