Doubtful in SEO ASP.Net
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Hi Guys, I am an ASP.Net Developer, and our SEO guy want's me to change the links to a complete http links. For example, instead of this link <a href="sevices.aspx">services</a>, our SEO guy wants to change everything to this <a href="http://www.ourdomain.sevices.aspx">services</a> My question, does it matter when working on SEO? Let's say if I have 10 aspx pages and have different href links in it, do I really need to change the href link to the complete http://www.... links? Please give some thoughts about this Thank you
hifiger2004
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Hi Guys, I am an ASP.Net Developer, and our SEO guy want's me to change the links to a complete http links. For example, instead of this link <a href="sevices.aspx">services</a>, our SEO guy wants to change everything to this <a href="http://www.ourdomain.sevices.aspx">services</a> My question, does it matter when working on SEO? Let's say if I have 10 aspx pages and have different href links in it, do I really need to change the href link to the complete http://www.... links? Please give some thoughts about this Thank you
hifiger2004
hifiger2004 wrote:
How would that even work ? Absolute URLs are a PITA, and your best bet is to do them via a property so you can move the URL for everything via one setting.
hifiger2004 wrote:
My question, does it matter when working on SEO?
He's got to justify his job somehow. He's probably right, it probably does create full links to your site when some search engines do their indexing.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Hi Guys, I am an ASP.Net Developer, and our SEO guy want's me to change the links to a complete http links. For example, instead of this link <a href="sevices.aspx">services</a>, our SEO guy wants to change everything to this <a href="http://www.ourdomain.sevices.aspx">services</a> My question, does it matter when working on SEO? Let's say if I have 10 aspx pages and have different href links in it, do I really need to change the href link to the complete http://www.... links? Please give some thoughts about this Thank you
hifiger2004
That's completely wrong! SEO has nothing to do with absolute URLs. Even if it were true, the URL he suggested is not workable.
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hifiger2004 wrote:
How would that even work ? Absolute URLs are a PITA, and your best bet is to do them via a property so you can move the URL for everything via one setting.
hifiger2004 wrote:
My question, does it matter when working on SEO?
He's got to justify his job somehow. He's probably right, it probably does create full links to your site when some search engines do their indexing.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Hmmm Ok. So I really need to change all of my asp.net pages links to the full url with "http://www.domainname...." something. After changing all the links, the problem is in the maintenance, I think. What will happen if I'm going to debug on something locally in my asp.net files within my machine, since the links of all pages has to be changed to this - "http//www.domainname..." ? If for example, I need to trace the code behind of pageB.aspx which was being redirected from pageA.aspx, in order for me to do the code behind debugging/tracing, I should change back the link manually to something like this <a href="pageB.aspx">page b</a>, without the "http//www.domainname..." Is there another way of doing this stuff? About the property you mentioned, I haven't tried that yet.
hifiger2004
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That's completely wrong! SEO has nothing to do with absolute URLs. Even if it were true, the URL he suggested is not workable.
Hi Rama, You mean to say that either putting the complete url like href="http://www.domainname..." and without the domain name the results are still the same? So for my ASP.Net pages maintenance purposes, no need to change all the links by adding http://www.domainname..." ? Because, the way I understand the SEO is that, once you have a complete url, then the SEO engine can see it(crawl). What's the best way to do it for my asp.net maintenance purposes and for our SEO, what can you suggest?
hifiger2004
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Hi Rama, You mean to say that either putting the complete url like href="http://www.domainname..." and without the domain name the results are still the same? So for my ASP.Net pages maintenance purposes, no need to change all the links by adding http://www.domainname..." ? Because, the way I understand the SEO is that, once you have a complete url, then the SEO engine can see it(crawl). What's the best way to do it for my asp.net maintenance purposes and for our SEO, what can you suggest?
hifiger2004
Yes, an address with or without domain name, the link will have no effect on SEO. Of course the link should not be broken. If you continue using relative URLs, you will be ok.
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Hmmm Ok. So I really need to change all of my asp.net pages links to the full url with "http://www.domainname...." something. After changing all the links, the problem is in the maintenance, I think. What will happen if I'm going to debug on something locally in my asp.net files within my machine, since the links of all pages has to be changed to this - "http//www.domainname..." ? If for example, I need to trace the code behind of pageB.aspx which was being redirected from pageA.aspx, in order for me to do the code behind debugging/tracing, I should change back the link manually to something like this <a href="pageB.aspx">page b</a>, without the "http//www.domainname..." Is there another way of doing this stuff? About the property you mentioned, I haven't tried that yet.
hifiger2004
hifiger2004 wrote:
After changing all the links, the problem is in the maintenance, I think. What will happen if I'm going to debug on something locally in my asp.net files within my machine, since the links of all pages has to be changed to this - "http//www.domainname..." ?
Which is why I said, make all your links pick up the absolute path from a single property, which you can then easily change as needed.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Yes, an address with or without domain name, the link will have no effect on SEO. Of course the link should not be broken. If you continue using relative URLs, you will be ok.
Would be helpful if I'll use the canonicalization?
hifiger2004