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SEO problem with special characters


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Hi DW's

Our SEO expert is complaining about the source code on my newly made solution is outputting encoded characters ie:

"K& #248;kken og bad"

This is happening in the META tag and TITLE, and in the desciptive text and in Description,  in the source kode.
I have an UTF-8 tag in the html source, doesnt help.

What am I missing here?

 


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Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
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The meta tags are html encoded.

Why is that a problem?
 
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I have no idea. but I can ask the SEO expert.

I will return with some answer..
 
Peter Bille Larsen
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Hi Nicolai,


The SEO expert has returned with some direct issues:

1. Can the "æøå" be transformed ind the URL to oe, aa, ae ? He claims that Google better "eats" this version.

 

2. All "%" and "/" should be "-" (like with space).?

 

3. Can "/Products" be excluded from the URL. (That is something I have set up, standard as a page "products" with an ecom in it, but is it possible to exclude it from the URL) ?

 

4. Can all URL be lowercased ?

 

 

Basically he wants the URL to go from :

/Products/VVS-til-Bad/Dusjkabinett-og-hj%C3%B8rner/If%C3%B8-Contura-kj%C3%B8kkenvask,forsterket-kranhull-LG10-H.aspx

 

To: 

/vvs-til-bad/dusjkabinett-og-hjoerrner/ifoe-contura-kjoekkenvask-forsterket-kranhull-lg10-h.aspx

 

 

 

Is there any possible solution to these SEO questions?

 



 

 
Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
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Hi Peter

@1: See this post: http://developer.dynamicweb-cms.com/Forum/Feature-requests/Better-URLs-for-pages.aspx - the feature is coming up.

@2: % are always replaced, / can be replaced with the update mentioned in 1.

@3: Not for now - have a backlog item though to exclude pages from the URL path, so if possible It will come.

@4: Yes - that setting is already there.

See attached screen dump for possible settings with the next release.

CustomizedUrls.JPG
 
Peter Bille Larsen
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Hi Nicolai

The SEO expert is asking if there is a date for the next release, since all the URL will be changed. Do we know anything about that?

thanks
Peter

 
Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
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Next release is a Service Release scheduled Monday 27th.
 
Peter Bille Larsen
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cool :-)
 
Peter Bille Larsen
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Hi Nicolai.

The SEO expert is complaining that ","(comma)  is not converted to "-".   I guess he found a , (comma) in an URL.

Is there a way to convert such special characters?

//Peter

 

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