What Is Online URL

March 30, 2008

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Do really you know what a Online URL is?

It’s simple - but confusing if you don’t not know exactly what a address URL is. Let me explain the URL definition for little bit so you wont have any any confusion later on.URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator.

A URL is the address of a web page or document on the web in most cases called a domain. It could be your home page or an “inside page” such as an article or a blog post page. When you give someone a address URL, You are simply telling them the exact location so they can type it in their browser and find the specific page.The first part of the url address indicates what protocol to use, ie

http://

http://www.

etc.

And the second part specifies your domain name or IP address. ie

your-domain-name. com

218.45.29.17

A web page could also possibly be the third part of a address URL, ie

/index.html

your-web-page-name.html

So if you would be referring to the home page of a domain you most likely
will NOT include the page part - index.html - although you could
if you wanted. However it is redundant to refer to the home page with the index.html part and if
the search engines see address URL’s of the same identical page, the value of each URL will be dilluted.

Let me give you example: If Google finds two URL’s for your Home page the value of
each will be diminished.

example:

http:// www.your-domain.com/index.html

and

http:// www.your-domain.com/

Both of the above URL’s show exactly the same data - so if Google
indexes and catalogs both pages - the JUICE of your HOME PAGE will
be significantly impacted.

They will not usually find the /index.html URL unless there is a
link out there they crawl that deviates from the standard home page
URL of

http:// www.your-domain.com/

Many newbie webmasters make the mistake of linking both ways, or
a link partner or competitor will link to you that way.

You can correct this by adding some code to your .htaccess file
(advanced technique which will redirect the visitor or spider to the proper version (without index.html)

Here is the redirection URL code:

#Redirect http://tipsanswers.com to http:// www.your-own-domain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^your-own-doman. com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www. your-own-domain.com/$1 [r=301,L]
That way you are protected even if links point to your site with
both URL’s.

This same duplicate home page problem can also occur when you
use both http:// and http://www. for linking.

http:// www.your-domain.com/

and

http:// your-domain com/

Both of the above URL’s also point at the same home page.

Pick one or the other - with www or without - do not link to URL’s
with and without the www. That will screw things up and further
dillute the value of the home page and even article page URL’s.