if you need hosting and the builder - weebly.com is a pretty good choice - there are drawbacks of course to any sitebuilder, and limited HTML knowledge.

But in my expereince if you are not looking for a CMS, just a "drag and drop" builder - weebly is 100000 times better than wix - as you found out wix is HORRIBLE for SEO.

If you are looking for a little more customization - just find a host that offers a sitebuilder - like Fatcow - they offer weebly pro for an additional price AND you have all the FTP abilities to make advanced HTML changes and additions after using weebly to publish the core components.

Learning HTML and becoming very proficient in it, and its counterparts (php asp ect..) is crucial to SEO though...

Hope this helps

Shane

It would really have to be....

The only reason for a %5C is the use of backslash - as that is actually what it means in code.

**business site occasionally break **

How do you mean "break" ?

My crawl diagnostics here in my SEOMox campaign show 19-20 urls doing this - it's nuts.

Is the only issue from this in SEOMOZ reports?

If you would like to PM me the site I can attempt to profile it

There are a few different thought processes here...

If I understand it correctly social signals are not really at the domain level, they are at the page level. Social signals are to signify trending or popular items. So by doing this you are trending a page on your site with little to no content (or purpose) other than a photo to gain likes. This MAY give the overall domain credence, in the Social World, but not sure it actually will affect the process of SEO to much.

Also the photos are smaller and worse quality when they are attached as a web link instead of uploaded to your wall directly so you may get less likes, not to forget that the CTR of links on FB is VERY LOW!

Of course you want positive social signals to your website, but is this really the way to achieve it organically and with overall user experience in mind?

Keep in mind as well that SEO/SEM are more and more everyday becoming online about brand building and Sharing the item that gets alot of likes on your Branded Facebook page can increase your brand power online.

In my opinion this strategy has merit, but employing under the idea of just gaining rankings is not really a strategy it is just another "SEO trick" that will get picked up and devalued as a webpage with little to no content so the Social Gain you made will proabably be devalued in the end, so you might as well retain the power in your Social branding.

w00t!

It appears from research it is actually \   (backslash)  not / (slash)

So possibly somewhere in your site you have used \ instead of /  but of course this is just a possibility, as it appears that %5C is the delimiter or interpretation of \ in original Unix.

Hope this helps

PS a quick check at http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp verified %5c is URL encode, for backslash - as it is treated as a special character, so somewhere in your CMS or code, you have used backslash instead of slash.

Hi,

In my site, I use a php expression - as such -

header.php -

On page -

$canonical = "http://www.domain.com";

Here is a recent Blog Post if the above code does not help

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-advanced-relcanonical-http-headers

Shane