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“Included” search phrases in URLs/titles/H1s and SEO
When designing a new URL/folder structure for our website, we faced one interesting problem related to choosing best keywords from SEO perspective. We call it "included search phrases". It will be ...
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Image folder name for SEO [duplicate]
We develop and sell ActiveX and .NET controls through our website. After doing some redesign works, every product will have its own top-level folder on the webserver. For instance, the home page for ...
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site home not at site root index
I have an SEO concern with a website that has just finished the development stage, basically the site has been in progress for a year. During this period the site has been accessible from the URL: ...
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Convenient practice for where to place images?
A lot of developers place all image files inside a central directory, for example:
/i/img/
/images/
/img/
Isn't it better (e.g. content architecture, on-page SEO, code maintainability, filename ...
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rel=“nofollow” SEO impact
I saw a technique used where there was a block with three parts:
1. Image (wrapped in an anchor tag)
2. Heading (anchor tag with heading text)
3. Paragraph (regular p tag with synopsis content)
e.g.
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What is the best way to create a blog site? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Subdomain versus subdirectory
Like usually i have a query related to my blog but I am bit confused about a question.
I want to know the best way to create a blog. ...
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Purchasing traffic effects on SEO
I've recently found some websites which provide a specific number of visits by paying. I'm curious if this is a (very) bad practice for search engines (like Google).
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Is it good to buy multiple domains for competitive reasons?
I am attempting to convince the higher ups at my company that spending $55 to renew one domain for a year is bad when they end up having 3-4 domains names for one website.
They're reasoning for ...
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how to handle foreign content on a blog (double content)
I'm quitely new to SEO and I don't know how to handle foreign content on a blog.
I am writing content for two different blogs. The subjects of these blogs intersect partially, so there are sometimes ...
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Filtering your offices IPs from Google Analytics when each has a dynamic IP?
I found the documentation for filtering IPs from Google Analytics, but the address of the several locations of our company all have dynamic IP addresses that change every 30 days from what I'm told.
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Same product name in different categories
I have two questions about URL structure for SEO.
I have one product belongs to multiple categories. Is this OK for SEO OR shall I give them different product names?
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Navigation: Sub-menu item for section page
I'm considering some small navigation changes to one of my sites. Consider the following (simplified) site structure:
About Some Technology
-About Some Technology
Our Products
- Products Overview
- ...
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SEO: ABBR and My Full Phrase (MFP)
In my company websites, we often have the situation at the start of a page where we introduce a [usually technical] phrase, followed by the acronym that it is often know as:
My Special Widgets ...
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URLs - Hyphens or keywords?
Let's say I have an online database. The domain names somethingdatabase.* are taken.
seomoz says that
Hyphens detract from credibility and can act as a spam indicator
and also says that
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Friendly URLs: is there a max length for search engines?
People from stackoverflow have been working closely with google team to help them make the panda algorithm more efficient, so I guess they've learned a lot from the google team.
Thus they may have ...
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SEO & Multilingual: would be this a good practise?
I am currently making a bilingual website and I'd like to get nice SEO results of course.
Here's my idea:
The internal links would be composed of the "www" subdomain so that people can share links ...
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What is the best way to redirect my naked domain?
I have example.com, which points to web server using A records, I want to redirect all traffic from www.example.com to example.com.
As far as i know these are methods,
301 HTML redirect from www to ...
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When linking pages, does google give higher value to href=“http://www.mydomain.com” than href=“/”?
When linking pages does Google give higher value to:
<a href="http://www.mydomain.com"> </a>
Vs.
<a href="/"> </a>?
I am wondering because I have heard that (for SEO) it ...
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Meta Keywords Optimization Best Way to Proceed?
I am on a wallpapers blog project... When i generate leech pages I put in the tags about that image in meta information... But i also need to tell that these are wallpapers...
So what is the best way ...
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Local SEO Strategies
What are your strategies for local SEO? For example, if you had a web design company in Lincoln, Nebraska, what would you do for your website from an SEO perspective?
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Why do some bad websites rank well?
Consider the following scenario: you are pitching SEO/Website Optimisation to a prospective client and you explain to them the importance of great copy and content, how acquiring links (ethically) can ...
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HTTPS best practices for SEO and usability
Consider a page, http://example.com, which can be viewed both publicly and when a user authenticates. Now suppose you enable HTTPS for every page when a user logs into your website, but only when they ...
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URLs: Should I use hyphens or underscores?
Which is better for search engines?
example.com/my_cool_page.html or example.com/my-cool-page.html
