Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies.
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Wordpress - Too much information about SEO tags - archives - posts. Which is best?
Point 1: I have a front page which is dynamic because it gets all the latest posts that are rated. The question is: do I have to make these posts an excerpt, because that's better for SEO?
Point 2: I ...
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The effect in Google of the word “the” in a URL?
Keywords in your URL are extremely weighted, and I am aware of most bad practices, but the question as to whether the word "the" in a URL, as in www.thewebdesigner.com, is a bad idea or not is very ...
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nofollow links on jQuery interaction
Is it important to use rel="nofollow" on jQuery interaction links?
<a href="#" rel="nofollow">jQuery interaction link</a>
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How to see how many new visitors from last week came back this week?
Using Google Analytics, how can we see how many new visitors from last week came back this week?
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How to find the amount of organic traffic a particular website receives? [duplicate]
1)How to find the amount of organic traffic a particular website receives?
Not through Google analytics or placing any script in the page.Is there any other way?
2)Does google use google analytics ...
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How do I set up Google PageSpeed Service for my site?
It seems I can't set up Google's PageSpeed Service. When I do it in the Google services panel, a message comes up like: "Your site may be directing live traffic."
What can I do to resolve this and ...
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Rich snippets for “hproduct” not being displayed in Google, and returning error
Some time ago I added rich snippets to product pages on an ecommerce website, but they have not shown in Google and the testing tool returns the following error:
"Warning: In order to generate a ...
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Does Google penalize Wikipedia external links?
Wikipedia external links are all nofollow, so it seems they shouldn't have any effect, negative or positive.
But an article that I found online suggested that Google may penalize those external ...
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Why does Google's search results display my home page instead of my target page?
Our ecommerce site www.example.com ranks very high for the search term: "turtle food". The homepage shows up on the 1st page of Google's search results. I found this out by using Google Webmaster ...
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Google Webmaster Tools change domain from third level
I had a blog running on Tumblr on foobar.tumblr.com and at some point I thought I'd just get foobar.com and set that up as a custom domain.
Yet, as far as I can tell, there is no way I can ...
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HTML5 vs HTML4 regarding Search Engine Optimization
We currently have great SEO utilizing HTML4 entities, we are considering utilizing an HTML5 document type but are concerned about the SEO implications.
We do not want to risk losing our SEO by ...
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No data in Google Webmaster Tools traffic, content keywords etc
My site has been live and added to Google Webmaster Tools for over a year now. It doesn't have a pile of incoming links, but there are a few I know of. The site receives an average of 200 ...
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Junk Links From Competitors [closed]
PLEASE HELP! Enemies have given us hundreds of irrelevant junk backlinks to our website to crush us on google! We have been smashed down and google allowed such to happen! HOW CAN WE STOP THIS ...
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How do i get facebook icon on my desktop [closed]
how do I get the facebook icon on my desktop? I do not know how please help
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How does Google crawler find pages?
Will Google crawler find a page that is not linked to? I.e. pages accessible by manually modifying the url, like http://www.site.com/node/1/[secret keyword]. Note that it is only secret in that there ...
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repeating content consequences on bootstrap visible-desktop, visible-tablet, visible-phone
I am using bootstrap visible-desktop, visible-tablet, visible-phone to show different orders or span divs. Please see this page example: http://www.getaveo.com/snoring-causes/what-causes-snoring.aspx
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Google Analytics: How do I create a custom report to view today's top visited pages by page title?
I'm trying set a "Custom Report" that shows today's top visited pages by page title.
Here's a picture of what I have set so far:
I tried to filter by "Date" with "Today" selected, but that does ...
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The name of my startup returns many search engine results - will using it as a domain name cause problems with SEO?
I've come up with a good name for an online service startup that has the .com, .net and .org domain names available for it, and is also available on most social networks that we care about.
The bad ...
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Repeating synonym just once in title tag - is it keyword stuffing?
I'm running a stock market forum and I noticed in Google Webmaster, I am not getting impressions for the keyword "message board." Currently, I only use the keyword "forum" in my title. For example, in ...
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Please Help - Using a vbs script with iMacro and I cannot find anyway to have my code auto size Google Chrome [closed]
PLEASE PLEASE HELP!!!!
I have a VBS script that I use for my Flash to HTML5 image comparison. My vbs script does a lot of stuff and publishing flash and html5 files in the back of the curtain.
Then, ...
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Upgrading from Google Checkout to Google Wallet [closed]
Google recently announced that Checkout would be discontinued by Nov. 20, 2013. Assuming that Wallet is going to be a payment processing replacement for electronic delivery items, how do I migrate ...
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After Google's penguin 2.0, is a DMOZ listing still effective? [closed]
Please look at the following questions in which answers say that a listing in DMOZ is useful for rank:
Does an entry in DMOZ significantly help the ranking of a web site?
Is it really worth ...
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SEO for niche web directory - using canonical for pagination?
I am creating a niche web directory. Each category has a quality text and then about 1000 sites listed. My primary goal is to get Google traffic for each category intro. Only on 1st page of each ...
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Google Webmaster Tools - Search results are creating subdomained sites that don't exist
I'm very confused and at a loss here, so bare with me.
We were updating our Google search plugin for our domain, when I noticed odd behaviors in the Google search results:
fod.oursite.com
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Slot matrix - Google Analytics _setCustomVar
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/gaTrackingCustomVariables
"...Use a slot matrix to track large numbers of custom variables..."
How to implement it?
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Can i choose two Geographic target country for my website?
I have a website, the main target audience from two countries. In the Google Webmaster Tools you just can choose one location.
Do i need to do something or just leave it along?
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How many days could google updates my pages titles and contents order [duplicate]
After Google's penguin 2.0 - I call it dracula - my website has lost about 30% or more of its traffic. The following screen shot from my Google's webmaster tools account should demonstrate the ...
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Any ways / alternatives for AdSense approval for a website that is not based on rich text content
Hello I have following website -> http://musicglaze.com and have applied for AdSense, but was quickly rejected due to "insufficient content" As you can see nature of the website is not to provide much ...
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media rich website [closed]
I have a website which can contain text, image, videos... but I noticed that users mostly put pictures on it. So my question is since my website is dynamic so I can't customize the alt text and I do ...
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How can I enable the pagespeed service for my gae app?
When I try to enable Google's pagespeed service I get the following error message.
Our records indicate that www.koolbusiness.com is currently being used with another Google service. It might be ...
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Does google alerts include results from other google feed services like news and blog search?
We are using google alerts in our study to catch and categorize new contents as they happen on the web.
We want to be as comprehensive as possible and catch the more new results for a query is ...
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Which pages from the sitemap are not indexed by Google?
I have a sitemap file that has been submitted to Google, and has been processed, according to Google Webmaster Tools.
As per GWT for 2013-05-31, 8255 web-pages are submitted, but only 8209 are ...
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Which is good to target, singular or plural keyword?
Which keyword is better for targeting and on-page optimization, singular or plural? Like "baseball bat" or "baseball bats"?
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Google Penguin Update 4 [closed]
I am quite embarrassed after the new Penguin Update, 3 of website projects are losing rankings. I am following pure white hat SEO techniques but still this happened. What immediate steps I should take ...
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Google Search Operator: Does “-nofollow” exclude websites where links are dofollow? [closed]
I've seen someone using search operator "-nofollow" to find websites where links are dofollow and he claimed that this query can exclude websites whose html source code contains "nofollow".
Well, ...
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Is Google search site:yoursite.com result count a good indicator of Google's indexing and does it really mean anything in SEO terms?
I'm not sure this is the best stack site for this question. But it does have to do with Google search functionality so I think it is justifiable to ask here. If I'm wrong, please let me know.
My boss ...
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Pros and cons of language-specific URL's?
I've googled a bit if it's better to use language-specific URL's and most of the answers said yes. For example, for the about page it is better to use:
/en/about-us/
/de/uber-uns/
Than it is to ...
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Google Displaying “Read More” Rather Than the Page Title for a “site:” Search
I am having some trouble with Search Engine Optimization.
When I look up "site:example.com", the first result is the index page. The third result that pops up says the title is: "Read More". I ...
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How to get back the bounced mails during the transition phase to Gmail Business Apps
Hi we had recently done the transition to the Gmail Business Apps but during that phase we had received many emails, so all the emails were bounced due to the MX record TTL time phase.
So we would ...
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Sitemap indexed count and Google results difference
My sitemap claims they have indexed over 3 thousand pages from it but when i do a site command in Google
site:http://domain.com
It returns 200 pages. I have heard of the sitemap index count ...
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Why does Google index pages of my blog in seconds, while pages on the rest of the website take longer to get indexed
I have a questions and answers website in Portuguese about a specific subject.
My Q&A website also have a blog, on a sub-directory like www.site.com/articles.
I had not written on the blog for ...
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does google hate capitalized words?
I've read around in the past that Google frowns on all caps like "THIS IS MY WEBSITE". But, I wanted to know if they also frown upon capitalized words in general, like in a case like where a name is ...
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How long does it take for URL Parameters changes to take effect on Google Webmaster Tools?
Google was showing up pages with affiliate ID parameter in the search results. After some research on how to disallow this, I came across URL parameters in Webmaster tools. I set the parameters for ...
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Anybody seeing organic traffic from keyword starting with “np -” [closed]
For monday & tuesday, I am seeing traffic of average 2000 visits from this keyword np - $81. np in this case I am assume stands for "not provided". Not sure why it is showing up as separate from ...
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Using Ajax #! for Google but site is not being crawled any more
We used to have all links in a normal way (thus with parameters?), we changed to Ajax loading cause we installed a music player. Here's an example:
Old links: ...
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Is cloaking of sitemap.xml permitted?
I have a scenario where my sitemaps are generated when visiting /sitemap.xml due to the contents being dynamic in nature. For that reason I'd like to not call the services that are used to create my ...
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How to link my content to a Google+ profile using “rel=author”?
I googled this question and found the answer from here but in featured Google+ I didn't find the options that are mentioned in the above URL. I need my Google+ profile should be resulted in Google ...
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What is duplicate content and what does it affect negatively? [duplicate]
I am fascinated by SEO and it's merits, so that's why I am going to optimalize my website. There are still a couple of questions that do pop up... Well, I am aware that duplicate content is not done, ...
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how to create link back from contributor section of google plus for dynamic pages
I wanted to add author information for my programming articles. I have added Google plus profile link to my site and followed further instructions by Google.
In that Google had mentioned that from ...
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How much google takes to deindex pages after disallowed from robots?
For accident I have let google index lots of junk pages. Now I have added them to disallow in robots.txt
Will google completly remove the pages after seeing the are disallowed from robots?
(I can't ...
