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31 views

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 does Google determine Information about a person for Google Search?

For some queries Google Search will return result with a person's information on a right. It looks a bit differently for different queries but most of the time something like this ...
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Why do all pages bar the home page turn up in Google? [duplicate]

Our website is made with WordPress. The menu pages all turn up in Google searches, but the index page doesn't. The index page is absent; the others are there. Why would this be?
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84 views

Google search: how to filter results to display just subdomains homepage without pages or folders [closed]

What i want: I'm looking for way to retrieve list of all subdomains of a domain name without their inner pages and directories. Current result page: somesubdomain.domain.com/somepage.html ...
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3answers
49 views

Google and SEO services [closed]

Are there any good and reasonably priced SEO services that work well? Also can I pay Google to have my site at the top of searches? I was looking into Google Adsense and I am not sure if that is what ...
5
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1answer
110 views

How reliable is the number of hits provided by Google site: command?

A partner of my company (not sure whether i can tell their name here - i´ll use example.com instead) asked me yesterday, why there is such a big difference when they enter the site command at google ...
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1answer
79 views

How to add/change sitelinks on google search?

Hy everyone, I'm new to the SEO and google search optimizing so this seemed to be a good place to ask my question so please be gentle. So, I have created a new website to replace the old one. The ...
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3answers
176 views

Facebook likes Influence SEO ranking

I have seen some data that shows strong correlation between number of Facebook shares and Google ranking position. It makes sense. But I am wondering how does Google know number of Facebook shares. ...
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1answer
22 views

Changing GoDaddy Webmaster tools options [duplicate]

A client of mine (for school) has a website hosted on GoDaddy which we wants my team to help him increase his marketability on Google, because currently, when his company name is Google searched no ...
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112 views

Site Indexed in Yahoo and Bing but not Google [duplicate]

I have a site www.holiday-tuscany.com that has been online for less than a month. If you put the keyword Holiday Tuscany in Google the site doesn't appear in any of Google rankings. If I do the same ...
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1answer
106 views

Image Rankings on Google Image Search (Images hosted on external sites)

I saw that when I stopped uploading images to my own server my content on Google images disappeared. I stopped uploading images to my server for two main reasons: Traffic and Storage space on the VPS. ...
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101 views

Google not indexing/updating rel=“canonical” pages

I had same content with different links and I wanted to prioritize the indexing of different webpages. For example /A/1232 and /A/1232/tum_bin_jiya_jay represent same content but I wanted to give ...
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1answer
46 views

seo optimization

I have submitted several pages to Google through Google Webmaster Tools by using a sitemap in XML format. Several pages are indexed by Google as well but the rank of those pages are in 400-500 as my ...
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1answer
74 views

If I use my custom domain with my Blogger account will this help in SEO of that blog?

Also I want to know that if my custom domain is nothing but one of the keywords and my blog is also about that keyword, so will this help in improving google ranks of my blog after I change from ...
2
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1answer
170 views

Redirects On Image Files to Counter Google Image Gallery

The recent update to the way that Google displays images appears to have resulted in a significant drop in the traffic reaching the actual pages of our website. We are considering potential solutions ...
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263 views

Google search showing “Index of /. cgi-bin/”

I recently decided to leave GoDaddy in choice of NameCheap as my preferred hosting package for my mothers business, I also had to bring my domain name to the guys i register my local domain names. ...
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119 views

Will Google's decision to encrypt all searches from Chrome mean that we lose all keyword data in Google Analytics?

Context. At the end of 2011 Google announced that they would start encrypting searches for logged in users. What does this mean for sites that receive clicks from Google search results? When you ...
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5answers
215 views

Will get good traffic from Google if I pull content via RSS feeds?

Now-a-days, There are many plugins available in Wordpress to perform Auto Post / blogging. I know it grabs content from RSS feeds and posts it to our blog. Some of the Premium plugin will grabs full ...
2
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1answer
45 views

What is more preferable, Creating dedicated domains for mobile apps that shares different content or associate them with folders in one domain?

I want to consult you in an SEO matter which i am completely lost with, I've built a social mobile application that allows users to share text content and made all the content that appears on the ...
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2answers
63 views

Blog is not indexing in google search [duplicate]

I have a blog with url http://webzpedia.blogspot.in which is about 2 years old. In early days there is 200+ pageviews coming from the google search itself. But from last 4-5 months, google stopped ...
2
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1answer
51 views

check when a page was first seen by google

Is there a way to see when a page was first published, by checking when it was first cahced by google (obviously its not 100% fool proof because there is a couple of days delay in some cases but it ...
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1answer
58 views

Google not listing my web site [duplicate]

I have a site which is more than 2 months old and it's not showing up when you directly type the URL into Google. Here is the link of site: www.icarda.org However, the site is listed in Bing and ...
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1answer
90 views

Is it safe to buy links through fiverr? [closed]

edu and org back links are so cheap at fiverr. Has any one tried and get hit by penguin or is benefiting through it? Whats your view on those tempting back links at fiverr?
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61 views

using blank image to improve post value

I have seen people (including popular digital agencies) using 1 x 1px transparent image, so that they can add page title as alt value. Does that really increases the value of a web page or that's a ...
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0answers
21 views

I have done everything correct on my asp.net website, re: SEO; why aren't google backlinks showing? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why are my backlinks not showing on google on this asp.net website with all I’ve done? I recently implemented many SEO techniques for a company on their asp.net website; ...
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2answers
487 views

How to make Google recognize language for a multilingual website?

A few weeks ago I implemented a translation functionality for my company website. The website now offers content in french and English and I took the time to look on various guides on the internet on ...
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49 views

How to figure out recent pagrank of websites or any particular page (Homepage)

Question just comes in front because the very recent published algorithm changes by Google been affected my website traffic. And I've been wondering that my homepage page-rank is been also drop to 6 ...
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5 views

Will keep google traffic on new site from old site when moving content from old site? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: new domain, old links are 301’d from old domain to new, how will this affect my rankings? I have a site about bikers. Now I created a dating site for bikers. I don't ...
4
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1answer
108 views

How to specify importance of html elements?

Is it possible to specify what elements of the page are important, or, more specifically, what elements of the page are not important? I'm using HTML5 new elements (nav, header, footer, section, ...
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votes
3answers
106 views

Linking competitor with the same keyword i am targeting : Good or Bad for Seo?

I am linking one of my competitors from my site for the same keyword which is I am targeting for my site (My competitor is paying me for that). For Example: Me and my competitor both are targeting ...
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1answer
49 views

How much of a benefit does a changing landing page give in terms of SEO?

I have a friend with a small business with a website. He asked me if he should make a put a section on his landing page under the fold that with his most recent review (or something along those ...
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3answers
327 views

SEO - Hidden content before main site content

I have a two hidden divs before my main site content, one with the login form and another with the signup form. I then have login and signup buttons within the page that use JQuery to show or hide ...
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2answers
171 views

SEO when loading items through AJAX

Let's say I have standard scenario of commerce site that has categories on the left and items on the right. What I would like to do is that when user clicks on category it will pass it's ID to js, js ...
2
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1answer
163 views

How do I stop googlebot from guessing urls parameters

When the googlebot visits our sites it seemingly tries to visit urls that do not exist resulting in exception being thrown. The url is is like http://ourdomain/thepage.aspx/x/8/x/ etc.x stands for no ...
7
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1answer
232 views

home page of my site is not appear in google search, when I type site:example.com

I am totally confused, when I place site:example.com in google I see every page of my website in serp(search engine result page) except the home page. I don’t know why it’s happening but I check ...
2
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0answers
11 views

Google Places seo? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What determines the order of results for Google Places? Im familiar with seo and getting higher google listings but for allot of services google has recently been making ...
4
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1answer
62 views

Why does google does not ignore the word “languages”, although I have set to ignore it in advanced search settings

Why does google does not ignore the word "languages", although I have set to ignore it in advanced search settings. here is the term I am using in google search: -languages ...
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2answers
229 views

Google suddenly only indexes https and not http

So all of a sudden, searches for our site "radiotuna" give out the result as an HTTPS link. ...
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167 views

When entered into Google, what's the difference between “link:www.mysite.com” and “links:www.mysite.com”?

I've heard this is the way to measure inbound links to a website? What is the difference between the two and is there a better way besides these?
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Did what I can to keep my website SEO friendly, yet newer websites are ranked better? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? I have a website that gives information about weddings, My site has been up for almost two years now, ...
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1answer
245 views

Google shows wrong results for site domain search

I entered site:example.com on google search it gave me list of unique pages exists on my website, and then I selected 'Past Week' filter under 'Show search tools' it gives me just 4 results when I ...
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2answers
47 views

when optimising for a “location” based term, are links from the countries tld worth more?

When optimizing for a term such as "bike shop london", do links from .co.uk and .com.uk domains carry more weight? ie. Would a link from a identical in every aspect apart from TLD be worth less in ...
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1answer
159 views

Noindex, Nofollow affect “Google Custom Search” results?

I am using Google Custom Search on my site, if I set pages to "noindex" or "nofollow", does it also affect the custom search results on my site?
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1answer
835 views

adwords traffic showing up in analytics as organic traffic, not paid?

I've got adsense ads running driving ppc traffic to my site. When I go into Google analytics under the tab traffic sources > search > organic, I get all the search terms people have come through for. ...
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3answers
421 views

A particular url on a website suddenly disappeared from google search results - why?

I have a website which had a particular page url that was indexed in google search results - in the first 10 results. Suddenly it disappeared. Now that page is not even in the first 100 results. What ...
0
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1answer
94 views

Will rewriting your .htaccess to 404 to return search results from your site negatively effect your ranking in Google?

Depending on the type of site that you are running, it may or may not be advantageous to display search results instead of a 404 page, when someone visits a non-existent page on your site. I believe ...
4
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2answers
202 views

Fetch as Google error 403

2 weeks ago, Google started being unable access my website anymore. In Webmaster Tools I can't fetch any pages, always getting error 403, and the website has been completely dropped from Google search ...
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3answers
311 views

Google search results are invalid

I'm writing a program that lets a user perform a Google search. When the result comes back, all of the links in the search results are links not to other sites but to Google, and if the user clicks ...
0
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1answer
216 views

Does google not count certain words in search queries

Does google not count certain words in search queries, and if so which words, i remember hearing somewhere that woulds such as "how to" and "in" get discounted so if you searched for a "painter in new ...
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1answer
405 views

How long usually it takes to effect google ranking after revise contents? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: SERP update frequency I sightly changed the title, h1 and some keywords in the content on some pages of my site. How long generally it takes to effect the google ...

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