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Are images with non-standard extensions (such as “.ashx”, instead of “.png” or “.jpg”) bad for SEO?

Certain CMS' running on IIS like Sitecore do not give image files appropriate file formats like .png or .jpg by default, but instead link to images as: <img src="/media/Some Folder/EX-IMG.ashx" ...
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Does Google Search exclude contents of <nav> from summary?

HTML5 has a new tag, <nav>. Do popular search-engines ignore contents within such tag when they generate page summaries?
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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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Google failing to recognize authoritive website?

I have a situation that I do not fully understand, related to syndicated content. My site - where the original version of my articles is being published, is being seen by Google not as the ...
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Google Webmaster Tools site removal

I had a major issue in the last week where a site was found to be showing huge numbers of pages that it shouldn't have been. Naturally Google indexed all of these pages! Rather than manually remove ...
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Google non-SSL search not passing the “q” parameter with keyword

I am building a web analytics application for search engine traffic only and right now I am looking into providing some information about keywords that google does not show. Like not provided keyword. ...
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Google custom search code does not return the result of google.com [closed]

I have generated a code from Google custom search . I want to fetch the results for a keyword exactly same as the results on www.google.com So I put www.google.com in sites to search textfield and ...
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google custom search code does not returns the result of google.com [duplicate]

I have generated a code from google custom search . I want to fetch the results for a keyword exactly same as the results on www.google.com So I put www.google.com in sites to search textfield and ...
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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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SEO for image galleries [closed]

I was wondering about what good methods to get more visitors on an image gallery site would be good. Currently my image gallery only has pictures, tags and those tags in the title. But is that ...
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Does Google bot always treat dot as word separator?

One of our products is a grid control called iGrid, and we have two versions for two different platforms. One is iGrid ActiveX, the other is iGrid for .NET Framework WinForms called "iGrid.NET". At ...
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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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Why no one visiting my site despite high google ranking? [closed]

I'm new to SEO, though I've some experience as webmaster. I have a strange problem. Recently I optimized my site. My site usually appears in the top 10-20. The Google keywords tool suggests to a ...
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How to point search engines to another subpage

I have a webpage concerning a subject, let's say buttons to keep it simple. It is the foremost web page on this topic for my language and region: searching for 'button' in my language will always ...
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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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google search api in my application [closed]

i am working on android application which search on google and give result back in xml and then i apply my algorithm on it and then display more accurate result to the user. but google provide few ...
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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 ...
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What is the maximum size of an HTML file that Google will crawl through?

I have a 10MB HTML file. Will Google crawl through the entire file, or does it only look at the first X MB?
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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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display product price in google search result

While I search for the magento module in google, I noticed the price is displayed in google search. Can we display the price of the product in google search by using any tag or any other way. Someone ...
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Implementing OpenSearch, what is the benefits?

I have implemented opensearch in my website. But I don't know what is the benefits of it. Does it has any effects in search engines? For example, can I tell google about my implementation?
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Request change of address for non-root level domain name [duplicate]

Old site: http://www.tahlequah.k12.ok.us New site: http://TahlequahSchools.org Our new site is located at the .org domain above; however, we have to keep our old domain/site up until we're sure none ...
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Google alert on native search page: The site may be compromised

While searching for our company name, we get (in the native results page) a message that claims: Webmaster tools does not tell me much about this, and so does the server log. I don't get that ...
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Will Google penalize my site for switching content upon page load? [duplicate]

We run a Bible site where users can request arbitrary passages (e.g. John 3:16). We would like to start showing passages highlighted within their context (e.g. John 3:16 would show all of John 3 to ...
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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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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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Is it possible to use only one SEO tool that finishes your job completely [closed]

Is there anyone that uses only one SEO tool that finishes every thing he works on. What is that tool, is that a perfect SEO tool. Could that be even closely true.
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will site url with repeating keywords gets penalized by search engines

I have an url structure like the following sitename.com/cellphone/nokia/galaxy-5678-nokia-cellphone-from-abc/ for more example ...
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How to indicate a permalink to Google? [duplicate]

When a few pages of a website are: Either available from both a permanent link (http://example.com/archive/45528192/2013-03-29-2/) and a volatile link (http://example.com/recent/today/2), Or are ...
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Will 301 redirection to a Google Indexed URL can remove the URL from Google index?

I need to remove some indexed URLs from Google SERP. The problem is I cannot use the 3 types of removal patterns Google suggests like robots.txt, meta name "noindex" and remove the page and make it as ...
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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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Regarding sitelinks in google search

I would like my site to display additional site links when preforming a Google Search.. How can this be achieved?
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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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Website Not Showing for Keywords in Google Search [duplicate]

I have a Website www.rushinformation.com 4 Months old and I always update my Website almost Everyday...But the Problem is that When I type my keyword 'Rushinformation' only in Google Search Results it ...
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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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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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How did my post get indexed on Google in less than 4 minutes? [duplicate]

A while ago I asked a question on Stack Overflow and while waiting for answers I decided to try google the problem for the umpteenth time. Much to my surprise, my brand new question was the number one ...
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Why does Google Cache show our G+ page and not the correct page?

For some reason when we try and view the cached version of our website, we see our Google plus page. We recently removed this code : <link rel="canonical" href="link to our g+ page">. We ...
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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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How to find out what # you are for google keyword

I'm trying to find out if there's a way to form a Google query to quickly find out what position you are for a search term. I know that Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics has something ...
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google search index what is fresh content

I read that sites have good reputation in google search index if it is fresh content. what does fresh content means from google's point of view? I have many pages. I have created articles and ...
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Consolidate search results from site that gets accessed from multiple domains

I have a site hosted on Windows Azure, and I have a domain pointing to the site, so I can access the site using both mysite.cloudapp.net as well as mysite.com. Now for some reason Google indexed ...
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Tagging content for search with Google

I am working on a website that will contain a lot of content and I would like to add ability to tag content, just like Stackexchange does, where each question can be tagged by maximum 5 tags. Now, I ...
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Site not showing in google search, and webmaster tools showing irrelevant keywords

In Google Webmaster Tools, for my relatively new website: www.caterboxgroup.co.uk, it says there are 3 keywords: domain, registered and caterboxgroup. The two first ones do not exist in the pages ...
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Is Google Adwords keyword tool showing right data like local monthly searches?

For example, for keyword gifts, keyword tool from Google shows Global Monthly Searches as 16,600,000 and (India) Local Monthly Searches as 823,000 so is it really a right numbers?
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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 ...
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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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Google Custom Search layout problems

When I install the custom search script on my page, the layout is broken. See the attached screenshot. I cut and pasted the following code: <script> (function() { var cx = ...
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For SEO, should I direct an existing website with a lower page rank to a new, better-ranked site?

I have a client that has an existing site, let's call it bobthebuilder.com. My client has been posting blog posts to it for the past couple of years and a modest amount of sites are naturally linking ...
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Image based website and not getting good revenue! [closed]

My website is displaying photos of local movies and local people entertainment photos. Most of the pages in my website having photos only(No contents). And the daily visitors of my site is just ...

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