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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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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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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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are keywords in URLs good SEO or needlessly redundant?

A coworker and I are locked in a debate over the value of SEO keywords in the URL of a page. She wants to change all the filenames of the HTML pages of a fencing company so they look like ...
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Searching for acronym keywords in Google brings up full domain as first result

For years, I've had two domains (this is a ficticious example): allbenchescatchdirt.com and abcd.com They both do okay in terms of ranking for their keywords. However, I noticed something weird: If ...
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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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Comparison of phrases containing the same word in Google Trends

If I compare three phrases in google trends : house sale house white house I get the following numbers: house -> 91 sale house -> 3 white house -> 2 The question is: Is "sale house" and ...
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Should I optimize the keyword density of a page OR of a site?

For example, I have a website to sell shoes. There are many types of shoes and many brands, so I will have many pages. In my main page, if I choose keyword "shoes" in my meta tag, it should be good ...
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208 views

What is Keyword Stemming?

While reading an article I got a word called Keyword stemming. Can anyone please tell me what is it?
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Does google crawl css scripts to check of hidden content [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: hidden texts and page rank Does googlebot crawl CSS scripts to determine if content is hidden or not? If so, is it advisable to hide or not to hide content to improve on ...
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Indexing big amount of keywords by google [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? I have a site with big amount of keywords to be index ;-) It is a classified / listing site and I am ...
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Google Adwords: What is the difference between automatic pricing and manual pricing?

Do you use the Google adWord automatic pricing (provide the upper limit you would like to spend), or do you manually adjust and set the the bid price = first page bid min. price? According to Google, ...
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Does Google award less importance to each keyword on a domain if there are more keywords?

If there are several pages on a domain, and they are optimized for different keywords, will google award less importance to each of them than if there was only one prevailing keyword on the whole ...
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Which keywords to choose for SEO?

I have recently started a site. it's not even 5 months old. The site's major content is images. When naming the images, I am using google's adword tool. I am able to see keywords with most and least ...
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Is hiding content with JavaScript or “text-indent: -9999px” bad for SEO?

So apparently hiding content using "display: none" is bad for SEO and seen by googlebot as being deceptive. This according to a lot of the posts I read online and questions even on this site. But ...
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How does Google decide when to bold synonyms for query keywords

when you type keywords in the search, Google will bold the requested keywords as well as their synonyms. For example if you type Japanese cars, the synonyms like vehicles will be bold as well. But not ...
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no description when searching keyword in google

I am new with SEO, and i following a tutorial about meta tags... when i search my keyword in Google, I can only see the URL of my website but it has no description.... search in google: surebooked ...
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301 redirect, keyword being in bold

Regarding 301; If I redirect no-www to www domain with 301 redirect, do I still have to determinate inside Google webmaster tools which version (www or nonwww) is prefered? Or is setting up redirect ...
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How do I do SEO for multiple search keywords that are similar but not the same

For example: I have an article about seo for urls. People may search for seo for urls seo urls in google seo url panda update google I want them to rank well for all of these search keywords. ...
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Where to get top 10 companies who have had paid the highest for PPC or CPC in Google Adwords

I want to know which company or website has paid the highest in a market for a particular keyword?
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How to get the number of website or web pages competing for a specific keyword phrase?

How to get the number of website or web pages competing for a specific keyword phrase? I know one would be going to google and checking one by one manually.
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Which among exact, phrase and broad justify my given keyword ? I am using google keyword tool

I am using google keyword tool, now I want to know, when I type back office in mumbai, without any quotes, which of these would represent that. [back office jobs in mumbai] - exact "back office ...
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How do I determine how many of my webpages rank on 1st page of Google, and for what terms?

How do I find out how many pages of a website ranks on the first page of Google? And for what terms? I mean, if the website has 100 webpages, I want to know: How many pages rank on first page ...
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Does google first search as per the user given order of keywords in search bar?

Does google first search as per the user given order of keywords in search bar? For example : I typed word1 word2 word3 word4 word5 in google search bar. Now my question is does google first ...
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How can I check the position of newly indexed pages within Google Search

How can I check the position of newly indexed pages within Google Search Exactly what the title reads what is the best way of finding out the position and page number of newly indexed pages within ...
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How to plan a website, with dependency 80% on google organic search and 20% direct users? [closed]

How to plan a website, with dependency 80% on google organic search and 20% direct users? Please share your views, knowledge and experience... Thanks :)
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Google Webmaster Tools shows wrong keywords

Google webmaster tools shows wrong keywords for my site. For example, it shows public_html php include_once and many more irrelevant keywords. Dont know why it's looking at the code. ...
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Google SEO tool that shows search questions based on keywords?

An SEO told me that he recently read of a Google SEO tool that shows actual QUESTIONS (rather than queries = Google keyword tool) that are typed into Google, based on the keywords one enters. ...
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How to use low competition keywords with large search volume effectively?

How to use low competition keywords with large search volume effectively? For example : I have keyword phrase "why does the" which produce 368,000 global searches (searxch type : phrase in google ...
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Does having my keyword phrase in every title of my page good?

Does having my keyword phrase in every title or in <strong></strong> tag, help my website to achieve a good rating or rise in my keyword in google? For example.... If I have "how does ...
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Google finding irrelevant keywords on my pages?

I have a dynamic site with thousands of pages (database driven). Every page has a log in link up in the header. Not so unusual. All of my pages have a title which is an H2 (I am changing it to H1 ...
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What can I do with a keyword phrase, which is a starting phrase of a question? [closed]

Example : "when will the" The keyword competition is 0.01 Monthly global searches is 3,68,000 Monthly local searches is 4400 I have used match type as "phrase" in google keyword tool. The domain ...
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Choosing good keywords with respect to match type “Phrase” only

How to choose good keywords or phrases with respective to competition, monthly global searches and monthly local searches? I am using google keyword tool. I am concentrating on Match type : ...
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Why does a broad-phrase rank better than new optimized exact-phrase?

I will explain what happened: I have this site that ranked first for "estructuras truss": See Google Result (mail.iddeasp.com/truss-alquiler-y-venta-de-estructuras) iddea sp Truss: Alquiler y ...
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Is it possible to keep google from using certain text as keywords?

For example, on my site I have a lot of flash content. But, I made sure to put plenty of keywords each meta description for each page, a descriptive title for each page, all the alt tags for images ...
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SEO - google keywords issue. Can anyone shed any light on this for me? [closed]

I launched my site a few months ago, it have been indexed by google for most of the keywords I had in mind. The only thing is, one of the most important keywords of all is not showing up in webmaster ...
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3 Scenarios for most relevant keywords in website. Which one is best?

A webpage about Tomato Soup has either of three following filenames: Scenario 1 website.org/en/tomato-soup or Scenario 2 website.org/en/tomato-soup-healthy-soups-recipes or ...
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Can I find out the number of searches on a given keyword, per state?

I know that Google tells you how many times a certain keyword is used in a search. You can use the Google Keyword Tool for that. This tool also allows you to find out the number of "local" searches: ...
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122 views

Google analyzing URL

We all know Google analyzes URLs in order to get relevance. That's why JavaScriptoptimizer.com hits the first place for the "javascript optimizer" query. These are my questions: Does Google ...
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How can I export a keyword list from Google Analytics?

In Google Analytics, I've been following several tutorials to export a list of keywords, but something is going wrong. This is what I try: 1.) click traffic sources 2.) click keywords 3.) Click ...
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How you solve “preventing common words from Google” issue?

My topic seems to be solved by stackexchange engine but me (a human) couldn't find a solution here. As you may understand on subject, I have many repeated words on my site like "comment", "like", ...
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How many keywords can I put in my page for google spiders

How many keywords can I put in my page for google spiders ?
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If I have a breaking news and assume that i am the first person to know. How can I get top place in google search?

If I have a breaking news and assume that i am the first person to know. How can I get top place in google search? Please assume that I do not have a domain yet. Please give me some tips. Thanks. ...
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Which of this is search-engine friendly - google?

Which of this is search-engine friendly - Google? www.example.com/keyword www.keyword.example.com www.example.com/keyword1-keyword2 Please explain the logic behind while answering and rate them. ...
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Keyword research: 'docx converter' in Google

Why did not docxconverter.com show up when I type docx converter in google? The closest match is www.docx-converter.com. My question 1: What are the reasons for www.docxconverter.com not showing up? ...
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Google Keyword Competition rating

Google offers a Keyword application that allows me to see the number of time a particular query has been made in Google. There is a column in the results named "Competition" (Actually its Concurrence ...