Keywords (or "keyphrases") are words which describe or refer to a thing. In the context of SEO, keywords are the metadata used by search engines to rank webpages.
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Does the stop keywords matter? [duplicate]
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How to write content that uses keyword terms which are google stop words
I am using Wordpress SEO plugin by Yoast.
When I have a title like,
"How to get slim in 30 ...
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Could crosslinking using very general anchor texts be a reason for a drop in rankings?
I have crosslinked 20 sites and I thought I have been penalized for this, asked this question and some experienced members told me maybe that crosslinking may not necessarily be the reason.
The sites ...
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SEO: make the home page location specific or add a new page for location?
My homepage is coming up on the first page in Google search, main keyword is "balloon decorations".
We provide local service in several cities, but homepage does not mention the location, visitor has ...
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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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Is repeated keywords in alt attributes considered keyword stuffing?
For example, I have 100 images in one page, all of them with alt attributes in this format:
alt="foo pics", alt="bar pics", alt="foobar pics", etc
Will pics be considered as stuffing?
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Worth changing the URL structure to incorporate keywords?
I am migrating my blog from PHP to ASP.NET and while recoding the whole website, I figured I might as well improve the URL structure.
This is how an url looks like now:
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SEO and Spelling mistakes in keyword [duplicate]
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Will replacing 'to' with 2 or 'for' with 4 improve my site's PageRank
I am about to register a domain name (suppose) someone.com (with proper ...
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How does the Keyword Order in the domain name effects SEO?
From the Google keyword research tool, I see "chuck norris jokes" has global 246,000 searches. And again searching "jokes chuck norris" has the same search result.
But as see, order of keyword in ...
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Importance of frequency of keywords for SEO [duplicate]
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keyword stuffing in SEO
I've seen a few posts on here and elsewhere that talk about the amount of unique keywords used, or aimed, for in a text. But how important is the ...
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Keyword research tool [duplicate]
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What are some great tools to use for keyword research?
in the past ive always choosen which keywords / phrases to go after by checking the traffic in the keyword tool, ...
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SEM & Adwords: How many click without a sale before i should pause a keyword
I wonder how many clicks I optimally should let pass through every new keyword I try in Adwords before I find out that it's not making a profit and it should be paused!
It's actually four question.
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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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What to do if Google Adwords keyword tool suggests “no searches”
I believe I have a great idea, and want to test the market before I create a site for it. However, I'm having some difficulty with Google AdWords - I'm a total beginner with SEO/SEM.
When I plug in ...
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Is this over optimisation of the <title> tag?
I've got a page on a camera review site the page is as follows (below). Would you consider this over optimisation / keyword stuffing? Specifically in the title tag as it has 2 references to "canon ...
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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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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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Alt attributes for dynamically generated images
I have an image gallery for a commerce website which consists of several small thumbnail images and one large image. All of the images are photographs of the same product.
What would be the most ...
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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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adding slugs to the URLs afterwards
we have a website for last 5 months and we did not used slug at bottom level elements
so urls was like
/apps/webmasters/badges/1100
would it make sense to add name to the URL after that point and ...
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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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Money in keywords?
Is it a good idea to put money in keywords e.g. 'Name of Item from £30'
Will google not register the pound sign therefore registering 'Name of item from 30' which could be anything
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How do Search Engines handle Singular vs. Plural?
In a site's main menu, one link points to the page containing a list of links to several software packages.
By following this link in the main menu, the user's action can be seen from two different ...
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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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Looking for a CMS for specific requirements (Javascript, import/export…)
I heard about Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, etc. but I don't know about their detailed features. I am looking for a content management system meeting the following requirements:
Possibility to add ...
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How can I place keywords at the begining of a title and have it look natural?
As per the question Does the order of keywords matter in a page title?, the first word in the title tag is usually treated with more importance than the rest of the title tag. How can I write ...
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SEO Keywords Blogging in Company Site
I have a question about how to develop SEO contents based on keywords.
Let's say I have 10 keywords I want to rank so I began writing articles for those 10 keywords on my blog. However, there is only ...
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Impressions for brand keywords is more compared to non-brand?
I have noticed for my campaign that in Webmaster the impression for brand keywords is more compared to that of non-brand keywords. Any specific reason for this? Because the local search volume for ...
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How to promote your new website (when you have an old site with the same theme but higher PR)
In the situation that you have an old website registered under wordpress (for example aaa.wordpress.com). It became quite successful and you decided to purchase "aaa.com".
On aaa.com, you continued ...
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Adaptive websites - considered keyword stuffing by Googlebot?
I work on a SEO-dependent content website, and we are in the process of making our site adaptive/responsive. More technically, we are using CSS media queries to apply different CSS styles as the size ...
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How much significance does Google give to the presence of search terms in the domain name?
When setting up a new website, how important is it to include keywords and potential search terms in the actual domain name? How heavily is this weighted when it comes to ranking highly on google ...
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Why does meta description exist when keywords doesn't?
My understanding is that the meta keywords tag was long since removed as it was far too open for abuse and gaming.
Search engines are a lot more intelligent now, why is the same criticism of the meta ...
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How come keyword ranking checkers are never accurate
I am currently using a keyword ranking checker called authority lab. When I was using its test version, the rankings seemed accurate. Now I am paying for the professional version, only to find out the ...
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How to know what people search?
I have a web hosting and design company. I know that if I want a website, i search for web hosting. But not everyone is like that. How do I figure out what good keywords are? And more importantly, how ...
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Keyword in sub-domain good or keyword in sub folder? Which is good to manage? [duplicate]
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Subdomain versus subdirectory
Keyword in sub-domain good or keyword in sub folder
keyword.abc.com
or
abc.com/keyword/
Which of this two is good to manage?
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Short keyword-only HTML Title or Long Titles - to rank better
I would like to know if long html titles should be used for pages instead of google adwords keyword tool based short titles - for SEO / Ranking purposes?
I feel that it is a mistake to use short html ...
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Reset / Remove - Google Keywords
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My site is ranking for filthy keywords and i would like to remove them from google ranking/keywords.
Background:
My server was hacked using the timthumb exploit/security vulnerability, ...
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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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Number of keyword phrases
Does the number of keyword combinations used for SEO of a given website matter?
Is it better to have five or thirty five?
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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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keyword choice - broad or exact?
Scenario: I have two keywords "Keyword one" has larger Exact search volume then "keyword two" but "keyword two" has larger Broad search volume then keyword one.
Exact: "Keyword one" > "Keyword two"
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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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Meta keywords single words or phrase?
It is acceptable or recommended to only use 1 keyword per delimiter? Or can we use a phrase?
For example:
car, Audi, Ferrari, Lamborgini
vs
Audi Car, Ferrari Car, Lamborgini Car
What is ...
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Automatic exchange of synonyms for SEO?
If I have a website that targets a certain audience, but the keywords that are being searched for have a lot of synonyms that are being used equally often, would it make sense to exchange these words ...
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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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I wrote an article, now here I want to know which keyword title, which keyword url and which keyword it should rank good? [closed]
I wrote an article, now here I want to know which keyword title, which keyword url and which keyword it should rank good?
Please explain me, as I am very much a curious person, and I believe one has ...
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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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Is there any direct/indirect relationship with the number of search results in choosing a successful keyword phrase?
Is there any direct/indirect relationship with the number of search results in choosing a successful keyword phrase?
I have about 22,500,000 results for my keyword phrase, which I intend to target.
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How to create static web pages with re-arranged 15-20 links title with combination logic? [closed]
How to create static web pages with re-arranged 15-20 links title?
For example : I have link 3 title
a-as-in-alfa
b-as-in-bravo
c-as-in-charlie
(This all are clickable link title, clicking will ...
