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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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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Changing domain name vs URL redirect to improve URL building
I have a domain named companyname.com with PR3 and would like to improve the SEO by adding my main keyword in the domain name. I'm thinking about:
Buying the domain main-keyword-companyname.com and ...
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Deciphering the Search Queries Report in GWMT
For one of the sites that I am monitoring, the Search Queries report that Google Webmaster Tools provides looks like this -
Clearly, both the Impressions and Clicks have increased over the past two ...
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Why a word having high significance in content keywords does not get a high rank in Google?
When I check my website - meethiangeethi - in google webmaster tool, then keyword 'angeethi' is shown to be at the 3rd position in terms of significance. But when I search for angeethi at google, then ...
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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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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 ...
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Google Keyword Relevancy
I hope this is the correct place to ask this question. I've got a few websites going, so i'm ok with the usual terminology and have looked in SEO and tried to implement it as best i can on my sites. ...
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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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SEO and HTML semantics of putting H2 above H1 elements?
Here's a hypothetical from both an SEO and semantic HTML/content architecture perspective:
Consistent code
When building a multi-page site, adopting the following architecture on all pages is ...
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Get rank for non english keyword in a english site [duplicate]
I'm trying to get to the first page of Google search for a keyword in swedish language but the site and it's content is in english.
What's my best option here to get to the first page? Will anchor ...
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“Included” search phrases in URLs/titles/H1s and SEO
When designing a new URL/folder structure for our website, we faced one interesting problem related to choosing best keywords from SEO perspective. We call it "included search phrases". It will be ...
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Best choice of domain name? (SEO)
This question is specifically about domain name choice.
My client wants to maximize his site SEO, and he has two domain names, one of which he has for two years and is in the second page of Google ...
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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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Find demographic of keywords
I am using google keyword tool to make some research about "penang Island". There is any way to find out how people uses those keywords when there is a search? Something like which is their country or ...
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Unimportant words on page being seen as keywords, due to repetiveness
I have a list of products on my site, and each product has a number of descriptors such as features, price, etc. Next to each product, I list the 10 features, with a graphical icon which lets the user ...
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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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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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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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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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How to get keyword ranked and traffic from a specific region?
I am working on a site that has good traffic and ranking form many countries. Our website is basically about Japanese used cars exporters and now we want to become more famous in Africa regions such ...
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How is Google Tagmanager helping in SEO keyword rankings? [closed]
What is the Google Tagmanager and how is it useful in terms of SEO? I thought keywords get higher rankings?
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Extremely similar SEO keywords
So I work for a company that recently decided to jump on the SEO bandwagon. We asked the different departments (each has its own site) what they wanted their keywords to be and I got a lot of examples ...
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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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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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Mixing keywords match types in Google Adwords
Using Google Adwords:
Q#1. Can someone use a mix of match types in keywords?
For example, can someone use the keyword [large size] +leather "black shoes" from Atlantis, thus using exact, modified ...
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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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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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Peaking keywords on Google AdWords
Suppose I'm buying ads for keyword x and suddenly x becomes the biggest thing in the world. Will my budget run down faster?
Will the price stay at the same rate I purchased that keyword on or will ...
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Are generic keywords in url bad for SEO? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Squeezing all the SEO out of a URL as possible
Need help with URL structure. Let's say I'm a manufacturer of Wire EDM machines. Is it bad for me to put the keywords ...
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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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Keyword in sub-domain good or keyword in sub folder? Which is good to manage? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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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Different data with same title and keywords
Here is my scenario: I have a website where I redirect my users based upon the device they are using. Let's say a user is visiting from an iPad: I take them directly to the page of iPad wallpapers. ...
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Index Company Name but not other keywords
I'm working on a website that doesn't want it's content indexed by search engines because it only caters to a specific segment of the population. It purposefully wants to stay hidden from the general ...
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How to lower SEO effectiveness for a keyword
I am working on a second personal website listing my job experience and skills. The first website included the name of my last employer in a few places and started competing for the ranking of the ...
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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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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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Keywords in domain name [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this?
Let's assume we have a generic website "MyWebsiteAboutGamesAndThings.com". We discover that a lot of ...
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Is this SEO Keyword Stuffing?
Just wondering if you can tell me if this is keyword stuffing:
<a title="purchase glasses" href=""><img alt="purchase glasses" title="purchase glasses" /><a>
<a title="purchase ...
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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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The keyword “price” for adwords?
I have a keyword that I use in adwords. In my local language which is translated as "caliper prices", has "landing page quality: under average"
Landing page of this URL is a list of calipers and ...
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Connecting keywords with location
Is there a way to connect the keyword with the location withing Google Analytics?
I would like to be able to see what cities are searching for what terms.
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keyword stuffing in SEO
i have a web shop, and on some of the pages some keyword in used a bit more then on the others.
For example: "hp toner" is used pretty much in the inscription of the product, in the alt tag, in the ...
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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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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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SEO/Keywords Monitoring service
Is there a good monitoring service for international sites?
I have sites in many countries and I would like to get some monitoring service to track the visibility in Google for all the domains and ...
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AJAX Keyword Suggestion Tool
Are there any JavaScript includes to provide an AJAX based keyword suggestion tool based on some existing text?
For instance Yahoo offer a Keyword Extraction Tool but due to cross-domain JavaScript ...
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Traffic value of a keyword
Does anyone know what kind of tools or tests I can run to find the traffic value of a keyword?
I have done a search here before and someone's asked a similar question which was helpful but what I ...
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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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Reset / Remove - Google Keywords
Summary:
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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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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