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 order of keywords matter in a page title?
Stack Overflow has made a change to their page titles such that the most popular tag for a question appears at the start of the title. The change is being deployed across the network, so check out ...
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How to clean the “Lorem Ipsum” of my keywords for my site?
I have been working on a project to build up a website and since the delay for the initial launch of the website were short, I wanted to have some minimal content on the website ASAP so that the ...
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Finally is it bad to mention words around sex in your page?
Among other I run a humor site, developed in php. I have a custom search built where people search for everything under the sun.
I have noticed that it helps me to have a "Latest searches section" ...
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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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Good to optimize for broad but less-competitive keyword?
I have a Super Mario Bros website and business, Mario Planet, and I am looking for a target keyword for generating traffic - and therefore revenue - to the site.
Using the Google Keyword Suggestion ...
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Which keyword should I use. colors or colours or a combination of both?
Well this might sound weird but yeah thats exactly what I want to know!
Now as per US-English colors is the right word and as per British-English colours is the right word. Here in India we follow ...
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Narrowing down my large keyword list for new PPC campaign
If I have a list of 100 keywords that are candidates for a PPC campaign (my list is actually 1000+). What is the best approach to narrowing this down to the top 5-10 keywords I should start with?
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Does keyword density within a title tag make a difference in SEO?
Recently, I changed the title tags for a site that I work on SEO for. See the changes made:
Previous title tag: Flat Fee Listing in MLS, Flat Fee MLS Listing For Sale By Owner.
Revised: Flat Fee ...
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How can I decrease relevancy of Creative Commons footer text? (In Google Webmaster Tools)
I know that I may just have to link the image to make this happen, but I figured it was worth asking, just in case there's some other semantic markup or tips I could use...
I have a site that uses ...
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What are some great tools to use for keyword research?
We've been told SEO is important and that we should conduct keyword research so that we can rank better? What is that and what tools will help me in the process?
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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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How Do Search Engines Rank Combined Keywords?
Suppose:
A site that ranks very well (1st result) for something like 'best blue widget'.
It also ranks very well (1st page) for 'blue widget'.
It ranks not so well (2nd page) for 'widget'.
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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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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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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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Is the meta tag for keywords not useful anymore? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Are meta keywords worth the effort?
I am not a SEO expert, I just know the very basics. Today I read an article and I am confused.
If the metatag for keywords is not ...
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How to optimize acronyms for search engines?
I am trying to optimize a pre-existing website using SEO tactics. I just have one question. What is the best way to optimize if a keyword can be a phrase or acronyms (ie Major League Baseball vs ...
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Do keyword-based filenames and URLs really matter?
We've developed a dynamic web application which uses URLs such as product.cfm?id=42 but our marketing team says we should use search friendly URLs and put our keywords into the URLs (so it would be ...
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Should I have seperate business and personal websites?
I have my business website - I am a web designer and developer, and also buy/sell websites/domain names.
As such my website links to 'Our sites' => the websites which we design and run as well as a ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How this site is ranked so high in SERP's with no content?
In last few months whenever i search for computer wallpapers (using various keywords), somewhere between 1st and 5th position is always site http://hdw.eweb4.com
Everything on that site is scraped ...
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SEO and reversed (key)words
I am frequently finding sites that use reversed words in domain names and content. Just an example: www.elgoog.com or something like "Sincerely yours elgoog".
Does these word have value in SEO 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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Does Google compute keyword combinations for ranking?
Assuming the following keywords in a h1 header (for example):
Red Leash For Dog
Does google compute all keyword combinations such as:
Red Dog For Leash, Dog Leash For Red, ...
Or does it ...
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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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How to make the most of GWT's “Search queries”?
I've been looking at the "Search queries" section in Google Webmaster Tools recently, and it seems like there is a lot of potential there in finding which pages on a site need improvement.
I'm trying ...
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Where can I find a List of the top 10,000 keyword search queries
Where can I find a List of the top 10,000 keyword search queries?
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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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Given the choice is it better to have somekeywords.com, somekeyword2.com or myotherwebsite/some-keywords, myotherwebsite/some-keywords
Hello
I'm thinking of creating a family of websites which use the same engine, but target different topics.
Given the choice is it better to have somekeywords.com, somekeywords2.com or ...
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How I quantify the success of a folksonomy?
CONCEPTS: completeness, accuracy, consistency, stability, relevancy
SEMI-RELATE-SUBJECTS: taxonomy, data quality, indexes, keywords, SEO, SEM
FORMULAS: ? ? ?
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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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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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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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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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What keyword should come first in a product page's meta tags?
Working with ~100,000 products. Currently the way I'm using has the following priorites (most to least)
Model information such as name and model number of a given product
Product line's associated ...
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Is Use of keyword instead of preposition good?
i would like to know if we write articles using the fixed keyword instead of using the preposition for it good for SEO keyword density?
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How to track my site position in SERP based on keyword
In Google Analytics i can see that people have reach my website after search on a specific keyword. How can i check the results page number where my website appears.
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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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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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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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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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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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is it a good seo practice to put relative keywords in a hidden div? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
hidden texts and page rank
I was wondering what would happen if we put some (around 25) relative keywords in the page using a hidden div so that the actual user does not ...
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administering new website - Found really tiny keywords inside page
I'm administering this new website.
The previous web admin included a large amount of tiny keywords on top of some of its pages.
I've removed them already.
I need to know if I have to rest the ...
