Position of a web page in results of search engines.
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Why isn't my website in Google search results?
I've made a website one month ago and it still isn't indexed by Google.
I haven't change any setting in the robot.txt file. I've tried to search for site:websitename.com but I still can't see it, and ...
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Does Google rate the webpage by amount of visits?
there is quite extensive discussion about this topic on another website and I am really losing my confidence. The thing is that I claim that the amount (count) of visits is NOT a criteria for ...
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Can outbound links increase PageRank?
We all know that the backlinks increases the pagerank of a website. Do outbound links affect PageRank?
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SEO for naming images
I have a website with many images embedded within articles. I do not want to miss traffic by image search. It is easier to save images with numbers, but will this affect SEO rank? I mean image search ...
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hidden texts and page rank
I am using hidden texts in one of my websites for better page rank and after browsing some web i found it better not to use hidden texts. Does using hidden texts of keywords in webpage affects page ...
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Page Rank / Github
I'm curious if anyone has any insight into something: Google seems to have recently changed their algorithm, and now Github repos have basically disappeared from the search results.
If I want to try ...
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SEO effect of “You are leaving this site” page for outbound links?
The problem
I am working on an aggregation website that collects reviews about specific products from various websites. The site has many thousands of outbound links (with "nofollow" attributes) to ...
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Since Google reduces the value of links alongside nofollow links, what is an alternative?
Since 2009, Google counts nofollow links also as outgoing links, and thus reduces the value of the other links. What are some alternatives to stop Google counting outside links from my page?
If I ...
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Is it “acceptable” for a sub domain to be hyphenated?
I am putting together a site for a portal. Some of the subdomains have rather long names and I am thinking that maybe I should use hyphens to make the subdomain names more readable.
For instance: ...
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rel=nofollow SEO effect
Google webmasters shows rel=nofollow links as a backlink. I believe that rel=nofollow helps SEO and PageRank but according to many people it is not. What is your idea about this? Did you see that ...
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Does redirecting old site's URLs to new site's front page hurt a page's ranking?
An old site that is being rewritten needs to have it's URLs redirected to the new site. There are a few hundred pages that may or may not have corresponding pages on the new site, probably with ...
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SEO Score and Ranking
Does a good SEO Score (over 90% for example) guaranties a better ranking on Google (or yahoo or others)?
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What is the SEO impact of moving my domain to another IP address and what is the right way of doing this?
I am planning to move several websites to a new hosting provider - keeping the same URL but will resolve to different IP addresses.
For example, some sites are Canadian content-only sites, hosted on ...
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Pagerank ties to page content
I have a relatively old site, with a fairly good pagerank, that I'm in the process of upgrading. The second-tier pages are also well pageranked. After reading through the content on these pages, I ...
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Do accented words affect page rank?
I'm from Argentina and we use accents in words. Is this URL is worst for pagerank:
http://www.example.com/técnico-en-computación/
than this one:
http://www.example.com/tecnico-en-computacion/
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SEO: targeted or generic URLs performance
I'm working on a website that sells DYI products. 2 of the products categories are save-paint and save-cabling. Since the products can help you save money they could also be part of a save-money ...
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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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Are temporarily hidden elements bad for search-engine rankings?
I've been reading a lot of information saying that hidden elements are bad and that search engines penalize pages for using them. I started to get really worried about it when I realized that MOST of ...
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Does ranking depend on the number of pages in a website?
Assuming a website offers a great service on one unique page, will it be negatively impacted regarding ranking because this website URL only has one page? In other words, is there a ranking benefit in ...
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Tool to get all the Google page ranks of a website [closed]
I have a website, I was searching for a tool get the google page ranks of my website But I didn't get the appropriate one. Can anyone suggest tool to do this. (data export options to csv/excel will be ...
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Will a 301 redirect help in maintaining proper page rank?
I have http://www.example.com/article
Due to rampant content development by authors in my site, http://example.com/article has also been widely indexed by Google.
Now, both are there roughly in ...
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Does Having top domain helps in getting better rankings in SERP
Recently i came across an article claiming free sub domains like blogspot,tumbler, wordpress etc are not ranked well in SERP & top domains are ranked better. Is it true?
suppose there are 2 ...
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Can a site recover by itself after dropping google page rank for 404 errors?
Recently redid a website and changed the directory / URL structure. I did some .htaccess redirects for the main landing pages - however when reviewing web master tools received 404 errors for the rest ...
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Can I post the same content in my Wordpress site and my Blogspot?
I have been submitting the same content in both of my sites. But the problem is that Google is not recognizing my Wordpress site.
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Will delay loading images hurt SEO?
Related - SEO for naming images
In an effort to increase the perceived speed of a heavy homepage, I'm loading a number of the heavier images via javascript on document.ready. I'm using a blank gif ...
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Browser language detection & content ranking for new language on the same site
I've been reading a lot about it but it's still really hard to make up my mind.
My understand is that if your website provide a link to the other language, this should not be an issue for google as ...
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SEO Tweaking dating website / user profiles
i am running the social dating website called Latte42 and i can't seem to rank for the Keywords I'm after. I want to rank for things like "meet new people", "find friends" but somehow rank for things ...
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Consolidating multiple domain names
I have a client that has three separately hosted copies of their website, each on a separate domain name. The websites are all essentially the same, bar a few discrepancies caused by badly managed ...
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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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Web hosting does not matter?
I have read this question. I agree that webhosting does matter in load time and how much uptime it is giving but it seems that some companies have given it a huge hype. Please have a look at this ...
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Indexing and Page Ranking Issues [duplicate]
Hi all
I am on the first page of google for keywords concerned with MOVING, however i cant seem to break the carpet cleaning rankings. I have made changes and additions which havent been indexed yet. ...
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Does displaying rss feeds in different blogs help get indexed and increase page rank?
I have a number of blogs that I run. One of them is old and gets good traffic so what I did is that I have placed the rss of all of the blogs onto the sidebar of each. I was wondering if this is good ...
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How does missing links influence the Google ranking?
I changed a lot on my website and I want to know if this affects the Google ranking negatively.
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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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If my pages is the only one ranking for a search term, and a new site starts to optimize for it, will they outrank me?
If i wrote an article on a keyword phrase with zero global monthly search and my page is indexed by google, when I try to search by those keywords, My article is the only one displayed in google ...
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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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Improve my Silverlight CMS' ranking in Google
I am working in Silverlight and Orchard cms.
I read something about google keywords and website improvements.
I wonder if there is no way to have a good page rank by using Silverlight without ...
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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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Going from static html pages on photo gallery to fancybox without losing rank
The title doesn't really explain it properly, but:
Home Page > Category > Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3...
In a website I have category pages that link to 10, 20 or 30 (by thumbnails) other pages that ...
