An algorithm used by Google to determine the placement of webpages in Google search results.
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How to retrieve PageRank for a blogger blog?
I know this sounds like a stupid/obvious question, but when I try to retrieve the page rank of my blog using online tools, I don't get any result.
My blog is know as ...
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How linking too many sites from my site will affect my page rank in Google
I run a resource and information site which provide links to sites containing specific information. E.g. it provide links to almost all paper manufacturers on the planet. These are not paid link. I ...
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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 text in tooltips (or hide/show divs) count for positive SEO?
We want to increase our rankings.
We have relevant quality text content ... However we need the page to visually appear less texty.
We are therefore considering a design with very little text ...
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Griefing to steal pagerank off my website?
I was looking today in my Google Webmaster tools for my website and see duplicate titles for the following pages on my website (small sample out of many on my site index):
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Should I remove bad links to old site that are being 301 redirected to new site?
Should I remove bad links e.g. 0 Page Rank, 0 Trust linking to old site that are being 301 redirected to new site?
Would I get rid of these links using Google's Disavow links?
We've only improved in ...
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How long before Google counts my .htaccess 301 redirect links?
I have a friend who had around 2000 visitors per day to his website before webdesigner with no SEO knowledge changed all his urls. Ive used the wayback machine and google analytics to determine the ...
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Google Pagerank (PR) History and Next Upcoming Updates [closed]
As you may know Google updates PageRank roughly 4 times a year, out of interest and not for ranking purposes I often check when the next incoming update is. I do this by searching various sites and ...
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Is using only https bad in a SEO perspective?
I would like to set up a new business site. I plan to direct www.example.com to example.com and only use that domain. My plan is also to only use https and not http. Does this affect the SEO for the ...
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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 ...
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Moving to a custom domain in blogger spoiled my pagerank. Need help?
I had www.chankeypathak.blogspot.com as my blog on Blogger. I then purchased a domain www.chankeypathak.com and then I followed the procedure of redirecting all old pages to new ones (301 redirect). ...
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SEO - Big revamp of my URL structure - please suggestions [duplicate]
I have a big network of sites in many countries. There are over 30-40 Million indexed pages in 34 countries, what will be re-indexed hopefully and will be redirected with 301 to the new URL structure, ...
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How do I transition to SSL without affecting PageRank?
Here at Stack Exchange we're working on moving all traffic to SSL. The reason we're not doing logged-in-users only is that one side of the login divide would suffer a redirect from google every time. ...
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Does Google's algorithm look at a websites nameserver?
This might seem like a strange question but does Google's ranking algorithm look at what nameserver a website uses. For example, if it uses an enterprise dns provider does it rank higher?
I appear to ...
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IP geolocation and permanent redirects for search engines
when someone connects to my homepage I geolocate using their IP and redirect to the site with the right language (for example someone from Italy connects to example.com and I redirect them to ...
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Google pagerank calculation
I know this might be a stupid question, but I have recently heard, that google pagerank takes into account links from my sites to big pages, ie.: when I link to big sites, my site get more pagerank. ...
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How to find Google PageRank of a SSL/HTTPS Page
If a page is using HTTPS it will display its page rank as the page rank of its homepage, for instance this page is displaying a PR8 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/publiser45/
But ...
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New site, has pr9 as soon as its made, why / how?
I was just messing around with google sites and i noticed that as soon as i made my site the home page had a pr of 9 (before it crosses your mind all the links it makes are nofollow).
The homepage of ...
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Does changing domain ownership affect SEO?
I have heard that when domain ownership changes, the domain loses its page rank.
My theory on this is: Lots of sites selling high PR domains actually cheat. They invest in high PR links for the ...
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How to check pagerank of all pages of a website?
How can I check Google Page Rank of all pages of a website without installing any tool on my machine?
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How an offline main domain can influence traffic on an active sub domain
The website(s) design is for a company active in 3 different areas.
As an example lets use the following structure:
www.example.com
[sub1.example.com] [sub2.example.com] ...
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Increased SEO Ranking [duplicate]
I am wondering how can I increase my websites SEO rank so that when I type the related keyword it would popup like facebook or wikipidia.
I have literally tried everything to somehow increase the ...
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What are the implications of one site having thousands of links to yours?
Using Webmaster I can see the home page of a related site has 100,000 + links to my site. I assume this is because there are tons of pages on this site and a link to our site is in the footer.
My ...
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Backlink from page with low pagerank but site has high pagerank - effect from Google?
My understanding is that if I have too many backlinks from low PR (pagerank) sites, Google considers them to be low quality links and if you have too many, your site may even be de-indexed from ...
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Does Google adsense affect page ranking?
does placing google ads in out web page help in SEO page rank?
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Loss of page rank by Google after 301 Redirect?
I have developed a stock discussion forum whereby I separate each forum by the ticker symbol. The issue is, recently, the makers of the Blackberry phone, Research in Motion (formerly ticker symbol ...
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Gaining back page rank and seach engine ranking
I have my blog website with alot of do-follow links posted. If i remove all those links do my search engine ranking gets down or not?
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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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PageRank sharing between domains?
I own three domains, say.. example.com, example.in, example.co.in
I have bought the .in and .co.in TLDs (Top Level Domains) only to protect the brand.
But I have this question:
If I make the other ...
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Moving a WordPress installation from a subdomain to its own domain without losing PageRank
I'd like to move a WP installation from a subdomain to its own without losing the PageRank achieved by that subdomain.
What are the best steps in order to do this properly? Especially how do I set ...
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Moving blog to another host - what is the impact to SEO to be expected?
I run a blog under mywebsite.com/blog. This is a self-hosted Movable-type installation. Now I want to get rid of the blog installation and use a hosted (WordPress.com) solution instead.
The blog is ...
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DNS question and Google PageRank from domains
I'm not so good at DNS at all but I do know some basics.
A while ago i have noticed, that my blog have different Page Ranks, PR 3 for domain www.example.com and PR 1 for domain example.com.
In dns ...
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Low pagerank backlinks - does Google penalize?
I have a new stock discussion forum and I would like to promote it. Specifically, I have two ideas in mind to help promote it:
1) Become a member at other stock discussion forums. Make high quality ...
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Tool or online service to view Google PR of thousand sites from a list?
Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Maybe a tool (or online service) that you used at least once.
I have list of webistes in a txt file.
I need a tool or an oline service (possibly free) that finds ...
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Question on business connections and page rank?
I just want to ask this question to get a yes no answer on something that I've been wondering on lately.
So regarding how there are countless numbers of sites now that use the no-follow; making it ...
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For SEO, should I direct an existing website with a lower page rank to a new, better-ranked site?
I have a client that has an existing site, let's call it bobthebuilder.com. My client has been posting blog posts to it for the past couple of years and a modest amount of sites are naturally linking ...
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Backlinking to a website with image source
I just want to ask can we increase backlinks to our site by putting 1x1 pixel image on our clients' sites or can anybody suggest a better solution?
<img src="http://www.mysite.com/" ...
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Text contents as links
This page on my website (Arabic) contain Verses of Quran. Every word of the verse is linked to the search page to perform a search for this word in the Quran. (the first four words are highlighted by ...
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How do i build backlinks?
I've launch a website long ago. My website URL is : http://www.sunshinetrekking.com
There's already 80 Pages, a sitemap.xml (80 URLs),
english language / french language - url like that "/en/" "/fr/"
...
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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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I don't think my site is being detected/crawled properly/having backlinks, and it's ruining SEO [closed]
This is really frustrating. I'm setting up a computer repairs business called Darley Tech. I have listed my site on many online directories to encourage backlinks. I have relevant and useful ...
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Redesigning a page while not using old images but also not losing rank
I have redesigned one of the pages of a website I'm current working on, and some of the images on this website, 2 to be exact, rank on the very first page of public google search results.
Those ...
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When is a page considered loaded by search engines so I can enhance it without a page-speed penalty?
I'm working on a website that has some high quality images that need to load. Of course, my goal is to get the site to load as quickly as possible so we don't slow down the user experience and I don't ...
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How can I create multiple mini-sites with similar/duplicate content without hurting my search engine rank?
Essential background: I run a small company that lets members of the public post handwritten letters to their local politician (UK-based). Every week a number of early stage bills (called Early Day ...
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Multiple links on a webpage pointing to the same URL
Does having multiple links on a webpage pointing to same internal URL impact your PR negatively? Would it look spammy or will the repeated links just be ignored?
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Link count on high PR website, which is better?
i have search this question for quite long but i cannot find the answer. may be because i don't know what keyword should i enter.
i wonder, which is better to have let say 100 link only one one ...
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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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What is a “back link” and how does it affect search ranking?
I have heard about back links but am not sure what they are or how they affect search rankings and search engine optimization.
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Does changing web hosting server affects SEO page ranking?
I have been hosting in a server from last 2 years. I am planning to change the hosting server. Before i change the hosting server i would like to know whether it affects my page ranking or not?
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SEO and new site - visibility best practices [closed]
Since i launched a new web site, i was wondering which are the best practices to let the visibility of the site grow up faster then just leaving the site online?
I mean which internet channels are ...
