An algorithm used by Google to determine the placement of webpages in Google search results.
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How do I rename a domain and preserve PageRank?
As part of graduating from Area51 and becoming a full fledged site we sometimes change domain names from http://topic.stackexchange.com to http://example.com. Aside from the obvious 301 redirect rules ...
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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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Are page ranks for subdomains independent?
If I have a domain name say stackexchange.com and I want to host 2 sites X and Y as subdomains of that site.
Will x.stackexchange.com help out y.stackexchange.com in page rank? Or will google treat ...
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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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Many Stack Overflow users' pages have no Google PageRank and they are not indexed, why?
If you go to my user page on Stack Overflow and you check it with the Google Toolbar, you can see it has no PageRank at all (this does happen for almost any user page, even people with much higher ...
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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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Why should I use a subdomain structure over a directory structure?
I want to do blog.mysite.com but i know it will negatively impact my PR with Google. When is it preferable to structure your site like that vs mysite.com/blog? Is it only for the benefit of PR?
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Is it possible to check Page Rank of a site without the Google toolbar?
I am just getting started in SEO, and I want to check the Page Rank of one of my sites. All google docs say to use their toolbar to check Page Rank. However I'm using Chromium. I could check with ...
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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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Subdomains vs. subdirectory – status as of 2012.
This following question by Jeff was in 2010 and I wanted to check how things have changed in the past 2 years.
My problem:
I run a site with most of the content distributed to subdomains that’s are ...
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SEO links from Facebook, Delicious, Digg are useful to increase Google PR?
Does anyone know in his SEO experince if links coming from FaceBook, Delicious, Digg are useful to increase PageRank on Google?
I would say NO cause most of thise links are nofollow and/or stored in ...
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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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Do Sites in Subfolders affect the ranking of the Main Domain?
Does putting an unrelated site in a domain's subfolder (to avoid buying a new domain name) affect the domain's search engine ranking even if there are no links between them? For example, is it a bad ...
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How to handle hundred of external links in a site
The site I am working on has few hundred distributors, each one has its own page, and a link to that distributors website. Some of the distributors have multiple locations and so they have multiple ...
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What are the benefits of RDFa?
I've seen some blogs etc. about this new technology: RFDa, but is there any benefits in using it now. From what I understand, it's mainly used by search engines and other crawlers, but have Google, ...
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SEO one longer page vs. several targeted subpages?
We're working on a site and have come to a choice between one long (not too excessive) main page and several subpages.
The subpages would have custom metas/titles/h2 tags and the content that ...
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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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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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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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How long does it take for a page to be assigned Google page rank?
The home page of my website has been indexed by Google more than 6 months ago. Some of the internal pages have received a page rank 6 or higher, however, the page rank of the home page remains 0. What ...
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What is PageRank and how do I get it?
I've heard Google's algorithm is based on PageRank, and that it has something to do with the links to your site. Can someone explain it, and more importantly, how I can increase my site's PageRank?
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Creating a CDN to boost page ranking?
I had a thought about CDNs and if they affect page rankings. Lets say hypothetically if I was to create a CDN as a subfolder in my site. This folder would contain a resource that is useful e.g. ...
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Importance of having EDU backlinks
I've built a few links on 50 EDU / GOV websites. 1 of them has PR 8, 3 of them have PR 7, 8 of them PR6,7 of them PR5,12 of them PR4,8 of them PR3, 1 of them PR2, 6 of them PR1, 10 of them PR0. My ...
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How are Google Site links generated in search results? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google Sitelinks?
I just met a fellow designer who runs a website with the same pagerank as mine. When ...
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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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My domain PageRank shows as unavailable, why is that?
My domain, http://www.anovaordemmundial.com , has been snatched by some opportunist when I failed to renew the domain. I know, it's all my fault :/ . After I have being ripped off and bought my domain ...
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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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Should I pass link juice to my pages on other websites that are already high PR domains?
I am starting a new website for a local business and have entries listed for it on places like urbanspoon, yelp, google+ local, etc. I am thinking of listing these citation sites on my business ...
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Fake PR of a website
I just saw a website, its PR 10. Now this is impossible as the websites quality is nowhere near PR 10. I know that one can change to PR to show 10 if he redirects the site but in this case, its not ...
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Does Google rank businesses that are closer to me geographically to a higher postion
If I do a search on Google using a key word phrase used on our website, does it rank the business I work for higher because it can work out that it is a close geographical match (and the key word ...
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Does rel=“nofollow” link helps in SEO
I have read that links to rel="nofollow" doesn't help in pagerank or SEO.
I used google webmaster tool to find out the external links pointing to my website.
In results i found some links from ...
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Do irrelevant links help PageRank?
I was recently asked for a link exchange between my PR1 site and someone's PR4 site. They are not related, and even in different languages.
Disregarding the degraded user experience and assuming the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Abnormal alexa ranking score
I have 2 websites of ecommerce in France and for these websites I have a strange behaviour of the alexa results. Here are some statistics about the websites :
Unique Visits January 2012
Website A ...
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Effect of adding link from PR1 site to PR0 site?
Site A and B are both new, with few incoming links, and no 'do-follow' outgoing links.
Site A has PR1, and site B has PR0.
I am curious - Can anyone predict what might happen to the respective PRs ...
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page rank 0 penalty
I have a wordpress blog and a www-website on the same domain for about one year. Together it is about 170 pages. The page rank is still 0. I understand that page rank 0 is a penalty for duplicate ...
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Internal pages PR
My homepage has a PR of 5. However, 99% of my internal pages have PR of 0 for some reason.
What can be the cause of it? I have a sitemap and Google Webmaster Tools shows that all my website pages are ...
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If I have a page rank of 5, and I get alot of backlinks from sites with PR 1, will I then decrease in PR?
As the title says, will I?
Ex: I have PR 5, and suddenly a thousand sites link to me and they all have just PR 0, 1 or 2, will this cause my PR to drop?
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PageRank: will links pointing to pages protected by robots.txt still count?
If every single link to a given website www.example.com points to a page in a particular subdirectory (i.e. www.example.com/user/[something]), but that directory is off limits as per robots.txt, i.e.
...
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Building multiple websites with different domain names or single website with multiple language folder
Which one is better for increasing page rank:
1.) hosting multiple websites of different languages and interlink them
2.) Host single website and create multiple language pages and interlink them
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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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Are there benefits of receiving external links from PR 0 or 1 sites for SEO? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Effect of adding link from PR1 site to PR0 site?
I'm thinking to do some link exchanges with PR0 or PR1 sites which have the related contents as my site. And my link ...
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Why Google may decrease PR of a site?
I found that Google decreased PR of my site and wonder why.
Except recent submit of my programs to download sites and change of Google Analytics to asynchronous code there were no other changes to ...
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SEO: adding your company signature with link to all websites you make?
I saw many webdesigner companies adding a small signature on each website they make.
Signature could be masked by words like credits, design by..., but they all contain a direct link to the webdesign ...
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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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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/" ...
