Action to get a position in results of search engines (for a web site or a web page).

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Traffic lost by 40% but shown increasing in WMT

Around 30 days back my site lost traffic about 40%. I guess it is most likely due to algorithmic/ranking issues. But if I see my "Search Queries" with change in the WMT I see all green and ever ...
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Does a web-site has to be slow to be enterprise? [closed]

I've noticed that most enterprise web-sites are very slow to load. For example, the following test reveals that it takes Lenovo a little over a whole half-second to generate the html for their ...
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If I have a blog on Tumblr that is also embedded on my website - will this negatively impact my search engine rankings for either URL?

If I have a blog on Tumblr that is also embedded on my website - will this negatively impact (because of duplicate content) my search engine rankings for either URL?
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If H1 tags are not used for page titles, what is the impact on SEO?

I'm wondering what kind of effect will be witnessed on SEO if, say, a div was used rather than an h1 tag for page titles. I imagine it would be very frustrating for screen readers and wouldn't give ...
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How to index jobs portal website? [closed]

I just finished developing my new website which is basically a jobs portal. Most of the content (company and jobs) available following search. I've indexed whole of the public pages but I want ...
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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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Client using a 3rd party to provide content, this 3rd party provides service to thousands of other users - duplicate content? [duplicate]

A client is using some software provided by a 3rd party that outputs automatically updated information relevant to their industry. This resource is used by thousands of other customers. A simple ...
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Effect of removing home page content

I have a business website that I'm working on and I'm replacing the text I initially had on the home page with new columnized paragraphs of text. The text I'm removing though has a h1 tag and probably ...
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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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Do paid directories help with ranking and exposure? [closed]

Some companies offer to register one's websites in their directories against a fee. They filter for quality and make sure you site is indexed properly in their pages. Has anyone tried these ...
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Is this considered as keyword stuffing?

I have developed a page to define world time zone clocks online. At the bottom of the page, I list all 600+ time zones. Is this considered as keyword stuffing? Does this impact ranking negatively? ...
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Why my website ranking fall? [closed]

Hi please can any one check my website that why my website ranking fall down by the keyword "backlink service, backlinks service"
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Does a 'Under Construction' notice impacts site ranking negatively?

Assuming one works on a website and decides to be polite and friendly by telling visitors it is still under construction, does it impact its ranking negatively? Does Google and others take this notice ...
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What is the ranking impact of scripts added by some free hosting websites?

I have noticed that some free hosting websites add scripts at the end of uploaded pages. For example: <noscript><a title="Free hosting" href="http://www.1freehosting.com">Free ...
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Will history of a domain affect rankings for new site?

Bought the domain and initially parked the domain. Google did not rank the domain because it was parked, it has however began to index in the last day or so. My question is will the fact that the site ...
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Changing server from US based to New Zealand based: the effect on our high ranking on Google?

We are in New Zealand but our site is hosted in the US. We rank on the first page for our products in Google for US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, Japan and NZ. This is crucial for our business. WE ...
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I have never created quantcast account why still they show my sites quantcast rank?

i have never registered for quantcast and placed quantcast code on my site, still on many website value checker sites i found some number as quantcast for my site. do this rank really matter for a ...
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why my website doesn't ranked by alexa? [closed]

I created a website with WordPress and post 10+ article in period of two month, but alexa doesn't rank my website. i tried to change my theme, URL and other related things and submit my website URL ...
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Google ranking, page crawl

I know that in order to get ranked the page has to be crawled by Google bots, I have had a page example of which I will get a better understanding of how the system works with Google. I have made a ...
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One site being on a subdirectory of another. Does google count this against you?

I have created two similar websites (relating to monetary systems). So far, one appears to be loved by Google and the other hated. I'm struggling to work out why. This is a mystery to me because both ...
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Inexplicable low ranking [closed]

I have created two similar websites relating to monetary systems. So far, one appears to be loved by Google and the other hated. I'm struggling to work out why. The successful one is ...
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new domain, old links are 301'd from old domain to new, how will this affect my rankings?

I built up good rankings with search engines over the years with my old domain. I recently changed my domain name and have all the links 301 redirected from my old domain to my new domain. I also used ...
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Is there a way to mark content as random? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is there any way to have search engines not index a certain section of a page? Is there a way to mark a section of a webpage (div) so that it is not considered for ...
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Image Search Ranking

What are image-specific factors that contribute to ranking in Google Image Search? Looking for what contributes to ranking and relevancy of images above and beyond the SEO of the hosting site itself. ...
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How to Optimize A Site For Yahoo Search?

What are on-site on-page guidelines that can optimize a site for Yahoo search? Its been over 6 years since I have been running a number of websites and for some reason the traffic and ranking from ...
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How to diagnose a search engine ranking drop?

EDIT: Reworded & Cleaned Up to Ease Understanding There has been a significant drop (90%) in traffic from Google to one of my well-established sites (6+ years) in the last week. Searches show ...
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What Ranking Factors Are Used For International Search?

Google.com vs Google.ca vs Google.co.uk (etc) all rank their results differently. The intention is to return more locally-relevant content. What factors, other than the ones below, are used to ...
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Do Unrelated Sites in Subfolders affect the Ranking of the Main Site?

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 ...