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30 views

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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1answer
32 views

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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0answers
21 views

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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1answer
28 views

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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0answers
8 views

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 ...
3
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1answer
61 views

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 ...
5
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1answer
114 views

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 ...
3
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1answer
59 views

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 ...
1
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1answer
89 views

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 ...
2
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1answer
125 views

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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2answers
154 views

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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0answers
23 views

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 ...
2
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2answers
73 views

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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5answers
761 views

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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1answer
84 views

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 ...
2
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3answers
79 views

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 ...