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How do we get our sites' sections displayed under the description in a Google search? [closed]
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What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google Sitelinks?
For Example, if I Google "Stack Overflow" the site comes up but also links to the main ...
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Redirecting URLs when launching a new website - how to avoid dropping page rank
i have over 100 urls in my website which i need to redirect:
E.g.
/page/how-to-bake-chocolate-cookies/ will redirect to /cookies/how-to-bake-chocolate-cookies/
/page/contact/ will redirect to ...
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Impact on SEO of adding categories/tags in front of the HTML title [closed]
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Does the order of keywords matter in a page title?
All StackExchange sites add the most-used tag of a question in front of the HTML title for SEO purposes. On ...
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Is minifying id and class names a bad SEO practice?
I am a big fan of minifying everything whenever possible. It is a sin for me to don't do this.
However, I recently read that one of the thousands tips to boost your website rank on search engines was ...
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need help with making seo friendly links
I'm looking into seo-ing my urls and i was wording which of these link structures was better to use:
1) www.mydomain.com/contact-john-smith/index.html
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2) ...
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How do I add a wordpress.com blog to Bing?
I am running a Wordpress blog. It shows up for Google search on my name, but it’s not indexed at all by Bing. Can I add it somehow to Bing? I added it to Bing Webmaster tools, but it doeas not see a ...
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Google site search on pre-launch website
We have a website being developed. It is currently on a staging URL. eg: stage.testdomain.com
We want to use Google Site Search for searching on the site. To make the site go live we need sign-off ...
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Index a 301 Redirect to help a user locate a page
On a site I'm currently working on, there is a 301 Redirect to redirect a nice short URL for users to type in when trying to find a particular piece of content - e.g. www.mydomain.com/apply -> ...
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How to search for specific area [migrated]
Is there any way to search for some information on sites belongs to particular area without specifying area name as keyword in search string.
or
Is there any way to search for some information ...
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“good” way to redirect users and robots for internationalization?
I have a website in Spanish and English.
When there isn't any subdomain selected the preferred language is taken from the browser preferred language or a cookie.
I have the following URLs
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how to make sure an individual website is not indexed by search engines?
I'm setting up a personal website with a blog that I would like to be indexed by search engines. But the blog will link to CV with personal information that shouldn't be indexed.
Can it be reliably ...
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Is “no-index” necessary with extensive, white-labeled syndication?
For the purposes of this discussion, consider the following scenario:
You have written a fair amount of quality, unpublished content that third-party websites wish to license from you and white-label ...
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Should I return a http 401 status code on an html based login form?
Should I return a http 401 status code on an html based login form? The page is a dedicated login form, and does not have any other meaningful content, just site framework. The URL however, can be ...
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Old content, new URL's, how to keep the old URL's still working? 301 redirects? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to tell google that i have changed my website urls?
I don;t know how to ask the question but situation is this. I have the old site with a lot of content that has ...
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Image Hot-links & Google's Instant Previews
I'm trying to adjust my site:
1. stop Image Hot-links
2. block Googlebot-Image (because I do not want my images to be searchable)
3. allow Google's Instant Previews
I've tried this but the Instant ...
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It is a good idea always bold or italic keywords for SEO?
it is a good idea always bold or italic keywords in the page contents for SEO (google)?
(not programmatically, but in the most of cases, near the totality)
thank you in advance,
feel free to correct ...
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SEO for Dynamic website
For static websites, I always made a Sitemap.xml file and submitted it to search engines like google, bing etc.
But now, I have made a website in Asp.net MVC which has 3 dynamic pages which yields ...
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Is content inside IE conditional comments indexed by search engines?
Although I'm aware of the various methods to show content only to users of a specific IE version, I was wondering if using conditional comments would have an effect on the way my site is indexed. If I ...
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How can I prevent a search engine from indexing a specific file or files on my website? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Blocking Search Engines to Crawl Parts of a Website?
In general, I want my site to be indexed, but there are certain files I don't wish to be searchable from Google, ...
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Impact of search engine optimization with hosting plan
I want to know is there a direct impact on the hosting plan.
Why i am saying is, most linux hosting plan gives us modules for search engine optimization but not in windows plans. I have couple of ...
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Does Yahoo Slurp crawl hammer a site?
A lot of robots.txt examples seem to feature Crawl-Delay for Yahoo Slurp for up to 2 hours, is this because Yahoo Slurp tends to hammer a website and increase server load?
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Can Schema.org properties be including in existing tags?
The examples on schema.org seem to indicate adding addition tagging to indicate item properties is the norm. However, can these be added with an existing tag? For instance in the following line of ...
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REL ME tag - trying to figure it out
Regarding
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1229920
to scrolled down section ''Examples'' to the point ''1.'' to the second code line which is:
<a rel="me" ...
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Wrong canonicalization by Google
I had 2 pages with mostly same text and the difference being in Flash and cities names. So, Google started to think that those were copies of the same page and to index only the most popular of them. ...
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Does Google submit HTML forms?
I have a web page, say http://domain/purchase and in this page, I have a web form. User, on submitting this form (which has validation, both client-side and server side and won't be validated until ...
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SH404SEF URLs in Joomla 1.5
I have two modules to play with urls, the global configuration module and the sh404sef module. The global config is set to "Sef urls: YES" and "mod rewrite enabled: YES" and the sh404sef is set "url ...
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How to hide pages from Google crawler? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google Sitelinks?
I'm currently working on a website and need to keep certain pages hidden from Google ...
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Is it possible to tell a search engine not to index a specific section of an HTML page? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Preventing robots from crawling specific part of a page
I know you can use robots.txt to ignore entire pages or sections of your site, but is there a way to tell ...
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How to register properly to the most famous SEOs? [closed]
I know it may have been asked many times, but here's my question: I'm about to open my website which I'm more than proud of (I'll talk about its capabilities on my blog). Anyway I want it to be ...
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Does having a website inside a frame (<frameset>) helps or affect search engine rankings?
I have been working to promote my website from long time but not getting such traffic as work I have done on that.
My website is running online with another domain using framset so is it somewhere ...
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Validation Meta tags for search engines
Should validation meta tags for search engines be left on the site following validation? For example, should I leave my msvalidate meta tag after I've validated the site.
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Sudden increase in traffic from Google search domains
I'm suddenly getting a 50% increase in traffic.
The cause of this, according to my google analytics, is referral traffic from sites such as:
google.co.uk
google.com.my
google.co.jp
google.com.sg
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Do premium domain names help us with other languages too?
It's commonly known that premium domains with one or two relevant keywords may help us improve our rankings in SERPS.
But would it be possible that an english premium domain, for example gold.com ...
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Preserve Search engine index while shifting to new Domain
I am not a SEO guy so not sure how relevant my question is.
We have to shift our web-site to a new domain due to some unavoidable circumstances but since the portal is up and running there from 2009 ...
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Website Name shown at the end of HTML Titles
A google search for
site:cnn.com cnn
returns results like
Kenyans one dance away from semifinals - Sports - CNN.com
Health News - Medical, Mental and Dental Treatment ... - CNN.com
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What to do About Wrong Information That Has Propagated Throughout the Internet
Many years ago, someone made an entry into Yahoo! Maps for our small research library that contained the phone number of our librarian.
Hundreds of sites accepted this information as authoritative ...
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Change content of page depending on Google search
A client has asked me to tailor the content of their homepage based on how the user got there from Google. His example is something like:
If a user searches Google for Cars in Barcelona, then the ...
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What happens if the Canonical URL is the same as the actual page URL?
I might be asking a trivial question here, but how do the search engines treat loops created via rel="canonical" tag?
My scenario is that being a site having dynamic content, I have URLs as follows:
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This address should never have been indexed, how can I properly remove it?
I have a couple of subdomains on my website that I use for various purposes and I don't want/need them to be indexed by search engines. From the very beginning, since I created them, I added a ...
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What are some monthly task to do for SEO [closed]
So, here's a quite general question: the company for which I started working recently, asks me to do some SEO work on one of our costumer website. And they charge around 5 hours.
What are some task I ...
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Text doesn't fit on ONE page - This same text is too large
Lets say I am describing the text in, for example, 2100 words for the same keyword. My purpose would be to have 700 words per page. Obviously I need to have 3 pages so I can devide the text with, in ...
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SEO tutorial or guide [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
SEO Guide/Webinar for the Non-technical
I admit I am a noob to SEO so I'm just looking for a good step by step guide to the most effective way to get a home project web ...
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Mysterious subdomains to my site indexed by Google
We have an issue with strange subdomains pointing to (pages on) our site such as:
www2.example.com
2.example.com
anothersite.com.example.com
A few things are perplexing:
who created them? why ...
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Site description not showing up in Google search [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Problem with description of my site and google search
Does Google use the Meta Description Tag for Description of Page?
When we search for our site on Google. What do ...
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SEO - Move around content with Javascript
Short version
Can I move around content (text and links) with Javascript without affecting my rank in Google?
Long version
Menu with links push down my content
I have a menu (with tabs) run with ...
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Is there a Q&A for SEO (Search Engine Optimization)?
Is there a great free Q&A (like Stack Overflow) for SEO (Search Engine Optimization)?
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Should I make a search-engine only page for my domain (which re-directs visitors depending on geographic location)?
I manage a domain which is an umbrella domain - it is used in marketing/advertising a product around the world. When users visit the domain the site re-directs them to a sub-domain specifically for ...
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Anchor tag inside H1 or H1 inside achor tag : Which is better?
I am trying to use h1 tags on my blog for the post title and came across one problem.
Title is hyperlinked.
so
Case 1:
<h1> <a href=""> xyz </a> </h1>
case 2:
<a ...
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How to tell Google Analytics to ignore case in Site Search Terms?
I currently have Google Analytics on my site, and one of it's useful functions is that it gives me a nice breakdown of all the search terms people are using to search my site (my site has it's own ...
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Making search engine crawl my site
I have a site with visitors from all over the world, and I'm trying to optimize indexed pages on search engines beside Google (he indexed most of my pages).
I see that on Japan search engines I'm ...
