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Should I be concerned for SEO when hiding images?
I'm using fancybox 2 with the following code (demo here):
<a class="fancybox"
href="http://a.com/bmw-328-manual-2008-black-18-inch-rims.jpg"
title"bmw 328 manual 2008 black 18 inch rims">
...
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Impact on social interactions after URL change [duplicate]
Every article URL on a website I work on will soon be changed.
301 redirects will be set up to ensure inbound links still arrive at the correct destination.
However, social interactions (Likes and ...
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Why do all pages bar the home page turn up in Google? [duplicate]
Our website is made with WordPress. The menu pages all turn up in Google searches, but the index page doesn't. The index page is absent; the others are there.
Why would this be?
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Directing crawlers to content in language per language sub-domain
I have a site with multilingual website with many pages (40M). The site has UGC, and each translation is actually for the titles. Each sub-domain points to the same content with different titles per ...
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Solving “Googlebot encountered extremely large numbers of links on your site.”
I'm getting the following warning over and over again in google webmaster tools
Googlebot encountered extremely large numbers of links on your site.
The examples he's showing don't give me much ...
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44 views
Toggling between hidden divs instead of two links
For each entity in my site I have a 'joint' section (~30%), and a sub-section (~70%) which has two different options, meaning I only display ONE of them at a time. Currently I have two different links ...
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Making Search Queries Indexable
Looking around, most sites (eg. Amazon) encode the parameters of searches into query string. This means that search engines cannot index these queries.
Why don't such sites use URLs rather than query ...
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Tell Google to Refresh Search Screenshot
I recently remodeled a website for a client of mine. When doing a search on Google for their website the old website is still showing as the image for the website.
Is there a way in the Google ...
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132 views
How can I prevent Google from mixing different languages in my sitelinks?
I have a web site in two different languages (English and Spanish). It is indexed by Google but, when searched, sitelinks below my result appear mixed with Spanish and English subtitles.
Each ...
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Buying a top level domain specific to my industry, will it improve my seo ratings?
Currently we run a few websites selling products in the travel industry using .com and .co.uk extensions.
Would our search rating improve if we were to buy one of the .travel domains ? So we would ...
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Does Google treat .html pages differently from .php pages? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should I use a file extension or not?
My current hosting provider does not let me put PHP code inside of a .html page.
So part of my content is in a database and ...
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84 views
Why is Google indexing all these other websites?
I run a web hosting company and I have noticed something strange about the way my website and the other websites that I host are indexed in Google. For some reason, other websites that I am hosting ...
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What is more preferable, Creating dedicated domains for mobile apps that shares different content or associate them with folders in one domain?
I want to consult you in an SEO matter which i am completely lost with,
I've built a social mobile application that allows users to share text content and made all the content that appears on the ...
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39 views
Changing uri-design SEO
I think I need to redesign my uri-collections of my site.
Right now I am using the following structure by a mistake:
/fruits for the whole collection
/fruit/banana for an item in the collection
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Should I optimize the keyword density of a page OR of a site?
For example, I have a website to sell shoes. There are many types of shoes and many brands, so I will have many pages.
In my main page, if I choose keyword "shoes" in my meta tag, it should be good ...
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What factors help in getting a site indexed by Google fast? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase a site’s position in Google?
What should I do to get a site indexed on Google, fast? Taking example of Super User I just did a quick ...
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SEO and external sites that serve responsive images (like Re-SRC)
Re-SRC is a tool that allows you to automatically serve responsive images for your website from their cloud servers. It delivers a new image file each time the browser window (viewport) is resized.
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Why do my websites have a first page rank on Bing and Yahoo but not Google? [closed]
I have 3 websites suffering from a drop in ranking with Google and hence a huge drop in traffic. The instant drop ocurred in September and I have not been able to remedy it.
For the past 6-10 years ...
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Is it safe to buy links through fiverr? [closed]
edu and org back links are so cheap at fiverr. Has any one tried and get hit by penguin or is benefiting through it?
Whats your view on those tempting back links at fiverr?
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Should I, and how do I incorporate microdata into my asp.net website with 47 pages?
I have an asp.net (vb) with 47 pages. The problem is that it's in 10 different languages, although 98% just use English. I have 5 master pages. I've read Google Webmaster Tools, but I'm still ...
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Will keep google traffic on new site from old site when moving content from old site? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
new domain, old links are 301’d from old domain to new, how will this affect my rankings?
I have a site about bikers. Now I created a dating site for bikers. I don't ...
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679 views
Remove URL from “Fetch as Google” - in webmaster tools
I need to remove a URL from Health -> "Fetch as Google". is it possible?
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1answer
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How would a search engine see url encoded characters?
I've got my URL however some of the strings would contain &. Obviously I can't use them as best practice so I've replaced them with +.
However if I encoded my & instead it would become %26.
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3answers
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Linking competitor with the same keyword i am targeting : Good or Bad for Seo?
I am linking one of my competitors from my site for the same keyword which is I am targeting for my site (My competitor is paying me for that).
For Example:
Me and my competitor both are targeting ...
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SEO when loading items through AJAX
Let's say I have standard scenario of commerce site that has categories on the left and items on the right.
What I would like to do is that when user clicks on category it will pass it's ID to js, js ...
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1answer
161 views
How do I stop googlebot from guessing urls parameters
When the googlebot visits our sites it seemingly tries to visit urls that do not exist resulting in exception being thrown. The url is is like http://ourdomain/thepage.aspx/x/8/x/ etc.x stands for no ...
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1answer
87 views
Handling SEO for Infinite pages that cause external slow API calls
I have an 'infinite' amount of pages in my site which rely on an external API. Generating each page takes time (1 minute). Links in the site point to such pages, and when a users clicks them they are ...
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98 views
How do Search Engines Segment Against Locale?
Assume I run a multi-lingual website. If I had a Spanish section, it should be included in Spanish-segmented search engines such as
Google Spain
Google Peru
Google El Salvador
and excluded in the ...
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527 views
SEO: show all content to Google for infinite scrolling
I have a search results page that paginates content loading through infinite scrolling.
Now Google recommends not putting rel=next in this scenario.
Does it make sense to show Google everything ...
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From text navigation links to rollover images - SEO/Google Sitelinks concerns
I operate a web site that is very well indexed by Google. We hit all our keyword targets pretty much and rank really well. We have Google sitelinks etc.
For the last couple of years I've been using ...
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Getting Destroyed on SEO
So I've launched a website and I'm working on SEO. Recently, many of my #1 result pages have completely evaporated from google. I am guessing Google is spam-flagging my site, and I have no idea what ...
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How to target just one search engine and optimise for that
I've been dabbling with SEO a lot in the last 6 months, and one thing that has surprised me is the disparity between Google and Bing in the way they deliver results. A website ranked for a specific ...
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A particular url on a website suddenly disappeared from google search results - why?
I have a website which had a particular page url that was indexed in google search results - in the first 10 results. Suddenly it disappeared. Now that page is not even in the first 100 results. What ...
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Does Google penalize pseudo-duplicate pages for different locations? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
My compony's site's home page was not specificly optimized to any location. Now, I am ...
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Why some video posts from the same blog appear in google with thumbs, while others do not?
We own media blog - which is basically a big collection of various videos streamed through our branded player. Interesting thing is that some of our posts show up in google search results with a thumb ...
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Google search results are invalid
I'm writing a program that lets a user perform a Google search.
When the result comes back, all of the links in the search results are links not to other sites but to Google, and if the user clicks ...
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How does missing links influence the Google ranking?
I changed a lot on my website and I want to know if this affects the Google ranking negatively.
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SEO title tag and earning a high rank on search engines [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?
One of the most basic SEO techiniques is including accurate description below 64 characters in the ...
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Does Google award less importance to each keyword on a domain if there are more keywords?
If there are several pages on a domain, and they are optimized for different keywords, will google award less importance to each of them than if there was only one prevailing keyword on the whole ...
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How does google react to duplicate pages with text in a different language?
If there is a copy of a site in another language, but with same resource filenames, does Google not like the fact that the resources aren't in the same language as the page?
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1answer
170 views
Are inconsistent language tags bad for SEO
Our website offers 3 languages in the following manner:
-English: www.example.org/en with <html xml:lang="en" lang="en">
-Spanish: www.example.org/es with <html xml:lang="es" lang="es">
...
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3answers
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Is there some kind of API for submitting a site to Google for indexing?
I have a client that is insisting there is a method to send a URL automatically to Google to get it indexed quickly.
Here are the methods I know of to tell Google about your site for indexing:
1. ...
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2answers
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Static HTML to Wordpress Migration SEO Implications?
Recently, I migrated a client's site to a new server and a new home within WordPress so they could more easily edit their website and start a blog section.
The static site was 10 years old a was ...
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1answer
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SEO company really need to know the language of the site they work on?
I'm thinking to outsource SEO for my non-English site to the company listed on like elance.com or odesk.com
But I'm wondering if they really can work on the none-English site when they don't speak ...
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2answers
161 views
What is good side of PageRank?
I am doing research about backlinks/PR/SEO/Search Result position and all I read about is that PageRank is not important, that it worth before but now it's not important at all.
Only thing I found ...
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Multiple Businesses at The Same Physical Address - SEO / Google Places
I was wondering what kind if there would be any negative effects to have multiple businesses having the exact same physical address on their website. Currently we have five businesses at the exact ...
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Do search engines see comments in the source code as a backlink?
I would like to know if Google or any other search engine would regard a comment in the source-code containing a link:
<!-- domain.com -->
as a back-link.
If yes how much weight is put ...
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1answer
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Timed redirects and SEO
When it comes to SEO is it ever a good idea to do a timed (countdown) redirect? For instance: I have a thank you page, but it just seems logical that you would want to redirect the user off that page ...
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Is “robots.txt” necessarily needed? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Do I need robots.txt?
From my understanding robots.txt is only needed to do something different from the norm like exclude a certain file directory and such, but if this ...
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What is the best way to ensure individual blog posts are shown as top results in Google from a blog?
I like to show full posts on my index pages, so they are convenient for visitors to read and they don't have to click "read more" links to read the full post.
However, with this setup Google often ...
