A search engine is program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found.
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Google search SEO with double domain
When hosting a site from two separate domains, are there any steps to take to not get penalized by search engines for duplicating content across domains?
I'm envisioning a scenario where two domains ...
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Which URL is SEO friendly?
I have to choose between two usernames, one comprises of just my first name i.e. http://example.com/john while the other comprises of full name i.e. http://example.com/johnsmith.
Which of the above ...
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SEO effect of “You are leaving this site” page for outbound links?
The problem
I am working on an aggregation website that collects reviews about specific products from various websites. The site has many thousands of outbound links (with "nofollow" attributes) to ...
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How can I create multiple mini-sites with similar/duplicate content without hurting my search engine rank?
Essential background: I run a small company that lets members of the public post handwritten letters to their local politician (UK-based). Every week a number of early stage bills (called Early Day ...
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Will JavaScript (document.write) content be indexed by search engines?
I have an external JS file embedding some content inline in a web page.
Basically it just does a document.write("my content") via a script tag and loaded externally with the src attribute.
Any ...
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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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S1000D JavaScript search engine
I am developping a static web application. My goal is to create a search engine.
So, I have a list of training's documents and I want to search a fulltext from each one;
My documents are stored on ...
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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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Are generic keywords in url bad for SEO? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Squeezing all the SEO out of a URL as possible
Need help with URL structure. Let's say I'm a manufacturer of Wire EDM machines. Is it bad for me to put the keywords ...
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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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How should I handle search engines auto-correcting the spelling of a site's name?
A client's site and company is called 'Tranin Communications' (Tranin is her last name).
It ranks well in searches for her name but rather poorly in searches for the name of her site/company.
I ...
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Content Optimization only?
There are tons of discussions around tips&tricks to improve Search Engines "ranking" and SEOs.
If I concentrate only on the content* of the website will there be consequences on the pages' rank ...
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will main domains be more seo friendly than subdomains?
Web hosting providers offer services such as hosting multiple domains in one account. Then my concern is about seo friendliness. say the main domain of my account is maindomain.com on which I have ...
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url naming convention for improved seo and page rank [duplicate]
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What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL?
Using url rewriting methods, what is a better way to organize the structure of the URLs of your website for SEO and user ...
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To have multiple sites with similar content on the same server but different IPs?
I have 7 different sites on the same dedicated server.
Two major sites have different IPs, and 5 small share the same IP.
About first 2 they have similar content, but not the same.
Basically ...
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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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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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What percentage of searches are abandoned on Google [and Bing]? [closed]
What is the abandonment ratio for Google [and optional, Bing] searches? That is to say, when someone performs a search, what is the frequency, % wise, that a user just gives up that search and moves ...
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How can one keep an ecommerce site active?
So, you build an e-commerce site, all your products are on there, but then very little changes which obviously causes your site to become less active, and ultimately not ranking as highly in search ...
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Sub domain or sub-folder? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Do subdomains help/hurt SEO?
In terms of SEO is there any advantages/disadvantages to using a sub-domain over a sub-folder:
www.mysite.com/company
company.mysite.com
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How to handle URLs with diacritic characters
I am wondering how to handle URLs which correspond to strings containing diacritic (á, ǚ, ´...). I believe what we're seeing mostly are URLs where diacritic characters where converted to their closest ...
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Why is honest cloaking for Ajax considered bad practice? [closed]
Ajax-only websites are laden with many problems. Search engine invisibility is merely a small problem. They are also unbookmarkable and unlinkable and they break the functionality of back- and ...
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Does using spaces in a URL affect SEO?
When creating URLs for my website I need to use a space, for example http://mydomain.com/start home
I've seen some sites using + or -, what are the advantages of using space, + and - (dashes) in SEO?
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Control the ranking of my sites on Google [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google?
I have two sites that I both control and have hooked up to Google Webmaster Tools as different sites. ...
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Preventing high bandwidth usage from Yandex
Although I put a row for Yandex into my robots.txt file, sometimes Yandex indexes my website aggressively. So I hard coded a part and check for user agent, and serve cached file if user agent is like ...
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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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Spam link text when searching for company directors' name
It was brought to my attention that if you search for the name of one of our directors (with the intent to find there profile page on our site) They come up as the first link in most search engines as ...
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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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Is there a weight for html link?
I would like to know if there is any weight associated with a html link (its backlink) when google does crawling/indexing. Will 1,2 & 3 be ever considered as a backlink by Google?
1. <a ...
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Multilingual website without language component in the URL
I'm working on a website for Canada which will have French and English versions. For SEO purposes, I would like to avoid using any language tag in URLs because I believe it will have more impact (e.g. ...
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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 and search result changes when switching to SSL on Joomla site?
I am thinking about purchasing an SSL certificate for a website. The most noticeable difference for the user would be the http now becomes https and there is that lock icon in most browsers. Will ...
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Google Position Ranking for Specisific Keyword and Domain
How i can now my website position ranking for specific keywords?
example my website is gusdecool.com and i want to know my position ranking on Google search for keyword Rapidleech
How to do that? or ...
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Ask.com Sitemap Crawler Down (for good)?
I have been using Ask.com as one of the search engines to ping my sitemap. When I went to ping my sitemap today to have my sitemap re-indexed, the website (http://submissions.ask.com/ping) says it no ...
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Is an xml sitemap good or bad [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Are there any clear indicators that my sitemap file is beneficial?
The good:
You provide search engines with all the urls in your site
But, does the search engine ...
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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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How can a product search engine determine what html element contains data about which variable?
HTML5 allows people to tag their elements like
<div data-productname=BMW>BMW</div>
but how do search engines do it with older websites?
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Database of websites for a search engine
I'm planning to make a search engine, so I've downloaded this script. It works well, but I have to add a list of websites manually in a php file for the search engine to index. Is there any kind of ...
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Possible ways to search for a specific file in search engines [closed]
I have a task to accomplish but I find my self unable to do it.
The reason that I call my self unable, is because I know there is that special file I am searching for but I didn't find it yet.
With ...
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urlrewrite and search engines
I have a urlrewrite that rewrites my urls like
mypage.aspx?id=123&title=mytitle
into
...page/mytitle/123/
I'm trying to understand what are the pros / cons if any of having it like
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best/simplest way to inform search engine of sitemap location
AFAIK, there are 2 ways to make search engines aware of a sitemap's location:
Include an absolute link to it in robots.txt
Submit it to them directly. The relevant URLs are:
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Should I submit my RSS feed as Google Sitemap?
I currently have no sitemap for a website I'm creating.
I do have an RSS feed which includes the N latest updated posts on the site. It doesn't include everything on the site though, just blog posts. ...
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Does Google penalize changed H1 tags?
A friend of mine is worried that changing the font of the H1 tag will cause Google to penalize it (or not assign as much weight to it). He described a situation where small H1 text could be used to ...
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Generating search result pages as keyword friendly gateways
We have a fairly standard eCommerce marketplace site.
When a user searches for "something in city A" a friendly url is created with that search term which displays a list of products for that term. ...
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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 ...
