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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“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You have written a fair amount of quality, unpublished content that third-party websites wish to license from you and white-label ...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? [duplicate]
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? [duplicate]
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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How to hide pages from Google crawler? [duplicate]
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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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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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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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 [duplicate]
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)? [closed]
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 ...
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Do search engines understand multiple rel values?
I need to have hyperlinks on my page that will look something like:
<a href="/someurl" rel="prettyPhoto[main] nofollow">Link</a>
So basically the rel attribute has two values.
I know ...
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Does having same IP & some same content effect my SEO?
A client of mine came to me with a unique question that I wasn't sure of the answer to. He wanted to know that if he has a number of different websites (let's say 500 sites with their own domain ...
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which among these is good according to url optimization for search engine - google?
which among these is good according to url optimization for search engine - google?
Keyword -
hot jobs in paris
paris.hotjobsin.com
hotjobsin.com/hotjobs/paris
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Domain Aliases and SEO
We have created a movie site & to optimize in search engines for other countries, we have created a alias of various domains, for example movie.co.uk, movie.de etc. How to get this optimized and ...
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Is there any way to find out how often a certain query is sent to a search engine?
For example, let's assume a string 'green apple'. Is there at least one SE (or, maybe 3rd-party site) which provides its statistics on how often do users search this concrete string?
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SEO for single-page content-less Web App
as written in the title the website on which I try to do Search Engine Optimization has following two properties:
doesn't have any content in the SEO sense: it doesn't hold any information and only ...
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Do search engines pass HTTP referrer through?
I'm modifying a site and it requires that, when a user comes from another site in the group, this site will be branded slightly differently. The best way of identifying the page they came from would ...
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Why classifieds pages use subdomains?
Can somebody tells me in terms of SEO if the use of subdomains is better than the use of folders?
Im developing a classifieds page, and I alredy know that many classifieds like craiglist use ...
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What does it mean when google says “0 search results found”?
What does it means, when google says "0 search results found"? Did google try to get relevant search results from every website it knows about before displaying 0 results?
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How long it takes for google to refresh the page information? How can I achieve to make it faster? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How long before Google will update search terms matching my website?
I have a webpage, and I have updated it with meta descriptions and keywords. I would like this data ...
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What's the best way to serve simple flowcharts
The websites in the government sector often provide Word files containing flowcharts. They are simple flowcharts with at most ten nodes in size, showing common workflows to people. There are several ...
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Should sitemaps list their dynamic data, newest first or oldest first?
When we create an xml sitemap for a site with dynamic data, should we prepend all new data to the start of the sitemap OR append it to the end? Do search engines hate it when a sitemap is 100% ...
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Encouraging recurrent users to +1 (or Facebook Like)
I want to display a message to users who have visited my site 5 times, but have not yet +1'ed or Like'd to please do so. I guess javascript and a cookie are likely required. But have no idea how to go ...
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Search engine recognition methods
I am facing some problems making my site visible to all search engines. Google is recognizing my website and all pages well. Pages appear in search in 1st or second page. But when i use others like ...
