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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Purchasing traffic effects on SEO
I've recently found some websites which provide a specific number of visits by paying. I'm curious if this is a (very) bad practice for search engines (like Google).
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rel=“nofollow” in img tags?
Does it make sense to have a rel="nofollow" attribute in img tag?
Do search engines' crawlers use this attribute in some way for calculating PageRank score?
What is the practical sense for using it ...
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Remove URL from “Fetch as Google” - in Google Webmaster Tools
I need to remove a URL from Health -> Fetch as Google in Google Webmaster Tools.
Is it possible?
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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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Does domain suffix affect SEO? [duplicate]
my first question here! I have a question regarding URL suffixes. Say I have a company, let's call it example-it. If I then purchase the domain www.example.it, thus incorporating the company name into ...
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Is Google/Bing/Yahoo Images legal? [closed]
Yahoo Image Search Example
I was wondering this from a year. What major search engines doing with images of websites is morally and legally correct? They are stealing bandwidth (I should add ...
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Dynamic Meta Keywords
Is it a problem to change the meta keywords dynamically depending on the content of the page / website?
for example if it is a news website and this weeks top articles are about elephants in japan I ...
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SEOs: mobile version using AJAX: how to be properly read by crawlers?
Before anything else, I'd like to emphasize that I've already read this and this.
Here's what I can do:
First choice:
create classical web version with all products in that page - ...
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Do tabs, spaces, and line-breaks in HTML markup affect search engine optimization?
I am looking for information regarding tabs, spaces, and line-breaks in HTML/XHTML markup and whether it affects SEO.
I have found sources which state that extra white space hurts search engine ...
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How are the sitemaps of big sites generated?
The question is related to my questions about things the filesystem of Wikipedia and generating sitemap for Wikipedia. It is more general.
Problem: Suppose a site on MediaWiki with about 10,000 ...
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Public search engine which index HTML tags
Do you know a public search engine which allows search on HTML tags?
The usage will be to search websites with HTML5 tags such as <canvas> being able to search over the class names could also ...
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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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How to display an image in google search result
I managed to do it with my blog like this:
by using google+ (found it somewhere on the web):
<link rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/115170983146246266025/"/>
UPDATE:
This is the ...
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What is the effect of Dynamic URL's on SEO
I have around 150 dynamic URL's as below
http://mydomain.com/training/register.php?key=01ue3be299a-6bc1-1030-a2db-e4115bd593d8
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Adding meta tag keywords - the same or different on all pages?
I have 10 page php website. I want to add keywords to webpages.
The website is related to hotel and having different-2 page like booking, rooms, places to visit etc.
Question: Do we need to add same ...
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How do I get Google to show links to my site hierarchy in search results?
I have recently noticed that for some websites, Google is linking to different locations in the site hierarchy instead of just the destination page URL. For instance, searching for "Malibu Rum Drink ...
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Check old urls for backlinks - same domain new design and urls
I have a client who recently did a re-design on his website. The designer did not put any effort in keeping the same url or do any redirect. Ive made a list of the old urls, what I want to do now is ...
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How to point search engines to another subpage
I have a webpage concerning a subject, let's say buttons to keep it simple. It is the foremost web page on this topic for my language and region: searching for 'button' in my language will always ...
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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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What does “all” mean in meta robots tag?
Several websites have the following meta tag aimed at search engines like Google, Bing, etc.:
<meta name="robots" content="all" />
What does it do?
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SEO for image galleries [closed]
I was wondering about what good methods to get more visitors on an image gallery site would be good.
Currently my image gallery only has pictures, tags and those tags in the title.
But is that ...
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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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Does Yext provide any value for web only based businesses?
I've been researching Yext and trying to understand if it provides value to web only based business. It seems that if you don't have a physical presence then Yext is not any use. Is this accurate?
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Implementing OpenSearch, what is the benefits?
I have implemented opensearch in my website. But I don't know what is the benefits of it. Does it has any effects in search engines? For example, can I tell google about my implementation?
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How to avoid duplicate content in WordPress eCommerce Store
I run a WordPress eCommerce store powered by WooCommerce. I have a large inventory of products and most of the product descriptions are the same for all products and it's mandatory to include it. It's ...
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Do other search engines support Google's “hash bang” syntax for crawling AJAX applications?
Google has a really nice document explaining how web developers can get Google to crawl non-AJAX versions of their web applications to make it possible for Google to index AJAX-heavy websites.
Do ...
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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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SEO for Main Navigations
My question is simple... To what extent does your primary navigation [and secondary navigations] have on SEO for your website?
My particular case is this: I have "two" primary navigations. One ...
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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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Preventing robots from crawling specific part of a page
As a webmaster in charge of a tiny site that has a forum, I regularly receive complains from users that both the internal search engine and that external searches (like when using Google) are totally ...
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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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Is it good to index category in search engines? [duplicate]
I have a Wordpress blog.
Is it good to index category in search engines? Will it cause duplicate content issue?
I'm little scared about Panda Google algorithm.
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Percentage of users that get to business website by searching vs typing business url into address bar
My friend's company(lets call it SomeThingsAreWorthTheMoney ) has been affected by a competitor's cybersquatting attack. SomeThingsAreWorthTheMoney is primarily an offline, real-world company that ...
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SEO - Big revamp of my URL structure - please suggestions [duplicate]
I have a big network of sites in many countries. There are over 30-40 Million indexed pages in 34 countries, what will be re-indexed hopefully and will be redirected with 301 to the new URL structure, ...
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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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Tables and SEO - The big conspiracies [duplicate]
Now, I've heard many (if not too many) conspiracies/myths about tables and SEO. Now, I'm in a state of confusion, and I have no idea what to do. Below, I will write two SEO and table myths that I need ...
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SEO duplicate content
I have a blog about a game. Lets say that the game releases some news and gives it to Blog A and Blog B.
Now my blog (Blog A) will copy that news and paste it in an article.
Somebody else's blog ...
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Hide <noscript> contents from google and other search engines
I've got some content wrapped into <noscript> tag which I don't want google and any other search engines to see, is there a way to hide it?
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SEO trailing slash on plain URL [duplicate]
What would be better for SEO?:
http://test.com
http://test.com/
Should I keep or remove the trailing slash while linking to the homepage of my site?
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SEO Removal Time?
I was searching about removing the a domain/site being listed in Web Search Results (like, Google Search) and i found solution, at here.
I believe it will be the solution but what i still need to ...
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What's the best way to handle multiple sites on a shared server?
I'm on a shared server (via LunarPages), and I also host a few low-impact sites for a few small businesses. I recently had a problem (blocked crawlers by messing with the internal settings) that made ...
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IP geolocation and permanent redirects for search engines
when someone connects to my homepage I geolocate using their IP and redirect to the site with the right language (for example someone from Italy connects to example.com and I redirect them to ...
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Competitor Web Keywords
I am working on my SEO and have looked over my own keyword traffic through Google Analytics, but is there a way to see the traffic competitors get from a particular keyword?
For example, if I get 200 ...
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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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Is it possible to use only one SEO tool that finishes your job completely [closed]
Is there anyone that uses only one SEO tool that finishes every thing he works on. What is that tool, is that a perfect SEO tool. Could that be even closely true.
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Linkpushing for SEO, real or fake?
While I was googling today, I noticed this site: http://linkpushing.net/ this ensure you to be pushed at the top of the google research's stack, by creating random reference to your sites on random ...
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Google Indexing Pages with noindex meta tag
I got a message in Google Webmaster Tools about "Googlebot found an extremely high number of URLs on your site" with a long list of example URLs.
For some of the pages listed, there was nothing to ...
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Pros and Cons of tabular format with one link and hidden divs vs. different links [closed]
I'm trying to decide the right hierarchy for a website with multiple pages per entity. Each page has the basic general information, and goes deeper according to selected 'tab'.
Two options I'm ...
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Need help for robots.txt file [closed]
Hello sir thank you so much but Can u tell me simple code of robots.txt file? Because When I submited it I got message that some pages are not indexing by google bot. So Please get me simple code ...
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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 ...
