Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of web content in search engines using an understanding of search engines' processes and algorithms. Also known as "natural" or "organic" search, it is distinct from paid web advertising.
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SEO questions: what is duplicate content and what does it affect negatively?
I am fascinated by SEO and it's merits, so that's why I am going to optimalize my website. There are still a couple of questions that do pop up... Well, I am aware that duplicate content is not done, ...
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Featured Links/Blogroll (irrelevant links) in a blog is good or bad for SEO?
While I’m checking my websites’ back links using backlink watch tool I saw so many backlinks are from Blogspots where my links are placed under the category featured Links.
The main problem is my web ...
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Seo: How much can a particular domain be tainted from bad prior practices?
If a site found at a particular domain has previously used very bad SEO practices and has thus been ranked poorly for most search queries on google, will using very good SEO practices from now on ...
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Changing host bad for SEO ranking?
I am moving a small business website to a new host without changing the domain. Will this affect their ranking in Google? Is there any particular way I should change the DNS to make sure that its ...
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If a website has no backlinks, would it ever get listed in Google?
If I create a site and do not built any of the backlinks would it get crawled by Google?
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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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Does putting large amount of source code in webpage spoil seo?
I run a blog on programming topics and often post large amounts of source code, with syntax highlighter.
This source code often has few terms repeated multiple times like "printf" or "alert" or ...
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What is wrong with the seo of my site? [closed]
My question is related to the seo performance of my website binarytides.com
My website has recently seen fall in traffic and I have noted that for some of my best keywords the traffic is falling, and ...
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how to combine .JS and CSS file on blogging platform? [closed]
Hi I am a blog owner http://www.bloggerspice.com/ and using Google blogspot Platform. due to using more than 5 .js file my site become slow. I have heard that by combining .js file blog loading time ...
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Google SEO - Migrating website from a sub-directory of another website to its own domain name
At the present moment I have a website hosted on example.com/myWebsite, where example.com hosts in its root directory a different website. I have the domain example.net, which redirects to ...
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Does I need to put meta tags in Search page of my E-commerce website? [closed]
In my E-commerce website I got a product page.where I want to implement Meta-keywords,Meta-Description,etc.. I am a little confused about the task now.Is it necessary to do these things in search ...
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Would this be considered keyword stuffing URL?
I have about 130 products on my site, and i want the URL to look like this,
site.com/unique-product-name-ratings-reviews-prices
Since I have 130 of these pages, I am concerned about the ...
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Is there an app that defines on which search result page a website is listed? [closed]
After searching in Google/Yahoo using my keywords, I'd like to know which page my website will show up on without having to look page by page. It is a new website, so it may be quite a way down still ...
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How to handle clients who want to add duplicate content to their sites
I have some clients who are requesting that I put pages on their websites that amount to duplicate content. One wants the exact same page on two of their websites. Another wants to put content from a ...
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How does Google know how much traffic a website gets?
They obviously know how much traffic they send to it. But how do they know of the rest of the traffic to it? Is it only if it has Google Analytics installed, or do they get their information in some ...
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If H1 tags are not used for page titles, what is the impact on SEO?
I'm wondering what kind of effect will be witnessed on SEO if, say, a div was used rather than an h1 tag for page titles. I imagine it would be very frustrating for screen readers and wouldn't give ...
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HTML structure and informations for image thumbnail - SEO [duplicate]
I wonder will the content which shows on focus for the images in this tutorial be indexed properly by search engines?
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Pull page content from master site in Wordpress
So I am working on some sites for a health practice, all in Wordpress. I have one parent hub site that contains all the information about all the treatments they offer on different pages. I also have ...
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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 deal with just a section of duplicate conent on multiple pages [duplicate]
I'm doing SEO for a cell phone buyback website.
On every individual product page, there's a section of text for entering in the condition of the cell phone, filling user information etc. The thing ...
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Why a word having high significance in content keywords does not get a high rank in Google?
When I check my website - meethiangeethi - in google webmaster tool, then keyword 'angeethi' is shown to be at the 3rd position in terms of significance. But when I search for angeethi at google, then ...
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Changing domain name vs URL redirect to improve URL building
I have a domain named companyname.com with PR3 and would like to improve the SEO by adding my main keyword in the domain name. I'm thinking about:
Buying the domain main-keyword-companyname.com and ...
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How does this website work? [closed]
Link
By the looks of it this website is just a feed of articles from other sites. How does it import the whole articles like this? and how is the site ranking at all with the lack on original ...
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JavaScript loaded external content SEO
I wonder what is the best way to have Javascript loaded content indexed by search engines. I know that search engines don't execute Javascript, but I am thinking more of an progressive enchantment.
I ...
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How to deal with a client who redesigned their own site badly?
I am a freelance designer/developer. I am starting a registered business and will be offering other services soon and I am in the process of expanding the portfolio section of my existing website but ...
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Should SaaS products have 'Product' rich snippet markup for Google?
I run a SaaS startup that charges a monthly fee for a service provided through the website - no physical delivery, and no specific place for reviews etc.
Does anyone know whether applying the rich ...
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Why do hackers inject hidden links?
I discovered a hacked site recently which has a div in it with a bunch of links to casinos at the top and the div is display:none;.
I understand that black hats may hack sites in order to gain ...
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Webmaster tools reports fake 404 errors
I have a website where Google Webmaster Tools reports 15,000 links as 404 errors. However, all links return a 200 when I visit them. The problem is, that eventhough I can visit these pages and return ...
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SEO for pages with time relevant content for this year when previous years pages are ranking
I'm publishing download information about Income Tax every year(during income tax filing period of April-Aug). Now the theory says that articles old by 2-3 years rank higher in Google's rankings than ...
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SEO and HTML semantics of putting H2 above H1 elements?
Here's a hypothetical from both an SEO and semantic HTML/content architecture perspective:
Consistent code
When building a multi-page site, adopting the following architecture on all pages is ...
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Website with same content but different tlds
We have two sites:
example.com
example.co.uk
Both point to the same IP and files.
Is it better SEO practice to direct the user's from example.co.uk to example.com?
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Internal Link building strategy [duplicate]
I am having a few concerns about the best possible link building strategy for a large webshop.
The category structure is something like this
www.site.com
www.site.com/whitegoods
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My site link dissappeared from search results after the link building started [duplicate]
I have a site named keralatourmate.com. While searching One of the important keyword "kerala honeymoon packages from bangalore", it dissappeared.
Actually it was on the 4th page till yesterday.We ...
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Google Rich Snippets: Automatically detected author name on webpage: Not Found
I am having trouble with Google Rich Snippets, on the verification authorship, I am getting this error.
Email verification has not established authorship for this webpage.
Email address on ...
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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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Recovery from accidental noindex of site
I've recently noticed that an entire site I manage had been set to noindex for about 3 weeks. This has caused the entire site to be completely dropped from Google's index (searching "site:" and then ...
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meta robots for logged in vs. not logged in users
On a site I'm working on, The homepage has generic content for visitors who aren't logged in. When a user is logged in, the content shown is personalized to them and could even be considered private.
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Does Google Analytics Content Drilldown Mix Pages With Directories in Results?
I didn't set up this GA account and therefore don't have my custom setup that breaks the numbers up better. I just want to verify I'm looking at this correctly. On the Content > Site Content > ...
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Content blocks on dedicated pages rather than listed on one page
I am doing a web site for a client. The descriptions for all his services are rather short and precise so I decided to put them all (about 10 of them) on one page and have a sticky menu in the sidebar ...
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Tell Google to ignore parts of website [duplicate]
For example - comments. I mean, REALLY ignore.
How can I do this?
The problem is that lots of people submit spammy comments, like:
Hi cool article, visit site.com
Then I get emails from the ...
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How does this simple site rank so high? [closed]
I just found this website. The site is PR 5 and ranks 1st for the term online calculator. I was curious how can a simple calculator rank so high so I checked the backlinks. Most of the backlinks seem ...
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two sitemaps - possible problems?
I am using a web shop software and for some reason the main page (http://www.mysite.com/) is not being listed / generated within the automatic sitemap.xml while every other page is.
My question now: ...
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SEO effects of intermix of WP blog, custom PHP site and FB app game
We're a melbourne tech company in the process of building a custom site in PHP.
We plan to launch a "pre-launch" page which is also custom coded (CSS3 on twitter bootstrap framework + HTML5 front end ...
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How should I include “outside” content mentioning/related to my site? [closed]
I have a web shop and I'm thinking about doing a "In the media" page where I would link to other sites/blogs that mention my shop/products and now I'm unsure if I should include a link as a short blog ...
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Do Search Engine Spider's submit POST forms?
If I have content behind a POST form (a select box, in my case) will Googlebot, or other Search Engine Spiders be able to crawl the content behind that form?
For example, if I were to have 4 ...
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Is xCommenter really good for SEO? [closed]
I have heard of xCommenter and wanted to know if its really good for improving the SEO?
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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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Same page on 2 different websites. Same SEO, but only 1 gets picked up by Google
I made a page for a website (website A) I'm responsible for. I made sure the SEO is correct. This one got to position 1 in Google very fast. On the second website (website B) I copied exactly the same ...
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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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Get rank for non english keyword in a english site [duplicate]
I'm trying to get to the first page of Google search for a keyword in swedish language but the site and it's content is in english.
What's my best option here to get to the first page? Will anchor ...
