SEO is typically broken up into two categories: Black Hat and White Hat. Black Hat typically refers to techniques and methods that intentionally violate the search engine's terms of service for the explicit purpose of manipulating the search rankings. White Hat refers to techniques and methods ...
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Best SEO URL name for two word searches [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name?
QUESTION: What would work better for a two word search string as "green shoes"?
Acquiring the domain greenshoes.com OR ...
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Redirecting URLs when launching a new website - how to avoid dropping page rank
i have over 100 urls in my website which i need to redirect:
E.g.
/page/how-to-bake-chocolate-cookies/ will redirect to /cookies/how-to-bake-chocolate-cookies/
/page/contact/ will redirect to ...
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Is using H2s instead of H1s a big deal?
Basically, the way the development of a site I am working on has happened, virtually all pages use H2 instead of H1 as the "root" title (and then H3-5 are used appropriately).
Since Google pays such ...
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Impact on SEO of adding categories/tags in front of the HTML title [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Does the order of keywords matter in a page title?
All StackExchange sites add the most-used tag of a question in front of the HTML title for SEO purposes. On ...
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Robots are still disallowed even without a robots.txt file
I'm having trouble with a website I'm working on. I initially set up a robots.txt file to prevent robots from indexing it while I was working on it. However now its live and the robots.txt rile has ...
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Looking for new placement on poor performing ads [closed]
I don't know if this is an acceptable question in this forum. But, I'm seeking advice on better ad placement for a site.
I have a site that's averaging 2000 unique visitors a day right now. It's ...
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Is minifying id and class names a bad SEO practice?
I am a big fan of minifying everything whenever possible. It is a sin for me to don't do this.
However, I recently read that one of the thousands tips to boost your website rank on search engines was ...
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Can I be penalized for using breadcrumbs and subcategories for similar content?
I am building a new navigation system via breadcrumbs based on categories and sub-categories.
Example 1:
Having url like this:
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Duplicate domain names with hyphens being the only difference
I have a website which is not being picked up by Google. The only thing I can see is that the domain is exactly the same as another domain, but the words are split by hyphens.
The sites are:
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need help with making seo friendly links
I'm looking into seo-ing my urls and i was wording which of these link structures was better to use:
1) www.mydomain.com/contact-john-smith/index.html
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2) ...
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Part of content is not indexed [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Preventing robots from crawling specific part of a page
I am just wondering if there is any option to make just part of the page not indexed by search engine.
Let's say ...
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How do I block US users from my website without interfering with SEO?
My website uses Apache 2.2.14 (which forwards all requests to Tomcat underneath).
I need to block all US users from accessing the website (and potentially users from other countries). But importantly ...
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Decision to change domains to one that's almost the same - effect on Results?
I have a decision to make about whether to use a new domain for a business site that has been completely redesigned. The reason a new domain is needed is that the current one contains a small grammar ...
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Add-on domain for better SEO [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this?
So here's the thing. Suppose I have my domain called BUSINESS.COM that sells shoes. Now, I want ...
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Implications of syndicating content to a company blog from a personal blog
Myself and several co-workers are authors on our company's blog, and we each also have our own personal website blogs. In an effort to promote our company blog, we are considering syndicating the ...
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How to track click sources in a Google-compatible way?
On my website, I track when users click on a search result that brings them to a details page for an item. I then save what search query they used before they clicked.
My current solution is this:
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domain extension is matter for seo [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Does server location or TLD affects SEO
I would like to buy domain for my blog, while registering the blog i saw the price variations between domain extensions.
Is ...
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What major SEO steps have I forgotten? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?
I'm a Java developer-turned-impromptu-web-developer trying to help my father get his woodworking ...
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How can I place keywords at the begining of a title and have it look natural?
As per the question Does the order of keywords matter in a page title?, the first word in the title tag is usually treated with more importance than the rest of the title tag. How can I write ...
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SEO traffic redirect bomb?
Okay, so let's pretend i have a site about "Dogs". My main business, however, is insurance. For some lucky reason, I appear on top for "insurance". Then one day, company B appears and they beat me on ...
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Are multiple results from a website search considered duplicate content?
The website is a Magento store , but I believe this applies to any product search.
We have a search form which takes several parameters. Each combination of parameters
results in a different set ...
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Best and safest SEO way to hide h1 tags
I want to use images that I created in PS for page titles. Because they will be images they will not be picked up by Google, etc. What is the best practice for hiding the <h1>? I was planning on ...
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How do I add a wordpress.com blog to Bing?
I am running a Wordpress blog. It shows up for Google search on my name, but it’s not indexed at all by Bing. Can I add it somehow to Bing? I added it to Bing Webmaster tools, but it doeas not see a ...
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Is it legal to have many websites of the same company?
I know companies who have 3 websites with different name and URL. All these 3 websites are ranked in the first and 2nd page of google search results, and they don't let other companies share the first ...
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Are subdomains (for mobile-specific pages or localization) bad for SEO?
You have a website: http://www.mysite.com
You want to serve up mobile-optimized pages for mobile devices. I've seen a lot of companies redirect mobile devices to this type of subdomain:
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Are there any good reasons to HTML5 for SEO at the moment? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the SEO rules for HTML 5?
Do crawlers ignore HTML5 tags (like <article>, <section>, <video>, <nav>, and so on...) when indexing the ...
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Will replacing 'to' with 2 or 'for' with four improve my site's PageRank
Is it true that replacing words such as "to" and "for" with numbers (2 and 4 respectively) help increase my website's PageRank.
Is it a useful SEO technique and if so why does it work?
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Index a 301 Redirect to help a user locate a page
On a site I'm currently working on, there is a 301 Redirect to redirect a nice short URL for users to type in when trying to find a particular piece of content - e.g. www.mydomain.com/apply -> ...
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Google and random redirects
I have a site where homepage "example.com" redirects to random joke(example.com/random-joke). First I redirected with php, but then google indexed that joke page(rather to be empty). I used "302 ...
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multiple urls serving same content - how to handle better?
Urls go like
domain/approved/education/kids/female
but I also have filter page in place that lets you do this
domain/approved/education-entertainment-business/kids/female and so on
which means ...
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Will dofollow backlinks in a syndicated article improve backlinked pages' rankings?
Do dofollow backlinks from duplicate articles across different sites improve site rankings?
I guess Google etc may like to discount completely the duplicate articles and backlinks in it.
Shouldn't ...
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Page Speed Online vs Chrome Extension
In optimizing a content blog of mine with the goal of achieving the highest page speed score possible for obvious reasons (user experience, SEO, etc..), the results I'm obtaining are throwing me for a ...
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Will repositioning my code get my site penalised by google?
We have a website that has nice rankings in the Google SERPs for
keywords which aren't in the meta description. As a result, Google
assembles a text to display on the SERPs from the website ...
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What should I do to notify Google of a switch from “.php” to extension-free URL's?
I've implemented a simple mod-rewrite rule that internally rewrites urls without a file extension (that are not directories) to .php files and removed the .php extension from all our internal links. ...
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Nofollow on links to Google pages
I have a site that includes a fair amount of location (street address) data, and I generate a lot of links to Google Maps using that data. What's the usual practice for nofollow in this situation? ...
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Page Titles - Including gender of a fashion product in page titles?
I need a bit of help to decide whether it is worth including gender in page titles.
In the webmaster tools: I looked at our search queries that include "women", and they account for 9% of our total ...
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Should URLs categorize pages?
Say an online marketplace has catalogs of products. If there's a catalog called "Transformers" which contains a product named "Megatron", which set of URLs are ideal?
1) No categorization:
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SEO Link Building [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do i build backlinks?
Can someone give me tips on SEO Link Building? Pls help me..
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Is it possible to dynamically display a page according to long tail google search?
Let assume someone types a longtail keyword, how do you dynamically generate a page with those keywords?
for example,
summer light pink florescent lights should generate a page with that keyword ...
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Is the implementation of a temporary “blackout” like Wikipedia's considered black/white/grey hat SEO?
Currently, Wikipedia is participating in a blackout and going to any content on their site produces a result like this (cropped slightly to dissociate the example from the message behind the example):
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How do I make SEO friendly URLs from my PHP pages?
I'm pretty new to this and was wondering how to turn my site URLs into SEO friendly URLs using .htaccess and mod_rewrite?
My URLs take the form mydomain.com/index.php?pid=1&pagename=Some Page
I ...
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Best Practise for Micro-Sites that Google will not consider to be doorways
On behalf of my client, I have purchased a few really good URLs, to assist with their SEO.
I want to understand whether my proposed use of these domains, as micro-sites to encouraged visitors to ...
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Best practice for URL direction in a multi TLD site
I'm about to re-launch a uk based community interest company website which has the same link structure for each of 10 different top level domains.
There are presently no international websites, but ...
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SEO actions on a new domain that has only a launch page, for better future results?
I have bought a domain name for a website I will create in the next few months. I am really concern about the SEO for this new page.
So, the launch page has a very good SEO score but my question is, ...
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Will delay loading images hurt SEO?
Related - SEO for naming images
In an effort to increase the perceived speed of a heavy homepage, I'm loading a number of the heavier images via javascript on document.ready. I'm using a blank gif ...
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Why are my link pages not being indexed?
I tried something but it didn't work. Iwill try to explain what I tried to do and probably someone could suggest what can be done.
I have a few websites, about 75, all in the same niche (travel).
I ...
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404 Page - Is it better to have a static 404 page or a redirect to your home page for 404 errors? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
SEO: ecommerce item deleted by user, 301 rediret to HOME PAGE or 404 not found?
404 Page - Is it better to have a 404 page or a redirect to home page for 404 errors?
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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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Do invisible headings that aid accessibility harm SEO?
On most websites, I use headings on a page (typically H2) for distinct sections – not only within the main content, but also for sections such as "Section navigation", "Page tools", "Footer". (Usually ...
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Slugs: are human-friendly or SEO-friendly URLs better?
Well, I have a co-worker (actually my superior) who often sets his articles' slugs to expected / relevant search terms such as:
keywordA-keywordB-keywordC-keywordD-keywordE
I usually make mine ...
