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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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Best choice of domain name? (SEO)
This question is specifically about domain name choice.
My client wants to maximize his site SEO, and he has two domain names, one of which he has for two years and is in the second page of Google ...
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Removing “www.” from domain name and SEO
We are doing a big redesign work on our website, and at least 50% of the website folders will be moved to new places with different names (i.e. many URL will be changed). Sure, Google will need some ...
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5answers
138 views
Registering multiple domains vs. subdomains
We are currently planning on registering multiple domains for different parts of the website we own. For example consider that we have example.com as the main domain and have assigned all the ...
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360 views
Is it a bad idea to use a domain hack for my personal website name?
I want to create a personal webpage for info about myself (potentially for employment or other contact purposes), but the .com extension for my intended name is already taken. The name I want ends in ...
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2answers
110 views
With www or without www? Which is better to use [duplicate]
I have just bought a new domain www.reversehacking.com ....
Which is better for SEO: http://reversehacking.com or http://www.reversehacking.com
I think people will make more links starting with ...
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2answers
88 views
The SEO Impact of Migrating from Free Hosting on WordPress.com to Own Hosting
I have a blog (which serves as a commercial site) hosted on free wordpress.com
Since I now want to customise and get ownership of the whole thing I am thinking of either self hosting or upgrading ...
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3answers
276 views
Should I redirect the site IP address to the domain name
I have been told by an SEO company to redirect the site IP to the domain using a 301 redirect. This will apparently improve the SEO ranking of the site. The site has a dedicated IP address.
Is this ...
4
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1answer
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Can merging 4 sites into 1 help?
The company I work for has 4 websites. There is a related theme to them (all IT services or web design / development). All have unique content.
I am hearing more and more that these need to be ...
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4answers
104 views
Which domain name structure, if any, is better for SEO? [closed]
I'm purchasing a domain for a new blog, and wonder which structure is better for domain name. I have these two options (domain changed to ensure it doesn't get swiped away from me!):
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2
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1answer
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If I use my custom domain with my Blogger account will this help in SEO of that blog?
Also I want to know that if my custom domain is nothing but one of the keywords and my blog is also about that keyword, so will this help in improving google ranks of my blog after I change from ...
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3answers
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One domain and multiple website in folders
I am going to create a network with one domain, e.g. example.com then going to manage my websites in folders. Look below for example:
www.example.com/market
www.example.com/freebies
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Subdomain 000Webhost
I'm currently learning to create a blog using wordpress.org. My site is hosted free on 000webhost. I have trouble creating a Subdomain for my website. This is what I have done so far. Somebody please ...
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1answer
114 views
Will history of a domain affect rankings for new site?
Bought the domain and initially parked the domain. Google did not rank the domain because it was parked, it has however began to index in the last day or so. My question is will the fact that the site ...
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1answer
81 views
which domain name is better and why? [closed]
I am developing a website which has many poems. The users can read and share poems. Which of the following domain names would be better for seo and why?
sharebestpoems .com
poemsilike .com
ilovepoems ...
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Taking advantage of a portfolio of quality domain names [closed]
I own about 20 quality domain names (brandable/memorable, letters only .com) that include keywords relating to my web site. Most of them were purchased during the process of selecting a brand.
What ...
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1answer
124 views
Domain name made of keywords redirecting to main website's page
Let's say I have a website called books.com where I sell books. I've read on Redirecting different domains to your main site that it's not a bad idea to register another domain that does a 301 ...
2
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1answer
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301 re-direct all external links to new domain
I have changed the main domain to a sub-domain & would like to re-direct all external links to the new sub domain. Have read a few articles but having no luck editing the .htaccess as it might be ...
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2answers
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Dedicated domain name VS just folders under a single domain
I run WordPress-Multisite for several sites. Each of these sites resolve under a single domain, e.g. example.com/foo/, example.com/bar/. I also have domain names for these e.g. foo.com, bar.com which ...
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Is it fine to put different category of stuff in a single domain name?
I own a website which is regarding startups and finance. I am looking forward to work on Wordpress programming in which I would be selling wordpress themes. I thought of buying a domain name for ...
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3answers
186 views
SEO impact on subdomain for full name and obscure ccTLD
There have been a few questions on subdomains and their impact on SEO, mostly in comparison to subfolders. The closest I've found is this question but it still doesn't completely answer my query.
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Transition to new site
I'm almost finished rewriting the website for a non-profit organization. The existing site receives ~5,000 a month. The new site is being written in ASP.Net and the existing site is PHP. The current ...
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1answer
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Curious about a cached old domain
I am a bit curious about my new domain. I had a domain before, let's say http://example.com/. Before expiration of that domain, I bought a new one with the name http://another-domain.com/. I uploaded ...
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1answer
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Best Strategy for Exact Match Domain (EMD) Along Side Branded Domain
I lucked out and managed to buy a two word .com EMD for the most important key-phrase for our b2b SaaS startup.
Shutting down our branded domain isn't an option, we've already got too much invested ...
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2answers
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SEO and domain name - which shape? [closed]
I just want to register the domain name for my spanish class and wonder, what domain name is beter for this purpose:
learningspanish.com
or
ilearnspanish.com
Which one is better? The domain name ...
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2answers
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Am I harming myself by having two domains pointing at the same thing? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
SEO and multiple domains to same site
I have a domain I recently purchased. I went ahead and pointed it at my website(via DNS) and by default, my server now serves my ...
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2answers
173 views
SEO non-English domain name advice
I'm starting a website, that is meant for a non-English region, using an alphabet that is a bit different than that of English. Current plan is as follows. The website name, and the domain name, will ...
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1answer
344 views
Does google contribute ranking from cdn.example.com to example.com?
Background
From my understanding, http://mywebsite.com/image.jpg, can help the ranking of http://mywebsite.com in a search engine, such as Google (obviously the search engine of primary concern).
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4answers
270 views
E-commerce + CMS: 2 sites or one?
Ok, let's say that a customer already has a CMS managed web site but now wants to sell goods online using an E-commerce platform (Magento in this case).
My question is, does it make any difference ...
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2answers
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Pointing .com and .ca domain names [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites?
I have a .com and .ca domain extensions for my business.
I have heard that it's better to have .ca for SEO as my business ...
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5answers
169 views
Is it good to buy multiple domains for competitive reasons?
I am attempting to convince the higher ups at my company that spending $55 to renew one domain for a year is bad when they end up having 3-4 domains names for one website.
They're reasoning for ...
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2answers
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When will my old page stop appearing on Google? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Old pages still appearing in Google?
I recently bought a new address for my Blogger blog, from yannbane.blogspot.com to www.yannbane.com. However, www.yannbane.com ...
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Changing my domain name - need a checklist
I have a web site currently with say 'a.com', with a quite good Google rankings and a hit rate. Now due to some change in business needs I need to change my domain name to 'b.com'.
Can you provide ...
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Subdomains vs. subdirectory – status as of 2012.
This following question by Jeff was in 2010 and I wanted to check how things have changed in the past 2 years.
My problem:
I run a site with most of the content distributed to subdomains that’s are ...
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589 views
Advantages of country TLD vs. .com
I want to get a domain for my site. The site's topic would be about Vienna, but the content will be in English.
I was thinking, if I should get .com domain or .at domain. .at is both much cheaper ...
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Difficulty selecting an SEO/UX-friendly domain name (personal blog) [closed]
I'm having a bit of a debacle surrounding selecting a domain name for a personal blog/web portal. From a UX/SEO standpoint: "how should I structure my domain name?"
For the past 2-3 hours I've been ...
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2answers
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Challenging nameserver problem
I really appreciate you reading this. I have spent close to 6 months putting my soul into creating my first ruby on rails app, and now my site is all buggered up SEO-wise and I'm really bummed. I'm ...
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2answers
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What is best for SEO: 2 domain names or 2 sites under same domain?
I have a site www.product.com and another site www.productblogg.com. The content is different on the 2 sites but they "talk" about the same product. and... the www.productblogg.com use a ...
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1answer
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What is better with 3 languages: domain-lang.org x 3, domain.org/lang or lang.domain.org? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization?
I have three domains for similar content in three languages. One in each.
I have now been told that the ...
0
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1answer
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Which is better: Inbound links to a single site or spread over multiple sites?
If I have 1000 external links with 50 distinct keywords, is it better to direct them all at one site or 10 different sites? The numbers are just examples.
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3answers
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Having either www.domainname.com or domainname.com is really required? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
www and non www can suffer duplicated content
When I go for any website review the first point I get from the reviewers is both of my www and non www domains should ...
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1answer
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Using both .co.uk and .com domain
We presently have a .co.uk domain that has been live now for around 9-10 months, recently the .com version of this domain has become available and we've purchased based on reading that suggests you ...
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2answers
118 views
SEO and Spelling mistakes in keyword [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Will replacing 'to' with 2 or 'for' with 4 improve my site's PageRank
I am about to register a domain name (suppose) someone.com (with proper ...
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3answers
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How does the Keyword Order in the domain name effects SEO?
From the Google keyword research tool, I see "chuck norris jokes" has global 246,000 searches. And again searching "jokes chuck norris" has the same search result.
But as see, order of keyword in ...
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1answer
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SEO and multiple domains to same site
I have one website.
I have two domain names that I want to point to the same site install.
So whether you go to name-one.com or name-two.com you see the exact same site.
Now, I can either set up ...
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1answer
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Is a good technique to buy abandoned domains to get link juice? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this?
Yesterday I was discussing with a friend an idea he had. To promote your site about, for example, ...
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2answers
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Google results show .info domain instead of .com
I am on shared hosting currently and i registered this account with a .info domain as the main domain.... say MyDomain.info . However, the site runs from MyDomain.com .
This is a cpanel based ...
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5answers
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What's the difference between an addon domain and redirecting any domain to any subdomain?
Most of the server space vendors have two type of product:
They say this much space inside that you can park/add NUMBER OF domain
Here also that much space inside that you can only park/add ONE ...
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1answer
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SEO: Linking to a domain that redirects to a subdomain
I have: www.mywebsite.com which redirects to en.mywebsite.com, es.mywebsite.com, fr.mywebsite.com depending on the user language, so there's not an indexed website in www.mywebsite.com
However, when ...
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2answers
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Seo and domain change
I had my website on mydomain.com for a few years and was number 1 on Google for my market. Due to a bad registrar and my own lazynes i lost my .com a year ago and it has taken me nearly a year to get ...
