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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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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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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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Best links architecture for items under sections and categories? [duplicate]
Let's imagine a website with items organized by sections and categories, with those examples values:
Sections (articles, threads, events, directory)
http://www.domain.com/section-name/
Display all ...
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SEO impact of links for javascript functionality
For example, jQuery tabs uses a link as each tab, that opens the tabbed content. Or often times developers will use a link as the anchor text for a hover tooltip, even though it doesn't actually link ...
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H1 Tags and Anchor Text [duplicate]
I am building an image based website with no text space available on the Home Page. Can I turn the main Nav Menu links into H1 tags too? Will the site be punished by Search Engines from an SEO point ...
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Google pagerank calculation
I know this might be a stupid question, but I have recently heard, that google pagerank takes into account links from my sites to big pages, ie.: when I link to big sites, my site get more pagerank. ...
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How to make Google index files retrieved from database?
We use Joomla with Remository to store and manage publications (don't ask me why). Files (PDF) are stored in a database and can be accessed via dynamic, rewritten links of the form
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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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Guest Post Opportunities - To Post or Not to Post
I have a modest blog with a PageRank of 2 which I have been writing myself for the past couple of years. Recently I received a request that someone wanted to write a guest post on my blog ... with a ...
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Need advice on best strategy for removing these bad links
new to Stack Exchange so forgive me if im in the wrong place.
Heres the scenario...
We recently took on a new client who's previous seo company had partaken in some dodgy link building tactics.
They ...
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Workaround a huge number of image links on a page? [SEO]
I have a page that often contains large image galleries displayed with thumbnails linking to the actual images. They are then rerouted with JavaScript to open an overlay gallery instead, but I noticed ...
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What kind of redirect (301 or 302) for an email links tracker?
We are developing an email sending application ("à la" Mailchimp). Hyperlinks inserted by our users, in the emails they want to send, are replaced by a tracking URL on our application ...
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How can I avoid a classifieds site network as being labled as a link farm?
I have a local classifieds website. We started as one, and now we want to open it up to the surrounding communities. Here is how we currently have it structured. There are 3 domains:
classifieds1.com
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Detecting whether banner ads pass link juice
I wanted to determine the relative SEO value of the advertising links passed by this website: http://www.garden.org/
On the right side you'll notice several advertising banners that, when clicked, ...
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Is this a link scheme? If so, what to do? what problems can i face?
I was asked to remodel a website, and decided to check its rank on alexa. Surprisingly, there are many, many different websites linking to it, none relevant.
One particular thing about it is that ...
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Multiple links on a webpage pointing to the same URL
Does having multiple links on a webpage pointing to same internal URL impact your PR negatively? Would it look spammy or will the repeated links just be ignored?
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How important are SEO Friendly URLs [duplicate]
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Is a URL with a query string better or worse for SEO then one without one?
Currently, my URLs look something like http://mydomain.ext/question/5 where question is the ...
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Is having a 'home' navigation item on the home page negative to your sites SEO? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Do search engines penalise ‘Home’ links and/or buttons?
My work colleague has recently had conversations with some SEO consultants and after those conversations she has ...
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Do own brand organic searches improve your overall SEO?
I noticed something interesting at https://www.wisepricer.com/partner.php
Every outgoing link is actually a Google Search, rather than a link to the partner's domain.
So it got me wondering, can ...
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Dealing with blackhat SEO companies and low quality link building competitors [closed]
I have often faced a case where the competitors of my client use SEO blackhat tactics where they contact a SEO company to do link building for their websites and products.
Here is an example of a ...
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Link form correct, or, punishable by search engines?
I have the following dilemma with the links of a WordPress blog that I work with, I don't know if the way it creates the link to the images is ok or not so good.
For example:
Article URL: ...
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SEO for maps-based websites that require user interaction
I have a website that basically shows a lot of locations worldwide on a Google Maps like interface. The map itself is built using the Leaflet library and Open Street Map tiles.
In the map, I show ...
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Linking competitor with the same keyword i am targeting : Good or Bad for Seo?
I am linking one of my competitors from my site for the same keyword which is I am targeting for my site (My competitor is paying me for that).
For Example:
Me and my competitor both are targeting ...
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Will we be penalized for having multiple external links to the same site?
There seem to be conflicting answers on this question. The most relevant ones seem to be at least a year or two old, so I thought it would be worth re-asking this question.
My gut says it's ok, ...
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Do twitter links adversely affect SEO?
I had planned on making a page according to a specific theme using content populated from the Twitter search API.
With the new display requirements, I see I am obliged to include hash links, twitter ...
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SEO: Make hashtag links look static
So I have a website which displays all my content vertically. (like modern websites often do these days). Thus I can't create static links to each section. I'm currently handling the scrolling with ...
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Depth of URLs and SEO [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL?
Does the depth of an URL affect SEO/Pagerank? Is there any max or optimal level for URL depth?
If you have, lets say, a ...
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how search engines see reciprical links
reciprical links cancel each other out from a search engines point of view but what counts as a recpirical link ..
Do reciprical links work on a site level or an individual page level ?
If you where ...
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How does missing links influence the Google ranking?
I changed a lot on my website and I want to know if this affects the Google ranking negatively.
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Do image backlinks count as backlinks?
If i have lots of images appearing tumblr blogs, the sort of tumblogs with very little text just reams and reams of images for people to browse through (example - http://whereisthecool.com/). If my ...
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Linking to site from same server SEO impact
I've heard that linking to a site from the same server is bad for SEO. If the link is set to rel no-follow, would that be OK?
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Do URL shorteners such as bit.ly affect SEO [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
SEO and URL Shortners
I am wanting to do tracking on links which I provide on my blog and was looking at something like bit.ly to do this, but I was wondering if this ...
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Are there benefits of receiving external links from PR 0 or 1 sites for SEO? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Effect of adding link from PR1 site to PR0 site?
I'm thinking to do some link exchanges with PR0 or PR1 sites which have the related contents as my site. And my link ...
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Worth shortening all your long slugs?
If you have a lot of posts with long slugs, for ex, 40-places-to-eat-snickers-bars-when-hungry, is it worth converting them to something shorter? For ex: places-to-eat-snickers-bars. I've read a few ...
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SEO effects of linking to subdomain
I have http://hollywoodnose.com as a main site. Then I have http://forum.hollywoodnose.com as the subdomain.
I'm cautious to link to the subdomain from the main site. I did this before and droped ...
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Disable outbound links without letting others know that
Is there a way I can tell google not to follow external links ( pointing to other sites) without letting other know.
I know you can disable outbound links by putting rel=nofollow or something in ...
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Tips for managing internal and external links using WordPress [closed]
So I'm looking for ways to optimize my site for user and search engine purposes. I've read several articles and looked at several different plugins. To say the least, I'm thoroughly confused as what ...
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lot of internal links to one not relevant internal page may distort google's opinion of site content?
if I have a lot of pages talking about cars, and nearly any of them point to
/gray-cars.htm or /city-cars.htm
because they are the most sold ones... do you think that
/red-cars.htm and ...
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duplicate links to subdomain hurting SEO
I have a main site, http://hollywoodnose.com and http://forum.hollywoodnose.com. What I was doing was showing the 8 most recent forum posts in the right column of http://hollywoodnose.com. In my ...
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What to do with repeated content (anchor text) in internal search results when it comes to SEO?
On a website that delivers internal search results for products, within the results listing we have a repeating link to "add to favourites" (not browser-bookmarks, but user profile related) in every ...
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Building links towards Category Pages?
I am current building some links and I want to get the best results out of it. I have had links towards my homepage, as well as detail page but not many are towards my category page. I assume having ...
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SEO Is it Good or Bad to add Company Name to Title Attribute? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is the title attribute (not tag) important to SEO?
So while I'm filling out title / alt attributes I noticed I was just automatically adding my company name to almost ...
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Will internal tracking links (redirecting to outbound URLs) hurt my Google rankings?
On my site I have multiple internal tracking links (eg. /track/link/12) which direct the user to an internal tracking script which subsequently redirects the user to some outbound URL. Common ...
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Is there an alternate resource similar to Mozscape by SEOmoz?
I was wondering if there is an alternate (free or paid) resource similar to SEOmoz's Linkscape (now Mozscape) where the entire web is indexed and a website's entire link profile is scraped and ...
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SEO Value in redirected link?
Our local Chamber of Commerce has an incoming link to us, but they are using an internal ASP page to process the link and using a 302 redirect to send that page to our site. So our anchor text on ...
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Creating a subdomain (sub.domain.com) for special posts on a blog: Good idea?
I have created a few plugins and themes that I want to have special pages for. Now I do not want to make a complete new website or page for all the different plugins.
Instead I want to have normal ...
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Link Building is Still a factor for getting rank in google?
Is Link Building still a major factor for good ranking in SERP’s?
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Linking to Wikipedia. What’s the impact on SEO?
I have a content generated site and I am planning to write a tool that data mines the content and links it to relevant articles on Wikipedia
I wanted to understand the SEO cost of doing this link. ...
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Is 'link building' a white-hat SEO activity?
Link-building is the process of manually building links in any way possible to show the site in question as having more of a value to search engines than it did previously. Therefore it's surely a ...
