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How to move a single page of content to a new domain
I am trying to figure out best-practise for moving a single page of content from one domain to another in a way that will preserve search engine ranking. I have found plenty of instructions for ...
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Wordpress - Too much information about SEO tags - archives - posts. Which is best?
Point 1: I have a front page which is dynamic because it gets all the latest posts that are rated. The question is: do I have to make these posts an excerpt, because that's better for SEO?
Point 2: I ...
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The effect in Google of the word “the” in a URL?
Keywords in your URL are extremely weighted, and I am aware of most bad practices, but the question as to whether the word "the" in a URL, as in www.thewebdesigner.com, is a bad idea or not is very ...
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nofollow links on jQuery interaction
Is it important to use rel="nofollow" on jQuery interaction links?
<a href="#" rel="nofollow">jQuery interaction link</a>
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Does Google penalize Wikipedia external links?
Wikipedia external links are all nofollow, so it seems they shouldn't have any effect, negative or positive.
But an article that I found online suggested that Google may penalize those external ...
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Why does Google's search results display my home page instead of my target page?
Our ecommerce site www.example.com ranks very high for the search term: "turtle food". The homepage shows up on the 1st page of Google's search results. I found this out by using Google Webmaster ...
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HTML5 vs HTML4 regarding Search Engine Optimization
We currently have great SEO utilizing HTML4 entities, we are considering utilizing an HTML5 document type but are concerned about the SEO implications.
We do not want to risk losing our SEO by ...
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No data in Google Webmaster Tools traffic, content keywords etc
My site has been live and added to Google Webmaster Tools for over a year now. It doesn't have a pile of incoming links, but there are a few I know of. The site receives an average of 200 ...
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The name of my startup returns many search engine results - will using it as a domain name cause problems with SEO?
I've come up with a good name for an online service startup that has the .com, .net and .org domain names available for it, and is also available on most social networks that we care about.
The bad ...
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How many days could google updates my pages titles and contents order [duplicate]
After Google's penguin 2.0 - I call it dracula - my website has lost about 30% or more of its traffic. The following screen shot from my Google's webmaster tools account should demonstrate the ...
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media rich website [closed]
I have a website which can contain text, image, videos... but I noticed that users mostly put pictures on it. So my question is since my website is dynamic so I can't customize the alt text and I do ...
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Which is good to target, singular or plural keyword?
Which keyword is better for targeting and on-page optimization, singular or plural? Like "baseball bat" or "baseball bats"?
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Google Penguin Update 4 [closed]
I am quite embarrassed after the new Penguin Update, 3 of website projects are losing rankings. I am following pure white hat SEO techniques but still this happened. What immediate steps I should take ...
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Pros and cons of language-specific URL's?
I've googled a bit if it's better to use language-specific URL's and most of the answers said yes. For example, for the about page it is better to use:
/en/about-us/
/de/uber-uns/
Than it is to ...
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29 views
Google Displaying “Read More” Rather Than the Page Title for a “site:” Search
I am having some trouble with Search Engine Optimization.
When I look up "site:example.com", the first result is the index page. The third result that pops up says the title is: "Read More". I ...
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does google hate capitalized words?
I've read around in the past that Google frowns on all caps like "THIS IS MY WEBSITE". But, I wanted to know if they also frown upon capitalized words in general, like in a case like where a name is ...
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How long does it take for URL Parameters changes to take effect on Google Webmaster Tools?
Google was showing up pages with affiliate ID parameter in the search results. After some research on how to disallow this, I came across URL parameters in Webmaster tools. I set the parameters for ...
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Using Ajax #! for Google but site is not being crawled any more
We used to have all links in a normal way (thus with parameters?), we changed to Ajax loading cause we installed a music player. Here's an example:
Old links: ...
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What is duplicate content and what does it affect negatively? [duplicate]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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2answers
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How does Google determine Information about a person for Google Search?
For some queries Google Search will return result with a person's information on a right. It looks a bit differently for different queries but most of the time something like this ...
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Display major links in Google [duplicate]
I am wondering how some websites get their sublinks too displayed on Google. For example when I enter "accenture" on Google apart from the main link (which is common) look at the links "Graduate ...
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1answer
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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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2answers
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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 ...
2
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1answer
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Multilingual website avoiding duplicate content and right referral in SERP
I have a site with UGC in many languages. The translation I'm doing is for the titles so for each page I have multiple copies, one per language. I want to make sure
Search engines don't see this as ...
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Good idea if I only have <header> and <footer> inside <article>?
Due to nature of my blog I don't need to display any content, I only need to display a title inside a <header> and some meta info inside <footer> both inside article. Above them there is ...
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Adding 'jump to' link to specific section in the page inside search result description
I've noticed Wikipedia has many direct links to specific sections in their pages in search results descriptions. For example when searching for 'stackoverflow history wikipedia' the first result that ...
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How to avoid duplicate content even when using 301 redirections?
I manage a website with tens of thousands of pages named /view.php?id=1234 and so on. Because we wanted it to be more SEO-friendly, a 301 Moved Permanently redirection of each one of them to ...
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SEO implications of having multiple languages available at same URL
I am in the process of translating a set of websites to multiple languages. Would there be any negative implications if I were to serve each different language from identical URLs?
I fully intend to ...
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1answer
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Google doesn't list the links to my website
It is more than a month that there are 24+ links listed on my Google Webmasters Tools account. However, when I use Google like this: link:m.a.sharpasand.com none of them appears. Also, my PageRank is ...
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Does Google's algorithm look at a websites nameserver?
This might seem like a strange question but does Google's ranking algorithm look at what nameserver a website uses. For example, if it uses an enterprise dns provider does it rank higher?
I appear to ...
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Is Google ok with multiple rel=“author” links? [duplicate]
I'm working on a site with multiple authors, and am trying to set up Google authorship via rel tags. Since it's a multi-author site, the links to the authors Google+ profiles will be on their profile ...
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How to insert homepage and current page in breadcrumbs? [closed]
I'm working on breadcrumbs for a client's website, and I'm asking myself if homepage has to be in its code.
I'm mostly concerned by SEO, not really for users navigation.
So, is it better to do :
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are keywords in URLs good SEO or needlessly redundant?
A coworker and I are locked in a debate over the value of SEO keywords in the URL of a page. She wants to change all the filenames of the HTML pages of a fencing company so they look like ...
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Google and SEO services [closed]
Are there any good and reasonably priced SEO services that work well?
Also can I pay Google to have my site at the top of searches? I was looking into Google Adsense and I am not sure if that is what ...
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2answers
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Does google take into account page load differences from caching?
Here's what I mean by that. If I use internal CSS, the page will load a bit quicker on the first time it is visited, but with external CSS a user can cache the document and load the rest of the site ...
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Site indexed in Google but not in Bing [duplicate]
I have a site, with an XML sitemap, that has tens of thousands of pages. Google's webmaster tools show that almost all fo the pages are indexed, but Bing's show that only about 300 pages are in the ...
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2answers
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Googlebot ignore my new site [duplicate]
I have the following situation: I had a blog (made using Joomla) that in some month was pretty indexed by Google.
For some technical problem I have delete it and I have newly created using WordPress ...
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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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Google - will they penalize you for random content ordering?
A client of mine wants to have their work ordered randomly on the website each time you load the page. My concern is that Google will see this as an effort to try and trick it into changing content ...
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How to add/change sitelinks on google search?
Hy everyone,
I'm new to the SEO and google search optimizing so this seemed to be a good place to ask my question so please be gentle.
So, I have created a new website to replace the old one.
The ...
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Facebook likes Influence SEO ranking
I have seen some data that shows strong correlation between number of Facebook shares and Google ranking position. It makes sense. But I am wondering how does Google know number of Facebook shares. ...
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Async load of secondary content; Google says “slow”, users see what they want faster
We have a performance problem on our site, and we're digging in to correct some rather basic issues -- we know we have many opportunities to improve performance -- this question is about one, in ...
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Google indexed URLs both w/ or w/o trailing slash
Okay, this is very weird, Google indexed my pages and some are duplicates (one w/ the trailing slash, and one without). Is this bad for SEO?
The URL's are like:
site.com/posts/indexed-post/
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