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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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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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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 ...
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“Included” search phrases in URLs/titles/H1s and SEO
When designing a new URL/folder structure for our website, we faced one interesting problem related to choosing best keywords from SEO perspective. We call it "included search phrases". It will be ...
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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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Unimportant words on page being seen as keywords, due to repetiveness
I have a list of products on my site, and each product has a number of descriptors such as features, price, etc. Next to each product, I list the 10 features, with a graphical icon which lets the user ...
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Why no one visiting my site despite high google ranking? [closed]
I'm new to SEO, though I've some experience as webmaster. I have a strange problem. Recently I optimized my site. My site usually appears in the top 10-20. The Google keywords tool suggests to a ...
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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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How is Google Tagmanager helping in SEO keyword rankings? [closed]
What is the Google Tagmanager and how is it useful in terms of SEO? I thought keywords get higher rankings?
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Find demographic of keywords
I am using google keyword tool to make some research about "penang Island". There is any way to find out how people uses those keywords when there is a search? Something like which is their country or ...
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Extremely similar SEO keywords
So I work for a company that recently decided to jump on the SEO bandwagon. We asked the different departments (each has its own site) what they wanted their keywords to be and I got a lot of examples ...
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How to find out what # you are for google keyword
I'm trying to find out if there's a way to form a Google query to quickly find out what position you are for a search term.
I know that Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics has something ...
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Swapping key phrases in URL, Title and H1 tag
I was wondering if swapping key phrases would still work in URL, Titlte and H1 tags
For example:
Car Sales Melbourne
Sales Car Melbourne
carsalesmelbourne.com.au
salescarmelbourne.com.au
So the ...
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Searching for acronym keywords in Google brings up full domain as first result
For years, I've had two domains (this is a ficticious example):
allbenchescatchdirt.com and abcd.com
They both do okay in terms of ranking for their keywords. However, I noticed something weird:
If ...
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The keyword “price” for adwords?
I have a keyword that I use in adwords. In my local language which is translated as "caliper prices", has "landing page quality: under average"
Landing page of this URL is a list of calipers and ...
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SEO pros and cons of choosing a long title for my website
I've got a company website which offers website design services. I've just started to improve search engine visibility of the website. I've chosen some keywords and the first thing I need to think ...
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will search engine bots penalize/index download links which is a link to just a file and not a page with certain other criterias?
The scenario is
My page is a music description page with proper title, description, keywords, h1 and a description as a paragraph
Url of this page is a meaningful long slug(not very long) separated ...
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Comparison of phrases containing the same word in Google Trends
If I compare three phrases in google trends :
house
sale house
white house
I get the following numbers:
house -> 91
sale house -> 3
white house -> 2
The question is: Is "sale house" and ...
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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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How this site is ranked so high in SERP's with no content?
In last few months whenever i search for computer wallpapers (using various keywords), somewhere between 1st and 5th position is always site http://hdw.eweb4.com
Everything on that site is scraped ...
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Should I optimize the keyword density of a page OR of a site?
For example, I have a website to sell shoes. There are many types of shoes and many brands, so I will have many pages.
In my main page, if I choose keyword "shoes" in my meta tag, it should be good ...
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Need help choosing between broad match and exact match keyword for organic SEO campaign
I am getting a mixed response on targeting broad match vs exact match keywords in Google keywords tool for organic seo campaign.
some say that its not possible to target a broad match keyword using
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How to lower SEO effectiveness for a keyword
I am working on a second personal website listing my job experience and skills. The first website included the name of my last employer in a few places and started competing for the ranking of the ...
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Keyword ranking tracker that works on a per-domain basis [closed]
I'm looking for a keyword racking tracker tool for google.
I have found a lot of them over the internet. However I need one that can track the ranks of a site on domain basis (not exact full URL). ...
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Will adding q&a help my site's rankings, and if so, what are the implications of a sub-domain for q&a rather than a path on the site? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Subdomain versus subdirectory
One of our web properties is doing quite well without any additional links being created on the site, and our link inventory is tightly ...
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Different data with same title and keywords
Here is my scenario: I have a website where I redirect my users based upon the device they are using. Let's say a user is visiting from an iPad: I take them directly to the page of iPad wallpapers. ...
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What is Keyword Stemming?
While reading an article I got a word called Keyword stemming. Can anyone please tell me what is it?
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Does google crawl css scripts to check of hidden content [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
hidden texts and page rank
Does googlebot crawl CSS scripts to determine if content is hidden or not? If so, is it advisable to hide or not to hide content to improve on ...
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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 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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How do I word my url so that it doesn't get blocked or appear spammy
I'm creating a fairly large site. Will my links appear spammy if I use the same word as in the pathfile in the url? For example:
www.example.com/apples/great-apple-recipes
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Are generic keywords in url bad for SEO? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Squeezing all the SEO out of a URL as possible
Need help with URL structure. Let's say I'm a manufacturer of Wire EDM machines. Is it bad for me to put the keywords ...
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Should I have seperate business and personal websites?
I have my business website - I am a web designer and developer, and also buy/sell websites/domain names.
As such my website links to 'Our sites' => the websites which we design and run as well as a ...
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Does the stop keywords matter? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to write content that uses keyword terms which are google stop words
I am using Wordpress SEO plugin by Yoast.
When I have a title like,
"How to get slim in 30 ...
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Could crosslinking using very general anchor texts be a reason for a drop in rankings?
I have crosslinked 20 sites and I thought I have been penalized for this, asked this question and some experienced members told me maybe that crosslinking may not necessarily be the reason.
The sites ...
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SEO: make the home page location specific or add a new page for location?
My homepage is coming up on the first page in Google search, main keyword is "balloon decorations".
We provide local service in several cities, but homepage does not mention the location, visitor has ...
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Is repeated keywords in alt attributes considered keyword stuffing?
For example, I have 100 images in one page, all of them with alt attributes in this format:
alt="foo pics", alt="bar pics", alt="foobar pics", etc
Will pics be considered as stuffing?
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Worth changing the URL structure to incorporate keywords?
I am migrating my blog from PHP to ASP.NET and while recoding the whole website, I figured I might as well improve the URL structure.
This is how an url looks like now:
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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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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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Importance of frequency of keywords for SEO [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
keyword stuffing in SEO
I've seen a few posts on here and elsewhere that talk about the amount of unique keywords used, or aimed, for in a text. But how important is the ...
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Keyword research tool [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are some great tools to use for keyword research?
in the past ive always choosen which keywords / phrases to go after by checking the traffic in the keyword tool, ...
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Does Google award less importance to each keyword on a domain if there are more keywords?
If there are several pages on a domain, and they are optimized for different keywords, will google award less importance to each of them than if there was only one prevailing keyword on the whole ...
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What to do if Google Adwords keyword tool suggests “no searches”
I believe I have a great idea, and want to test the market before I create a site for it. However, I'm having some difficulty with Google AdWords - I'm a total beginner with SEO/SEM.
When I plug in ...
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SEO: ABBR and My Full Phrase (MFP)
In my company websites, we often have the situation at the start of a page where we introduce a [usually technical] phrase, followed by the acronym that it is often know as:
My Special Widgets ...
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Which keywords to choose for SEO?
I have recently started a site. it's not even 5 months old. The site's major content is images. When naming the images, I am using google's adword tool. I am able to see keywords with most and least ...
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Is hiding content with JavaScript or “text-indent: -9999px” bad for SEO?
So apparently hiding content using "display: none" is bad for SEO and seen by googlebot as being deceptive. This according to a lot of the posts I read online and questions even on this site.
But ...
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Alt attributes for dynamically generated images
I have an image gallery for a commerce website which consists of several small thumbnail images and one large image. All of the images are photographs of the same product.
What would be the most ...
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adding slugs to the URLs afterwards
we have a website for last 5 months and we did not used slug at bottom level elements
so urls was like
/apps/webmasters/badges/1100
would it make sense to add name to the URL after that point and ...
