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WordPress taxonomy query SEO [closed]
I'm not sure if this fits here or with the WordPress StackExchange network.
I've created a plugin that generates a custom post type (CPT) and taxonomy. My plugin essentially filters the custom post ...
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Ranking websites in Bing & Yahoo search engines [duplicate]
I'm finding it extremely difficult to rank websites on Bing and Yahoo. When a website ranks well on Google, why is it finding difficulties on Yahoo and Bing? Although the algorithms are different, 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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Does domain suffix affect SEO? [duplicate]
my first question here! I have a question regarding URL suffixes. Say I have a company, let's call it example-it. If I then purchase the domain www.example.it, thus incorporating the company name into ...
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Dynamic Meta Keywords
Is it a problem to change the meta keywords dynamically depending on the content of the page / website?
for example if it is a news website and this weeks top articles are about elephants in japan I ...
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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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Check old urls for backlinks - same domain new design and urls
I have a client who recently did a re-design on his website. The designer did not put any effort in keeping the same url or do any redirect. Ive made a list of the old urls, what I want to do now is ...
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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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What does “all” mean in meta robots tag?
Several websites have the following meta tag aimed at search engines like Google, Bing, etc.:
<meta name="robots" content="all" />
What does it do?
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SEO for image galleries [closed]
I was wondering about what good methods to get more visitors on an image gallery site would be good.
Currently my image gallery only has pictures, tags and those tags in the title.
But is that ...
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SEO for Main Navigations
My question is simple... To what extent does your primary navigation [and secondary navigations] have on SEO for your website?
My particular case is this: I have "two" primary navigations. One ...
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Is it good to index category in search engines? [duplicate]
I have a Wordpress blog.
Is it good to index category in search engines? Will it cause duplicate content issue?
I'm little scared about Panda Google algorithm.
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SEO - Big revamp of my URL structure - please suggestions [duplicate]
I have a big network of sites in many countries. There are over 30-40 Million indexed pages in 34 countries, what will be re-indexed hopefully and will be redirected with 301 to the new URL structure, ...
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How to point search engines to another subpage
I have a webpage concerning a subject, let's say buttons to keep it simple. It is the foremost web page on this topic for my language and region: searching for 'button' in my language will always ...
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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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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 ...
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Tables and SEO - The big conspiracies [duplicate]
Now, I've heard many (if not too many) conspiracies/myths about tables and SEO. Now, I'm in a state of confusion, and I have no idea what to do. Below, I will write two SEO and table myths that I need ...
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SEO duplicate content
I have a blog about a game. Lets say that the game releases some news and gives it to Blog A and Blog B.
Now my blog (Blog A) will copy that news and paste it in an article.
Somebody else's blog ...
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SEO trailing slash on plain URL [duplicate]
What would be better for SEO?:
http://test.com
http://test.com/
Should I keep or remove the trailing slash while linking to the homepage of my site?
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IP geolocation and permanent redirects for search engines
when someone connects to my homepage I geolocate using their IP and redirect to the site with the right language (for example someone from Italy connects to example.com and I redirect them to ...
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Hide <noscript> contents from google and other search engines
I've got some content wrapped into <noscript> tag which I don't want google and any other search engines to see, is there a way to hide it?
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Competitor Web Keywords
I am working on my SEO and have looked over my own keyword traffic through Google Analytics, but is there a way to see the traffic competitors get from a particular keyword?
For example, if I get 200 ...
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Is it possible to use only one SEO tool that finishes your job completely [closed]
Is there anyone that uses only one SEO tool that finishes every thing he works on. What is that tool, is that a perfect SEO tool. Could that be even closely true.
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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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Google Indexing Pages with noindex meta tag
I got a message in Google Webmaster Tools about "Googlebot found an extremely high number of URLs on your site" with a long list of example URLs.
For some of the pages listed, there was nothing to ...
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Do other search engines support Google's “hash bang” syntax for crawling AJAX applications?
Google has a really nice document explaining how web developers can get Google to crawl non-AJAX versions of their web applications to make it possible for Google to index AJAX-heavy websites.
Do ...
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90% sudden drop in search engine ranking with no changes made
This is a recurring topic, but I am very very panicking right now...
I noticed a 90% "impressions" drop (from 60k to 5k) from 2013-03-05 to 2013-03-06.
My keywords dropped, and for a few of them I ...
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What is the effect of Dynamic URL's on SEO
I have around 150 dynamic URL's as below
http://mydomain.com/training/register.php?key=01ue3be299a-6bc1-1030-a2db-e4115bd593d8
...
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Just overhauled our entire site. How do I keep Google, Bing and Yahoo from demoting us?
We just overhauled our entire site. The new site structure doesn't resemble the old one in the slightest. What do I need to do with Google, Bing and Yahoo to keep our ranking from sliding?
We have ...
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How are these pre-built search results page made, and are those considered black hat SEO? [closed]
I'm sure you've spotted search results in google that aren't really pages with content, but pre-built search result pages within the site itself. A few examples:
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Bing doesn't index my website correcty
I have a website with robots and sitemap which is working on Google.
I created a bing webmasters and sent the sitemap some weeks ago, but whenever I search site:www.mysite.com I get only the root ...
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How can I prevent Google from mixing different languages in my sitelinks?
I have a web site in two different languages (English and Spanish). It is indexed by Google but, when searched, sitelinks below my result appear mixed with Spanish and English subtitles.
Each ...
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Impact of dropping www from main URL on SEO
A client's website is currently at www.domain.com, with domain.com redirected there automatically. I've suggested that they reverse the redirection to drop the "www", so I can set up a subdomain that ...
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Search Rankings and new website [duplicate]
I want to switch from HTML to Wordpress. How will completely new pages and site structure affect my Google ranking?
[I'm not sure what other clarifications or details to give - please tell me if ...
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Buying a top level domain specific to my industry, will it improve my seo ratings?
Currently we run a few websites selling products in the travel industry using .com and .co.uk extensions.
Would our search rating improve if we were to buy one of the .travel domains ? So we would ...
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What is the most effective way to obtain SEO benefits from content while still protecting most of it behind a paywall?
I'd like for search engines to recognize the content that is hosted on my website, but I'd also like to protect most of it behind a paywall. Are there any proven strategies for doing this?
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Is there a good way to include plain text versions of embedded documents for search engines to find?
I'm developing a site that's entire function is defined by the documents it provides. The documents are provided to the user both through embedding in the page (using the Google Drive Viewer) as well ...
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What is more preferable, Creating dedicated domains for mobile apps that shares different content or associate them with folders in one domain?
I want to consult you in an SEO matter which i am completely lost with,
I've built a social mobile application that allows users to share text content and made all the content that appears on the ...
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SEO Removal Time?
I was searching about removing the a domain/site being listed in Web Search Results (like, Google Search) and i found solution, at here.
I believe it will be the solution but what i still need to ...
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How to display an image in google search result
I managed to do it with my blog like this:
by using google+ (found it somewhere on the web):
<link rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/115170983146246266025/"/>
UPDATE:
This is the ...
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Percentage of users that get to business website by searching vs typing business url into address bar
My friend's company(lets call it SomeThingsAreWorthTheMoney ) has been affected by a competitor's cybersquatting attack. SomeThingsAreWorthTheMoney is primarily an offline, real-world company that ...
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Changing uri-design SEO
I think I need to redesign my uri-collections of my site.
Right now I am using the following structure by a mistake:
/fruits for the whole collection
/fruit/banana for an item in the collection
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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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What dangers await if I block non-standard, non-major-usa search engine bots from my USA only website?
I noticed tons of bandwidth being used by non-USA search engine bots, so I began blocking them in an effort to save bandwidth and cpu cycles for actual users and the search engines they come from ...
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How to avoid duplicate content in WordPress eCommerce Store
I run a WordPress eCommerce store powered by WooCommerce. I have a large inventory of products and most of the product descriptions are the same for all products and it's mandatory to include it. It's ...
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SEO and external sites that serve responsive images (like Re-SRC)
Re-SRC is a tool that allows you to automatically serve responsive images for your website from their cloud servers. It delivers a new image file each time the browser window (viewport) is resized.
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seo in relation to web-hosting [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does changing web hosting server affects SEO page ranking?
I have two websites.one of the site though vigorous attempts to search optimize to certain google keywords or ...
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Will a search engine lower the rank of my page if i have hidden iframes?
As a praxis, all external content on our site is put in iframes to lower the risks of any external parties injecting stuff to our users. We also do it to make sure our content shows up before banners, ...
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Why do my websites have a first page rank on Bing and Yahoo but not Google? [closed]
I have 3 websites suffering from a drop in ranking with Google and hence a huge drop in traffic. The instant drop ocurred in September and I have not been able to remedy it.
For the past 6-10 years ...
