Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of web content in search engines using an understanding of search engines' processes and algorithms. Also known as "natural" or "organic" search, it is distinct from paid web advertising.
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Effect on Google rankings if my site is down?
My site has been down for the last 8 hours due to hardware problems.
Any ideas on how this will affect my Google rankings/serps ??
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Will AJAX-fetched material be invisible to search engines?
With the new method of doing things that I've put together, my page content is not actually on index.html or any of the other pages. Instead, it is in index.txt and merely fetched by AJAX.
Is my ...
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Good Practice for Formatting SEO-Friendly URLs?
Does anybody know what the best SEO practice and most effective format for URLs is currently?
All lowercase or mixed case? Example:
http://www.mysite.com/What-is-My-Site/
OR
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What is a good way to get many inbound links to your site?
How do you get links to your site from other sites?
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What Ranking Factors Are Used For International Search?
Google.com vs Google.ca vs Google.co.uk (etc) all rank their results differently. The intention is to return more locally-relevant content.
What factors, other than the ones below, are used to ...
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What are some great tools to use for keyword research?
We've been told SEO is important and that we should conduct keyword research so that we can rank better? What is that and what tools will help me in the process?
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What should filenames and URLs of images contain for SEO benefit?
We know that good site architecture usually looks like this:
example-company.com/
example-company.com/about/
example-company.com/contact/
example-company.com/products/
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Can anyone recommend a Google SERP tracker?
I want to track my website's position in Google's search results for around 50 keywords/phrases and I am looking to a nice web service or Windows application to automate this process.
Ideally, I want ...
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How do you evaluate SEO/SEM companies? What are common services/prices?
Looking for a checklist, or comparison site.
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Why, on StackExchange sites, is the post title on the question page a link to itself?
It may look like a question for meta.stackoverflow.com, but I'd like to know if this decision has something to do with SEO or if this improve the user experience somehow.
It's a link to the same page ...
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Should my Title tag be the same as my H1 tag?
I have read that I should make the contents of my <title> and <h1> tags the same.
Is that the case or is does Google look at the content of those 2 tags separately?
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How to implement rel=author on a page with multiple authors?
I have a forum, and I would like to add rel=author to my pages. However, each page has multiple authors, and I'm not sure how I should implement rel=author if I have multiple authors. Does anyone have ...
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Tool to monitor rankings
I'm searching for a tool that can give me the page number (Google) and position a given web page scores for a given keyword.
E.g. Searching for the term "foo" the tool will show third page, second ...
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Pros/Cons of Interlinked Landing Pages
Today on Google's Official Webmaster blog they posted about running multiple sites with similar content, here.
After reading it and looking at the comments I noticed two things. First Google doesn't ...
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How do I control how often search engines visit my site?
I've been using the following line in the <head> of my sites for years:
<meta name="revisit-after" content="3 days" />
I recently discovered that it's not one of the meta tags that ...
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Does Google rate the webpage by amount of visits?
there is quite extensive discussion about this topic on another website and I am really losing my confidence. The thing is that I claim that the amount (count) of visits is NOT a criteria for ...
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Dynamic sitemap file
Does it matter if I serve sitemap.xml as a dynamic page? e.g., use .htaccess to rewrite sitemap.xml (or whatever static URL I submitted at the Webmaster Tools) to a PHP file. The PHP file will call ...
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How important is the domain name for SEO
Most people advice to buy a domain name that exactly matches your main business field. For example if you sell computers the best one will probably be computers.com but with millions(maybe billions) ...
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What is the best way to redirect my naked domain?
I have example.com, which points to web server using A records, I want to redirect all traffic from www.example.com to example.com.
As far as i know these are methods,
301 HTML redirect from www to ...
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Does the position of the content in the source make a difference to SEO?
Is a site penalised if the first propper (human readable) content comes after a lot of structural HTML code? Is there any benefit to having the text content come earlier in the source (e.g. less HTML ...
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Order of HTML meta tags
A SEO company suggested we change the order of our HTML meta tags so that <title> and <meta name="description"> are the first two. They say this is to ensure search engines can utilize ...
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Squeezing all the SEO out of a URL as possible
I am working on an ecommerce site, I told our SEO consultant that I plan to make the URL scheme: /products/<id>/<name>. This is similar to Stackoverflow's URLs which are ...
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What is PageRank and how do I get it?
I've heard Google's algorithm is based on PageRank, and that it has something to do with the links to your site. Can someone explain it, and more importantly, how I can increase my site's PageRank?
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Does valid HTML, CSS and/or XML affect SEO?
Can a page's HTML validity affect search engine optimization (SEO)?
Assuming all other factors are exactly equal, will an HTML document with 0 errors and 0 warnings (W3C provides a tool to validate ...
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Ratio of No-follow & Do-follow Backlinks
I know that when it comes to obtaining backlinks, a no-follow is pretty much worthless. However, does Google (or other major search engines) penalize for sites that have nothing but do-follow links?
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Content appearing under multiple categories; anything I can do to prevent duplicate penalty? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
I'm working with a CMS that allows me to post content in to multiple categories.
So, I ...
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Will google penalize my pages if I will hide by default the main page content?
I've read some similar questions but the mine is about a particular case.
I need to hide the "main page content" as default, visible on user's request using javascript. This is lot of text - about ...
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Google's 200 ranking factors
When doing research on SEO you most probably stumbled upon Google's statement there are approximately 200 ranking factors. I think it would be nice to have a list of all these 200 factors.
Does ...
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Why should we use tags like p, span, hx tags when we can use CSS instead?
Why should we use tags like p, span, hx tags when we can use CSS instead? Is it important from an SEO point of view?
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How do I get images containing text to be indexed by search engines?
I am building a small portfolio website for a friend, and being in advertising and all, she hates the standard fonts and wants everything written in a custom font.
As CSS font-embedding is not really ...
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SEO: Where do I start? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?
I am primarily a software developer however I tend to delve in some web development from time to ...
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What is the best way to launch a website to make it go viral?
Say for example I have a website that has finished BETA and is ready for full launch. I'm at the stage now I want it to be very visible to start getting traffic. Right now, I am just getting some ...
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Is it better to use slash or hyphens for SEO
I have a website with url like that :
www.xxxxxx.com/card/wow/20-euros
In term of SEO is it better to use slash or hyphen?
www.xxxxxx.com/card-wow-20-euros
Even though it will be trickier with ...
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Will “performing maintenance” page holder affect your seo and page rankings? If so, is there a better way to handle it?
Let's say that theoretically you run a ecommerce shop. There may be times, once a year, that you need to take the site down to update product information or to do some maintenance.
What would happen ...
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SEO one longer page vs. several targeted subpages?
We're working on a site and have come to a choice between one long (not too excessive) main page and several subpages.
The subpages would have custom metas/titles/h2 tags and the content that ...
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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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SEO Implications of blog on site versus offsite?
I recently added a blog to one of our company's websites, and was confident that this increase in content on the site would have only positive SEO results. My boss, however, feels that we should have ...
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Should I block indexing of my mobile site?
I notice that Yahoo and Bing have started indexing the mobile version of my website, which is located at /mobile from the root. All of the mobile content is just a reduced layout version of the real ...
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Why is it preferable to use paths with slashes instead of query-string variables in a web page URL?
Why is it preferable to use paths with slashes instead of query-string variables in a web page URL?
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Does duplicate content on another site affect my ranking?
A competitors set up a new site and copy and pasted some copy from our home page.
When doing a comparison with a duplicate content tool the result was that the pages where 21% similiar.
Does the ...
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What determines the order of results for Google Places?
I have a website that when you search for the key terms in Google, comes up first in the list. However, just above it in the Google Places section, it comes in second in the list.
Does Google Places ...
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How to get tens of millions of pages indexed by Google bot?
We are currently developing a site that currently has 8 million unique pages that will grow to about 20 million right away, and eventually to about 50 million or more.
Before you criticize... Yes, it ...
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Redirect based on country
Let's say I have a site that has multiple versions for different countries, e.g.:
www.example.com/us
www.example.com/uk
www.example.com/ca
and I want to use IP geolocation to redirect users who go ...
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New META TAGS with positive effects for seo ranking in 2011 and beyond
im trying to make an up to date chart of meta tags, for all of us, with their purposes, their use and their good (or bad) effects on search engines/being found. Also any body knows new/promising meta ...
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How can I provide star rating metadata to search engines?
Some search engines (including Google and Bing) display a star rating for things like movies and downloads on sites such as IMDB and cnet.
How can I configure my site to provide this data?
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SEO regarding using multiple <h1> tag?
Is is true <h1> tag should not have more than 1 on every page for SEO?
Every pages on the header, it includes and <h1> tag. Website Name which show an image from logo class, like this:
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Should home page be just domain name or can it be in a folder?
I am working on a website project and the client has requested (for reasons of hosting convenience) that the new website be located in a specific folder. This means that all pages will be in ...
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Does Heading tags like <h1> and <h2> make a big differences during SEO?
Does Heading tags like <h1> and <h2> make a big differences during SEO?
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Do search engines treat index pages with excerpts as duplicate content of the pages they link to?
I am using WordPress and in my post sidebar I have related posts which may be of interest to the user, however, I also have an excerpt of each article which is normally the first paragraph of the post ...
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Is there any way to have search engines not index a certain section of a page?
I have Blogger setup with the Blog Archive panel shown on every page so that users can easily get to old posts. The problem is that it lists the title of each page in this panel, meaning that the ...
