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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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 ...
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Is it a bad idea to use a domain hack for my personal website name?
I want to create a personal webpage for info about myself (potentially for employment or other contact purposes), but the .com extension for my intended name is already taken. The name I want ends in ...
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Robots denied by domain is still listed in search results
So, on all of our sites that are not search facing we've applied a robots.txt file (per How to exclude a website from real-time Google search results ?, or any other similar question).
However, if ...
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Which of these 3 URL-Rewritings are better seo friendly URLs?
Imagine my current flat-file non-cms website with an URL like http://website.com/en/tomato
This is of course very unsexy and could be anything really from tomato soup, tomato the music band, tomato ...
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When should a webmaster call it a day POST Penguin & Panda?
A friend of mine, an ex-client whose site I designed, has a problem with his ranking and I want your personal spin on his situation. It'll help if I recall some of his site history.
Basically for 10 ...
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Are shorter URLS better for SEO?
Many people shorten their URLs. But as per my understanding it creates overhead of extra redirection, other can not guess about the target article with their url, and it should be less friendly for ...
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Ideal word count per web page?
Are there any kind of standard word limit's based on SEO for web pages?
I've read around and I've seen advice saying that pages should aim to be no more than 500 words to maximise the SEO benefits. ...
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SEO - Delete old indexed pages from Google 301 vs 404?
We're launching new website with new url structure and new content. Domain is the same.
Many old pages are indexed by google. Should I use 404 or 301 and redirect to '/' for these old resources? I ...
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Do I need robots.txt?
I want to allow all bots to crawl everything, do I need to create a robots.txt?
If the file is missing will it have a negative influence on some crawlers?
If I need to create it, what should it look ...
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Is it a bad idea to promote your site through relevant blog's by commenting?
I've searched the net and wasn't able to find a solid answer to this. Is it poor practice to seek out blogs that are related to your site, and post comments relevant to the particular blog post, in ...
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Website not coming in Search engine results because of a term
We have this site which is named Vialogues (Video+Discussion web based application).
https://vialogues.com
It has been around for sometime on the internet and we have also submitted sitemap.xml to ...
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How to provide Google reviews information?
In some search results Google displays nice stars and total reviews on particular webpage, it looks pretty cool, and I would like to know how does Google know, how many reviews this website has and ...
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How can I make my flash website more search engine friendly?
I've got a website where just about all the content is in a flash movie. Is there anything I can do to improve my search engine ranking or make my content more indexable?
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Do keyword-based filenames and URLs really matter?
We've developed a dynamic web application which uses URLs such as product.cfm?id=42 but our marketing team says we should use search friendly URLs and put our keywords into the URLs (so it would be ...
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Will Google's New +1 Count For SEO
I read somewhere that google's new +1 feature is going to affect google's search results. Apparently the more +1s you have, the better your site will rank in google. Is that true? And if it's true, ...
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Should I choose sub-directories over sub-domains in this case?
I'm developing an application at the moment which shows local content based on location.
Since the site is intended for local users, there won't be much need to change domain.
For example: someone ...
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Differences between google domains in different countries
We are currently trying to see if our site is being indexed successfully by google. Mind you we got millions of pages.
A trick some people use is the google site: command.
I always assumed that ...
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If your site has been flagged, “this site may harm your computer” how long before Google takes action
If your site has "this site may harm your computer" in the search results how long can you be in that situation before Google takes action. When they do take action does anyone know what that action ...
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SEO Keyword Research Help
I'm new at SEO and keyword research. I am using Market Samurai as my research tool, and I was wondering if I could ask for your help to identify the best key word to target for my niche. I do plan on ...
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What role do article submission directories play in SEO?
There are several popular article directories, namely:
ArticleBase
EzineArticles
Buzzle
And hundreds if not thousands of smaller ones all over the internet.
How can these websites be used to ...
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What to do with random pages after a 301 redirect?
I did a standard 301 redirect for a domain, but the original domain has about 300 pages that have some strength.
It doesn't make sense to make them all point back to the new home page because the ...
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SEO drawbacks of having paid links without nofollow?
I've just signed up to text-link-ads.com, which doesn't appear to use rel="nofollow" on the links. After reading a couple of sources it appears to be against their TOS to add nofollow to the links ...
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Stop searches showing tld domain sites appearing as subdirectory of main holding site domain?
I'm not sure if this is a problem specific to how my hosting is structured or not.
Let's say the main domain for my account is maindomain.com (for purpose of discussion)
I am building other sites, ...
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How long before Google will update search terms matching my website?
I have a website which title I changed about a month ago.
The website is a classifieds website which is dynamic, using php.
The title changed from "Free classifieds" to "buy and sell free ...
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How should I handle search engines auto-correcting the spelling of a site's name?
A client's site and company is called 'Tranin Communications' (Tranin is her last name).
It ranks well in searches for her name but rather poorly in searches for the name of her site/company.
I ...
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What is the difference between URL's with and without trailing slash
Should we always add the final / or avoid it ?
Example
/url-without-trailing-slash
/url-with-a-trailing-slash/
Does it make a difference?
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Multi Language URLs
I'm building an online store that will be supported in 3 languages: English, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese.
My question is whether or not it is a good idea to make language specific ...
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Domain or Subdomain: does the choice affect traffic?
If I run a blog or something in my subdomain like www.sub.name.net is it going to have any decreasing affect like decrease traffic through search engines or low ranking through on engines?
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Should <a> tags with href=“#” (or other internal links) use rel=“noindex, nofollow”?
For SEO purposes, should <a> tags with href="#" make use of rel="nofollow", rel="noindex", rel="noindex, nofollow", or does it not matter?
I'm asking because I have some elements on my site ...
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Why is Google offering users the ability to block results from my site?
I was performing a search for a string and one of the pages was from one of my websites. However, I noticed something odd about the entry for my site:
This was the only page in the search results ...
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Is the W3 standard a major factor when google decides SERP position?
I have a dynamic php website which index only has around 800 errors according to the w3 validator online.
I have tried checking major websites like ebay, stackoverflow and others also, all with ...
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Does registering a second domain name with the dashes help SEO?
If I have a site registered and running on ThisIssomething.com for example, does registering This-Is-Something.com and redirecting it actually help SEO? Or is it mainly to protect your brand?
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Should I block Wordpress archive pages from search engines?
I use WordPress and /sample-post/ URLs for my posts and /yyyy/mm/ for the archives.
Google has indexed the site fully.
Since the archives currently display full posts I've thought that I shouldn't ...
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SEO - Hidden content before main site content
I have a two hidden divs before my main site content, one with the login form and another with the signup form. I then have login and signup buttons within the page that use JQuery to show or hide ...
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Will JavaScript (document.write) content be indexed by search engines?
I have an external JS file embedding some content inline in a web page.
Basically it just does a document.write("my content") via a script tag and loaded externally with the src attribute.
Any ...
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keyword stuffing in SEO
i have a web shop, and on some of the pages some keyword in used a bit more then on the others.
For example: "hp toner" is used pretty much in the inscription of the product, in the alt tag, in the ...
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STRONG and EM tags inside H1 and H2 and SEO on database-driven website
I am trying to tweak the SEO of my Website, I have read a 400 SEO Bible PDF document that I came across. An aspect of my website that was not included in my SEO optimisation.
The STRONG and EM HTML ...
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SEO and URL Shorteners
When you have a link from lets say twitter that is t.co/foo that links back to your website how does that effect SEO and how do the major search engines handle Shortened URLs?
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Does google always downrank pages with hidden texts
I'm creating a FAQ for my page. To help the user to get a better overview I want to hide all answers and only display the questions. If the user clicks on a question the answer is set to ...
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What does “Other” mean for Traffic Source on Google Analytics?
I logged into Google Analytics today and under 'Traffic Sources' saw: "Referring sites", "Direct Traffic", "Search Engines" and "Other". I've never seen 'other' before, and it was small (only 0.5%), ...
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Does the “canonical name” in DNS make any difference to search engines?
Some of our sites are setup with an "a record" to an IP address and some are setup as a cname of a server that then has an "a name" to the same server IP. I want it to be consistent.
Which is the ...
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Canonical Tag Not Being Recognized
I'm puzzled by the first Google search result in this list.
The first result has the following rel="canonical" tag:
<link rel="canonical" ...
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Should page contents same all time for SEO?
I have a frequently updated website. That's why page contents change frequently. I mean the items that are on 1'st page become on 2'nd page a day after. Similarly 192'nd page which is my last page ...
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Google Keyword Relevancy
I hope this is the correct place to ask this question. I've got a few websites going, so i'm ok with the usual terminology and have looked in SEO and tried to implement it as best i can on my sites. ...
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Do wordpress websites get indexed quicker by SE than a regular website?
I registered a couple of domains with the names of categories of products we sell.
I then installed wordpress in one of those domains and played around with it for a bit, and left it alone for about a ...
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Abnormal alexa ranking score
I have 2 websites of ecommerce in France and for these websites I have a strange behaviour of the alexa results. Here are some statistics about the websites :
Unique Visits January 2012
Website A ...
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How do I adjust our “default” domain
Our company owns a selection of top level domain names. Each of these domain names points to the same IP.
We currently market our domain as existingfoo.com. All our incoming links are to that domain, ...
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Effect of adding link from PR1 site to PR0 site?
Site A and B are both new, with few incoming links, and no 'do-follow' outgoing links.
Site A has PR1, and site B has PR0.
I am curious - Can anyone predict what might happen to the respective PRs ...
