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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my blog in blogger pageviews and that same blog pageviews in adsense are different why?
i run many blogs for online earnings but my blog in blogger page views
Total Pageviews
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and that same blog page views in google adsense Total Pageviews 19,347 are different why? they ...
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SEO effect of many articles having a similar title and content structure?
I'm building a diet directory on my weight loss site, and the structure for those diet descriptions will be similar (the actual content will be unique though).
Here are some examples of the ...
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Image SEO with overlaid text?
I have a single image that I am using repeatedly with different text overlaid. If you hover over this image it will also give you a tooltip with more information. Of course, the text overlaid could ...
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Robots.txt Blocking Blog Tags?
Tags are causing duplicate content on my website and I want to make sure that I block them from being indexed. Is this the right syntax to use for blocking those Tags from being crawled?
User-agent: ...
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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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Alternating links and slide down content on a list of sub sections
I have a page for a doctor's practice. In the summary page for the practice there is a list of subsections such as Women's, Men's, Children, Sport, etc. Some of these sub sections are very large, ...
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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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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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Image folder name for SEO [duplicate]
We develop and sell ActiveX and .NET controls through our website. After doing some redesign works, every product will have its own top-level folder on the webserver. For instance, the home page for ...
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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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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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What is the way to properly implement a Facebook Like button on a page for best SEO purposes?
On our site we want to put a Facebook Like button/widget-thingy. It is possible to create a like button, where the URL associated with the button is the page it sits on, rather than a Facebook page.
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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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Link building campaign for externally hosted subdomain
I am launching a link building campaign for a subdomain. I plan to ensure that the subdomain receive enough links from the parent domain and external domains in order to speed up indexing and increase ...
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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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SEO impact of links for javascript functionality
For example, jQuery tabs uses a link as each tab, that opens the tabbed content. Or often times developers will use a link as the anchor text for a hover tooltip, even though it doesn't actually link ...
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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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html 5 doctype & SEO
I am trying to get my pages validated using Markup Validation Service on W3C validator.
We are getting validation against the XHTML 1.0 Strict doctype comes back with the following error:
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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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H1 Tags and Anchor Text [duplicate]
I am building an image based website with no text space available on the Home Page. Can I turn the main Nav Menu links into H1 tags too? Will the site be punished by Search Engines from an SEO point ...
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Multilingual subdmain on different hosting server: will this be indexed by search engines? [duplicate]
I have a Japanese language sub-domain: ja.example.com, which is hosted by server A.
The root domain (example.com) is hosted by server B.
They have completely different IP addresses: (e.g.) ...
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index pages that only can find with search [duplicate]
I have a website that have 5 static pages and more than 700 dynamic contents that only can access them by search.
I create sitemap.xml that include 5 static pages and whole of dynamic contents.
But ...
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Facebook Edgerank, talking about, and Likes - what is better for my site?
I am trying to increase traffic to my site, which so far has done decently with organic SEO.
I have a website where I have added the FB like button to the results pages.
I also created a FB page ...
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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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Should I set the title attribute for content DIV's to explain what they contain?
I have a number of DIV's that break up a page into logical elements for styles and positioning, etc.
As part of optimizing my site for search engine spiders, should I include a title attribute within ...
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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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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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How does pointing a domain via a CNAME record affect the SEO?
We are contemplating pointed secondary domains to a primary domain via CName records to keep things simple for our customers but we are concerned that this will negatively affect SEO.
How does ...
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Wordpress Category/Tag Pages As Indexed Actually Help In Traffic?
I several days ago somewhere read that category and tag pages should be noindexed. But later on somewhere else, I read that, they only increase rank for search term, but overall traffic decreases- ...
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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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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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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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Content licence vs SEO
Which will boost a search engine optimization campaign: setting your content to creative common licence or copy-write protection of your content? and to what extent to they influence the SEO campaign?
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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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display product price in google search result
While I search for the magento module in google, I noticed the price is displayed in google search. Can we display the price of the product in google search by using any tag or any other way. Someone ...
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I am moving my site from a virtual directory to a dedicated server, can I save me SEO urls via a web.config change?
I have been hosting my site in a shared environment at http://www.example.com/MYSITE/ for a while and I've built up a following there, I have decent ranking in Google and Bing, as well as I've been ...
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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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Will Google penalize my site for switching content upon page load? [duplicate]
We run a Bible site where users can request arbitrary passages (e.g. John 3:16). We would like to start showing passages highlighted within their context (e.g. John 3:16 would show all of John 3 to ...
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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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Where can I find unfiltered search query statistics?
I would like to learn more about upcoming trends and I also need it for seo. I know Google Trends, but it displays only filtered statistics about what and how people search.
Can you recommend me any ...
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Website design using Responsive Approach or Mobile Site
I have been looking for mobile desktop website solution & I am confused with the information available on internet. In some case article talk about Responsive approach with the future but i am ...
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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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Htaccess redirection for my domain?
I have a site that has been hit hard with penguin and panda. So hard I have put up another domain and installed a CMS and rewritten the content the page has a good pagerank but was hit hard with ...
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What happens when you suddenly get too many back links from a single domain?
I'm quite baffled by this issue and I have absolutely no idea who could be causing it. I have a normal php page and we are optimizing it for few keywords. We have been doing general SEO activities ...
