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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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 ...
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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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SEO - Hidden with CSS, visible with JS?
Hiding stuff can be cloaking if it's made for make the page rank higher. However here is a question about hiding content, not for higher ranking but for the user.
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Hiding content with CSS ...
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On an ecommerce site, do “Item No Longer Available” pages hurt SEO?
I'm not the web master at work, but I'm the content manager (and complete SEO novice) with a question we're unsure about. When a product is no longer current and no longer carried in our store, we set ...
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How do I monitor if SEO tags on my site changed during active development?
I work for a website that undergoes active development, with many production pushes per day. We are heavily SEO-dependent, and as our pages are being changed frequently by devs, we're always worried ...
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Jumbled Up Text - how does it impact SEO?
We have a website that contains company profile pages. Each page has information on a company, the information is all displayed as text to users who are logged in.
We are now planning to allow ...
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How to make Google index files retrieved from database?
We use Joomla with Remository to store and manage publications (don't ask me why). Files (PDF) are stored in a database and can be accessed via dynamic, rewritten links of the form
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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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How to recover from rank loss of my website? [closed]
Most of keywords of my website: http://tinyurl.com/mnudsp were coming in 1st and 2nd pages of SERP before Google algorithm update of 17th January 2013. But soon after the update all keywords seriously ...
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Domain registration public information, measures domain authority in SEO?
I have seen on internet in various places talking about this and they says this information do have impact on SEO, specially in the domain authority section. Is it so?
If so, Is there any proper ...
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Async load of secondary content; Google says “slow”, users see what they want faster
We have a performance problem on our site, and we're digging in to correct some rather basic issues -- we know we have many opportunities to improve performance -- this question is about one, in ...
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Should I remove bad links to old site that are being 301 redirected to new site?
Should I remove bad links e.g. 0 Page Rank, 0 Trust linking to old site that are being 301 redirected to new site?
Would I get rid of these links using Google's Disavow links?
We've only improved in ...
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“C# grid control”: how to encode this in URL from SEO perspective?
We are developing a WinForms grid control, and selling it thru our website worldwide. At the current stage of SEO works, we found that there are many popular search phrases with the "c#" word we can ...
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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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website region lock | Localize SEO traffic
This may be a question that is completely out there but I'm about to publish a site that is very localize advertising - this can become big at some point but for right now I want to keep "out of ...
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will site url with repeating keywords gets penalized by search engines
I have an url structure like the following
sitename.com/cellphone/nokia/galaxy-5678-nokia-cellphone-from-abc/
for more example
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link tags in iframe widget
I have a rating community-site
and i´m offering little i-frame widgets with the average rating and some little other info
does it make sense (for visibility, seo) to add link tags to the head like : ...
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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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SEO Tool for Amatuer SEO Professionals like me? [closed]
I have a management job now and I am handling 3 different websites' SEO. I mainly use http://4seohunt.com to track these :
ALEXA RANK
VISITORS PER DAY
PAGE VIEWS PER DAY
PAGE RANK
FACEBOOK SHARES ...
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Ajax Load More for Search Engine Bots
On my website I am only displaying 20 posts for visitors, when they scroll down it loads more. I want to know if will affect the ranking of my website in a negative way if I load, for example, 100 ...
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Google indexed URLs both w/ or w/o trailing slash
Okay, this is very weird, Google indexed my pages and some are duplicates (one w/ the trailing slash, and one without). Is this bad for SEO?
The URL's are like:
site.com/posts/indexed-post/
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How to indicate a permalink to Google? [duplicate]
When a few pages of a website are:
Either available from both a permanent link (http://example.com/archive/45528192/2013-03-29-2/) and a volatile link (http://example.com/recent/today/2),
Or are ...
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Addon domains and SEO
I have a shared hosting account with a main domain and many add-on domains. I don't actually use the main domain, it just has a landing page.
Can I tell bots not to index the main domain WITHOUT ...
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site home not at site root index
I have an SEO concern with a website that has just finished the development stage, basically the site has been in progress for a year. During this period the site has been accessible from the URL: ...
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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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Would this be considered keyword stuffing?
we have a website with a lot of galleries filled under a couple of different categories. A while ago we migrated all the URLs from for example:
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Pages wrapped in a form element. What effect would this have on SEO or other machine-readability?
I'm helping somebody with a site and I've noticed that all the main pages are wrapped inside a form. I mean:
<body>
<form>
[ everything in the page ]
</form>
</body>
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Will changing server location affect SEO? [duplicate]
I have a .com website hosted in the US. Most of my traffic comes from there, but I found better prices and service in a webhost with a server in another country. Will it matter if I make the switch, ...
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Alexa ranking of a website? [duplicate]
If a user visits demo.domain.com, does that count as having visited the site domain.com? Does the Alexa ranking apply to the sub-domain or the primary domain?
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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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Duplicate title tags error in webmaster tools
I have changed some URLs in my site then to prevent webmaster tools duplicate error I redirected (301) old URLs to new URLs also I tried to remove old URLs in "Optimization>Remove URLs" section of ...
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Guest Post Opportunities - To Post or Not to Post
I have a modest blog with a PageRank of 2 which I have been writing myself for the past couple of years. Recently I received a request that someone wanted to write a guest post on my blog ... with a ...
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Registering multiple domains vs. subdomains
We are currently planning on registering multiple domains for different parts of the website we own. For example consider that we have example.com as the main domain and have assigned all the ...
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Google local search rankings is it possible without the use of citations
I have a client that is wanting a website design for his self-run business... Basically he is a self employed plumber so his home address is not visitable by the public, however the problem here is ...
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Does a plain vanilla site benefit from a “canonical” directive?
So I thought I knew what "canonical" was for.
As I understood it (and to be fair, most of the examples on the web) it avoids search engines seeing foo.htm and foo.htm?parameter=1 as duplicate ...
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Correct microdata and/or microformats for real estate listings?
Given I am running a real estate rentals listing website, what would be the correct microdata or microformats for the listing pages? There is the usual data: address, photos, price, start date, ...
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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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we choose to use tables to layout web forms: (how) can we make them valid/accessible?
we are building a site with dozens of very complex forms and we decided that the best solution for us is to make them using <table>
but we are worried about accessibility and standards.
what i ...
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With www or without www? Which is better to use [duplicate]
I have just bought a new domain www.reversehacking.com ....
Which is better for SEO: http://reversehacking.com or http://www.reversehacking.com
I think people will make more links starting with ...
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GA is not tracking in renewed site
A week ago I renewed my site to simple PHP site to -> DRUPAL 7. I've even transferred the GA script using DRUPAL GA plugin. However, yet GA doesn't track the visitors in my new site.
Could anyone ...
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SEO Sitemap questions about a site that changes all the time
I have a website that changes hourly, new contents are added from different feeds, so no original contents at all,
I have details pages where they show the details of every item,
Then I have pages ...
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301 or 302 redirect for mobile/non-mobile pages
I'm setting up redirection for mobile/non-mobile pages. User agent is detected and redirected appropriately, but the ?mobile=1 or ?mobile=0 flag can be used to force a switch. When that flag is ...
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Do i need to have a separate page for each article on my website?
I am using a database to store data such as articles, titles, meta and so on. Do I need to Have a separate page for each article so that my articles show up in the list when searched on Google?
Is is ...
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How does a site like Kotaku get away with duplicate content? [closed]
I've noticed that a lot of the time, content is taken from the United States Kotaku and then copy and pasted to other regions Kotaku like Australia.
How are they able to do this when Google looks ...
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About the semantically related words Google's algorithm uses in mixed language websites
Because I'm Latin, sometimes I use a word in English while talking in Spanish.
In a website, for example, I could be interested in ranking for a word as “promoter” inside a page in Spanish, because ...
