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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Google is not ranking Magento based website
I cannot seem to receive a google page rank for encryptstick.com the site has been live for about 5 months now, we have very good linking from sources such as pcworld.com, cnet.com, pcmag.com etc.
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Does Google value links to a page's named anchors (#) as equal to links to the page w/o the anchor?
Occasionally my site gets links directly to a sub-section of a page via a named anchor, e.g. /mypage.html#section1
Does Google give this link equal weight as a link to /mypage.html?
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Is it really worth submitting to DMOZ anymore?
This question stems from here. This guy sounds like he's getting a bit annoyed with DMOZ, but I was wondering if it's even worth submitting there nowadays. Does anyone still use it as a search engine? ...
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Does changing domain ownership affect SEO?
I have heard that when domain ownership changes, the domain loses its page rank.
My theory on this is: Lots of sites selling high PR domains actually cheat. They invest in high PR links for the ...
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5 most important seo [closed]
would you list 5 most important seo jobs to do , that you have achieved on your personal experiences.
thanks
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Are HTML tables bad for SEO?
A lot of designers discourage the use of tables but I have a layout where I'll use more div structure to achieve something made simple with a table..
Are tables bad for search engines?
edit: I will ...
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Is it positive or negative for the average website to allow search engines to index user comments?
I've been trying to answer this question myself by researching and searching on google but I haven't been able to come with a final answer.
I have some hypothesis I would like share anyway:
The ...
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How you solve “preventing common words from Google” issue?
My topic seems to be solved by stackexchange engine but me (a human) couldn't find a solution here.
As you may understand on subject, I have many repeated words on my site like "comment", "like", ...
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Good to optimize for broad but less-competitive keyword?
I have a Super Mario Bros website and business, Mario Planet, and I am looking for a target keyword for generating traffic - and therefore revenue - to the site.
Using the Google Keyword Suggestion ...
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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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Is it safe to redirect to ajax enabled content if its not google bot visiting?
At a webshop I'm currently working on I have several links that show a fancybox with product information.
The link works without ajax, it shows the same content as the fancybox links etc will not ...
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Bust some SEO myths for me?
While I'm not an expert at SEO, I know a little, and I have had someone tell me two things that I believe to be false, but just cannot convince him. Here are the statements he makes:
1) If more ...
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How do I find High PR blogs on for a keyword?
I want to search for high page rank sites on a particular keyword.Please tell me how can I do so.Thanks
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If I have a page rank of 5, and I get alot of backlinks from sites with PR 1, will I then decrease in PR?
As the title says, will I?
Ex: I have PR 5, and suddenly a thousand sites link to me and they all have just PR 0, 1 or 2, will this cause my PR to drop?
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Should I strategically use NoFollow on internal links to make our indexing crawl more efficient?
We have a well designed internal linking system that makes certain no page is more than four pages deep, and the indexing process has gone well for us.
However, in addition to the hierarchical page ...
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Why do Google FreshBot crawled and indexed pages disappear from SERPs? Will they come back?
Sometimes a page on our site will show up in the Google SERPs that was previously not indexed (yet) due to a news story or blog posting on another site that points to it.
From what I understand, the ...
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Why is Google not listing my site using its preferred domain?
Using Google Webmaster tools my site is set to 'Display URLs as www.mydomain.com' as opposed 'mydomain.com'. This is the setting for both of these sites in Webmaster tools and has been for several ...
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Same content over multiple sites
I have an account on wordpress. I am writing blogs there. Now I have published my same blogs with same content over DZONE and geekswithblogs.net and few other . Now my question is whether the SEO ...
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Does the order of keywords matter in a page title?
Stack Overflow has made a change to their page titles such that the most popular tag for a question appears at the start of the title. The change is being deployed across the network, so check out ...
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Moving from a static site to a CMS with new URLs and meta-data for pages
I am in the process of rebuilding a site from static pages to a CMS which will be using mod_rewrite to generate new page URLs. In this process our marketing people and myself have decided to tidy up ...
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Help! My articles are not indexed correctly by search engines
Something is seriously wrong after I updated my site with new templates, moved to a new server and started writing on English rather than Norwegian.
I know from Google Analytics, that most of my ...
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Does server location or TLD affects SEO
I have heard(read) SEO experts who claims that you server position will affect your SEO. In the latest example it was about an international site targeting the Russian market so:
Does the server ...
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Sitemap contains a lot of products and web index contains a few according to Google webmaster tools
Our sitemap has something like 10 million pages:
This is the data in the webmaster tools:
Submitted URLs
10,873,781
2 URLs in web index.
This is a big difference and an incorrect statement, since ...
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How to track my site position in SERP based on keyword
In Google Analytics i can see that people have reach my website after search on a specific keyword. How can i check the results page number where my website appears.
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Who is the “anti-Matt Cutts” in terms of providing factual comment on the SEO knowledgebase
Matt Cutts is so often quoted when attempting to provide facts that support the SEO logic which, without him, is otherwise just deduced or reverse engineered. We hang onto his statements to make facts ...
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Search Engine Optimisation and Clients
Im in need of a bit of advice from all you SEO nuts out there.
I am a web developer, as such i dont take part in hardcore SEO tactics, i leave that to the professionals .... I do however make my ...
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Source on Wordpress contains mangled Twitter data (hurting SEO?)
I have a Twitter account linked to my WordPress site so that each tweet becomes a new post.
I was wondering why my SEO was hurting and when I looked at the source I saw stuff like this at the top of ...
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Importance of Preferred Domain
Google Webmaster Tools allows to set preferred domain for a web site (with or without www). How important is it to set it in terms of SEO? Is there any difference which one I choose? Also, if I set a ...
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What's better for SEO folders or filenames?
I was wondering which of this two possibilities may be better for SEO.
Let's take The Sitemap Paradox as an example.
What would you reccommend:
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Will 404 errors affect search engine ranking?
I had installed joomla in my domain with the sample data. I now removed it and installed wordpress in my domain. There are a lot of 404 errors in my domain. Will they affect my search engine rankings. ...
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Are backlink generators helpful?
I will keep my question simple and short.Are backlink generators helpful and should we use them?If not, why?
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Single word keywords against 2 or 3 word keywords for SEO
Looking in Google Webmaster tools for my site, the sixth most common keyword is "life". This appears a lot because I mention "artificial life" and in places "second life" in the page text.
I want to ...
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Multi language switch links translated or in current language?
Should I do:
A: translate the language links in the current language: (if I am on the English version)
<a href="en/">English</a> |
<a href="it/">Italian</a> |
<a ...
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Is there an easier way to implement 301 redirects when converting a site to WordPress
I have just converted a website to WordPress. The old site has hundreds of hard-coded html files, and the new site does not match the old site's directory structure or file naming system (bad SEO in ...
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Meta Keywords Optimization Best Way to Proceed?
I am on a wallpapers blog project... When i generate leech pages I put in the tags about that image in meta information... But i also need to tell that these are wallpapers...
So what is the best way ...
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Avoiding Duplicate Content Penalties on a Corporate/Franchise website [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
My question is really an extension of a previous question that was ported from ...
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How can I clone or mirror a site without SEO penalties for duplicate content?
I am a web developer and I want to create clones of the sites I've developed for clients, so that I have an "original copy" on a subdomain of my own website, so that I can showcase my work to new ...
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Will moving a WordPress from one location to another result in broken links
I am having a WordPress installed at www.mydomain.com/blog/wordpress/
I am planning to move it to www.mydomain.com/blog/
Will this cause any 404 broken links? This question may seem stupid but please ...
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Is it important to have semantically correct HTML with regards to SEO?
SEO seems to be a subject surrounded by both myths and varying opinions. Nevertheless, I would like to know if you have an opinion on how important it is to have semantically correct XHTML, that is, ...
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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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SEO/Architecture for multiple related websites
My question is two-fold, but first, a short background. I have a client that is a regional franchise for a service company and each physical site has its own domain and the main "corporate" physical ...
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Is it fine to share your blog everywhere?
I am trying to perform some SEO on my blog.
I want to to keep sharing the blog on FaceBook and other social networks, sharing the link on different groups (i.e., groups related to my blog).
Is it ...
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Why website position on the google is shifting
I want to know what's the reason behind shifting of website on google is there, whenever I updated the website with the new content.
Whenever I go ahead with the new content, it goes beyond 150 on ...
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Can I show abbreviation but have full text in the HTML?
In several places I am using linked abbreviations for a set of words, and Google is picking these abbreviated terms as sitelinks. Problem is, the abbreviation only makes sense in context, not when ...
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Download/submission directories are dead? Are they good for SEO?
We have just released a new major software product version.
In the past if you wanted visibility you would create a standardized pad file and you would submit it to hundreds of directories or you ...
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Google has a bad SEO?
I find this quite curious.
When you search:
Search engines
Search engine
Best search engine
Search the web
Quickest search engine
Bing:
Search engine
Dogpile:
Search engine
Basically, ...
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How many keywords should be selected for SEO?
I am very new in this field and I wanted to do SEO for my blog .
How many keywords should I select?
After selecting the keywords,should
I always focus on those keywords
only?I mean whatever the post ...
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SEO and reversed (key)words
I am frequently finding sites that use reversed words in domain names and content. Just an example: www.elgoog.com or something like "Sincerely yours elgoog".
Does these word have value in SEO and ...
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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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What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL?
I'm working for a website to convert the website URL to an SEO friendly URL. I plan to use this:
mysite.com/category-name/pageid-123-page-name
I looked at some similarly categorized, highly ranked ...
