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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html5 tags for SEO
I've a question for you.
Are now the new HTML5 tags, like
<header>,<footer>,<hgroup>,<nav>,...
... really usefoul for SEO?
Is google and other search engines considering ...
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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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Is using only https bad in a SEO perspective?
I would like to set up a new business site. I plan to direct www.example.com to example.com and only use that domain. My plan is also to only use https and not http. Does this affect the SEO for the ...
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Are CSS sprites bad for SEO?
Nowadays often what was accomplished with an <img> tag is now done with something like a <div> with a Css background image set using a CSS 'sprite' and an offset.
I was wondering what ...
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How does redirects affect SEO?
I'm currently working on a new landing page for this site. I want the landing page to replace the existing front page of the site. However I don't want to lose the Page Rank of the current front page ...
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Is heading (h1, h2, h3…) font size relevant for SEO?
One of our client's SEO agencies has recently began sending a lot of "shady" requests about what should be changed on our client's web site in order to comply to best SEO practices.
We suspect their ...
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SEO for naming images
I have a website with many images embedded within articles. I do not want to miss traffic by image search. It is easier to save images with numbers, but will this affect SEO rank? I mean image search ...
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When selecting the language of a web page solely with content negotiation, will a search engine ever see different languages?
I've done a simple, small site which basically only consists of a single page. Simplicity and no clutter are very intentional here and (imho) work quite well for this from a UX standpoint.
Now I'm ...
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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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How to increase Google page rank of your website/blog?
OK so as far as I know to have good PR your website must have
Good content/articles
Many back-links
Good HTML code.
What else?
What should one do to increase his/her website's Google Page-Rank?
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Uses of LINK tag
The <link> tag appears to have many uses aside from stylesheets. For example the W3 suggest using it for previous/next/index pages.
I know that Opera also has a Navigation toolbar that will ...
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SEO implications of hosting a UK-based site on an EC2 instance based in Ireland
Our core business is based in the UK and our public website is also hosted in the UK. We're considering leaving our current hosting provider and moving the website to an EC2 instance, using the EU ...
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Is making AJAX site crawlable AND degrading gracefully with JS turned off possible?
According to this spec, making AJAX site crawlable by Googlebot means that you have to use hashbang (#!) links in it which means it won't degrade gracefully when JS is turned off. This might mean that ...
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is it a good seo practice to put relative keywords in a hidden div? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
hidden texts and page rank
I was wondering what would happen if we put some (around 25) relative keywords in the page using a hidden div so that the actual user does not ...
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Estimating where my competitor is getting most of their traffic from? Organic, PPC, or other?
I'm trying to figure out how/where a website gets its traffic. How are they successful with bringing in traffic? Via Organic, PPC, other? What is the best approach to estimating this?
My thought ...
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Ars Technica .ars URL suffix — Vanity or SEO Benefit?
The Technology website Ars Technica has adjusted their URL rewrite rules to end with a .ars. Traditionally, sites have taken advantage of this URL rewriting capability to completely eliminate file ...
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Do search engines see comments in the source code as a backlink?
I would like to know if Google or any other search engine would regard a comment in the source-code containing a link:
<!-- domain.com -->
as a back-link.
If yes how much weight is put ...
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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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Advantages of country TLD vs. .com
I want to get a domain for my site. The site's topic would be about Vienna, but the content will be in English.
I was thinking, if I should get .com domain or .at domain. .at is both much cheaper ...
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Coming Soon Pages & SEO
I am setting up my personal website, and I have designed a simple "Coming Soon / Under Construction" page which basically has nothing but a small notice for the users. What kind of SEO can I make on ...
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How do i analyse my website in terms of seo
what are the tools that can be used to analyse the SEO score and other seo facctors that helps in promoting websites in search engines
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What's the maximum length of the meta kewords tag?
Could you please tell me that what is the max length for Meta Keywords?
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Which meta “robots” tag gets preference?
My wife works at a high school in Germany. I recently noticed that it's extremely hard to find that school's homepage using Google. I looked at the source code of the page and I believe I've found the ...
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How do I get a list of all indexed links?
I am looking for a way to take every link that I have indexed by Google and export them to a CSV file. Recently I have had way more pages indexed by Google then I actually have and I want to find ...
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Is using H2s instead of H1s a big deal?
Basically, the way the development of a site I am working on has happened, virtually all pages use H2 instead of H1 as the "root" title (and then H3-5 are used appropriately).
Since Google pays such ...
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HTTPS best practices for SEO and usability
Consider a page, http://example.com, which can be viewed both publicly and when a user authenticates. Now suppose you enable HTTPS for every page when a user logs into your website, but only when they ...
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Tool or online service to view Google PR of thousand sites from a list?
Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Maybe a tool (or online service) that you used at least once.
I have list of webistes in a txt file.
I need a tool or an oline service (possibly free) that finds ...
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What to put up during development? “Coming Soon” page is bad for SEO
I've purchased a domain.
I'm in the process of creating the website for that domain. This may take about a month.
In the mean time, what is the smartest thing to do with that domain, in terms of SEO?
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Make google index the actual image not the thumbnail
In a website, we have a JavaScript that opens an image when people click on the thumbnail, it seems like Google only indexes the thumbnail not the actual image with real dimensions, I was wondering if ...
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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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Are there benefits of receiving external links from PR 0 or 1 sites for SEO? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Effect of adding link from PR1 site to PR0 site?
I'm thinking to do some link exchanges with PR0 or PR1 sites which have the related contents as my site. And my link ...
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Effect on SEO of lazy scrolling on HTML comments
I am thinking about using a JS script that lazy loads HTML when scrolling ( http://ivorycity.com/blog/2011/04/19/jquery-lazy-loader-load-html-and-images-on-scroll/).
I am not too sure about whether ...
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SEO - which URL's are the best?
I'm using .htaccess with RewriteRule to create SEO-friendly URL's. However, I have a few questions about this:
First of all, I noticed many websites end their URL's with .html (or another ...
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rel=nofollow SEO effect
Google webmasters shows rel=nofollow links as a backlink. I believe that rel=nofollow helps SEO and PageRank but according to many people it is not. What is your idea about this? Did you see that ...
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Best approach to have Google index content primarily generated by Javascript
I'm developing an app where customers can drop in a Javascript tag onto their website, and it will generate content. What is the best approach to have Google index this content and associate it with ...
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sitemap that contains millions of links/URLs
I am currently working on a shopping / auction website. The involving party who's doing SEO consultancy is insisting to generate URLs for every single combination of products listed on the website, ...
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How to display an image in google search result
I managed to do it with my blog like this:
by using google+ (found it somewhere on the web):
<link rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/115170983146246266025/"/>
UPDATE:
This is the ...
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Facebook comment and other commenting system for SEO
Lately i see some of big websites begin using Facebook commenting system in their wordpress websites. There are also websites that stick to commenting system like Disqus, IntenseDebate and Livefyre.
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Is it worth paying for a domain with a PageRank of 6?
I am looking to start on online magazine and I don't have a special name for it yet, and I am intending to monetise it through adds. I found a good domain that has a PageRank of 6 for 600$. is it ...
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Which URL format is better? domain.com/[id]/title OR domain.com/title/[id].html [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
SEO : urls : best place for the id
My site uses URL rewriting in both formats (for different things), but I'm wondering which one is the better approach?
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Big Gorilla Company Compared to Highly Successful Small Company
I am a big fan of 37Signals, and out of curiosity wanted to see the difference between their CRM app (Highrise) and SalesForce's app, in terms of google search rankings and general visitation.
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tabs and seo issue
my customers are eager in showing news categorized in tabs and i recently developed it for them.
as my experience in web designing display:none is used widely in implementing tabs.
and as i know it is ...
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How similar can 2 pages be before Google de-indexes one of them?
Using Similar Page Checker (http://www.webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.php), you can check if a web page is similar to other one.
Is there any rule of thumb how high a percentage similarity is ...
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Free Website Marketing & Backlinks?
What are some good places to advertise my websites for free?
I've already submitted them to Google, Yahoo!, and Bing.
Now, I am looking for some places I can create legitimate backlinks.
Does ...
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Better SEO from sub-directory or sub-domain? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Subdomain versus subdirectory
I'm working on a site that will act as a sort of companion site or sub-site to my main site.
Is there a difference in SEO of setting it ...
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SEO links from Facebook, Delicious, Digg are useful to increase Google PR?
Does anyone know in his SEO experince if links coming from FaceBook, Delicious, Digg are useful to increase PageRank on Google?
I would say NO cause most of thise links are nofollow and/or stored in ...
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Is content inside a <noscript> tag indexed by search indexes?
Is content inside a <noscript> (HTML4, HTML5) tag indexed by search engines?
(Inspired by this question)
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URL paths and their effect on SEO
We are developing a website where there will be two distinct types of content: galleries and photos.
It makes little sense to use URL paths like /gallery/photo as some photos can appear in more than ...
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SEO Geolocation
Does anybody know whether the location of the datacenter affects the SEO value of a given website?
In other words a site which has 100% of visitors coming from USA has to be hosted in USA for better ...
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Time to wait before submitting again site to DMOZ.org
Most sites I have done, got listed in DMOZ. It has always being a very frustrating process that required waiting for months.
For some of these sites I had also to resubmit them again in order to see ...
