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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Are there specific advantages or disadvantages of an XML sitemap over a TXT based sitemap?
Are there any specific advantages or disadvantages in generating an XML based sitemap in place of a simple txt based sitemap (list of URLs)?
I realize that in the XML format I can set priority and ...
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Does loading images from a server that disallows robots affect SEO?
Lets say a page on example.com has all of its images coming from img.example.com:
<img src="http://img.example.com/keyword.jpg" alt="keyword"/>
while robots.txt on img.example.com disallows ...
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Is there a penalty in link building?
If I have a satellite site with content constantly renewed, and within each new content, there is a link to a target url, for passing link juice. Will I get a penalty from Google for that?
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Can outbound links increase PageRank?
We all know that the backlinks increases the pagerank of a website. Do outbound links affect PageRank?
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Will content from my site's RSS feed that is published on other sites be considered duplicate content by search engines?
I know Google is giving a penalties for websites with duplicate content.
What happens if I'm having an RSS feed with news articles and other sites publishes on their website my news? Isn't it ...
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How long does it take for a page to be assigned Google page rank?
The home page of my website has been indexed by Google more than 6 months ago. Some of the internal pages have received a page rank 6 or higher, however, the page rank of the home page remains 0. What ...
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include full category hierarchy in url or only the “leaf”?
I'm currently redesigning a site that organizes information into categories. Some of these categories contain subcategories (and some of those contain even more subcategories).
I'm trying to decide ...
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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 Removal Time?
I was searching about removing the a domain/site being listed in Web Search Results (like, Google Search) and i found solution, at here.
I believe it will be the solution but what i still need to ...
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Canonical url for a home page and trailing slashes
My home page could be potentially linked as:
http://example.com
http://example.com/
http://example.com/?ref=1
http://example.com/index.html
http://example.com/index.html?ref=2
(the same page is ...
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Rel=next & rel=prev in infinite scroll
Based on this article
I have a SERP that does infinite scrolling to load results greater than 10.
How do I go about implement rel=next & rel=prev for that?
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Sitemap to display hash tag links or not?
I am just creating sitemap for my site and wanted to find out if I should include # links for SEO?
For Example:
www.mydomain.com/#comment1
www.mydomain.com/#comment2
Does this help with SEO or ...
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Starting from scratch xxx.yyy.com or www.xxxyyy.com (any SEO difference?)
I know there are lots of answers both here (e.g. this and this) and elsewhere which deal with subdomains and their impact on SEO. However, often the questioners are either asking about subdomain ...
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Should I bother with a Business.com Listing?
I keep getting promotion codes from business.com stating that I can get a listing at $100 discount. However, that's still $199 and I'm not clear about the benefit. I would understand if I was paying ...
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Backlinks and SEO
Is the SEO value the same for backlinks coming from other pages within the same site and backlinks coming from another site?
And is there a difference in value between a backlink coming from a site ...
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When choosing a domain does including your brand affect SEO performance?
I've been asked to build a "landing page" for a local branch of an international corporation. While the corporation has a well-established domain name, the local office wants to use a unique, ...
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Site re-styling affecting google ranking
I have to re-style a website in Drupal, and the client has a clear request: The site cannot drop its position on Google.
If I build a new Drupal site, with the same URLs, the same meta and title ...
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Best Strategy for Exact Match Domain (EMD) Along Side Branded Domain
I lucked out and managed to buy a two word .com EMD for the most important key-phrase for our b2b SaaS startup.
Shutting down our branded domain isn't an option, we've already got too much invested ...
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Google crawling the site but refusing to index dynamic content
I am trying to get Google to index an AJAX site (davidelifestyle.com). It's crawlable with JavaScript turned off and I have also recently implemented _escaped_content_ snapshot mechanism but all ...
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Will adding “www.” to my domain setting in Google Analytics impact already collected data?
I have a profile in Google Analytics (GA) that has been collecting data for a year. The domain setting in GA is "http://example.com". The site, however, will redirect any non-www request, to ...
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Are multiple results from a website search considered duplicate content? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
The website is a Magento store , but I believe this applies to any product search.
We ...
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Can a sitemap index file list sitemaps in a different directory?
If I have a sitemap index, can the sitemaps listed in the index be located in a subdirectory, but have links that isn't specific to the subdirectory? I'm trying to avoid having multiple sitemaps in ...
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Using Excerpts as Meta Descriptions?
I have been blogging from the past three years. And one thing that I didn't care about was to add Meta Description for every page. I was, unfortunately, fallen for the "Google doesn't care about Meta ...
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Is using keywords in a domain enough to ensure a top position in Google? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?
If I want to be listed top for the query "where is obama from", what more do I have to do beyond ...
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Can I drop multiple URLs from Google's Cache using a wildcard in a query string?
I made a mistake with one of my sites and a whole bunch of data got picked up by Google before I caught it. I need to fix this relatively fast by asking Google to drop the cached copy of the pages ...
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How can I create links in javascript that are crawlable by search engines?
If I use JavaScript + jQuery, for example, does links inserted in $(document).ready() will be available for crawling? How can I insert crawlable links in JavaScript?
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Does pinging the page on social bookmarking sites whre your site has been bookmarked help SEO?
If you bookmark your site on say, delicious, does it help to then ping the url on delicious that contains the bookmark to your site?
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Seo: Change the title of a page
Lets say my website looks like this:
News
-Hello world
-Foo
-Bar
So the parent page will list the last 3 news messages. For each news message there is a sub-page. For the parent page I was thinking ...
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Why do some bad websites rank well?
Consider the following scenario: you are pitching SEO/Website Optimisation to a prospective client and you explain to them the importance of great copy and content, how acquiring links (ethically) can ...
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How often should one submit a site map to Google for a site similar to this?
How often should one submit a site map to Google for a site similar to this?
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Best way to stop a country dropdown from affecting google SEO
We have a site that contains a "sign up" form in the sidebar in most pages. This signup contains a dropdown of countries, the contents of which are being indexed by google and affecting our sites SEO. ...
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How do you enhance your websites speed without compromising the design and access?
How do you enhance your websites load speed without killing the design and accessibility? File compression, CDN, Gzip? What are the best tools for doing so?
For example, Google has optimized their ...
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How to fix 404 crawl error of a website
I have a navigational links in a php page nav.php, Which is included in all pages of my website. I have got folder structure like below
+top_folder
-config.php
+includes_folder
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Does using spaces in a URL affect SEO?
When creating URLs for my website I need to use a space, for example http://mydomain.com/start home
I've seen some sites using + or -, what are the advantages of using space, + and - (dashes) in SEO?
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Google and 301/302
we have to solve a problem with Google not correctly indexing our multilanguage sites.
We'll redesign our urls in the future but until then we need some way to help google find the different language ...
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How can I get Google to update my sites description? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Google doesn't seem to update the description or title of my homepage
Here is a screenshot:
The site description shown is very old, from way back in January of ...
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What should a page's minimum word count be in order to be effectively indexed? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Ideal word count per web page?
I'm seeding a new site with hundreds of (high quality) posts, but since I am paying per word written, I'm wondering if anybody in the ...
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Sitemap tool fails to find all URLs in my site
I added my url to Google http://www.google.com/addurl.html
I added a meta tag with description and keywords
I added it in Google web master tools and submit the site map
There is no any robots in my ...
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Impact of below URL structure for eCommerce Site (in terms of SEO)
Currently we are thinking of two possible URL structures for Products page and Product Detail Page and which one should we go with ?
1st Approach:
/products/ - Displays Products
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Preserve Search engine index while shifting to new Domain
I am not a SEO guy so not sure how relevant my question is.
We have to shift our web-site to a new domain due to some unavoidable circumstances but since the portal is up and running there from 2009 ...
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What's the advantage in purchasing new hosting purely for 301 redirections
As a follow on from How do I adjust our "default" domain I am about to setup 301 redirections from a selection of TLD to our recently selected default domain.
Currently ALL of our TLDs ...
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How does Google treat unlinked URLs?
In Google Webmaster Tools I've recently noticed several concatenated URLs appearing in the Crawl Errors. On investigation it seems Google is picking up these links from a page that shows a user's ...
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How will a website update - from HTML 4.01 to HTML5 - affect page ranking?
My concern is, my client is already number 2 on the search engine ranking for the main keyword of his particular field and I don't want to see him loose any more ground. He wants to not only future ...
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rel=author and rel=me in Wordpress
I came across rel=me and rel=author from joost's blog. I don't know how much value they're going to be in future for SERPS as they look more of eye candy in search than anything beneficial to surfers. ...
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Can search engines see HTML elements hidden by CSS? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How bad is it to use display: none in CSS?
I was wondering if search engines can read <a> elements with display:none.
Is it true? Can search engines see elements ...
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Page Spamming via locations
Hi guys I am new here so please be gentle :)
I have created a web page for a small mail order business.
The page asks the reader if they are in need of a supplier for products in their "area" and if ...
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problem showing my website correctly in search engines
I have a website which i have indexed on google for example (like 15 days ago).
some of my pages pass arguments like:
http://www.bla.com/products.php?pro=bla&page=view
suddently i saw that ...
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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 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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Debating between different kinds of URL and see if one is more seo-friendly than other…
So something like domain.com\x\y\z\t and domain.com\x?var1=y&var2=z&var3=t (var1, var2 and var3 will be replaced by legit words that make more sense).
Which one is more SEO friendly? For my ...
