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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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 ...
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Right canonical pages for encylopedia-style site
I have a website that contains a lot of short (150 word) descriptions of key concepts. The concepts are organised hierarchically so a description of Cheese will be a subsection under the heading "Milk ...
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Workaround a huge number of image links on a page? [SEO]
I have a page that often contains large image galleries displayed with thumbnails linking to the actual images. They are then rerouted with JavaScript to open an overlay gallery instead, but I noticed ...
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pagination and duplicate content with one paragraph in each page with totally different listing
I have a module in my site which can be accessed like sitename.com/module/
This module has pagination.
In the first page i have two paragraphs which describe about the site. This will appear in all ...
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Is it a good idea to register multiple domains pointing to a single website
We have a main domain or primary domain (say xyz.com) on which we have our website hosted. For the sake of business/trademark we would like to book other domain with the same name but different tlds ...
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Duplicate content in Top Level Domain and country specific website
I have myproduct.com which is my master product page.
For UK I also own myproduct.co.uk which is a copy of myproduct.com with some localized content: landing page, promotions, prices, and specific ...
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How to recover organic position in Google results after server down?
I have several sites that were doing quite well in terms of organic SEO rankings. I have the important sites setup in Google's Webmaster tools.
Long story short, the system was down for about two ...
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Will we be penalized for having multiple external links to the same site?
There seem to be conflicting answers on this question. The most relevant ones seem to be at least a year or two old, so I thought it would be worth re-asking this question.
My gut says it's ok, ...
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Homepage not showing on Google [duplicate]
About six weeks ago my homepage (mayberrykayakingdotcodotuk) disappeared from the google organic search for "kayaking pembrokeshire" despite it having been number 2 within a few weeks of it's launch ...
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Add comments to 'static' pages without Javascript so they're Google-able?
Are there any often mentioned products or services for adding end user comments to pages that aren't served up by a CMS or blog engine? Assuming the host can execute PHP, Python, ASP.NET classic, or ...
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Is it needed to have your blog title and description in H1 and H2
I have read an article that states that is not necesary to have your blog title and description on your website at al.
Just have the titles of the posts in H1, on the index and the post page. And on ...
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How to get out of google penalty for spammy links linking to my site?
One day I checked my google analytics and there was like a 60% drop in search traffic. There was no panda updates in that time.
I checked my webmaster tools and saw about 200 spammy sites linking to ...
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Will search engines divert worldwide traffic away from a website with a country specific TLD?
I have a website that contains world-wide suitable content, although it is in English. The site is just information; not ecommerce. However, it has a ccTLD of ".co.uk", so will search engines ...
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Page Rank Impact On 301 redirecting a directory (folder) to a new domain?
I write a lot about programming and Linux, especially because I am relatively new to both of them.
But now, I would like to separate them both - - programming stuff on the same domain (say ...
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SEO optimizing Blogger blogspots [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?
What are some way to optimize a Blogger blogspot for SEO? I have looked at several other articles, ...
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SEO - which URL's are the best?
In my application I have users who can post offers. An offer belongs to a category and a subcategory. The title of the offer can be long (~80 characters)
My options to have url's uniqueness, are:
i) ...
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How to de-index pages from google using robots.txt
I added the no-index tag for the google-bot, but it is kind of taking a long time to de-index some pages since I have over 100k pages I need to de-index lol :)))
What is the proper way to de-index ...
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SEO and alias domain names
What is the best SEO strategy when aliasing several domains to a primary domain,
is it "enough" to just set them up as aliases
is it better to alias them and setup some kind of rewrite rules to ...
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Language Specific URLs for SEO
I'm currently building a website that is not targeted to an English speaking audience. So my thoughts are that if I were to make the URLs in the language of choice (in this case Spanish) then would ...
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Litmus test to determine if javascript content is crawlable
Already read this: How can I create links in javascript that are crawlable by search engines?
I make the assumption that if you view source on a page and can find content / links hidden by javascript ...
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IP of my site in the shared hosting got changed and did not reflect yet. what will be the SEO concequence? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Effect on Google rankings if my site is down?
My hosting company changes IP in the range of 6 months... May be either the change the servers or the IP. So for the past ...
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SEO for Country & Language Specific content
Currently I am creating a website which has a common topic for an article, but it's going to be different content for each country, and also, each of that content will be provided in several ...
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What does the impression and ctr means in google webmaster
I am checking google webmaster tools. I entered the search queries section. There i found alot keywords and their impression and ctr etc. I clicked on one of the query keyword there it shows the ...
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Does having video on a website increase the quality of traffic coming to the site?
I was wondering if anyone had any actual statistics on this. I was curious if having a video on a website makes an exceptional difference to the quality of traffic coming to the site.
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Keyword Densities - do they still matter?
Let's say I have a standard issue web page with 500 - 600 words and I'm priming my page for two specific keywords (for the purposes of this example). We know that these words need to feature within ...
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Web hosting does not matter?
I have read this question. I agree that webhosting does matter in load time and how much uptime it is giving but it seems that some companies have given it a huge hype. Please have a look at this ...
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Getting indexed after removing meta noindex, Google
My question is, will my pages be indexed now in Google if they had <meta name="robots" content="noindex" /> in the past, since they were created? Of course, now they are <meta name="robots" ...
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Question about SEO and Domains [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?
Move subdomain into subdirectory SEO question
This is my first post on here as I am mainly on ...
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Good SEO information (NO MARKETING) [closed]
Where can I find information on SEO without all the marketing crap? Googling always results in "learn SEO fast!" or "buy our SEO training program" I can never find something that is "free". I know ...
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How to SEO a search only website?
I am in the progress of building a website for a client of mine and something worries me. Basicly, the client wants a google like site ( search - display results ) just for companies ( like a ...
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web widget and SEO [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How good is it for SEO if you have a widget that lives on other sites?
I'm designing a voting widget that other people can put on their websites, and the widget will ...
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