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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Changing host bad for SEO ranking?
I am moving a small business website to a new host without changing the domain. Will this affect their ranking in Google? Is there any particular way I should change the DNS to make sure that its ...
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Seo: How much can a particular domain be tainted from bad prior practices?
If a site found at a particular domain has previously used very bad SEO practices and has thus been ranked poorly for most search queries on google, will using very good SEO practices from now on ...
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How to handle hundred of external links in a site
The site I am working on has few hundred distributors, each one has its own page, and a link to that distributors website. Some of the distributors have multiple locations and so they have multiple ...
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Recommendations for a network of student-related content
I am running a network of websites with notes, homeworks, essays, etc. where users share their own content. I'm having real trouble with the latest Google updates (penguin, panda, etc) because the ...
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If a website has no backlinks, would it ever get listed in Google?
If I create a site and do not built any of the backlinks would it get crawled by Google?
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SEOs: mobile version using AJAX: how to be properly read by crawlers?
Before anything else, I'd like to emphasize that I've already read this and this.
Here's what I can do:
First choice:
create classical web version with all products in that page - ...
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Dynamic Meta Keywords
Is it a problem to change the meta keywords dynamically depending on the content of the page / website?
for example if it is a news website and this weeks top articles are about elephants in japan I ...
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How to resolve canonical issue of a website hosted in yahoo small business (Shared Hosting)
I have a website www.myapp.com hosted in yahoo small business, which is shared hosting and I don't have access to .htaccess file to modify. I called up yahoo team regarding the issue But It cannot be ...
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Do tabs, spaces, and line-breaks in HTML markup affect search engine optimization?
I am looking for information regarding tabs, spaces, and line-breaks in HTML/XHTML markup and whether it affects SEO.
I have found sources which state that extra white space hurts search engine ...
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How to include high resolution version of thumbnail
I'm running a tube site that has a thumbnail for each post/video (running via Wordpress, 500k posts). When I first created the thumbnails they were a fairly large size, around 640px in width each and ...
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how to combine .JS and CSS file on blogging platform? [closed]
Hi I am a blog owner http://www.bloggerspice.com/ and using Google blogspot Platform. due to using more than 5 .js file my site become slow. I have heard that by combining .js file blog loading time ...
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Google Rich Snippets: Automatically detected author name on webpage: Not Found
I am having trouble with Google Rich Snippets, on the verification authorship, I am getting this error.
Email verification has not established authorship for this webpage.
Email address on ...
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SEO Blog Indexing : Dot Wordpress Versus a Registered Domain?
I've used Wordpress for a few of my client's sites, mostly small businesses and ecommerce sites. I have found through Google Analytics as well as the All in One Webmaster plugin that when it comes to ...
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What is wrong with the seo of my site? [closed]
My question is related to the seo performance of my website binarytides.com
My website has recently seen fall in traffic and I have noted that for some of my best keywords the traffic is falling, and ...
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Does putting large amount of source code in webpage spoil seo?
I run a blog on programming topics and often post large amounts of source code, with syntax highlighter.
This source code often has few terms repeated multiple times like "printf" or "alert" or ...
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Google SEO - Migrating website from a sub-directory of another website to its own domain name
At the present moment I have a website hosted on example.com/myWebsite, where example.com hosts in its root directory a different website. I have the domain example.net, which redirects to ...
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Facebook Edgerank, talking about, and Likes - what is better for my site?
I am trying to increase traffic to my site, which so far has done decently with organic SEO.
I have a website where I have added the FB like button to the results pages.
I also created a FB page ...
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Does I need to put meta tags in Search page of my E-commerce website? [closed]
In my E-commerce website I got a product page.where I want to implement Meta-keywords,Meta-Description,etc.. I am a little confused about the task now.Is it necessary to do these things in search ...
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Redirection & SEO related stuff while moving to a new blog
I have a WordPress blog and recently I have setup a new blog lets call the old blog as blog old and new blog as blog new. What I did is moved the content, photos, pictures and all 250 posts from blog ...
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Collapsible menu and amount of links in a web page
One of my pages contain three levels of a collapsible menu (JS + CSS from mycssmenu.com). There are a dozen first level items displayed to users, each one with various second level items, and finally ...
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Would this be considered keyword stuffing URL?
I have about 130 products on my site, and i want the URL to look like this,
site.com/unique-product-name-ratings-reviews-prices
Since I have 130 of these pages, I am concerned about the ...
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Is there an app that defines on which search result page a website is listed? [closed]
After searching in Google/Yahoo using my keywords, I'd like to know which page my website will show up on without having to look page by page. It is a new website, so it may be quite a way down still ...
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Rankings dropping after small URL-change WITH 301-redirect
Two weeks ago, we attempted to make the URLs of ca. 12 pages more search-engine friendly. We changed three things.
1. Make URLs more SEF
from: /แอร์-ราคา/brandname.html (meaning: ...
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How to handle clients who want to add duplicate content to their sites
I have some clients who are requesting that I put pages on their websites that amount to duplicate content. One wants the exact same page on two of their websites. Another wants to put content from a ...
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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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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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How to set up Google ecommerce tracking for a shopping cart servicing multiple countries?
Currently trying to set up GA ecommerce tracking for a shopping cart providing different pricing and tax to multiple countries. Does anyone know how to extract the tax amount from the order total for ...
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SEO indexing with dynamic titles, keywords and descriptions
I'm working on a website (all in one single domain) so I'm wondering to create dynamic titles, descriptions, keywords and headings for each location.
What I'm doing is to get information from the IP ...
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SEO for ecommerce site with no product description and large inventory
We are building a ecommerce with a inventory of about 6000 products, the problem is most of the products have the same description so we decided to keep description as noindex and make it available to ...
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Reverse iframe breakout
I have around 500 pages, some of which are simply PDF files, that are meant to be viewed within an iframe on a seperate domain parent page (files are subdomained, however reside on a different ...
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Pull page content from master site in Wordpress
So I am working on some sites for a health practice, all in Wordpress. I have one parent hub site that contains all the information about all the treatments they offer on different pages. I also have ...
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Filtering your offices IPs from Google Analytics when each has a dynamic IP?
I found the documentation for filtering IPs from Google Analytics, but the address of the several locations of our company all have dynamic IP addresses that change every 30 days from what I'm told.
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How does Google know how much traffic a website gets?
They obviously know how much traffic they send to it. But how do they know of the rest of the traffic to it? Is it only if it has Google Analytics installed, or do they get their information in some ...
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If H1 tags are not used for page titles, what is the impact on SEO?
I'm wondering what kind of effect will be witnessed on SEO if, say, a div was used rather than an h1 tag for page titles. I imagine it would be very frustrating for screen readers and wouldn't give ...
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SEO implications of moving a section of site to a subdomain - Drupal to Jekyll/Wordpress migration
We are strongly considering moving significant, relatively static, portions of our existing Drupal site (yinyanghouse.com) out of Drupal and into a subdomain built up with a static site generator like ...
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Image Rankings on Google Image Search (Images hosted on external sites)
I saw that when I stopped uploading images to my own server my content on Google images disappeared. I stopped uploading images to my server for two main reasons: Traffic and Storage space on the VPS.
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Could crosslinking using very general anchor texts be a reason for a drop in rankings?
I have crosslinked 20 sites and I thought I have been penalized for this, asked this question and some experienced members told me maybe that crosslinking may not necessarily be the reason.
The sites ...
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HTML structure and informations for image thumbnail - SEO [duplicate]
I wonder will the content which shows on focus for the images in this tutorial be indexed properly by search engines?
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Changing domain name vs URL redirect to improve URL building
I have a domain named companyname.com with PR3 and would like to improve the SEO by adding my main keyword in the domain name. I'm thinking about:
Buying the domain main-keyword-companyname.com and ...
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Should I be concerned for SEO when hiding images?
I'm using fancybox 2 with the following code (demo here):
<a class="fancybox"
href="http://a.com/bmw-328-manual-2008-black-18-inch-rims.jpg"
title"bmw 328 manual 2008 black 18 inch rims">
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Is there an alternate resource similar to Mozscape by SEOmoz?
I was wondering if there is an alternate (free or paid) resource similar to SEOmoz's Linkscape (now Mozscape) where the entire web is indexed and a website's entire link profile is scraped and ...
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Location-Based Redirection and Duplication in Sub-directories Affecting SEO
I currently own the website www.xyz.com. The website has a sub-directory for each of the 3 target countries: .../en-US/ (United States), .../es-MX/ (Mexico), and .../es-DO/ (Dominican Republic). I ...
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Why a word having high significance in content keywords does not get a high rank in Google?
When I check my website - meethiangeethi - in google webmaster tool, then keyword 'angeethi' is shown to be at the 3rd position in terms of significance. But when I search for angeethi at google, then ...
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Improving FAQ SEO with multiple pages?
I have a client who has over 200 Question/Answer style content blocks. Neither the questions or answers are very long and most of them have almost the same question but with a word or two ...
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Is it a good idea to add robots “noindex” meta tags to deep low content pages, e.g. product model data
I'm considering adding robots "noindex, follow" tags to the very numerous product data pages that are linked from the product style pages in our online store.
For example, each product style has a ...
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How to deal with just a section of duplicate conent on multiple pages [duplicate]
I'm doing SEO for a cell phone buyback website.
On every individual product page, there's a section of text for entering in the condition of the cell phone, filling user information etc. The thing ...
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Google AdSense ad serving has been disabled. So How to handle it?
I have a site which pulls photos from Instagram API. Recently I got a shocking message from Google that "Google AdSense ad serving has been disabled" for the "ADULT/PORNOGRAPHY" reason.
I believe ...
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Is there any SEO problem using an alt=“” for a image?
According to this article, it's perfectly valid to use alt="" on purely decorative images. For example, if there is a graph showing some data which is detailed on the the page contents, any alt value ...
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SEO value of duplicating content externally
I run a website that includes a blog which was hand-coded by myself and is hosted on the same domain.
My partner in this endeavour thinks it would be a good idea to open up a Blogger/WordPress blog ...
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no description when searching keyword in google
I am new with SEO, and i following a tutorial about meta tags...
when i search my keyword in Google, I can only see the URL of my website but it has no description....
search in google: surebooked
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