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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Does Bing support anything like Google's First Click Free program?
Google has a program for webmasters called First Click Free.
To implement First Click Free, you need to allow all users who find a document on your site via Google search to see the full text of ...
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Can a sitemap index file reference sitemap files under different domains?
My company owns several domain names. We also host websites for our users at their custom domains.
Our domains:
company.com
product1.com
product2.com
Users's domains:
user1.com
user2.com
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Recovery from accidental noindex of site
I've recently noticed that an entire site I manage had been set to noindex for about 3 weeks. This has caused the entire site to be completely dropped from Google's index (searching "site:" and then ...
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How to handle multiple pages of the same site with the same outlinks
I am developing a back link tool for Chinese SEO (our web site URL is:
http://link.aizhan.com just like ahrefs.com.
I encountered a problem which is how to handle multiple pages of the same ...
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I have never created quantcast account why still they show my sites quantcast rank?
i have never registered for quantcast and placed quantcast code on my site,
still on many website value checker sites i found some number as quantcast for my site.
do this rank really matter for a ...
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images within noscript
Note: My question is not about javascript
Note: My question is how to make the HTML accessible to search engines.
Note: My question is not about hiding texts, is on block loading of ...
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Content blocks on dedicated pages rather than listed on one page
I am doing a web site for a client. The descriptions for all his services are rather short and precise so I decided to put them all (about 10 of them) on one page and have a sticky menu in the sidebar ...
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How do I monitor if SEO tags on my site changed during active development?
I work for a website that undergoes active development, with many production pushes per day. We are heavily SEO-dependent, and as our pages are being changed frequently by devs, we're always worried ...
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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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Need advice on best strategy for removing these bad links
new to Stack Exchange so forgive me if im in the wrong place.
Heres the scenario...
We recently took on a new client who's previous seo company had partaken in some dodgy link building tactics.
They ...
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What is more preferable, Creating dedicated domains for mobile apps that shares different content or associate them with folders in one domain?
I want to consult you in an SEO matter which i am completely lost with,
I've built a social mobile application that allows users to share text content and made all the content that appears on the ...
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Will these tool tips get me penalized?
I have a page of 10 products. Each product has a list of (7) features associated with it. If a user hovers over the name of the feature, (ex., "Moisture resistance), a tooltip description displays.
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Is my htaccess setting hurting SEO?
I have a site that I have redirecting to https. I do this to leverage wildcard SSL for my password protected pages. Everything seems to work fine with testing. For example, whether you type in http or ...
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How do I change pages registering as 404 to 200
I have this problem. After relaunching my site: http://www.kgstiles.com, traffic dropped immensely(about 60%). After troubleshooting for a week and a half - losing thousands of dollars off of lost ...
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Seo Google Publisher Network
I'm just about to start a new business which creates niche affiliate sites. I'm curious about the impacts to me from Google of all the urls being hosted with the same analytic tags, webmaster tool ...
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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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SEOs: mobile version using AJAX: how to be properly read by SEOs?
Before anything else, I'd like to emphasize that I've already read this and this.
Here's what I can do:
Choice (1):
create classical Web version with all products in that page - ...
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Transfer page from internal to external
Currently I have a website with a list of audio products (essentially a search engine for audio deals). http://www.soundplaza.co.uk
Once you go to the details page, you can then press the 'view deal' ...
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Can I use a 302 redirect to serve up static content from a url with escaped_fragment?
We would like to serve up seo-friendly ajax-driven content. We are following this documentation. Has anyone ever tried to write a 302 redirect into the htaccess file, that takes the ...
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JavaScript loaded external content SEO
I wonder what is the best way to have Javascript loaded content indexed by search engines. I know that search engines don't execute Javascript, but I am thinking more of an progressive enchantment.
I ...
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Webmaster tools reports fake 404 errors
I have a website where Google Webmaster Tools reports 15,000 links as 404 errors. However, all links return a 200 when I visit them. The problem is, that eventhough I can visit these pages and return ...
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SEO effects of intermix of WP blog, custom PHP site and FB app game
We're a melbourne tech company in the process of building a custom site in PHP.
We plan to launch a "pre-launch" page which is also custom coded (CSS3 on twitter bootstrap framework + HTML5 front end ...
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Ajax crawling : snapshot page dissimilar with user page
For ajax-crawling purpose I make snapshots pages. My problem is user view pages and snapshot pages are dissimilar (tags h1, h2...).
Example:
user view page: http://www.meomap.net/#!/place/1
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Directing crawlers to content in language per language sub-domain
I have a site with multilingual website with many pages (40M). The site has UGC, and each translation is actually for the titles. Each sub-domain points to the same content with different titles per ...
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Should I remove bad links to old site that are being 301 redirected to new site?
Should I remove bad links e.g. 0 Page Rank, 0 Trust linking to old site that are being 301 redirected to new site?
Would I get rid of these links using Google's Disavow links?
We've only improved in ...
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link tags in iframe widget
I have a rating community-site
and i´m offering little i-frame widgets with the average rating and some little other info
does it make sense (for visibility, seo) to add link tags to the head like : ...
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How does thousands of backlinks to my subdomains affect SEO?
I have 90k backlinks from 3 websites. On a subdomain, I have catalogs and my clients have a link on their site in the header to these catalogs. This means that they have in all their pages a link to ...
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Different Blocked URLS Stats in Google Webmaster
Just want to know i got different blocked urls stats at webmaster.
I blocked entire site for revamp and latest builds implementation. Here are different stats
Under Health tab> Blocked URls>2,580
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Merging Multiple Top-level Domains into a Single Domain
My client had multiple top-level-domains. Each one represented an insurance program within a specific vertical. For all the sites at these alternate domains, there was a 30/70 mix of duplicate vs. ...
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Comparison of phrases containing the same word in Google Trends
If I compare three phrases in google trends :
house
sale house
white house
I get the following numbers:
house -> 91
sale house -> 3
white house -> 2
The question is: Is "sale house" and ...
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How to avoid duplicate content in WordPress eCommerce Store
I run a WordPress eCommerce store powered by WooCommerce. I have a large inventory of products and most of the product descriptions are the same for all products and it's mandatory to include it. It's ...
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How to allow Google Images search to by pass hotlink protection?
I saw Google Images seems to index my images only if hotlink protection is off. [*]
I use anyway hotlink protection because I don't like the idea of people sucking my bandwidth, i simply use this ...
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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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Is there such a thing as a Google Result Set simulator?
I am always making tweaks to my site, be it in the .htaccess file, some new SEO plugin, different types of content or whatever.
For all these changes, I would really like to be able test it ...
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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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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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Does Google Analytics Content Drilldown Mix Pages With Directories in Results?
I didn't set up this GA account and therefore don't have my custom setup that breaks the numbers up better. I just want to verify I'm looking at this correctly. On the Content > Site Content > ...
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“Included” search phrases in URLs/titles/H1s and SEO
When designing a new URL/folder structure for our website, we faced one interesting problem related to choosing best keywords from SEO perspective. We call it "included search phrases". It will be ...
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WP Network — Planning Long Term SEO (one large site versus microsites)
The Main Question is This (details follow below): Is it better to go with individual domain names for the various niches of a company's focus, or is it better to put it all under one domain?
I'm ...
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Correct microdata and/or microformats for real estate listings?
Given I am running a real estate rentals listing website, what would be the correct microdata or microformats for the listing pages? There is the usual data: address, photos, price, start date, ...
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Does google use transliteration when crawling page URLs and indexing them?
In a generic search Google understands transliteration and if I wrote some words using Latin letters but in a non-English language ( for instance phrase "red cat" in Russian using transliteration will ...
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Can I use a list of blog ping services for a portal?
I'm setting up a list of ping services for a portal.
It has a blog, forum, articles, restaurants, hotels and many other information, so it is far beyond a blog.
I have a list of standard ping ...
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Google SEO - Migrating website
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 redirectrs to ...
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Website is indexed by googlebot but google says it is not?
I was trying to use data highlighter tool today, but got an error saying "URL not indexed in google". I searched my website with google and checked a cached version, it seems that everything there is ...
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Link building campaign for externally hosted sub-domain
I am launching a link building campaign for a sub-domain. I plan to ensure that the sub-domain receive enough links from the parent domain and external domains in order to speed up indexing and ...
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Domain Registration Public Information, Measures Domain Authority In SEO?
I have seen on internet in various places, talking about this and they says this information do have impact on SEO, specially in the 'domain authority' section. Is it so?
If so, Is there any proper ...
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Google authorship verification issue
I'm trying to get my blog content author verified so my face gets into the Google search results. I managed to achieve this a few weeks back - When testing my content in the Google authorship testing ...
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URL-rewriting on Plesk using ISAPI_rewrite3 Lite
I am using Plesk Windows based web server with Windows 2008 server OS with IIS-6 for my e-commerce website.
I want to rewrite URLs for all dynamic pages, So I installed ISAPI_Rewrite 3 Lite on my web ...
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The best image geotag practice with EXIF and image sitemaps?
When optimizing my website for local SEO (targeting my city of residence) I am keen to geotag the important images (photo's) that are displayed on the website and to create an image sitemap. This to ...
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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 ...
