SERPs (or singular SERP) is an abbreviation for Search Engine Results Pages or Search Engine Results Positions. Most commonly it describes a page generated by a user's input for a given search phrase or word.
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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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Google Ranking for long tail search phrases
When using long tail search phrases for products (items to purchase), google generally returns multiple URLS for various ecommerce sites, but it hides additional urls for each site behind .
Each ...
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Removing date from Google SERP
We are going through our site analysing the SEO. I find that sometimes on a google results page, some results show a date, others don't. Example (from same query):
I prefer the result not to have ...
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Can a sitemap change result in a drop of visits?
I recently restructured and resubmitted the sitemap for a website of mine in GWT. The old one was built by a script I acquired, which had its flaws but dit the job. After having implemented URL ...
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Google Webmaster Geographic target: Increases or Decreases Traffic?
My website is an english video streaming website that gets visitors from all over the world (about 70,000 per day). 35% of my traffic is from the US.
Now, in google Webmaster, if I were to set my ...
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Yahoo search: different results shown in two identical searches
searching on http://www.yahoo.it for villa matrimonio bologna I noticed Yahoo shows different results. You need to retry few times to get this done maybe exiting the browser and openeing it again, or ...
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www is not displayed in google search result
I have a website at www.matrimonyteam.com ; when I perform a Google search it is only displaying matrimonyteam.com in search results rather than www.matrimonyteam.com
Is there is any setting ...
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How to accomplish a rich snippet with Twitter?
I would like to enhance my CTR for my pages and/or posts. When I publish these I tend to Tweet them so they become known. When doing some research on 'Grails' I just noticed the following snippet in ...
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Why do Google FreshBot crawled and indexed pages disappear from SERPs? Will they come back?
Sometimes a page on our site will show up in the Google SERPs that was previously not indexed (yet) due to a news story or blog posting on another site that points to it.
From what I understand, the ...
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SEO and reversed (key)words
I am frequently finding sites that use reversed words in domain names and content. Just an example: www.elgoog.com or something like "Sincerely yours elgoog".
Does these word have value in SEO and ...
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Japanese Hosting And Search Engine Rankings
I have a website that is currently hosted in Japan and has been for a number of years. Its well established in the search engines in both Yahoo Japan and Google Japan.
For numerous reasons its become ...
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google search differences
i'm preety new to SEO, so please bare with me if the question seems dumb..
I have a webshop, for which I made a sitemap and sent it to google to index.. now, when I am logged in to my google account ...
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How important is the domain name for SEO
Most people advice to buy a domain name that exactly matches your main business field. For example if you sell computers the best one will probably be computers.com but with millions(maybe billions) ...
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Why does Google sometimes show fewer than the standard pair of lines for the “snippet”?
Normally websites listed in Google's results pages are shown with a standard excerpt comprising two lines with a [...] at the end of the second line.
Occasionally Google allows the website a full ...
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Display of special characters in the page title in SERPs
I have noticed a few oddities recently with the titles of web pages in search engine results pages (SERPs). I started using some special characters in my page titles in order to make them look ...
