Position of a site in results of search engines.
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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 ...
2
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2answers
82 views
How do I change an existing custom domain with Blogger to a new custom domain
I have a Blogger site which has a custom domain which I want to move one old domain to new. Let's pretend this is old-domain.com and new-domain.com
I want to:
1. preserve my search engine ranking as ...
1
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0answers
15 views
SEO for multiple counties and cities [duplicate]
I wanted to know the best practices for improving our SEO for service areas. We have a central office but cover all of Northern Virginia for our Web Design services and are currently only ranking in ...
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1answer
85 views
Website Not Showing for Keywords in Google Search [duplicate]
I have a Website www.rushinformation.com 4 Months old and I always update my Website almost Everyday...But the Problem is that When I type my keyword 'Rushinformation' only in Google Search Results it ...
1
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1answer
428 views
90% sudden drop in search engine ranking with no changes made
This is a recurring topic, but I am very very panicking right now...
I noticed a 90% "impressions" drop (from 60k to 5k) from 2013-03-05 to 2013-03-06.
My keywords dropped, and for a few of them I ...
1
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1answer
81 views
SEO preparation for upcoming new site
I booked a domain and I created an image saying that the site is soon to be launched.
What SEO preparations should I make to avoid harming my SEO ranking? Because my page is blank, the image itself ...
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1answer
53 views
URL Naming practise
Hi wanted to check if at the end of the URL (http://www.abcd.com/product-name/subproduct,default,sc.html) we have characters like default,sc and then .html, does having default,sc have an impact on ...
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0answers
25 views
Increased SEO Ranking [duplicate]
I am wondering how can I increase my websites SEO rank so that when I type the related keyword it would popup like facebook or wikipidia.
I have literally tried everything to somehow increase the ...
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1answer
98 views
What will result in better page ranking in search results: Page views or time spent on page?
What will result in better Page Ranking in search results?
More page views & less time spent per page
Less page views & more time spent per page
Note: The website that is being made ...
0
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0answers
26 views
Multiple websites on a VPS [duplicate]
I am going to create my sites network. I have to create at least four site: e.g. myblog.com, myfreebies.com, mystore.com, my2ndstore.com.
I do not want to buy one host for every one of them, just ...
3
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3answers
164 views
How can I use Google+ to optimize my new website SEO?
Nowadays, we know SMO by using Google+ (and Facebook, Twitter...) is good for SEO and ranking in SERP.
Then, I would like to use Google+ to optimize my new website SEO but I don't know how can I ...
1
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2answers
99 views
I don't think my site is being detected/crawled properly/having backlinks, and it's ruining SEO [closed]
This is really frustrating. I'm setting up a computer repairs business called Darley Tech. I have listed my site on many online directories to encourage backlinks. I have relevant and useful ...
1
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1answer
233 views
Will using the new HTML5 meta charset instead of HTTP-EQUIV affect my clients site's ranking? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the SEO rules for HTML 5?
I am doing a re-design for a client whose site currently has very high and successful rankings across all search engines (Google, ...
1
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1answer
29 views
What are the best practices for Nationalized SEO? [closed]
I am working on Internet marketing for one of the Website designing & development company in India which is located in Mumbai. So the website is performing quite well in local search places or up ...
3
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2answers
174 views
What will be the impact on SEO if we remove our SSL certificate (url become http instead of https)?
For some weird reason the content accessed though our domains is returned via SSL HTTPS on all domains pointing to the server.
https://domain.com leads to our website, with a proper SSL certificate ...
0
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0answers
26 views
My approach towards SEO implementation needs improvements. [closed]
I have always copy/paste this below code as a template for meta tags on project, but I think they are not effective as they could possible be. So, I need to know if there is anyway I can improve it. ...
0
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1answer
42 views
Keyword ranking tracker that works on a per-domain basis [closed]
I'm looking for a keyword racking tracker tool for google.
I have found a lot of them over the internet. However I need one that can track the ranks of a site on domain basis (not exact full URL). ...
0
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0answers
8 views
Will adding q&a help my site's rankings, and if so, what are the implications of a sub-domain for q&a rather than a path on the site? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Subdomain versus subdirectory
One of our web properties is doing quite well without any additional links being created on the site, and our link inventory is tightly ...
2
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1answer
334 views
What is the SEO impact of moving my domain to another IP address and what is the right way of doing this?
I am planning to move several websites to a new hosting provider - keeping the same URL but will resolve to different IP addresses.
For example, some sites are Canadian content-only sites, hosted on ...
4
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2answers
154 views
SEO effect of “You are leaving this site” page for outbound links?
The problem
I am working on an aggregation website that collects reviews about specific products from various websites. The site has many thousands of outbound links (with "nofollow" attributes) to ...
2
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1answer
203 views
Price comparison sites and its effect on Google ranking
I am the webmaster of a website that contains roughly 10,000 products. I would be possibly interested to index those products in a price comparison site like PriceGrabber, Nextag, Shopbot, etc.
The ...
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3answers
202 views
Analyse reasons for Sudden Drop in Traffic [closed]
My site www canada updates dot com (remove spaces) had decent traffic till a month ago and now it has dropped to about 1/3rd. I would be thankful if any one could help and analyse giving exact reasons ...
0
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3answers
656 views
Does blacklisting of IP for sending spam emails efects ranking/SEO of Website
I want to know that if I send the Bulk Mails from Server and it comes into Blacklist. Does it effects the Website Ranking, Ad Sense earning etc., If yes/no, why?
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3answers
196 views
Does sitewide html refactoring affect Google traffic?
I have recently made a big structural change on my site and the very next day the number of Google impressions went from 75.000 to 3.000, with a proportional drop of traffic from searches.
No URLs ...
0
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3answers
392 views
Placing h2 and h3 tags around words in paragraphs
If I have a page with an <h1> heading and a long paragraph, is it ok to write the paragraph (see below - with the h tags mixed with broken p tags to make up the whole block of text) and just ...
2
votes
1answer
168 views
Tumblr tag visit statistics
Is there a way to get the visit number of different tags? I already set up a Google Analytics account to work with my tumblr blog, but I guess I reach more people through tags than site visits. I just ...
1
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2answers
101 views
Why does Google show sitelinks for our domain with one search and not another?
The name of our company is G2 Builders - What is happening is that if you go to google and type in "G2 Builder" with no "s" at the end, our website has sitelinks.
When you type in our name with the ...
3
votes
2answers
239 views
How does moving a site to a host in an other country affect my google ranking?
If I move my website, which is hosted in Europe, to a host based in Asia, could it hurt my ranking in Google search?
I will keep my domain registrar in Europe, so my guess is that the ranking will ...
2
votes
2answers
157 views
Google won't display site [closed]
My website (http://markasoftware.getenjoyment.net) doesn't seem to be indexed properly by Google (I haven't tried other search engines).
When I type in the URL of my site it appears right at the top ...
3
votes
1answer
83 views
Abnormal alexa ranking score
I have 2 websites of ecommerce in France and for these websites I have a strange behaviour of the alexa results. Here are some statistics about the websites :
Unique Visits January 2012
Website A ...
3
votes
4answers
324 views
Personalized content (authenticated with a cookie) and impact on SEO
We have a big website with a lot of content, that is doing pretty well in terms of SEO. Google likes the site, visitors like it as well. Our problem is that there is a lot of content that would only ...
1
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1answer
63 views
My website is reported to belong to “Japan” on Alexa's ranking
I'm the owner of Thought Results, which is a newbie I just started. I'm an Iranian guy. But when I see Alexa's ranking, it says that my website belongs to Japan. Also Visualize Traffic reports the ...
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3answers
62 views
Is website visited by search engines?
How can I find out that my website which is actually uploaded on webhosting for about two months is visited by search engines like google, yahoo and others? Which ranking sites should I regularly ...
0
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1answer
79 views
Specifying crawlers to not crawl Links which are dependent on external API's
I have links on my site which lead to internal pages that depend on first bringing data from an external API. This only takes time the first time they are pushed. Links to pages which exists in the ...
2
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3answers
1k views
how to get new site indexed by alexa
When I search my site on alexa, it says "Alexa Traffic Rank: No Data". So I google the issue. I come across this page: ...
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2answers
1k views
How to check if my site was penalized by Google?
I suspect that my site is penalized by Google.
Is there a way to check if it's true?
EDIT:
Webmaster Tools don't show any messages. Sometimes there are warnings about inaccessible (404, Soft 404s) ...
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0answers
61 views
SEO domain keyword adventage - alltogether.com or all-different-words.com? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name ?
I have heard that if someone searches for a term, and your domain name matches that term (e.g. stackexchange.com ranks ...
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7answers
4k views
Does a site's bounce rate influence Google rankings?
Does Google consider bounce rate or something similar in ranking sites?
Background: here at Stack Exchange we noticed that the latest Google algorithm changes resulted in about a 20% dip in traffic ...
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2answers
53 views
How to know that my site is getting index/rank by search engine
As per subject, anyone can tell me how to check that my site is getting index/rank by search engine(e.g. google, yahoo)?
2
votes
1answer
171 views
Can I use translated versions of other sites' content?
I would like to add a "Comments" module to my online store to display external comments for an item; the comments will come from other big players in this industry.
The comments will be localized ...
9
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2answers
2k views
SEO preference for WWW or HTTP:// protocol redirection? Do www websites rank better than NON-www?
After having read various articles on this site about WWW or Non-WWW website setup, here, here and here, and after having setup a correct redirection rule in .Htaccess to at least eliminate duplicate ...
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2answers
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Google's 200 ranking factors
When doing research on SEO you most probably stumbled upon Google's statement there are approximately 200 ranking factors. I think it would be nice to have a list of all these 200 factors.
Does ...
2
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3answers
140 views
Search engine impact of irrelevant inbound links?
On several of my websites, I noticed a significant number of inbound links coming from irrelevant websites.
For example, one of my site is about travel and one of site that links to it is about ...
1
vote
2answers
686 views
Multisites Network SEO::Can self-referencing canonical tag(rel=“canonical”) inside article improve google rating?
Can self-referencing canonical tag(rel="canonical") inside article improve google rating?
The Case:
Company have 40 sites with original content and 1 main site with some of 40 sites articles.
...
3
votes
3answers
81 views
What to do when product range evolves and site name does not reflect this?
Suppose, just as an example, I have a website with domain www.gifts-for-dogs.com.....but after a few years I start selling stuff for Cats and Fish. I may not keep enough of a range of products for ...
2
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3answers
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Do I create new site or add to existing site?
Suppose, as an example, I have a website with the address, www.cool-gifts.com and I'm getting regular sales and its a worthwhile site, but no great fireworks. After research I find that there is a ...
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4answers
2k views
Estimate of Hits / Visits / Uniques in order to fall within a given Alexa Tier?
I was wondering if anyone could offer up rough estimates that could tell me how many hits a day move you into a given Alexa rank ?
Top 5,000
Top 10,000
Top 50,000
Top 100,000
Top ...
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1answer
16k views
Does the order of keywords matter in a page title?
Stack Overflow has made a change to their page titles such that the most popular tag for a question appears at the start of the title. The change is being deployed across the network, so check out ...
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3answers
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How to determine if site has been punished by Google
I had a site that ranked top 3 for one keyword term and top 6 for another.
At the beginning of October both terms dropped radically from the search results.
I had recently changed the .htaccess file ...
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5answers
137 views
Tool to monitor rankings
I'm searching for a tool that can give me the page number (Google) and position a given web page scores for a given keyword.
E.g. Searching for the term "foo" the tool will show third page, second ...
