Position of a site in results of search engines.
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What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google?
What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google?
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1answer
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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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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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5answers
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Does an entry in DMOZ significantly help the ranking of a web site?
I have read that getting your site listed in the open directory (DMOZ) can significantly help boost your site's ranking in major search engines. Is this an 'old webmaster's tale' or does it really ...
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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 ...
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2answers
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How does experts exchange get away with tricking google/users?
I know from reading Coding Horror one of the reasons stackoverflow set up was
"Stackoverflow is sort of like the anti-experts-exchange (minus the nausea-inducing sleaze and quasi-legal search engine ...
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2answers
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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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Updating/Redesign website…how to retain/transfer ranking?
What steps do I have to take in order to make sure that I keep my search engine rankings after I redesign or update my site?
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Does duplicate content on another site affect my ranking?
A competitors set up a new site and copy and pasted some copy from our home page.
When doing a comparison with a duplicate content tool the result was that the pages where 21% similiar.
Does the ...
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3answers
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Does keyword density within a title tag make a difference in SEO?
Recently, I changed the title tags for a site that I work on SEO for. See the changes made:
Previous title tag: Flat Fee Listing in MLS, Flat Fee MLS Listing For Sale By Owner.
Revised: Flat Fee ...
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2answers
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Tool or online service to view Google PR of thousand sites from a list?
Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Maybe a tool (or online service) that you used at least once.
I have list of webistes in a txt file.
I need a tool or an oline service (possibly free) that finds ...
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3answers
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600 visitors per day, 20 backlinks but still not referenced by Google
i've launch a website on wednesday (9 August)
There's already in 4 days
12,000 viewed pages
1,400 visits
20 to 25 backlincks
a sitemap.xml (130 URL)
english language / french language - url like ...
4
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2answers
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Page speed affecting ranking in practice
Articles like this one discuss Google possibly taking speed into account for ranking factors.
Are there any other search engines which already take speed into account for search results? or perhaps ...
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4answers
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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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6answers
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My site does not appear in the first 30 or more Google pages. What could be the reasons? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?
I did this site about 2 months ago: www.pbg-bulgaria.com
The problem is that I cannot find the ...
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2answers
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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 ...
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1answer
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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
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3answers
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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 ...
3
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2answers
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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 ...
3
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2answers
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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 ...
3
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3answers
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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 ...
3
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4answers
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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 ...
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3answers
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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: ...
2
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1answer
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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 ...
2
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1answer
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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 ...
2
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5answers
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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
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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 ...
2
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3answers
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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 ...
2
votes
1answer
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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 ...
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 ...
2
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2answers
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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 ...
2
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1answer
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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 ...
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3answers
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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 ...
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1answer
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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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2answers
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How to recommend Google indexing some keywords?
I've read many articles about SEO. I try to implement my knowledge on a site but I don't get good results after 6 months.
e.g.: I've used Google Webmaster Tools, sitemaps, title tags, keywords in ...
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2answers
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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 ...
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1answer
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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 ...
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1answer
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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, ...
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3answers
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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 ...
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2answers
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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 ...
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1answer
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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
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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
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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 ...
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vote
1answer
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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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2answers
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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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2answers
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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.
...
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0answers
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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
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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 ...
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0answers
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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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3answers
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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 ...
