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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 for pages with time relevant content for this year when previous years pages are ranking
I'm publishing download information about Income Tax every year(during income tax filing period of April-Aug). Now the theory says that articles old by 2-3 years rank higher in Google's rankings than ...
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What is the effect of using common colloquial words in page title?
I am wondering what is the effect of using common words while writing a title of webpage.
For Example for my home page, I am trying to write an effective title. I worked out on few titles like:
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Griefing to steal pagerank off my website?
I was looking today in my Google Webmaster tools for my website and see duplicate titles for the following pages on my website (small sample out of many on my site index):
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SEO effect of many articles having a similar title and content structure?
I'm building a diet directory on my weight loss site, and the structure for those diet descriptions will be similar (the actual content will be unique though).
Here are some examples of the ...
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Website SEO should i use - or |? [duplicate]
I was wondering if I should use (for SEO purposes), either:
product_name - product_category | website_name
Example:
UCleaner - Delete Cache of Computer | HellGates
OR
product_name - ...
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(Google) Title of page not updated, everything else did
My website changed significantly this month. Amongst the changes was the website's title. Two weeks ago, I finally used Webmaster Tools and submitted the page.
So far, Yahoo and Bing have updated ...
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My website title shows up slightly different from what's in my title tag, only in Google search
I've included my page title in the title tag in this format:
" blah blah blah | sitename ". But for some reason it's showing up on Google search results as " sitename: blah blah blah ".
It shows up ...
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<title>word/word | etc..</title> or <title>word-word | etc.</title> re: SEO
With regards to SEO and the title tag would there be a difference between using a / for related words or using a - ?
For example:
Air/Gas Filter | Another Filter | Last Filter
or
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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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WordPress page title repeated in SOME pages
I have created a Wordpress site and titles were working just fine. Then, some time and plugins installed later, I noticed that in SOME pages I get the title repeated 2 times.
Example of wrong page ...
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How to get the pageURL, page title, page H1 in excel/csv format [closed]
Is there any online tool to get the URL, title, H1 in Excel/CSV format of all the pages in a website.
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SEO: Best Title for the Car Repair company (Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Honda) [closed]
What would be the best Title for the home page for the following situation?
Company name: SuperCompany
Professional area: car repair service, specialize in 4 brands: Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Honda.
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Should a URL match the page's title?
Should the URL of a page match its title? For example:
Http://example.com/about-cats.html
<title>About Cats</title>
Furthermore, if that title were to be changed by the page's author, ...
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Where is Google getting the title of my page from? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Title tag different from title appearing in Google?
I have a site http://biocision.com and if you search for the phrase 'cell freezing' (broad), we used to get on the ...
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Is it true that the Google Spider gives the most relevance of a search result to the first 68 characters of the <title>?
I am reading documentation about my CMS and it states that an HTML page <title> tag is really important in SEO.
It states that the Google Spider gives the most relevance to the first 68 ...
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Which symbol should I use in Meta Title: “|” or “-”?
So there are two way of writing my site title.
For example:
Meow | Photo Magazine or Meow - Photo Magazine
Which one is better (for SEO and for Users)?
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SEO: pages' title for small websites (i.e. 5/6 pages) - repeat key-phrase or not?
It's well known that pages' <title> do impact Google positioning, beside this, they are also definitely important to catch user eye when he is looking at Google search results.
Let's say I have ...
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How can I place keywords at the begining of a title and have it look natural?
As per the question Does the order of keywords matter in a page title?, the first word in the title tag is usually treated with more importance than the rest of the title tag. How can I write ...
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Does having my keyword phrase in every title of my page good?
Does having my keyword phrase in every title or in <strong></strong> tag, help my website to achieve a good rating or rise in my keyword in google?
For example....
If I have "how does ...
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SEO questions about website page titles [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should my Title tag be the same as my H1 tag?
should the <title> tag be the same as the <h1> tag?
should the <title> tag contain the website name too?
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What's the importance of the “title” tag?
Talking with some other people recently, it came up an interesting topic. The core question at hand is:
What's the real importance and weight of the <title> tag in a web site?
For ...
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Searching for a page with a Very Unique title, doesnt find that intended page… Why?
a question about appearing in search results in google:
A page of mine has this extremely unique page title:
Ein gutes Logo passt wie ein Handschuh auf Ihre Marke in die Hände
Now, when I search ...
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Should each page of a Blog listing have its own Title
Should example.com/Blog?Page=1, example.com/Blog?Page=2, etc have the same title?
I have done some research on this and SEOMoz's tools say I have duplicate titles and so does Google's Webmaster ...
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Better ways to have valuable data indexed, which is ignored currently
<a title="">.../a>
Hi folks. It seems that my title tag which holds extremely valuable and describes contents on my simple design page is currently compeltely denied by search engines and ...
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what's the best way to add the state in a page title for seo
For a page title, what's the best way to add the state to the page title for SEO purposes?
For example, should it be:
"Central Pennsylvania Shoe Repair"
or
"Central PA Shoe Repair"
or
"Central ...
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I'm seeing a lot of a new format for title elements for major sites: a few tags, and only then the title of the site itself, is this now optimal SEO?
I'm seeing a lot of sites go to a format similar to the one now in use by stackexchange sites (i.e. short topic - maybe a long topic - only finally the site's name). Is this optimal SEO? It seems ...
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Is it good or bad to have dynamic content in page titles and/or description
In a local listing website, I append number of search results found in the description(not in title currntly) meta tag of the page as I think this is valuable for users
for e.g. "Find address, phone ...
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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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SEO and Changeable-But-Optional URL's
Is there any sort of downside for a URL being changeable?
Take any stack exchange question for example. The URL looks something like this:
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SEO: Is there a limit to how long titles/descriptions should be?
I am trying to fill up title and meta description for my Tumblr blog.
The way I will do that is via the themes.
For the title, it isn't too much of an issue, I can just get the title for the post ...
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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 ...
