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Google doesn't put much (if any) ranking weight directly on the keywords that are in the URL right now. Any effects on SEO with or without them are caused indirectly through user interaction and usability.
From a better usability standpoint:
Keywords in URLs can increase the clickthrough rate (CTR) from the SERPs. Check out these two search results for ...
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I use manual - simply because I want to be in control, especially when it's my clients money. When manual, it makes more sense to control what times, or if the advert appears over a whole day or until the money runs out. If money is not an option, go with automatic.
We (web users) click impulsively and so sometimes being position 1 is not best but why would ...
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If you look on google trends, you will see that your new keywords receive a lot less interest than your old keywords:
This is probably because, in general, users are lazy and don't like to get too specific in their search queries unless they have a real need to. Also, different users get more specific in different ways, so while one user might search for ...
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It is the process of reducing each word to its stem. E.g. "searched", "searches", "searching" all become just the root word (or stem) "search" in a search index.
In terms of websites, this is frequently used for search functionality. I.e. enabling any form of the search term to find all variations of the supplied keyword. It can significantly improve the ...
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Here's my opinion:
You can choose one keyword for your website, for example "colours" to follow British English word. I think having the same word on your website is good think. Using two terms in website is kind of weird for visitors (who can be confused).
However, for backlinks campaign, you can mix two terms. There will be good to change anchor text of ...
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I can't speak in terms of SEO, as I am in no way shape or form a SEO Expert, but I would say things that don't directly have to do with your business, should be on a different site. Business sites really should only be about the business.
You can have an About Me section of the site that discusses your interests, but I would recommend breaking it up into ...
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Yes, that is horrible keyword stuffing. Think about it from a searcher's perspective. Let's say they search for "Moscow Time" and land on your site. Initially they think "This is great, lots of world clocks, let me see which one is for Moscow". Unfortunately, you don't say which clock is for Moscow. In fact, you appear not to even show the correct clock ...
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It's no secret that Google put more trust in sites and domains that are aged, if you had asked the same question 1-2 years ago then I would of told you pianotuningtoronto.ca however times have changed and Google cares little for EMD 'Exact Match Domains', so there is little to no benefit in actually using keywords in the domain name. So while both are valid ...
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Enter that website's url into www.opensiteexplorer.org (or any other backlink checker) and you'll see it has lots of backlinks from a variety of domains.
You can further use other toolboxes (sistrix, searchmetrics, xovi, seolytics...) to analyze the value of the site over a period of time to see if there was a sudden spike of links or if the link building ...
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Yes that most certainly is keyword stuffing, otherwise it's really, really poor UX/writing that does an incredibly good job of emulating keyword stuffing.
First off, the IANA tz database only keeps track of about 418 distinct timezones. Many of the "timezones" you list are just different ways to identify the same zone. Many of them aren't even timezones but ...
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The last time I tested this, it does not. If you put some weird word in the meta description (something like "xenylotior"), then you will not be able to find it in Google search. If you put that word in the text of the page, you will be able to find it. Words in the meta description are not used for ranking because they are not indexed and not searchable. ...
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If you know the keywords that you want to check the position of then you can use any of the following:
SEO Centro
Moonsy Google Keyword Rank Checker
Allorank
Google Rank Checker
Google Page Rank
Google, Bing and Yahoo Keyword Rank Checker
If you want detailed reports on all the keywords and positions that you may not even be aware of your ranking for... ...
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Keywords in URL's (Not Domains since Google's EMD Update) are used to give signals to the relevance of the page to that of what people are searching for.
Google used many methods to establish the relevancy of the page, such as:
SEO Friendly URLS
Meta Description
Title Description
On page headers
Alt Tags
Text Content
Page Titles
Off Page SEO (Links, ...
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In general, having keywords in the URL is a plus. It is an SEO ranking factor and it is useful for users so they have an idea of what the target page will contain.
Having said that, in your example it is entirely pointless to change. Your URL already has keywords, including what's apparently your most important keyword (cosplay). Changing things now will ...
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Duplicate content refers to having the same content (text, images, etc.) found at two (or more) different URLs. You shouldn't run into this problem, as 1) both links are distinctly different (the sub-folder the content is found within should not be a determining factor in a search engine's crawler, as much as the end-point is, or there would be a LOT of ...
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I edited my answer to make it related to you update
No problem with your code, all the appearances of "prima-de-riesgo" seem to be in perfectly legal code, like cdata and href's, crawlers identify that as part of the url, and it's use is not punishable.
If the use where in hidden layers, background color, not connected text, links to the same page with no ...
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There're two issues here: your question about whether to optimise keywords at site or page level, and a wider one regarding the optimisation practices that question is predicated on.
Should you optimise keywords at page or site level?
Search engines rank pages, not sites. The site as a whole can influence how its individual pages perform, but all else ...
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Even though Google shows different results for colors and colours it is still smart enough to know they are the same word (as evidenced by the fact pages with 'color' are returned for a search of 'colour').
The main difference in the results appears to be that exact-match domains like colours.co.uk show up on their respective searches.
So I would suggest ...
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You are not going to get penalised for structuring your URLs this way. Including the category ("apples" in this case) as a directory is a common, logical structure and enables the user to see the hierarchy in the URL.
I suspect your URL structure is as a consequence of your coding structure - is that right? And these particular pages are all within the ...
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If i redirect that website to mainwebsite.com/productA1/ will, will productA1.com be indexed by search engines?
If you redirect (301 or 302) productA1.com to mainwebsite.com/productA1/ then productA1.com won't appear in the SERPs. If productA1.com previously appeared in the SERPs for it's own content (it wasn't a brand new site) then it would pass link ...
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This is a nice summary on SEOMoz.
If your title gets to long the search engine will cut it for you. Title mainly for users, not for the search engine. Spread the keywords over the pages with the specific keyword content.
Forget the "keywords" meta tag (search engines ignore them for a long time) and focus on the "description" tag, as this is what will ...
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You don't need to use all word orders in your website. Google can figure it out. This is due to the way that they search. The create what is called an "index". It works similarly to the index in the back of a cookbook that list ingredients along with page number on which recipes for them can be found. Only with search engines its words instead of ...
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Few Methods to Increase Your Google Adwords Quality Points
To increase your Quality Points in Adwords you need to make sure Google thinks you're quality is relevant to the keywords you are targeting, bad quality points is normally as a result of bad SEO. There are many ways to increase your quality points and here is a few methods how.
Meta Title - Use ...
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EMD (exact match domains) are not as good as they used to be since Google clamped down on people opting to use keyword rich domains over well thought up business name and brands. Google wants individuals and businesses to come up with good branding, business names and just good sounding websites.
You should opt to use something like:
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Search Engine Advancements
Google, Bing, and Yahoo have come a long way since they first launched, a lot of the keyword signals is actually done off the page. Things like meta tags are not used by Google but may be used by Bing and Yahoo to get an initial feeling for the page, some of the top SEO plugins don't even use meta keywords as Bing and Yahoo work ...
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Disallow it in your yoursite.com/robots.txt, like so:
Disallow: /module/get/
Edit: Yes, you can use rel="nofollow" on your link. This means that Google will not attribute ranking to it, however it doesn't necessarily mean that it won't follow the link at all. It might still be indexed. Using Disallow in robots.txt is still the best option in my honest ...
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I don't think there is enough information to know at this point. Simply sending the search queries over SSL does not strip the search query information out automatically (as evidenced by AdWords traffic still showing all referring data). Additionally if you create an advanced segment in google analytics for Google Organic traffic using Firefox browser (which ...
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Following might be the reasons for this site showing higher in search results:
1) This site may be getting lot of back-links from other sites.
2) As per the recent Google Panda update, if one site is linking to another sites, which can be useful for the viewers, then Google happens to give edge to that very site ( In this case it is there).
3) Last but ...
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First you can absolutely target a broad match keyword using on page SEO. If the content is unique enough it will rank organically. No question about that, now if the broad keyword is competitive all the on page optimization and quality content on the page will not be enough to rank the page.
Search volumes are not accurate don't take what Google tells you ...
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I think you're going backwards. Search engines try to rank pages for different keywords based on the relevance of the content. To do this, they have to determine what the topic of the page is, and what the target audience (based on search keyword) is. So it's hard for a page to rank well on a bunch of completely unrelated keywords unless those are just ...
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