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Redirecting visitors to the homepage when they've requested a subpage is generally a bad idea because:
Search engines will cease to index subpage content, resulting in big traffic drops.
Users will struggle to find the information that brought them to the site in the first place.
However, if there's a very good reason to do so (and I can think of few), ...
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For such a small website there is no harm in repeating the the phrase in all of the page titles as long as it isn't the actual page title for all of the pages. But having a portion of the title being identical accross the pages won't hurt the site's SEO efforts at all and is a very common thing to do. I wouln't give it any special consideration or concern at ...
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One of the reasons is likely to be that your old domain uses a 302 (temporary) redirect to the new one. This should be a 301 (permanent) redirect.
The other reasons would be around where your back-links are coming from (and to), since PR is a measurement of backlinks...
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You can only scrape the peoples names who have liked the competitions page, however you would need to have access-rights to view those names, and if you don't then the answer is NO.
Now, may I suggest you try a different tactic, because you may find that this backfires if you approach all of those people, some people might not appreciate that sort of ...
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The only solution I found until now (Joomla 3.0) is adding the following snippet in your template's index.php file before <jdoc:include type="head" />.
The snippet for my page looks like this:
<?php
if (!strncmp($this->getTitle(), "Home", 4))
{
$app = JFactory::getApplication();
$this->setTitle( $app->getCfg( 'sitename' ) );
}
?>
...
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I do not really know how they do it exactly, but I know a method of how it can be done. HTML5 has this option build in. It is done by local storage.
Check out this link: http://diveintohtml5.org/storage.html
But maybe there are other methods, maybe by javascript which could be compatible with more browsers.
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I recently investigated on this for the same reasons as yours.
W3C answer:
Authors should use titles that identify their documents even when they
are used out of context, for example in a user's history or bookmarks,
or in search results.
Google answer:
Avoid repeated or boilerplate titles. [...] Long titles that vary by only a single piece of ...
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From a user experience viewpoint, I'd recommend making the beginning of the title as descriptive of the particular page as possible. That's because the beginning of the title (and the favicon) are what the user will see when they bookmark one of your pages or open it in a browser tab.
When a user does that, presumably it's because they'll want to find the ...
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Your PageRank can drop for a variety of reasons outside of your direct control. For instance, if your PR is mainly coming from site X, and site X suddenly stops linking to you or loses its PR for some reason, then you will experience a PR drop.
That said, most of the time it's probably going to be something you did. For instance, if you link to a spammy, ...
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I strongly recommend installing AceSEF or SH404SEF within Joomla. AceSEF is free and does the job while SH404SEF tends to have slightly more features but comes a price. Joomla SEO is ok out of the box but its far from perfect, altering templates is ok but using an extension is far easier and does more SEO than just what you asked.
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<?php
$title = $this->getTitle();
$app = JFactory::getApplication();
//$this->setTitle( $title . ' - ' . $app->getCfg( 'sitename' ) );
$this->setTitle( 'your funky title' );
?>
It is all in here
Try adding if(str_pos($this->getTitle(), "Part of your home page title")!=false)
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You should create a Google Analytics profile for testing purposes. When you have modified your eCommerce tracking snippet to suit your needs and are satisfied with the results in GA you can then change the profile ID to a new account and start fresh. That's easier than trying to zero out transactions.
Remember though you do have custom variables to use ...
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Users can reach this page thanks to several different source, including a direct link like the one shared in your question.
For each person that requests the page, the page view is incremented. It has nothing to do with search volume. Also, search volume in Google Keyword Tool doesn't return a value for very low traffic keywords. But remember, very low ...
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There is NO right or wrong answer. It is impossible to even guess without an idea on what your pages are about.
Think about it. Imagine if you have a news site with 5M articles, you probably have very few articles read each day since people reach much more about recent events. Then you are a store with 5M articles for sale and people only buy 2% of what you ...
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I know that most forms that 'save drafts' in case the browser crashes or the user leaves the site use ajax to store data on the server. If you write something on blogger, or write an email in gmail the form autosaves what you write every minute. Now if anything happens to your browser or connection you have a draft saved that you can continue editing before ...
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Thanks for your comments - the page is now back up and running, but I am not certain why.
My theory is that I actually fixed it by deleting the .htaccess file which I removed from the root of /public_html and assumed would be recreated by Wordpress.
It's not been replaced in the /public_html folder, but without me noticing a .htaccess file was created in ...
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Whenever you serve the same content using AJAX and when JavaScript is disabled (e.g., search engine bots), you're fine. The bot will just follow the non-JavaScript URL and silently assume that the dynamically created content of the JavaScript script results in the same page (contents).
Violating this rule, e.g., serving a different page to regular users and ...
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