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Google doesn't favour HTML5 over HTML4 per se. However, HTML5 does allow more semantic mark-up, which will make it easier for Google to figure out what's what on any given page. This allows Google to be more precise when it comes to ranking what is and what isn't important on a page.
I've never heard of a page dropping in ranking after adopting HTML5 ...
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As a general rule, search engines don't read content created by JavaScript. There are some exceptions as this is changing over time, but the more complex the JavaScript is the less likely it is to be interpreted by search engines. This means your suggestion would not be beneficial for their SEO efforts.
If they're not satisfied with their current CMS they ...
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I would use a rel canonical link meta tag. The content is exactly the same as on another page. You want the search engines to attribute any links into your printer friendly version to your regular version and not penalize you for duplicate content.
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/article-23443.html"/>
on
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Adding or omitting a trailing slash to canonical links really doesn't matter to search engines, providing they both work.
It maybe be best however to stick with one or the other because Google treats each of these URL's separately, which can lead to duplicate content. See this for more on that: Google Webmaster Central Blog: To slash or not to slash
As ...
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You should not rewrite working code.
Whether you use characters as such or as character/entity references does not depend on calendar year but on many other considerations, like the ease of typing characters and the difficulty of distinguishing characters when they appear in HTML source. (Can you distinguish a space from a no-break space, or s with comma ...
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There is function in the Google Webmaster Tools to change the domain of site (= move). There also is an accompanying article that may help you.
In short it says you have to redirect "as good as possible". If not every single page is possible, then at least redirect to correct folder/category on your new site. Also use the named function in the webmaster ...
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Search engines that recognize and crawl iframes, like Google, should treat this similarly to a backlink. Here are two reports confirming this:
Links In IFrames Pass Value In Google
Does Google Crawl And Index Iframe/Javascript Widgets?
Whether iframe's have the same ranking benefits (i.e., 'juice') as regular backlinks depends on the attributes and tags ...
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I feel I should clear this up. Tim Fountain is correct in his comment.
Unlike directories, a domain with a trailing slash is exactly, 100% the same as one without. In other words, it's literally not possible to choose one or the other. So it makes zero difference which you put into your canonical.
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PageRank is purely URL/page-based, so whether you have http://example.com/page , http://page.example.com , or http://example-page.com/ would not change anything in how PageRank is calculated. Using a 301-redirect to forward users (and search-engine signals like PageRank) to a different URL is generally fine, but PageRank is slightly dissipated during a ...
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First you need to understand the way search engine ranks pages. They do not index keywords but they do index pages.
Follow below steps:
First create your website for users and optimize accordingly. Provide proper title, content, images, visuals, navigation that really helps your website users to find information they want.
Unique content is require
Once ...
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You cannot enclose h1 in p. It’s not just a matter of HTML rules; it’s also how browsers and search engines process the markup. Your example will be parsed as if it were
<p>These are the best </p><h1> Cheap Widgets </h1> ever. </p>
That is, one p element, followed by one h1 element, followed by just text not wrapped in an ...
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Additionally: It will, because Google structures information through headlines (generally through semantic markup, because it has no other means to do this). Therefore, you mess up the structure of your document by nesting a h1 in a p. Otherwise, you also distract people with screenreaders. And: what exactly is it supposed to mean, having a h1 by itself in a ...
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Here's my spin on it!
Let's pretend for a moment that Google works of a radio signal, now to increase your signal strength you can use things such as header tags, title, text content and so on! now with less content your effectively making your signal have less strength...
Now the term less is more is kinda a well used phrase when it comes to website ...
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If you have little text on your home page you are limiting the number of keywords that you will rank for with that page.
For most sites, that is probably OK. You want your home page to rank for your brand name. Google can determine that from:
The title of the home page
The site URL
Inbound links to the home page
Beyond the brand name, searchers are ...
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Google has never officially said that DOCTYPE markup contributes towards negative or positive SEO and from the millions that have already converted to HTML5 there has been little or no reports as far as I know that has had negative SEO.
HTML5 Isn't new!
While most will consider HTML5 pretty new its actually some what aged as it has already entered RC ...
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Google ranks webpages (and not websites) for a range of keywords. If your home page ranks better than your concerned webpage for turtle food, that is you're more optimized your home page for these keywords.
To optimize www.example.com/turtle-food/ for these keywords, you can apply a good link from your home page to this internal webpage with turtle food as ...
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Here's a couple of things to consider:
Did you submit a sitemap that included www.example.com/turtle-food? If not, you should. If you did, then check for "crawl errors" in Google Webmaster Tools and use the "Fetch as Google" option for that page.
Do you have the same keywords and similar content relating to "turtle food" on both www.example.com and ...
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It is always best practice to try and make the domain as small as possible as people are more likely to remember domains without hyphens and dots. So in order the choices should be something like:
NameSurname.com (Best Choice).
NameSurname.TLD (Same but a different TLD type if available)
Name-Surname.com (If Best Choice is Taken.. hyphens are treated as ...
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The alt attribute of the img tag is part of the content of the page, it should therefore be in the same context as the rest of the page (unless it is purely decorative in which case you probably shouldn't have any alt text, or use a background-image, etc.)
You could have the same image that is used on two different pages and the subject of those pages could ...
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From this SO answer:
The prefetch only downloads the resources, but does not execute the
code, or fire DOM events or so.
Given Google Analytics depends on running JS, I don't expect it to be
affected.
Any server side analytics that track requests to the given resources
will be affected though.
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No. "Nofollow" provides a way for webmasters to tell search engines "Don't follow links on this page" or "Don't follow this specific link." Since that link isn't an actual hyperlink but a JavaScript trigger, there's no need to use nofollow on it.
Generally speaking, nofollow should be used on the following type of links:
Untrusted content
Paid links
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I believe it's recommended for SEO-purposes that if you use an image like:
http://www.abcphotos.com/babies/newborn.jpg
But also use the same image in a page that's located in another directory, like:
http://www.abcphotos.com/newborns/
Then you should copy the image into that directory (i.e., into /newborns) instead of using the same URL, like so:
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The short answer is, yes.
Not all browsers will properly interpret those characters. Most will catch your unencoded ampersands and such, but they may not catch less common characters. This has a big impact on user experience, more than SEO (unless it falls in the middle of a keyword you are trying to rank on).
Google uses something very similar in ...
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According to this Google Translate support doc, you should use:
<meta name="google" value="notranslate">
Then in Google Webmaster Tools, make sure you select an English speaking country that matches your site's locale for "Geographic target" under:
Configuration -> Settings
You can also request links displaying in your SERP be removed by ...
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I will reply to only a single part of your question since I don't have the SEO experience the others seem to have.
Are there any other aspects to consider?
A few years ago I built a website for a local BBQ restaurant. After about a year they decided to do some shuffling and changed the BBQ restaurant to a Bar & Grill, bought a building in another ...
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I've been studying this issue myself lately. Bybe's advice regarding not confusing visitors and building your brand-identity is good. See this for more on that: Matt Cutts on Microsites
I don't think you'd be penalized however for just three sites linking to each other, especially if they contained different (non-duplicate) content and keywords.
Backlinks ...
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Generally mini-sites commonly referred to microsites in the SEO scene have been hit pretty hard by Google in the past year or more. Many webmasters were creating websites in the 100's and 1000's at a time and making more sites to dominate the results, it got to the point where it needed to be addressed and Google introduced the Panda update which one of the ...
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I don't think Google has been completely honest about the value/lack of value of nofollow links. A Wikipedia external link won't pass PageRank as mentioned by others, but it does appear to lend credibility to a site since Wikipedia is a trusted website. As discussed here, from a co-citation perspective there might be some value in the link.
Further, I don't ...
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Your "Random Text" tool on your top domain potentially generates an infinite number of pages (unique URLs). Each of these pages links to the jQuery script on the sub domain:
<script src="http://quran.2index.net/themed/slate/js/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
I think this might be the source of the large number of spuriously reported "links".
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I'm not sure I understand your site's layout completely from your description, but to address your question: search engines index pages, not specific parts of a page.
The Google's Webmaster Tools help document on duplicate content is pretty comprehensive about how to manage this. In cases where there isn't any directive like canonicalization, it will chose ...
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