Hot answers tagged site-ranking
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Yes, putting important keywords closer to the beginning of a title does help SEO. SEOmoz's ranking factors survey agrees, as do other sources.
Keyword Use Anywhere in the Title Tag
66% very high importance
Keyword Use as the First Word(s) of the Title Tag
63% high importance
Keyword Use in the Root Domain Name
60% high importance
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This is very likely Google can estimate your bounce rate, if you take into account a new feature that detects when the user is clicking the back button:
Search Google:
Click a search result.
Click back.
Google is showing a new option, "Block all [site] results":
Obviously, that is a guess, but quick back clicks may be good indicators of irrelevant ...
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We did this (listed in DMOZ) for Stack Overflow, Server Fault and Super User.
Since then, I have noticed that the DMOZ text for Stack Overflow appears in a bunch of places.
http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=stack+overflow
Open Directory Sites (1-5 of 5)
Stack Overflow - A language-independent collaboratively edited question and ...
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To the best of my knowledge, the rankings team does not use bounce rate in any way.
— Matt Cutts, June 2010, Search Engine Land interview
I have an issue with the concept of long/short clicks being used in their ranking algorithm. There are too many scenarios where both short and long clicks occur that are the opposite of what the ...
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There's a great roundup of the factors, and how important they are thought to be, at SEOMoz
http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors#ranking-factors
On-Page (Keyword-Specific) Ranking Factors
Keyword Use Anywhere in the Title Tag
Keyword Use as the First Word(s) of the Title Tag
Keyword Use in the Root Domain Name (e.g. keyword.com)
Keyword ...
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Per Matt Cutts
Without reading the article [trying to confirm a connection between rank and bounce rates], I’ll just say that bounce rates would be not only spammable but noisy. A search industry person recently sent me some questions about how bounce rate is done at Google and I was like "Dude, I have no idea about any things like bounce rate. Why don’t ...
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Firstly, if they've copied original content from you without permission this is a breach of copyright, so you could consider legal action. A complaint to their ISP would be the first port of call here. You'd need to be able to prove that you are the original author of the content.
Regarding the SEO aspect, from Google's webmaster guidelines:
If you find ...
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Hard to say for sure why you aren't indexed yet but:
1) Number of visitors has no bearing whatsoever on your indexing or rankings. Google doesn't know this information and, even if it they did, it really offers nothing in terms of relevance of any page for search.
2) 20 backlinks is hardly a lot. Even then, unless Google knows about those backlinks they ...
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In all honesty, that would be a waste of your time.
Visible PageRank is only one of over 200 factors that Google uses to determine the rank of a page on a search engine results page. On top of that, it's only updated every few months, while the results themselves are updated several times a day. At best, visible PageRank is a crude approximation of how ...
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From practical experience we've found that beyond the usual 301 redirecting these following actions have resulted in a shorter (and on one occasion non-existent) Search Engine fluctuation:
Time the migration well away from your domain name expiry/renewal, so there is little ambiguity over it being a different site
Set all far-future HTTP expiry headers to ...
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For SEO ranking purposes there is no difference between www and non-www. The www is just a subdomain of the main domain and Google considers subdomains and sub-directories equal (i.e. part of the same website, not special in any way).
You do need to pick one versus the other, though, as using both will cause you SEO problems. Since www.domain.com is a ...
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This is actually a function built in by Google originally to help newspapers etc. It's called "first page free". News sites want their content to be indexed by Google so they can get search traffic, however, Google does not want to send users to a login page, so they compromised Google will index content that is normally blocked by a pay wall in exchange the ...
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I think that the problem with using bounce rate for ranking is that it doesn't take into account the fact that bounces aren't always a bad thing. This metric needs to be taken in context because there are some sites for which you might want to actually increase your bounce rate!
In fact, as an example, your sites might be that type of site (at least from ...
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I manage a site that brings in around 30k pageviews per day. It lost 1/3 of its traffic around April 11th (panda international rollout). The entire domain lost traffic across the board. The overall average bounce rate hovers around 65% (pre-panda was 71%). The hardest hit pages have bounce rates over 75% however. It's an interesting theory.
To google's ...
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Google's Eric Schmidt said that listing Google's 200 page ranking factors would reveal business secrets. Although Google does not officially publish their ranking algorithms, the guys at WebmasterWorld compiled a pretty comprehensive list.
Domain
Age of Domain
History of domain
KWs in domain name
Sub domain or root domain?
TLD of Domain
IP address ...
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Is it legal to use translated comments from other sites?
Depends upon the terms and conditions set forth by the website whose content you are using. Most sites, by default, don't allow others to use their content without their permission. Other sites, like the Stack Exchange sites, are released under a creative commons license.
If the content you want ...
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As long as the domain and content remains the same, changing IP addresses should have not affect on SEO. Moving from Canadian to US IP's wont affect your SEO.
The only potential gotcha could be if somehow the IP address has been backlisted due to spam or other misuse, although this is more commonly, but not exclusively, an issue with Email than Web Domains. ...
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If your URLs are changing be sure to do a 301 redirect so the search engines know that the old URL has moved to a new location and all incoming links for the old URL should be transferred to the new URL. A sample 301 redirect in .htaccess would look like this:
redirect 301 /old.html http://www.example.com/new.html
That's about all you can control when you ...
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That is because Alexa does not know how much traffic your website gets. They depend on users with their toolbar visiting website to get an idea of how much traffic to website gets. So the lesser trafficked site is getting more Alexa toolbar visitors then the other site.
That's why you shouldnt be paying any attention to Alexa.
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I had a site with far more links from other reputable, well trafficked sites that took several weeks to be indexed. And it was first caught by Bing, not Google, despite Google's far more prolific crawler. Go figure.
There's a concept called "Domain Aging." Nobody knows exactly what the various search engines look for, but several surmise that older, more ...
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I have looked around a lot myself for this answer and if Bing or Yahoo does take it into account then they have not release to the public that they do.
Also, take a look at http://www.free-seo-news.com/newsletter416.htm. Google has stated that adding in page speed will change less than 1% of search results.
Google uses over 200 criteria to return results ...
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It's a good idea, but be prepared for a frustrating process.
From the perspective of a web site submitter, once a site has been submitted, it goes into a mysterious black hole. The only way to know that anything has happened with the submission is if it shows up in the DMOZ index, and that can take years. The submitter agonizes over this during the months ...
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This won't help or hurt you. Links from completely unrelated sites will carry very little weight so there will essentially be no benefit from those links. Additionally, they can't hurt you because you have no control over them. If you were penalized for what other sites did then a competitor could crush you just by linking to you from some of there websites. ...
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Being a professional web developer I've built and hosted many sites, including personal projects. Here is a range of data from different sites that should help you. Numbers are per month - specifically, the last 30 days from Google Analytics - and rounded to the nearest 100.
1,800 Visits, 10,800 Pageviews -- Alexa #5,858,200
46,800 Visits, 143,800 ...
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I believe your revised version to be much more beneficial.
In my experiences when doing seo for our clients, correct keyword placement in Title tags is more important now, than it ever has been.
I always follow the 3 golden rules for Title tags:
Short but descriptive of, and relevant to the corresponding page's text content.
Do not use the same ...
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The DMOZ home page has a page rank of 8/10, and even sub-sub-sub-sub-categories still have decent page rank.
So getting a DMOZ link is definitely a good idea. One link on its own will only make a small difference, but like Jeff said, it is still used by many other sites too.
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If the content is the same then changing HTML will make no difference to rankings, although you may get a tiny boost from better page speed.
Generally, having a lot of 301 redirects isn't a huge problem but with 45,000 pages you should be careful to not make any mistakes! Make sure you are consistent; in your case you will have a one-to-one mapping of URLs.
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Joel,
While the question is interesting in the hypothetical sense, it lacks the action-ability part of being practical.
Suppose for a minute, that the answer is yes -Google uses bounce rate for ranking sites -what would you do about it? The only way to reliably increase this metric would be to put artificial blocks between the user, and the answer marked ...
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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?
Check your logs or site statistics like Google Analytics if you installed it, or Awstats if your host provides it.
Which ranking sites should I regularly check to see how my web is in according ...
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You only really have one page in the site and that page doesn't have a great deal of content on it. I appreciate there is an about page, but that isn't coded properly and has no meta description so google is ignoring it.
My advice would be:-
Write more content (game tutorials, a blog, high score pages and so on)
Make sure your HTML is well formed and SEO ...
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