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42 Character Long Domain Name, Exception?
Without getting too specific, I am a photographer trying to improve my SEO. The other day, I noticed that when I typed my website name into Google, my website doesn’t appear as a search result. I am ...
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Translated text on multiple national level domains
I am a bit confused about multilingual websites and SEO and would be grateful if somebody could explain me how they are ranked at the moment.
For example, my company's website domain is "...
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Redirected exact-match domain names for SEO?
Google usually favors domain name exact matches.
For example, if your domain is mailonline.com, when you search "mail online", it would recognize the similarity between the two and likely ...
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I changed the domain name, will my articles pass as duplicates?
I decided to change my domain name x.com to y.com and moved all the files from x.com to y.com and deleted x.com.
All the articles on x.com are now available on y.com. But Google doesn't like duplicate ...
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Temporary domain for new version of a website
I'm redesigning a website. Many parts of the old (current) website are still useable, but some other critical parts (say product page & purchase flow) are broken and the new, redesigned website ...
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What's the best strategy for letting extraneous domains go?
My employer has several dozen domains that were registered by a previous marketing team, who felt they needed to register every possible variant/misspelling they could think of. The vast majority of ...
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Are there SEO issues when splitting a subdirectory into its own domain?
We have a very busy website which primary domain is news related.
In addition to our website, we have a couple of subprojects, which are not news related, but are hosted on the same domain with ...
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Two websites, two domains (ccTLD), two markets but same content - SEO Impact?
We have an ecommerce website registered as example.ie (Ireland) with high traffic. We want to expand to the UK (.co.uk).
The website content will be identical except a change in pricing (EUR -> GBP) ...
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A domain for each language or a single domain, which is better for SEO?
My project is in 7 languages. For each language, we bought a domain.
The project already has some success. Some domains have many visitors from search engines, some not so many.
When we launched, ...
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Is it viable to purchase a ".com" domain while another company in the UK owns the ".co" version? Help!
I'm starting a business and I'm looking into purchasing a domain name for my business but the problem I see is that another company in the UK (United Kingdom) owns the exact name of my business but in ...
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Is it ok to keep both xyz.in and xyz.com live with different but similar data?
Our startup creates store-locator and microsites for brands in an automated manner using template approach under a new domain. So for one of our client (brand), we made its store locator live for all ...
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Two websites, two domains, for one brand, SEO issues?
I'm doing SEO for a new real estate company, yet the developer had surprised me with this:
The developer had created two websites with two domains for one brand:
The first domain/website:
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One Company - Two separate Websites (About & Career)
I'd like to learn more about the case of having two domains linked to two (content-wise) completely different websites representing a single company in one location.
The existing website contains ...
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What should a sitemap look like when there are two domains for a website?
I have a website which has two domains. The nav looks like this:
example.com
example.com/page1/
example.com/page1/subpage1/
example.com/page1/subpage2/
example.com/page2/
example.net (which has ...
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Multiple domains, 'one' server
I'm almost completing an online service where people can link their domain to. Think Squarespace/Wix/Weebly type.
Visitors enter customerdomain.com that leads to mywebapp.com but keeps customerdomain....
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Different content for different domain extensions
let's say I have myawesomewebsite.com on which I have a blog website.
Then I would like to buy myawesomewebsite.consulting on which I would put a website for my media agency.
In few words: those are ...
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Someone else is using my IP address with an old A Record. What can i do?
I found out that someone who used to have my current IP address, still has an old A record and google is using that for returning search results. As a result, when someone searches the name of my ...
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Multiple Domains with content then redirect to main domain
I have a client who has many domain names. Their main domain name is the brand of the company. The other domains are, more or less, domains that match various keywords. I know exact match domains are ...
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When an add-on domain is created in cPanel it automatically generates a subdomain, why?
When I create an add-on domain in cPanel, a subdomain is automatically created.
How does this affect the SEO of the website and does it also affect other websites that are hosted on the same server?
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Can we redirect our current domain name to a domain with better keyword match for SEO?
Background: My website is not showing up high enough in rankings. We are in a niche market - particularly in the aircraft satcom business. When searching for satcom our competitors are on top - there ...
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What should I do with my 2 Domains
I have a main domain
www.example.com
We currently are in the process of changing domains to
www.example2.com
but I really want to keep the existing domain working.
I have set up the webserver to ...
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In SEO & SEM terms, use of a international domain vs a local domain
In terms of SEO & SEM if I have a .com and a .co.uk. Would it be better to use the .com and park the .co.uk, If I am selling the product locally (in the uk) and later moving out into the ...
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Is buying a localized domain and redirecting it to my main site a good idea for SEO? [duplicate]
I want to set up a couple of URLs to point to my main site. For example, if I were an SEO expert in London, would it be a good idea to buy the domain seo-expert-london.com (which would then redirect ...
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Does SEO ranking based on domain apply to domains with forwarding? [duplicate]
Lets say I have a site at "myrandomdomain.com". I want to target a keyword "my keyword" and so I buy "mykeyword.com". Can I still have the keyword benefits of having mykeyword.com when it just ...
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2 different businesses, 2 different top level domains, same company name - impact?
I have just started running ohanafilms.co.uk (Northamptonshire UK) and I have received a email from a chap who runs ohanafilms.com (Hawaii USA) who has advised me and asked me to change my name as it ...
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How to evaluate a domain name for a UK site: top level domain, number of words, and hyphens
I have 12 domain names for a new business project and I'm looking for advice as to which one is best for SEO and online optimisation strategy:
seo-check.co.uk
seo-check.com
seocheckonline.co.uk
seo-...
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What is the general practice for country TLD subdomains
I'm trying to launch a website application that will focus on cities around the world, whereby TLD for each countries will be used.
For example:
www.website.de - Germany
www.website.cn - China
sub-...
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Added new redirected domain with lots of visitors bouncing - is that bad for us? [duplicate]
We're a very niche domain marketplace, which has a few hundred domain names for sale, and most all of them are redirected to our site. Most get a few clicks a day, as they are non-keyword (generic ...
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Can merging 4 sites into 1 help?
The company I work for has 4 websites. There is a related theme to them (all IT services or web design / development). All have unique content.
I am hearing more and more that these need to be ...
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One domain and multiple website in folders
I am going to create a network with one domain, e.g. example.com then going to manage my websites in folders. Look below for example:
www.example.com/market
www.example.com/freebies
www.example.com/...
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Dedicated domain name VS just folders under a single domain
I run WordPress-Multisite for several sites. Each of these sites resolve under a single domain, e.g. example.com/foo/, example.com/bar/. I also have domain names for these e.g. foo.com, bar.com which ...
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Best Strategy for Exact Match Domain (EMD) Along Side Branded Domain
I lucked out and managed to buy a two word .com EMD for the most important key-phrase for our b2b SaaS startup.
Shutting down our branded domain isn't an option, we've already got too much invested ...
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What is best for SEO: 2 domain names or 2 sites under same domain?
I have a site www.product.com and another site www.productblogg.com. The content is different on the 2 sites but they "talk" about the same product. and... the www.productblogg.com use a multi-blog-...
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Using both .co.uk and .com domain
We presently have a .co.uk domain that has been live now for around 9-10 months, recently the .com version of this domain has become available and we've purchased based on reading that suggests you ...
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One Main Offsite Blog vs. Multiple Onsite Blogs
I work as the in-house SEO for an office refurbishment company. We are developing two sites:
Site 1: office refurbishment
Site 2: office furniture.
Here in lies my dilemma.
For SEO purposes, ...
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Domain Masking / Cloaking?
I don't know what the correct term is for this but I'd like to
redirect exampleA.com to exampleB.com without changing the URL in their address bar at all.
So for example:
User visits: exampleA.com ...
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PageRank sharing between domains?
I own three domains, say.. example.com, example.in, example.co.in
I have bought the .in and .co.in TLDs (Top Level Domains) only to protect the brand.
But I have this question:
If I make the other ...
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