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Are there any reasons to put the domain name or company name in the page's title tag?
Only regard to branding. Otherwise, it does not matter. For example, if you are trying to brand the website, meaning you want the domain name to be recognizable as a brand, then yes. Put it in. ...
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Are there any reasons to put the domain name or company name in the page's title tag?
You should also consider bookmarking and tabs
Imagine if webmasters.stackexchange.com just had the title Webmasters. You go to bookmark it and would quickly forget what it is. From a User Experience ...
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Should the brand name appear in each tag title even if it repeats keywords or dilutes from the targeted keyword phrase?
I would be cautious if the keyword you will use as a brand name consists general words, However using brand names will establish your brand for both user & search engines.
A good example is:
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Should I have separate sitemaps for each brand/client under the same domain?
In general, you want to have one sitemap for a domain or subdomain. (Though most sitemap generators will now break up the single sitemap file into multiple files for pages, posts, etc.)
In your case, ...
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Getting Gravatar to appear in email Inbox
I think I should clarify an erroneous misconception you may have about Gravatar. Gravatar isn't for displaying an avatar next to your email address, rather it is for associating an avatar with your ...
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Google excluding site for queries for its exact name
So after banging our heads off the wall on this one for several more days, we posted in the Google Product forums: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/webmasters/crawling-indexing--...
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Can I brand a subdomain as a separate project?
There seems to be some confusion about how sub-domains are treated so I will try and clarify some of this.
Using example.com, www.example.com is a sub-domain of example.com and we take it for granted ...
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Should the brand name appear in each tag title even if it repeats keywords or dilutes from the targeted keyword phrase?
There is no hard and fast rule for this but there are few things you need to keep in mind while using your brand name in all of your site's pages title tag.
Google Doesn't like repetition of same ...
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Brand name as keyword for a brand.com site. How to make it appear in search?
It sounds like you are already doing everything on-site that you need to do:
Have the brand name as the domain name
Use the brand name on your pages
To increase your authority to appear in the ...
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What are protentional downfalls of using profanity in my domain and site branding?
This really depends on the demographics of the target market for the site. These are the key things that will impact access and potentially success.
User Location
Users browsing from a public ...
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How to show more results for our brand name when searched for in Google?
There are a few thing you can do to get more visibility on brand searches.
Sitelinks
If you want Google to show more sitelinks on your brand search you should try the following:
Submit an updated XML ...
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Branding in terms of SEO
Branding in SEO, certainly can contain traditional marketing methods, but really speaks to marketing the site rather than the product or service. These are two separate efforts.
For this, there are ...
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Is it okay to have hyphens in brand/company name?
You're all good, don't sweat this. Just refer to your brand name as you normally would on page and within your NAP info. That's where search engines are really going to look to understand who you are.
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Getting Gravatar to appear in email Inbox
(This works in 2021)
Simply go to google.com, sign-out of your account. Create a NEW google account, and make sure to select the option to create it using your existing email address. Then use the ...
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For a personal domain name better user lastname.com or firstname.lastname.com?
The first option is preferred in my experience. Subdomain generally ranks lower than domain, and requires additional dns records (and you have to own the first option to get the second)
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Multiple domains/subdomains for subsidiaries and umbrella company presence?
I cant speak about whether it would be more beneficial to create 4 new websites or use subdomains, or just using folders, this would probally be better answered from a business perspective, are the 4 ...
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"Brand® product" or "Brand product" in title?
Google handles special chars, and it seems they don't affect rankings:
https://www.google.es/search?q=Google%C2%AE&oq=Google%C2%AE
https://www.google.es/search?q=Google*&oq=Google*
https://...
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.company vs. .com domain - should I use domain forwarding?
I would suggest redirecting the ".com" to the ".company" to benefit from the innovation of a new domain name, which is more eye catchy. It is what I did with jovenet.com
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How to show more results for our brand name when searched for in Google?
When someone searches for your brand, I'm guessing you want the SERP results to look like:
brand.com
wikipedia.org/brand
twitter.com/brand
facebook.com/brand
youtube.com/brand
instagram.com/brand
If ...
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a short neologism or a more familiar name, but longer: which is the best for ranking?
When it comes to ranking it's best to focus on the most prefered keyword, other important thing is to keep it simple, in a perfect universe you would use 2 words for your domain, possibly include ...
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a short neologism or a more familiar name, but longer: which is the best for ranking?
You have two opportunities and risks with either. Without knowing specifically what you have in mind, it is difficult to tell you which is better. The answer is dependent upon the terms used or the ...
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Generic or brandable name for blog
3 things you need to consider
You need to think of the long-term goal. So ask yourself, Do you stick with python for a long time? If you say "yes" then go with pyclass.com
During my recent testing, ...
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Generic or brandable name for blog
I am not sure what is branded about pyclass.com. A brand is a "Top of Mind" name that people would search for specifically at minimum. According to domain tools, this domain name was registered this ...
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Question about choosing name for Facebook fan page
yes, you can register xyzwallpapers on Facebook fan page, for e.g. you have a website name (hdwallpapers.com or hd-wallpapers.com) and you have no choice on fb fan page to create hd-wallpapers, then ...
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Question about choosing name for Facebook fan page
This is more of a marketing question, really.
But, this is my procedure if the domain I have is already locked (in your case: xyz-backgrounds.com) and the exact domain names are already in use as ...
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How can I serve different banners/CSS/branding to users based on their location?
You are right about GEOIP and GEO Location. It is hard to do and requires maintenance. Even then, according to some I am in Florida, Ohio, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, etc. One out of four ain't bad! ...
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Google excluding site for queries for its exact name
You are talking about branding. This is difficult to do with a non-competitive site and a brand name (company name in this case) that is not recognizable. Ten pages on a site that is 6 months old and ...
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Focusing on 1 subject means deletion of other posts?
Anyone can do what they like on their sites and as far as I am concerned and this should be okay, but that is not the reality in search. If performance is a priority, it is often best to choose a ...
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