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Can a post with low word-count be bad for SEO?
I'm seeing some evidence that Google likes text heavy pages even for simple queries right now. You might get better rankings with longer answers and filler text these days.
One example is recipes. ...
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How to detect whether a hidden content will cause a penalty from Google or not?
If Lighthouse is warning about dom size that may result in performance issues which can effect the sites rating because of the algo on performance. Can you use a progressive method to get the ...
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What are typical key performance indicators (KPIs) for a marketing agency working on SEO?
When it comes to marketing agencies, there are some common KPI's that you see on proposals. Generally, they lean less toward technical SEO and more into the content territory; that means anything from ...
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Can a post with low word-count be bad for SEO?
I don't think it's 'correct' to think or optimize for content length.
Straight from the horse's mouth: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7451184?hl=en:
Provide an appropriate amount ...
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Does ARIA help SEO? Have you experienced any benefits for organic search?
At the moment of writing this answer, there's no evidence of search engines (specially Google crawler) paying attention to ARIA attributes for HTML. ARIA attributes are not designed for SEO purposes, ...
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SEO - Changing a magento website theme would effect my ranking?
In short: changing your theme very well might affect your rankings.
This might be caused by (a combination of) the aspects below:
The theme is likely to contain multiple changes to the way on-page ...
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Does serving a directory page as "not found" affect SEO of its sub pages?
It depends on how your products are internally linked. If the only way the crawler can get them, is through product_root - then they will be affected too. If crawler has other link pathes to products (...
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My blog post lost all rankings after posting the same content on Medium and don't have it back after removing the Medium post
Wait, wait and wait some more
Simple you wait... until Google drops it the page from it's index which can take several days or even weeks.
But...
It's unlikely that medium had any influence on ...
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Should I post to an old out of date site that used to do really well (I haven't posted to it in 2 years) or post to a fresh new site?
I think if the content that you're going to be posting is in the same niche as the domain that was previously successful, that you should almost always use the previous domain instead of a new one.
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Will changing my backend systems or CMS hurt my search engine rankings?
If you will plan well then you should be fine.
Key things in planning:
URL management: You should build system so that old URLs should redirect to respective new ones. At least for those pages where ...
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SEO impact of using one image for several different posts on my site
Using the same image in several places isn't necessarily bad. I think it can actually be good UX if you use it for a recurring type of post. That way, your users will easily recognize this type of ...
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Can a post with low word-count be bad for SEO?
The worst that can happened is that google will consider that single page not worth to be indexed.
If your website has 1000 "good pages" and 50 "poor" pages it will not affect the website.
If your ...
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How can search engine rankings be checked if search engines personalize search results?
While you can't remove all the factors a search engine will use (the one most impacting you will be geographic targeting), you can get a relatively clean search result by using a separate browser. One ...
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PageSpeed Insights Field Data Won't Pass Core Web Vitals Assessment!
Is Difference Between German and English Versions Possible?
Yes, it is possible. There can be several reasons. For example, most visitors from the US may use certain devices, browsers, etc., that ...
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Does Google Search Ranking punish websites which use fingerprint tracking?
From the articles that I have read(including your mentioned link), Google is against fingerprint tracking for data privacy or advertising purposes. I don't think your customer view limit is data that ...
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How to detect whether a hidden content will cause a penalty from Google or not?
I don't think there's any way of knowing if hidden content will trigger a Google penalty (outside of doing it and finding out), simply because, by giving out that info, it opens the whole system up to ...
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Prevent International Subdomain Ranking Higher than National Website
There's exactly a few ways this can be done but I recommend that you use method 1 and 2.
Increase Organic Rankings:
The main reason the international site is ranking better is due to the authority ...
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Google says they don't use social media for ranking it and yet I get advice that it is important
Social is to SEO like pool table cushions are to billiards. The cushions don't make shots for you, they make shots possible by reflecting the shot.
SEO still revolves, in some fashion, around links. ...
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Does adding schema.org questions schema enhance SEO of my page?
Simple answer is no... however additional information appearing in the serps can indirectly improve your SEO because people are more inclined to click things that shows additional information, ...
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Why does a new responsive website rank lower in Google than competitors that are not optimized for mobile?
Responsive is one factor that influences ranking. As you say domain authority is around the same perhaps the competitor pages outranking yours are better keyword optimised.
Try and look at ways you ...
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Variation in Google Webmasters search queries and real ranking
Search Analytics can be extremely useful, but you have to click quite a bit to get there.
There is often a huge variation between rankings in different countries. So it's good to start checking that:
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Can you put your own reviews in microdata tags for organic listings?
Yes, it is easy to abuse with fake reviews. And that's not OK with Google. It violates their terms in that you should not deceive your users, and the offending sites and pages might be penalized.
In ...
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Ranked for main keyword on Bing and Yahoo but not on Google
I think you answered your own question. You got no good links that's why Google is holding you back. On another hand, Bing and Yahoo are more concerned about your on page SEO and meta tags.
Another ...
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Ranked for main keyword on Bing and Yahoo but not on Google
Main keyword is not mentioned a lot in the website (mentioned in title tag, description tag, and once in H1 in coverpage)
I think the fact that your "main" keyword doesn't actually appear in the ...
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What are the best ways to improve a site's position in Google?
There are some basic rules to increase your Google rankings
Offer the absolute best content on specific keywords that you are targeting.
Get links from highly trusted sources, especially if they are ...
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Does Hashtag in the URL affect SEO rankings for as Angular JS web application
Google just don't understand what the meaning of /#!/ or any other thing like /10787/ in this question URL, but they can crawl the hashbang /#!/ URL just like other URL's.
I suggest to go for clean ...
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Re-publishing content from an expired domain to a new one
You should be fine from Google's perspective. Content that migrates from one domain to another is a common enough use case. As you note, the content is no longer available under the original domain, ...
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Landing page on root document: what about Google?
Sounds bad UX, build a site that is easy to use and has rich content.
For example, consider a one-page site and have relevant links to your services contact info about sections all on one page.
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What are typical key performance indicators (KPIs) for a marketing agency working on SEO?
SEO is very different in comparison to other marketing campaigns like SEM.
I have slightly different take on this.
How to assess SEO work?
Firstly, forget about keywords, ranking, backlink etc for ...
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