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Is Alexa Rank a true representation of growth?
We talked about Alexa here on Webmasters a lot.
Alexa is useless and relies on users using their toolbar. It has junk metrics and unreliable data.
I advise you not to consider Alexa ranking in any ...
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Should I put rel="nofollow" on author link?
The seo experts told us to put rel="nofollow" to all external links.
Trying to massage PR (for want of a better term) in this way sounds like a very outdated concept to me. Is e-Commerce any ...
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How to find Google PageRank without third party tools?
As of March 7th 2016, Google has removed the public PageRank metric completely. Google's John Mueller confirmed it via Twitter. Prior to this, Google had been allowing access to this data through ...
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Is Alexa Rank a true representation of growth?
Short answer: Definitely no.
Alexa a very bad representation of growth especially for small sites. We run a couple of sites and the numbers are way off especially when the traffic is low.
Like the ...
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Is Alexa Rank a true representation of growth?
Alexa rank is the worst representation of growth in terms of SEO
Alexa rank is the best representation of the growth in usage of the Alexa toolbar.
Your website's rank in Alexa is determined by the ...
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How to find Google PageRank without third party tools?
After reading comments to my question and a lot of searching I found the answer. To retrieve Google Page Rank, a query against one of Google's sub-domain http://toolbarqueries.google.com can be done. ...
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Will creating dofollow links in the comments on sites with high domain authority and page authority hurt SEO?
Will adding a comment to this page with a link to your website hurt your SEO?
Yes, it will hurt your SEO. Good back links are all about three factors:
PageRank
Relevancy
Authority
It is a huge ...
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Is a zero second meta refresh tag to 301 a Blogger post a proper solution?
HTML META refresh is not a 301 redirect
While the outcome is the same they are technically very different because of the header status return. A meta refresh will return 200 OK header response, while ...
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rel="nofollow" On Quality User Supplied Links
if the linked to page is context appropriate and of a high value wouldn't it be better to allow the passing of pagerank?
Quite probably yes. But unfortunately, in the real world, for arbitrary user ...
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What affect, if any, would buying domain names with high volume search terms have on SEO?
If I was forced to pick one of your options, I'd choose the first, because then you're directing the users to one place, but personally, I'd save my money and not buy another domain.
Instead, use ...
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How would Google respond to redirecting visitors clicking on SERP to another page, but not the Googlebot?
The most basic rule of Googlebot is that it is supposed to be treated like any other user. It is a scout that is sent ahead of the user and the user follows in its path. You don’t try to show ...
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Should I put rel="nofollow" on author link?
Nofollow is a value that can be assigned to the rel attribute of an HTML a element to instruct some search engines that the hyperlink should not influence the ranking of the link's target in the ...
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Page Rank Not Working on my website
The visible PageRank that you will be able to access in any tool/browser extension (toolbar PageRank) has not been updated since December 2013.
It has been pretty much discontinued so don't expect it ...
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Do noindex,follow pages pass pagerank / link juice?
Google recently (December 2017) said that noindex,follow pages end up not not passing link juice.
Initially link juice will get passed, but eventually the links on the noindex page will be ignored....
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How to redirect old parameter based content without jeopardizing SEO
Using a 301 redirect from the old links to the new links should carry the SEO you've built up to the new links. For example, Google's Webmaster Support says
"If you need to change the URL of a page ...
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rel="nofollow" On Quality User Supplied Links
Here are some options that make you situation safe with google and other search engines:
If you have no script programming experience (For example, if you build websites using point-and-click ...
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How come my website is first on Google but without PageRank?
The reason why the pagerank scanner is showing 0/10 is because Google no longer provides access to a sites PageRank value and so they have no value to display to you. As @John Conde points out in his ...
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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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Nofollows on image gallery thumbnails?
You should never use nofollow on internal links. Nofollow is meant to mark links that you don't trust so that Google won't pass PageRank to untrusted sites. Since you trust your own site, nofollow ...
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Inline SVG within H1
2 ways to add title:
with css and positioning and z-index.
But this would never scale well with svg. And SVG is perfect in scaling.
You could use the foreignObject tag to add html items in your SVG.
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Will Google lower my rankings for boilerplate titles?
I will give some warnings for your benefit and knowledge along with a direct answer to the question.
You will need to stop thinking in terms of keywords. You will suffer search performance as a ...
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Should I put rel="nofollow" on author link?
You can set nofollow to any external link, but do it noway to your author links (links with rel="author" or ?rel=author).
If author link is nofollowed, G will not be able to correctly calculate ...
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Should I put rel="nofollow" on author link?
Putting the nofollow attribute to all those links (which are from an external source) is the best practice of SEO. You have to put the nofollow attributes. It will not effect on your PageRank because ...
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How would Google respond to redirecting visitors clicking on SERP to another page, but not the Googlebot?
You should not do that, it is cloaking, which is against Google Webmaster Guidelines.
Better to link other internal sources from ranked webpages.
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Should I disavow hidden links
If you can safely remove the links then remove them, if not you can add the nofollow tag to them and Google won't take them into account.
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Now whats the substitute for PageRank provided by google which recently got dead?
Google is attempting to state that PageRank is no longer a significant part of their algorithm. The general feel is that this is false - but they've removed the ability to get the stat all the same.
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Does it hurt for domain A to link to a NOINDEX page at domain B?
Does it hurt for domain A to link to a NOINDEX page at domain B?
It would not "hurt" domain A.
Do I have to add rel=nofollow to page A or just leave it as it is?
You do not need to add rel=...
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Is Google PageRank distributed differently to external and internal links?
Pagerank... is so the 90's. Google algorithm has come along way and pagerank no longer works the same as it once did. Its now one factor of over two hundred and is a minor factor, not a major factor ...
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301 redirect a high rank page to low rank page
Technically, if you redirect to the www version, all equity will be passed from the non www version. However, if you are using tools to view 'page rank' or 'page authority', this may not necessarily ...
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Does having multiple embeded items effect SEO by leaking PageRank or appearing low quality?
Embedding content on your page from other providers like YouTube and Pinterest won't channel ranking away from your page. What matters is originality and the user experience such as page load times. ...
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