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How does Google judge page performance if audience is from one specific region & server is also in same region
Google measures speed from the US. However, for SEO, Google doesn't actively penalize sites unless they are very slow. Unless your pages (without JS, CSS, and images) takes more than 7 seconds ...
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Is page age a ranking factor?
When you are seeing that it takes Google 15 to 30 days to start sending traffic to a page, that is most likely because it is taking that long for Google to find and index content on your domain. As ...
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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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Is it okay for SEO to wrap block elements in a link?
Yes, it is fine and even advisable to put block elements inside an a element where appropriate, as long as the browser supports HTML5 (all modern browsers do):
The a element may be wrapped around ...
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Does googlebot index base64 encoded images
This comes directly from Google's Image Best Practices document which I assume is up to date and current.
Supported image formats
Google Images supports images in the following formats: BMP, GIF,
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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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SEO Impact on presenting User details without login
In short: it's very unlikely you'd see a negative SEO impact, but it still might not be a good idea.
Google doesn't currently impose penalties, manual or algorithmic, for showing user details without ...
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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 I use Selenium to create automated traffic for improving SEO?
On using of automated traffic for SEO purposes you will 100% violate against Google terms of service. If you will be caught by Google on this, the penalty probability is very high.
The technical ...
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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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Do empty pages affect SEO in a website?
Google calls empty or nearly empty pages "thin content." In 2011 they wrote the Panda algorithm to detect thin content. Since then, thin content itself doesn't usually rank well and having ...
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How can I tell if a site was penalized by Google's Page Experience update? If it was, how can I fix it?
Investigating the Likelihood of a Google Algorithm Update Causing a loss in Organic Keyword Rankings and Traffic
Attributing the loss of keyword rankings or organic traffic to any one algorithm update ...
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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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Should I exclude countries with poor page speed to prevent Google PageSpeed Insights using aggregate data?
No, you should fix your page speeds. Even 4.9 seconds to the USA is slow - you should be aiming for less then 2 seconds. Maybe start by looking at Google Lighthouse (built into Chrome) for what's ...
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When a business closes, how to transfer the rankings and domain authority from its website to another?
I would definitely not setup 301 redirects right away. Instead, update Restaurant A's home page, headers, footers, and any relevant landing pages to inform customers of the change.
Use language and ...
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Google Search Console: My "indexed" and "not-indexed" pages have flipped. I now have more "not-indexed" pages
Google's search console is not a good SERP tracker, which is why other trackers exist. It also looks like they have a math problem, 12.4K vs 12.2K. It is unusual that Google will crawl 1000s of pages ...
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Will adding (moving) a well-visited blog to my site subdomain improve its ranking?
Google and other search engines treat sub domains exactly the same as a stand alone domain, therefore you will not benefit from the move. If you want to benefit more from the blog then hosting it ...
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How to diagnose a search engine ranking drop?
There are many reasons as to why this is happening. Not knowing the specifics I will create a basic checklist of the things you should start looking at:
Website has been blocked accidentally via ...
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Website structure with multiple sub directories
This is too much opinion but I'll answer anyway. You are doing too much description in the URL. A restaurant is a category so no need to prefix it with "category". restaurant-tavern-bistro ... we get ...
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Is it a Good Practice to move a blog from HTTP to HTTPS?
Google deals with HTTPS redirection absolutely fine and maintaining the ranking.
Generally, when you move to HTTPS, you may not notice a ranking drop at all. In some cases even if there will be a ...
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How to disappear from the first page of search engines' search results?
When a site is new, little is known about it. Google likes to test new pages and sites with higher positions for a period. There are two thoughts on the subject. One is that any good site should enjoy ...
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Domain Authority and Page Authority staying on 1
Judging by WayBack Machine, your site has existed since around September this year — so around 3 months. A cursory look at your backlink profile in Majestic doesn't suggest any high quality links – ...
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Is a <h1> tag used for ranking by Google only in it's entirety or also partial words and phrases?
I will try and explain a few things for your understanding. Hopefully I will clarify how links and header tags are handled by search engines and how they relate.
When a search engine sees a link, it ...
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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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How to improve SEO ranking of keyword with least content on the webpage?
You can not simply rank a login page for a few keywords without context, the login page should not be your main page. Think about it, as an user I will be abducted from my searching experience to land ...
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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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How to get a page with only a search box and a logo to rank in search engines?
If you enjoy the simplicity of your web page, but want your website to be more SEO-friendly, you could make a div that contains your current content that is width:100%; height:100% of the user's ...
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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 does Google judge page performance if audience is from one specific region & server is also in same region
Google know that latency is different across region. And Google bot mainly comes with USA IP. So if you think your server should be on USA for faster rendering, then sorry it doesn't work like that. ...
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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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