Directing from a 1und1 hosting solution, with URLs intact

I have done this before on GoDaddy without a hitch, but I cannot seem to figure out this particular case. I have a domain space with temporary URL `http://yogainun.mysubname.com` and am hosting the domain name that is to be applied to it at `1und1.de`. Right now I have set it up so that from the 1und1 domain name hosting the address `http://www.yoga-in-unternehmen.de` is frame redirected to the subdomain that I just referred to. But this is not what I want. `http://www.yoga-in-unternehmen.de` is to be the domain. With the frame redirect, URL's like `http://www.yoga-in-unternehmen.de/example-article` do not show up. But this is what I want. With GoDaddy in a similar case, I just turned on DNS and changed the name servers. That worked without problem, but with 1und1 not. Is there something I am missing?


Amazon-like ecommerce site

Hey there, My idea was to make an e-commerce site alot like Amazon. Not exactly cloning it, but since its for a niche market, i need something like it. I was thinking of using Magento or something like that to use it as a base, but I cant figure out how to allow users to:   * Sign Up for account, get verified by me.   * Allowed to add items, so they can be searchable.   * Product Reviews, What can I use to achieve/make this, and what are some suggestions? I can code in PHP and python, thanks!


How to have a blogspot blog in my domain?

I have a blog at http://afsharm.blogspot.com. How can I have this blog and all old posts, comments and templates in my own domain like http://myowndomain.com/? Which specifications this domain must have?


A single request appears to have come from all the browsers? Should I be worried?

I was looking over my site access logs when I noticed a request with the following user agent string: > "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 > Firefox/3.6.12\",\"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl-PL; > rv:1.8.1.24pre) Gecko/20100228 K-Meleon/1.5.4\",\"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux > x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/540.0 (KHTML,like Gecko) Chrome/9.1.0.0 > Safari/540.0\",\"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) > AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Comodo_Dragon/4.1.1.11 > Chrome/4.1.249.1042 Safari/532.5\",\"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 > (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.0.16) Gecko/2009122206 Firefox/3.0.16 > Flock/2.5.6\",\"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) > AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Maxthon/3.0.8.2 > Safari/533.1\",\"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; > rv:1.8.1.8pre) Gecko/20070928 Firefox/2.0.0.7 > Navigator/9.0RC1\",\"Opera/9.99 (Windows NT 5.1; U; pl) > Presto/9.9.9\",\"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; zh-HK) > AppleWebKit/533.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 > Safari/533.18.5\",\"Seamonkey-1.1.13-1(X11; U; GNU Fedora fc 10) > Gecko/20081112\",\"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; > x64; Trident/5.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; SLCC2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR > 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; Zune 4.0; Tablet PC 2.0; InfoPath.3; > .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)\",\"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; > WOW64; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; > Media Center PC 6.0; MS-RTC LM 8; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; InfoPath.3)" The request appears to have originated from 91.121.153.210 - which appears to be owned by these guys: http://www.medialta.eu/accueil.html I find this rather impressive - a request from _'all'_ user-agents. There's actually quite a few of these requests over at least the few days - so it naturally piqued my interested. Searching Google simply seems to produce a very long list of websites which make their Apache access logs publicly available... Is this some weird indication that we're being targeted? And by who?


How can I redirect everything but the index as 410?

Our site shut down and we need to give a 410 redirect to the users. We have a small one-page replacement site set up in the same domain and a custom 410 error page. We'd like to have it so that all page views are responded with 410 and redirected to the error page, except for the front page, which should point to the new `index.html`. Here's what in the _.htaccess_ :               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule !^index\.html$ index.html [L,R=410]      This works, except for one thing: **If I type the domain name, I get the 410 page**. With `www.example.com/index.html` I see the index page as I should, but just `www.example.com` gets 410. How could I fix this?


Off-site Cardholder Data Storage

Is there a service or site out there that will store cardholder data for me? I don't need any kind of transaction processing or recurring billing... I just need somewhere that I can store data on until someone in my company is able to look at it. The specific need is allowing customers to input data that will be used for credit checks. Name, Address, Credit Card(s), and the such. Google Checkout, PayPal, NetSuite, and Authorize.net seem to be what everyone suggests to me, but they don't offer what I need -- they're just payment gateways.


Does anyone have statistics on percentage of people that use search feature on a website as opposed to the navigation bar

I was interested in knowing percentage of people that use search feature on a website as opposed to the navigation bar. Has search bar become more powerful than the traditional navigation bar for finding data on the site? Has the "sitemap" become obsolete? I know it might be a subjective question but if someone has statistics on this or a white/technical paper, that will be great.


How to suppress PHPSESSID in URL for Googlebot?

I use cookie based sessions, and they work for normal interaction with our site. However, when Googlebot comes crawling our PHP framework, Yii, needs to append `?PHPSESSID` to each URL, which doesn't look that good in SERP. Any ways to suppress this behavior? PS. I tried to utilize `ini_set('session.use_only_cookies', '1');`, but it does not work. PPS. To get an impression of the SERP, they look like this:   * http://www.google.com/search?q=site:wwwdup.uni-leipzig.de+inurl:jobportal


Webhosting for a TV channel with streaming video

I'm making a website for a web based TV channel, so I'm assuming it will be heavy on bandwidth usage, but I'm no good at calculating bandwidth. Couple of questions:   1. Assuming the site streams HD video 24 / 7 to 1000 people, how much bandwidth is that?   2. Where should something like this be hosted? The channel will have a fiber internet optic connection, but I don't know the limit on their bandwidth, would it be better to get their own server or host online? In either case in question 2, any recommendations? I'm usually a regular web designer for minor businesses, so this is a new level. Your help is appreciated.


Cache a particular image using .htaccess

I would like to cache a particular image on my website i.e the background image. So far i only see options that allow you to define the format type(png|jpg|ico) is there anyway to let the browser cache the background


Is it possible for CloudFlare to cause an increase in bandwidth usage?

We started using CloudFlare at the end of May 2011 and I was just looking at the numbers and saw our usage of bandwidth went from 2-3k GB per month to 18k+ GB of use per month. Also our Unique vistors dropped from 60-80k to 800ish. Could CloudFlare be causing these numbers to change so drastically? We host podcasts ourselves and I am wondering if CloudFlare is trying to cache them multiple times causing all this bandwidth usage or something. Usage http://tinypic.com/r/jhvaq1/5


Will dofollow backlinks in a syndicated article improve backlinked pages' rankings?

Do dofollow backlinks from duplicate articles across different sites improve site rankings? I guess Google etc may like to discount completely the duplicate articles and backlinks in it. Shouldn't this non-sense duplication of content be penalized?


Share Google Analytics data excluding Google Adsense data

I have a Google Analytics provide linked with my Google Adsense profile. I want to share the Google Analytics data with some other users (I believe I'm permitted to do that by Google ToS), but I want to exclude Google Adsense data (both because they have no need to know, and because I'm not sure it is permitted by Google ToS). Is there any way to selectively set permissions to Google Analytics data when adding users to a Google Analytics account? E.g., can I add somebody with the capability to see Audience and Traffic Sources views, but not Content / Adsense views? I found a semi-relevant link at Google but this seems to remove it from the whole view, and also doesn't work as I cannot find the Data Sources. https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/98145 I don't want to flat-out remove the Adsense integration as that means I as an administrator lose this data myself (and possibly it is still visible in the view I'm sharing, not sure). Any advice?


How to check if a WordPress SEO plugin is working

I have setup my WordPress site with Yoast. However, it doesn't seem to appear in any of the search engines. In Google Webmaster Tools I don't see a sitemap. Is the plugin supposed to submit the sitemap and should it appear in Google Webmaster Tools? How do I know if it has been submitted to other search engines?


Does Google penalize Wikipedia external links?

Wikipedia external links are all `nofollow`, so it seems they shouldn't have any effect, negative or positive. But an article that I found online suggested that Google may penalize those external links. According to that article, because Wikipedia has many mirror sites, Google will see many links to your site with same anchor text and Google may consider it as spam. Also see this forum thread.


Webserver insists on opening "blog1.php" instead of "index.php"

I'm at my wits' end. I have just ripped out a website and in the process of rebuilding everything. Previously, the 'home page' of the website is a blog, with the address "www.mydomain.com/blog1.php". After exporting everything, I deleted the whole directory, and -- based on request -- immediately create a `blog/` directory. The idea is to get the blog back up as soon as possible, and temporarily redirect people accessing `www.mydomain.com` to the blog. Accessing the blog via `http://www.mydomain.com/blog/` works. So I put in an index.php file containing a (temporary) redirect to the blog's address. The problem: The server _insists_ on opening `blog1.php` instead of `index.php`. Even after we deleted all the files (including `.htaccess`). And even putting in a new `.htaccess` file with the single line of `DirectoryIndex index.php` doesn't work. The server stubbornly wants `blog1.php`. Now, the server is actually a webhosting, so I have no actual access to it. I have to do my work via cPanel. Currently, I work around this issue by creating `blog1.php`; but I really want to know why the server does not revert to opening `index.php`. Did I perhaps miss some important settings in the byzantine cPanel menu page?


Need to track the website or link from which users landing on our web pages  - jS or PHP Coding

We have three fare traffic websites ( for three different brand products ) and all are well serving our internet marketing needs. recently , we are planned to promote each website on other two websites to increase our traffic to each other there by reducing Google Ads cost to promote website. Our plan is working well, the only thing it worries us is tracking the traffic source. For googl adwords (CPC) and our ads on other websites lands at same Landing Page (Lead generation Page ) and hence we are facing difficult analyse the traffic and big problem is that our management want to access this information in readable form . Of-course , google analytic s will serve this information but for that we need to log in account and then we should take report or do some analysis . but what we are looking is something like IP Capturing .So if any persona comes from webiste page ( eg www.xyz.com/read.html if they click our ad on the site page and lands on to our website . we have to capture the web link or website from which user landed to our webiste .


PHP script to send notification email via hosted ISP

I have PHP 5 running on a hosted ISP. The ISP gives me minimal configuration options via cPanel. Is there any way to use email notification to respond to some given event? I want to send from PHP in the background. Must I specify environment stuff like POP or SMTP? My hosted ISP offers email addresses of course -- does using one of those make things easier? Now that you know how ignorant I am, do you have any general advice on approaching this?


Use p tag inside a div tag for text?

What is better in terms of SEO ?

 A bunch of text right here

      or
     A bunch of text right here
      box1 div has a lot of css applied, so in order to make the text look like/where i want i will wrap it in that div . this div in particular only has text . But for SEO purposes is it better to use the p tag inside the div or just use the text directly in the div ? The result is the same ( visually ). PS: i understand that the general idea is that p is more relevant for seo than div ( or at least this is what i heard. please correct me if i am wrong here) . But in this case my text on this page will be shown in different containers on the screen for a better look. should i use the text inside the div or should i use the text inside the p tag and the p tag inside the div for better SEO ?


Where to leave feedback about a bad webhost. Way to combat data loss

I've been with a certain company (50webs) for a while now. I didn't mind the downtime so much, but a couple of day ago they did the unthinkable: They went down for a while and I'm guessing restored from a week-old backup without telling any of their customers. I'm a paid customer and my sites run by storing data in *.dat files in the /www/ directory. As you can imagine I lost a week of data and worst of all an update I finished right before the crash. I couldn't get in touch with their support staff (form throws errors and phone # disconnected). That's the background. Now only the question: I want to leave feedback for the place but have no idea what's a reputable review source these days. And the less-off-topic question: What's the recommended way of backing up sites like mine that rely on .dat files for data storage? I can think of a bunch of manual ways, but is there something automatic that would for example sync across a couple ftps regularly, or say do a daily dump to google drive? Thank you guys.


Where to place privacy, legal, etc info on a website?

Every website I've ever been to has links to legal, privacy, tos, etc on the bottom of every page. Is this required? Can I have all that info on a specific about page rather than on every page?


Hosting terminology explained

I am learning the Play framework, and while looking for a place to host (never hosted a site before) I find myself lost in this world. I do not understand the terminology used for pricing. I have visited several sites:   * http://www.cloudbees.com/pricing-standard-services.cb   * http://www.heroku.com/pricing#1-1   * http://aws.amazon.com/en/ec2/#pricing   * http://www.playapps.net/pricing All have various tables with hard to understand pricing elements (some of which you need to set) such as   * Build Usage (Builds per day, Average build duration, Working days per month..)    * Dynos? worker dynos, web dynos? I am just looking to host a small website I developed (currently for learning purposes with an option to maybe grow). I don't know if the listed hosting options above are actually good for me, can any one explain the basics, or at least point me at the right direction? (also can I use any site that supports Java hosting such as `http://javaprovider.net/` for running a Play app?)


How do I access PHPMyAdmin after install in Ubuntu?

I installed Apache and then PHPMyAdmin on my Ubuntu server, but I have not been able to access PHPMyAdmin at `http://localhost/phpmyadmin/`. `http://localhost` is working however.


Having an iframe of which inside the page has a noindex nofollow tag would it affect the rankings of the page having the iframe? Is it cloaking?

We have a website with video content delivered from a video studio and hosted on their site since we don't want to load our server with it. The content we are embedding is payed for and we don't to rank the videos (since they are hosted elsewhere and we embed them) but to rank our posts with the videos in them. The pages in the website aren't just with the embedded videos, it has a brief review of the video inside it also. Explanation of the concept and construction: Site **_example.com_** has an iframe:                <iframe src="http://www.example.com/steve.html"></iframe>       Inside the file **_steve.html_** which is under the same domain example.com there are the meta tags:               <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX">     <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOFOLLOW">      And in the body there is another iframe video embed code from the external website. Now my questions are: _Is this considered cloaking?_ _Would we be better off without the nofollow/noindex as now Google cant see the iframed content and where the video iframe is in Google eyes appears a big nothing?_ Any suggestions? Edit to clarify it a bit here: We have a post Example.com/review Inside it there is an iframe (example.com/iframespace with no follow/noindex) inside this iframe (example.com/iframespace) there is another iframe of the video embed code. Would the iframe with the nofollow/noindex affect the post example.com/review which contains the iframe?


What database use for huge servers?

Suppose I had a HUGE website (which I don't, but let's suppose), the common MySQL on a single server wouldn't work, because the MySQL server wouldn't be able to handle thousands of requests per second fast enough. How can you have several database servers that link to the same data but work independently of each other? **What are the softwares available?**


Hosting multiple low traffic websites on ec2

We have like 30 websites with almost no traffic (<~10 visits / day) which are currently hosted on a dedicated server. We are evaluating hosting on Amazon EC2 however I'm not sure how to do that properly.   * One (micro) instance per website is too expensive   * ~10 websites on one instance (using apache virtual hosts) make auto scaling impossible (or at least difficult) Or is cloud computing not suitable for such a usecase?


Do other search engines support Google's "hash bang" syntax for crawling AJAX applications?

Google has a really nice document explaining how web developers can get Google to crawl non-AJAX versions of their web applications to make it possible for Google to index AJAX-heavy websites. Do any other search engines support this standard? I'm specifically interested in the fragment `meta` tag method, not just the `#!` URL method.


How safe are the new HTML5 input tags

I am thinking to use the Input Type tags in my web application like               <input type="email">       <input type="number" required="required">      I'm just curious how safe is to use them , Is there any options so the user will disable them from browser.


Does the name server reported by whois get automatically updated when moving hosts?

This is regarding the nameserver info shown on who.is, example:               name server: ns1.NS-example.net      When a domain is transferred to another host provider, is it possible for whois to show a nameserver from a previous host? Does this info automatically get updated via the new server settings?


How should I structure my URLs for both SEO and localization?

When I set up a site in multiple languages, how should I set up my URLs for search engines and usability? Let's say my site is `www.example.com`, and I'm translating into French and Spanish. What is best for usability and SEO? **Directory option:**               http://www.example.com/sample.html     http://www.example.com/fr/sample.html     http://www.example.com/es/sample.html      **Subdomain option:**               http://www.example.com/sample.html     http://fr.example.com/sample.html     http://es.example.com/sample.html      **Filename option:**               http://www.example.com/sample.html     http://www.example.com/sample.fr.html     http://www.example.com/sample.es.html      **Accept-Language header:** Or should I simply parse the `Accept-Language` header and generate content server-side to suit that header? Is there another way to do this? If the different language versions don't have different urls, what do I do about the search engines? * * * _**UPDATE 2011-12-06_** _Google has new recommendations for`meta` tags for explicitly pointing to other language content: New markup for multilingual content._ _**UPDATE 2012-05-25_** Related but not precisely: Multilingual and multinational site annotations in Sitemaps _**UPDATE 2013-06-12_** Targeting site content to a specific country includes discussion of several URL schemes directly relevant to the question.


multilingual mobile site and google seo

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? What's the preferred SEO compliance for a mobile website that is multilingual ? I have - web:               en: http://mysite.com     fr: http://fr.mysite.com     es: http://es.mysite.com      mobi:               http://m.mysite.com      Should I use http://m.fr.mysite.com for my mobile french version ? Nothing is specified on google blog for mobile : http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/new-markup-for- multilingual-content.html


We built a website targeting different regions but with the same English language (Ireland, England and America). The content for the most part is the same set up on 3 different subfolders. `http://www.example.com/` - targeting the United States in WMT `http://www.example.com/ie` - targeting Ireland in WMT `http://www.example.com/uk` - targeting UK in WMT Do I have duplicate content issues to be worried about? If so, how do I get around this issue? Also is there anyway of finding out if Google have in some way penalised these pages for having the same content on other pages trageting different countries? I have not received any messages from Google in WMT saying there is duplicate so I'm not sure if this is an issue.


Are there advantages of using hard coded URLs for localization?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? On the Synergy website, localization is detected (and can be overridden) but uses the same URL for all languages. Some websites however, like Wikipedia have language specific subdomains. What are the advantages of having either subdomains or subdirectories (i.e. a specific URL) for each language localization? Also, should it automatically redirect the user to the specific subdomain/subdir based on the language that the browser requests? I suspect that there are advantages, which I'm guessing are:   1. When the website appears in search results for non-English languages, the translated page description will be shown (assuming there is a translation provided by the website).   2. When a user shares a page (e.g. through twitter), it will show in a specific language. Perhaps this is a disadvantage though? Am I correct, if so, are there more advantages?


SEO & PageRank optimization when using translated content across three different TLDs

We have a website **example.gr** translated in three languages (Greek, English & German).   We have also registered two more TLDs **example.com** & **example.de** So far, based on what the user types in his(her) browser we have...               example.gr - shows the Greek content       example.com - shows the English content       example.de - shows the German content      The content in languages English & German is a translation of the Greek content. The company is starting to expand world wide, so I am thinking of redirecting (301 Permanent Redirect) all domains... example.gr, example.de (with or without www) and example.com to **www.example.com** Is that a good practice (SEO and PageRank)? Or it would be better to redirect               example.gr (with or without www) to www.example.com/?lang=gr       example.de (with or without www) to www.example.com/?lang=de       example.com to www.example.com (the English content)        Please advise.


Country specific website URL for SEO

I am developing a new site and have two domains. One is the `.com` domain and the other is the country specific `.in` domain . The market for my products is both in India and and globally and outside of India. Is it in any way beneficial from an SEO perspective to have a country specific URL or does it not matter?


What is the best strategy for multilingual websites

I've been asked to create a site which targets multiple languages. The client is multilingual themselves so coming up with the content in different languages is no problem. My aim is to get the best SEO in all languages but at the same time not split the SEO equity across multiple domains (.co.uk, .de etc...). Is there a viable way I can create a multilanguage site under one (domain) roof, and if not, what other strategies are there?


different content, same url, bad for SEO?

I want to translate the page based on the accept-language headers, do I need to redirect to /$lang or having different content(actually same content but translated) in the same url is ok?


How do avoid dupe content with different countries+locales?

I'm considering hosting different translations of my web site via a subdirectory for each; for example:               http://www.mydomain.com/en-US/     http://www.mydomain.com/en-CA/     http://www.mydomain.com/fr-CA/     http://www.mydomain.com/fr-FR/      (or I will use subdomains instead of subdirectories). The en-US and en-CA pages may have very similar content, and I am worried Google will see this as dupe content. There may be multiple paragraphs with exactly the same text, and maybe a heading will have one different word in it...so both pages may be 90% - 95% the same. Will this be a problem? How can I avoid my site ranking from being affected for dupe content?


What is better with 3 languages: domain-lang.org x 3, domain.org/lang or lang.domain.org?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? I have three domains for similar content in three languages. One in each. I have now been told that the languages are better off as subdomains or even as sections. My question is, thus, what is best from a SEO point of view:   * domain- **lang**. com/    * **lang**. domain. com/    * domain. com/ **lang** /


What's the best way to split up the multilingual parts of my site?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? I want to have my site available in several different languages. I've seen some sites that use country code top level domains (jp.blah.com), some include the language in the URL ( blah.com/jp/questions ), and some don't even include the language in the URL and just use the browsers locality setting or cookies to determine the language to be displayed. What are the pros and cons of each approach? Are there any techniques that I missed?


Should I have a separate URL for each language and each page?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? Please be specific, I already plan to change the language based on the Accept Language header, and then any user-specific overrides (in a cookie) Basically: Should I have example.com/es and example.com/cn or just example.com with different content? Situations to consider: I link you to an english language version of example.com but you are a native Chinese reader. Should you go to example.com and see Chinese? English? or be redirected to example.com/cn? Do google and bing (and Baidu) crawl multiple times with different Accept- Language headers? I'd guess not but I'd like references. Even if they did, having separate URIs would probably get you crawled quicker, because you could put each one in your sitemap. What would I do in either case if I don't have some given content translated? Like a blog post that is english only on the day it is published. Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks


Moving one site in Webmaster Tools to more than one site

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? I have a Question and Answer site about immigration. now I divided it into 2 sites: **mysite.co.uk** about immigration to UK **mysite.com** with sub domains for every country, Like: _australia.mysite.com_ , _sweden.mysite.com_ , ... now I had moved All the content from my first site into .co.uk and .com site and it's sub domains to fill theme. I now that Google will detect my new 2 sites as duplicate of first on and it is very bad for SEO. and I don't think Google webmaster tools has a tool for it. so Please Guide me how to fix this problem.


SEO - Language on Static site

We have been tasked with re-building a Wordpress site for a spanish hotel - Its currently a Wordpress site - but they want it re-designed as an attractive static HTML site - all pretty straightforward - other than the fact that it currently has a language switcher (English to Spanish and visa versa). Being a static site I felt the easiest way to approach the change of language was to duplicate the site and add text to a spanish version of the site in a /spane folder - and simply add links to the folder and to the root depending on language pref. My questionsis - would this approach have any negative SEO implications (having dual content)? Can anyone recommend a better solution if so?


Multiple country-specific domains or one global domain

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? My company currently has its main (English) site on a .com domain with a .co.uk alias. In addition, we have separate sites for certain other countries - these are also hosted in the UK but are distinct sites with a country- specific domain names (.de, .fr, .se, .es), and the sites have differing amounts of distinct but overlapping content, For example, the .es site is entirely in Spanish and has a page for every section of the UK site but little else. Whereas the .de site has much more content (but still less than the UK site), in German, and geared towards our business focus in that country. The main point is that the content in the additional sites is a subset of the UK, is translated into the local language, and although sometimes is simply only a translated version of UK content, it is usually 'tweaked' for the local market, and in certain areas, contains unique content. The other sites get a fraction of the traffic of the UK site. This is perfectly understandable since the biggest chunk of work comes from the UK, and we've been established here for over 30 years. However, we are wanting to build up our overseas business and part of that is building up our websites to support this. **The Question:** I posed a suggestion to the business that we might consider consolidating all our websites onto the .com domain but with /en/de/fr/se/etc sections, as plenty of other companies seem to do. The theory was that the non-english sites would benefit from the greater reputation of the parent .com domain, and that all the content would be mutually supporting - my fear is that the child domains on their own are too small to compete on their own compared to competitors who are established in these countries. Speaking to an SEO consultant from my hosting company, he feels that this move _would_ have some benefit (for the reasons mentioned), but they would likely be significantly outweighed by the loss of the benefits of localised domains. Specifically, he said that since the Panda update, and particularly the two sets of changes this year, that we would lose more than we would gain. Having done some Panda research since, I've had my eyes opened on many issues, but curiously I haven't come across much that mentions localised domain names, though I do question whether Google would see it as duplicated content. It's not that I disagree with the consultant, I just want to know more before I make recommendations to my company. _What is the prevailing opinion in this case? Would I gain anything from consolidating country-specific content onto one domain? Would Google see this as duplicate content? Would there be an even greater penalty from the loss of country-specific domains? And is there anything else I can do to help support the smaller, country-specific domains?_


Delay before getting URLs into Google's in web index?

4 days ago, I have submitted a `sitemap.xml` into Google's WebMaster Tool for a new website. It contains 3 entries. I have tested the site map and Google found not errors. In about how much time can I expect URL entries to be added in Google's web index? It is still 0 for now.


How come a site is indexed but not indexed?

An example URL: islamqa.info/ar The site is indexed in Google Webmaster Tools as per this image ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/wDdTo.jpg) But When I use google site: operator, I get Your search - site:islamqa.info/ar - did not match any documents. Hence, the site is indexed but not indexed! Note1: All other languages, e.g. islamqa.info/en, everything is OK! Just the Arabic language has this problem. Note2: Other search engines like Bing and DuckDuckGo shows correct results!


Would this type of rich anchor text hurt my SEO?

I have a site structure and it kind of looks like this:               Home         Fruit Flavors             Apple Flavors             Banana Flavors             Pear Flavors             Plum Flavors             Grape Flavors         Vegetable Flavors             Cucumber Flavors             Lettuce Flavors             Olive Flavors             Carrot Flavors             Cabbage Flavors      On the pages **Fruit Flavors** and **Vegetable Flavors** , I have a list of links leading to all of the flavor pages in that category. For example: The page **Fruit Flavors** has links in a list to the following pages: Apple, Banana, Pear, Plum, and Grape Flavors pages. The page **Vegetable Flavors** has links in a list to the following pages: Cucumber, Lettuce, Olive, Carrot, and Cabbage Flavors pages. However, the anchor text in all of the links are what you could consider rich anchor text. For example, if I want to rank for the phrase "Apple Flavors," I link to the page **Apple Flavors** with the anchor text "Apple Flavors" from the **Fruit Flavors** page. This pattern repeats for all of the pages under the **Fruit Flavors** and **Vegetable Flavors** category. Would this be bad for SEO? From what I've read it seems like it is, so what alternatives should I take?


seo optimization

I have submitted several pages to Google through Google Webmaster Tools by using a sitemap in XML format. Several pages are indexed by Google as well but the rank of those pages are in 400-500 as my link is like this:               http://xyz.com/test/music/view/1333      I have noticed Google is giving more importance to pages whose link consists of those title something like this:               http://xyz.com/test/music/view/1333/summer_of_69_music      So if Google finds the title or search query in the link it gives more importance to those links so i have again generated my sitemap with title in all links and submitted to Google but as all links are already indexed and revised sitemap consists of same title Google is not considering new sitemap for indexing.please tell shall i delete my old sitemap as in that title is not there and my rank is coming very poor but if Google index my new sitemap i hope to get more search traffic. I think Google will not index duplicate pages from same website so i don't have other option than deleting old site. Please advise.


How do I map a (keyword rich) domain name to an existing website?

I am not experienced technical person, and still learning but will try to explain what I have done so far and what my query is. I have a (hypothetical) domain az-studios.com On that domain I have 3 subdomains: **london.az-studios.com** **newyork.az-studios.com** **paris.az-studios.com** Each of them have 301 header redirections as follows: **london.az-studios.com** -> **www.az-studios.com/london** **newyork.az-studios.com** -> **www.az-studios.com/newyork** **paris.az-studios.com** -> **www.az-studios.com/paris** So I can maintain only one unique HTML document (that appears to be three different paths) I have setup .htaccess to use MOD_REWRITE as follows: **www.az-studios.com/london** -> **www.az-studios.com?city=london** **www.az-studios.com/newyork** -> **www.az-studios.com?city=newyork** **www.az-studios.com/paris** -> **www.az-studios.com?city=paris** This is so far the existing structure. I have recently purchased three (hypothetical) keyword rich domains: **movie-studio-london.com** **movie-studio-newyork.com** **movie-studio-paris.com** What I would like to achieve is to have these three domains pointing as following: **www.movie-studio-london.com** -> **www.az-studios.com?city=london** **www.movie-studio-newyork.com** -> **www.az-studios.com?city=newyork** **www.movie-studio-paris.com** -> **www.az-studios.com?city=paris** The only tricky thing I can't figure out is how I do that so that from a Google SEO point of view, it does not use 301 redirects, no frame. I would like **www.movie-studio-london.com** to show to visitors (and especially Google bots) as a standard website (with no funny JavaScript, links, 301 redirect, frames etc). Some of you might scream "duplicate content" but the websites, although using the same index.php are _very_ different. I am also aware that this could be seen as doorway but these new purchased domains really define (with keywords) my products and what the different websites are about. Any idea? Any more details, please ask... Thanks Vincent


Should a targeted landing page redirect use 301 or 302 status code

I have a landing page that redirects if the http referer is from a known site using a simple nginx rule:               location = /index.html {       if ($http_referer ~* (www.)?amazon.com) {         return 302 https://mydomain.com/amazon.html;       }     }      Should the redirect use a 301 (permanent) or 302 (temporary)? I'm thinking 302, since this is a marketing tactic. What is the best for SEO? Thanks.


Can Wikipedia content be used on a custom wiki on a site?

I am using Wikipedia content (100+ pages) on a site just as 'articles' and changing certain links within articles from linking to wiki to linking to that source article within that article in 'my' site - would there be any benefit in putting that content into a custom wiki on the site (using same software as used by Wikipedia) - what difference, if any, would it make to how the search engines view the site overall and specifically that content in the context of a wiki as compared to just a collection of articles? (I add some of my own content as well, it is not all wikipedia albeit it is the majority).


Does naming my website like this cause a copyright infrigment?

I want to create a website for a particular industry. There is a term that is used quite widely in the industry - for the sake of argument, lets say the expression is " **great scott** ". The term is used by a lot of people - and as far as I know, the expression ("great scott" in this example), is in the "public domain", in that it is used freely by all and sundry, and the term is generally understood without having to explicitly state what the words mean. Having said all that, there is an industry 500lb equivalent gorilla, which has a domain with the domain name **www.greatscott.com**. However, the domain **www.egreatscott.com** is available. What is the risk (or indeed legal basis of) a legal suit from the 500lb gorrila company if I start my website (which is in the same industry), using the domain name **www.egreatscott.com** ? Are there any legal precedents for such a law suit?


Looking for dedicated volunteer matching website software

I am building a medical volunteering website for a NFP using Wordpress and the Nine to Five theme. It is working (in a test environment) okay, but wondering if anyone has come across dedicated volunteer matching website software.


My .htaccess entry is not working

The below are all my .htaccess entry:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.acethehimalaya\.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule (.*) http://www.acethehimalaya.com/$1 [R=301,L]          redirect 301 /brochure_request.php http://www.acethehimalaya.com/request-brochures.html     redirect 301 /testimonials.php http://www.acethehimalaya.com/testimonials.html          RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.php     RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ http://www.acethehimalaya.com/$1 [R=301,L]      But the last entry for redirecting:               http://www.acethehimalaya.com/tripdetails.php?trip_id=8         to               http://www.acethehimalaya.com/destinations/nepal/nepal-trekking/everest-base-camp-budget-trek.html      is not working. The code i have used is below:               RewriteCond   %{REQUEST_URI}    ^/tripdetails.php$     RewriteCond   %{QUERY_STRING}   ^trip_id=8$     RewriteRule   ^(.*)$ http://www.acethehimalaya.com/destinations/nepal/nepal-trekking/everest-base-camp-budget-trek.html  [R=301,L]      Its been like days and i m struck so can anybody figure this out.


What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google?


Basic SEO Optimization

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? What are the basic things a webmaster can do to make it's site SEO optimized? I know of adding page relevant keyword and description in the meta tag... What are the others? Thanks.


Google is not indexing my pages

I just typed a post title from a few days ago into Google with "quotes" around it and nothing is showing up. Does Google hate me? I am doing nothing but white hat marketing and even took down the pictures that I ripped from other sites. Does any one have any suggestions?


How to give SEO support for our website?

I wanna to asking, how to give SEO support for our website? How to get high page rank in search engine for our website. Please give/share about the trick or knowledge. Thank you. Regards, Lena


Most of my pages weren't indexed

I've submitted a sitemap (XML) of my Drupal (7) site to Google Webmaster Tools and it says that my sitemap contains 285 pages and that only 87 pages were indexed. There are no errors and no additional info or problems. There are no duplicates. Any idea why most of my pages weren't indexed? When I Google my site ( i.e.: search the following in Google : `site:www.mysite.com/`), I get ~200 pages (results) which is better, but not perfect.


Webmaster tools shows zero page indexed

I have a website with over 60 articles (dynamic pages), a couple of profile pages, about sections, terms of use, contacts, pretty much everything. I've added my site to webmaster tools and it seems that it is being crawled but not indexed. I don't have a site map but I have other pages which are designed in the same way, yet they seem to be indexed fine. What could be the problem? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/S5wZb.png) On a second thought it seems that very few pages are crawled. _**Could it be that all my pages are on sub domains?_**


Promoting certain keywords

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I am not a person from SEO background so its quite possible that my question might either is off topic or is not a valid one. i have developed a web-site (TheColorsofMySoul) using WordPress and its basically for writers, portal in itself contains a variety of topics. Though i am taking care of providing good titles, descriptions as well keywords of each posts which is being published but i want to promote some specific words in general. e.g Site is for writers and bloggers so i want to promote some specific keywords like "online writing community" so that if some one search for such words on Google, search engine can place my site on some top results. i know that its quite a big tasks but i am not sure how to use those words in my site so that i can able to boost the search result ranking for these words any help/resources will really be helpful for me


Google is not indexing the entirety of my site

I require google to index the entirety of my site: 10 or so basic sections with 80,000+ individual job offer pages. However, to date, only 2,900 pages have been indexed by google. I'd like to know why... only 2,900 but not 80,000+. I figure, if there were something wrong with my job offer pages, then there wouldn't be those 2,900 values indexed but rather 0... I have a 'page' sitemap which, link by link, leads to each and every ad (paginated) My XML sitemap is lacking though. So does this mean you absolutely need an XML sitemap when you're dealing with tens of thousands of unique pages? http://haytrabajo.mx is the URL http://haytrabajo.mx/mapa is the 'page' sitemap


Add my dynamic page URL to Google results

Now I am working on Google SEO. My website URL is like `http://example.com` and When I Google it I can get my website results on top of the page. But my domain has a dynamic link like:               http://example.com/about/alax     http://example.com/about/john     http://example.com/about/max     http://example.com/about/selva     and so...      So when I Google it with query like `alax sit:example.com` in Google text box, it shows empty result.   1. How can I add all my links to Google?   2. What I need to do for getting the result from Google?


Can anyone recommened some up to date documentation on SEO

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I havnt done this for a while and know that search engines are more clever now. Does anyone know of some good tips or websites to tell me how to do SEO properly, preferably using modern standards (not the old- add 300 tags to the page).


Homepage not showing on Google

About six weeks ago my homepage (mayberrykayakingdotcodotuk) disappeared from the google organic search for "kayaking pembrokeshire" despite it having been number 2 within a few weeks of it's launch last summer. My previous site (www.mikemayberrykayakingdotcodotuk) had been 2nd for about six years and has 301 redirects for all pages to the new site. Google toolbar still rates the homepage as 3/10 and the domain is still showing in search results, just not the homepage. A little research suggests that this is most likely to be due to an issue with google treating two pages as identical content (one with www. and one with not) since the changes in their algorithms around that time and that the way to fix this is to add some code somewhere. This makes sense to me as my print advertising doesn't have the www part of the address. I have cpanel access but a limited knowledge on web coding, having picked things up as I've gone along and paid for designers etc., when needed. Would someone be able to let me know where I have to go to add the code and what code I need to add to redirect the crawlers to one page? Or is there another issue that is causing this?


Why isn't Google crawling on my blog?

I have a blog. I made it in August, 2010. It has been awhile, but I am unable to make Google crawl on my site. I have requested Google to crawl but there is still no response. Are there any reasons of note why it is happening?


Why my website doesn't appear in Google search results?

I've made a simple website for a friend's bakery and it doesn't appear in Google's search results **even if I search for the whole domain name** of the site. What can be the problem? How to make it appear? (The site)


How I can optimize my websites into the search engines?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? How I can optimize my thesewebsites into the search engines? http://capablerealestate.com http://ajnaralondonsquare.co.in


What is the best ways to generate organic traffic?

After introducing the Google Panda, bloggers and webmaster have been facing the great challenges. Duplicate content is the key issue and spam boat traffic is second issues for Google Panda in this great critical situation, how to beat Google Panda and what are the best sources to drive organic traffic? Is there any pragmatic solution over this probolem?


SEO Tips and Tricks for web developers

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I know most of the Users of Stackoverflow would have knowledge about **Search Engine Optimization(SEO)**.. Any tips and tricks about SEO for your fellow web developers ... **EDIT:**   * Good book about SEO?   * Good blogs/websites about SEO?


Debugging reason for specific site sections with significantly low appearance in SERP

I'm experiencing very little exposure for specific sections in my site compared to different sections. Most of my traffic is long-tail queries, in the popular SERP, and non-popular SERP sections. I know this is a pretty broad question, but, how would you suggest debugging possible reasons for this issue? Specific Info:   * 'Problematic' pages are linked to from 'popular' pages and sitemap   * Most of Titles of 'Problematic' pages are similar to title of 'popular' pages, but not exactly the same.   * Most of these pages don't have many internal or external links   * These pages contain many photos and not a lot of text   * Google has indexed about 175k pages (from 1M), but only displays in SERP about 10.    * Pages don't include 'noindex' Any insights appreciated.


What is Google search engine interested in on HTML pages?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? I know there are meta keywords, HTML structure, and site map but what else is Google interested in?


How do I make the home page of the website to come up in the rankings than the internal pages?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? Suppose I have a website, e.g. **`www.example.com`** that comes at **number 6** on the Google search rankings. But the internal pages of the website i.e. **`www.example.com/index.php?a=1&b=2`** or **`www.example.com/index.php`** comes at **number 2** of the rankings. How would I make my prime domain name **www.example.com** to come at the top of the list ? Any guidance would be appreciated.


What more to use for SEO?

I was wondering how I could optimise the Google results? when I type the name of my company it wil show up, but I would like it to also show up if I type (design langezwaag) or (webdesign langezwaag) because i'm the only people in the village i'm living in that is doing this kind of stuff. My company isn't registered because i'm only a student. What i'm already using:   Google site search (I think this helps some)   Google Analytics   Share this plugin   News page   Meta and alt : i'm not using (I read Google doesn't indexes those anymore)   No links page : heard that system of links and backlinks isn't usefull anymore.   Is it possible to make it an bigger range of search terms to be found at? or any other ways to optimise the possibility to be found any more? --- edit --- Also using most and falid as possible HTML5 and CSS3 think I read Google also checks this. ---edit---      Most of the page are .php files son't know if that makes any difference.


On-Page optimization of Home Page

How to do on-page optimization of a home page (for a industrial company/ product developement co, service provider etc) ? Home page of a site as compared to a blog is a mother page a base page where it provide snapshot of all the services the company, professional has to offer and other important info like internal page links and contact info ?


Some queries about Blogger SEO

I have been using Blogger from past 2 years and happy with it. Recently I read many articles saying WordPress is far more better than Google Blogger in terms of SEO. That can be true to some extent. But what I think is if you have good content and SEO optimization, your blog and site will get higher rank irrespective of your using WordPress or Blogger. **What can I do to improve my Blogger's rank?** I have been reading SEO articles from last 2 weeks and thinking of implementing some of the things in my next post. I am implementing following things for better SEO. I would love if someone would correct me if I am making any mistakes. 1.Titles are important and the URL too. Blogger allows 40 characters in URL that's why I post the title with keywords in it and then I re-post it with the actual title I want users to see. For example: if my post is about "Best outfits" I will post with title "worlds best women men outfits clothing" which has keywords and Blogger will create url like `www.xyz.blogspot.com/06/11/worlds-latest -best-women-men-outfits` Then I can re-post it with new user readable title "World's Best Outfits For Men & Women, Latest Trends in Outfits"   1. The first 200 words of the post are important, so I try to use the relevant important keywords at the beginning of post. But keyword stuffing can get my blog de-indexed from Google, so I try to make sentences from the keywords. For example I am writing about iPhone. I would use following line to start my post _"Article about iPhone, iPhone's release date, its features functions & price. Is Galaxy s2 better than iPhone 4"_ I am not sure if it is right or wrong ethically.   2. I try to give links of my another post at the starting of my current post or ending of my post. I have read somewhere that links containing keywords are weighted higher in search engines and search engines give more importance to starting and ending of the post.    3. I try using keywords in the whole post whenever it is possible, Around 7-8 times. I take care that I'm not stuffing keywords unnecessarily.   4. I use 4-5 labels(tags) for every post containing keywords and I show labels just before the post and after the post.   5. I keep at least 10 posts on my home page and label cloud and blog archive too.   6. SEO experts say Use `H2` tags for important keywords & titles. I am not sure, but does it really help? I try to put titles in `H2` or `H3` tags and if I am using titles inside the post I try to use `H2` tags for it.


Bing crawls my sitemap, but pages don't show in results

Before voting my question down, I must note that I have searched the forum. That being said: I have a sitemap, which is pretty large (25k pages). These are products for sale. The products are used auto parts. Helping the web site "ahparts dot kom" So .com/sitemap.xml (the big one) is submitted to bing's webmaster tools, and says it has crawled just fine, but I can never find any of the pages in the search results - over a year of trying! I thought the big sitemap might be the issue, so I made a second sitemap "sitemap2.xml" whcih only contains 2.5k pages. Same story with that one. I might mention that google has crawled and indexed all of the pages on sitemap just fine! Anyone have any ideas as to what I can try? I might mention that the URLs are all without variables such as ?id=58499 or something like that. They are rewritten, cleaned up URLs. Thanks, Dav


How to increase visitors of my Website per day

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I increase the traffic to my site? My website is fully implemented with `SEO` and registered in all webmaster tool like of _Google,Bing,Yahoo_ etc.. As result, **500 pages** of my website are listed in Google and lots of images as well. There is **google site-links** are available of my Website. Thought my website does not have more than 100 visitors per day(By Google Analytic) So what to do to increase visitors of my website.


Seo tips for blog

I've got a Blogger blog, how can I grow traffic from search engines? And what optimizations can I do for the blog?


How to increase site ranking? for a keyword: Sushil Handa

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I have a website located at: http://www.fifthvedaentrepreneurs.com I am trying to get this website ranking as high as possible on Google with the Keyword "Sushil Handa" (promoter of the company). How do I do that? I am using various link building strategies but not very successfull so far. Please share your ideas. Thanks in adavance for your kind co-operation. Sincere Regards, Sushil Handa CEO - The Fifthveda Entrepreneurs


Why Google Webmaster tools showing index status 0?

I've added my site to Google Webmaster tools kanosa.com. The site was submitted a few months ago. The index status shows 0 but it shows multiple URLs have been indexed in the sitemaps section. If I search in google I can see that the site is indexed and several pages appear:


What replaces meta keywords if Google doesn't use them anymore?

As a majority of webmasters already know that Google does not use Keywords anymore to help index a website properly. Which is understandable by people exploiting the system to try to gain a better ranking for keywords that they don't use with their sites. My current thoughts of this questions are:   * Writing _good_ content.   * Meta description should still work   * Allowing for the site to be easily indexed thanks to HTML markup   * Google Webmaster Tools gives insight   * Google Analytics tells me where my users are going and why... ?   * HTML Breadcrumbs What do we replace with the keywords to help Google index out sites accordingly and more accurately?


index pages that only can find with search

I have a website that have 5 static pages and more than 700 dynamic contents that only can access them by search. I create `sitemap.xml` that include 5 static pages and whole of dynamic contents. But Google webmaster tools shows that Google only index static pages what do I must to do to index all pages. In Google webmaster tools is wrote that 7xx page are submitted and 5 pages are indexed


A new WP website and Google-indexed 0 pages?

I haven't seen this before, but google has indexed 0 pages of a WP based website i am working on. It's a simple website and the content is handled by the client, all technical stuff is up to me. It's been a week+ but i can't get the website indexed and i don't see any error/warning messages in google webmaster tools. Things i have done: - sitemap - connected the analytics Any tips suggestions?


SEO Team in a fix

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? I am getting a educational website developed by dedicated developers. I have a SEO team as well. We are working on the SEO and SEM for past six months and were able to get our keywords ranked in top pages. But since the latest panda update by google all our keywords went down. We researched a lot to get around but couldn't get the right direction. None of blogs gave any emphatic suggestion. Our SEO team is in a complete fix. Can anyone please shed some light on this?


SEO doubts regarding keyphrase and autosuggestion

I know on page optimization techniques. What is the best and proven way for offpage optimization for ranking a key phrase? Is it:   1. to build as much backlinks to your site ?   2. or build as much backlinks with the "key phrase" as anchor text in that link?   3. or any other teachnique? One more doubt I have. How to make your key phrase appear in Google autosuggest? For example: my companys name is "amazing bamboo shop limited". When I search in Google it shows upto "amazning bamboo shop". So how can I add this "limited" to that autosuggestion.


Googlebot ignore my new site

I have the following situation: I had a blog (made using Joomla) that in some month was pretty indexed by Google. For some technical problem I have delete it and I have newly created using WordPress (so it is a different site, only the URL it is the same) and I have reinserted manually all the articles. Looking at my statistics I can see that there are many visitors that try to visit the old page (that now don't exist in the new site that have a different structure) The problems are the following one: it seems to me that Google Bot try to visit only the old pages (that don't exist) but it is ignoring the new pages of the new site (consequently not the indexes) Some day ago, I find that I have enabled the settings to deter search engines to index your site so I have change it and now, in theory, Google have to visit these pages and index it... Why this is not happening? How can I solve it? **REQUIRED INFORMATIONS:** The URL of my site is: http://www.scorejava.com/ and this is my **robots.txt** content:               # If the Joomla site is installed within a folder such as at     # e.g. www.example.com/joomla/ the robots.txt file MUST be     # moved to the site root at e.g. www.example.com/robots.txt     # AND the joomla folder name MUST be prefixed to the disallowed     # path, e.g. the Disallow rule for the /administrator/ folder     # MUST be changed to read Disallow: /joomla/administrator/     #     # For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:     # http://www.robotstxt.org/orig.html     #     # For syntax checking, see:     # http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/robots/check.html          User-agent: *     Disallow: /administrator/     Disallow: /cache/     Disallow: /cli/     Disallow: /components/     Disallow: /images/     Disallow: /includes/     Disallow: /installation/     Disallow: /language/     Disallow: /libraries/     Disallow: /logs/     Disallow: /media/     Disallow: /modules/     Disallow: /plugins/     Disallow: /templates/     Disallow: /tmp/      The strange think is that in the robots.txt comment makes reference to Joomla and WordPress...maybe is still use the old robots.txt file of the previous website (that was in the same space)?


Companies that provide SEO solutions?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? I've seen a lot of those companies around, saying that they could improve my website's ranking in search engine results, The thing is, that they say you'll be on the first / second page, guaranteed. I tried to contact a few of them, and they are charging a nice amount of money for it, The cheapest I found was about 5,000$, Now I didn't believe that they could make a huge change, but I did see that a few of their customers did get to the first pages fast, while leaving bigger and more experienced companies behind, I'm quite sure that I could hear about their way of doing that, and maybe even do it myself. So do you have any idea what those companies do to improve the ranking?


Wordpress Website issue

I have my website in WordPress. Now the problem is if I search any keywords in Google related to website webpages then it doesn't show any webpage result in web results. But if I search in Google blog result then It is showing my webpages in Google blog results. I want to know what is problem with my webpages. Why they are coming in Google blog search instead of Google web search?


Getting key phrase into google index

Few weeks ago I generated some content on my site. Now I am getting many visits from google, but those visits are from phrases that were in the content I added. But the most important key phrase was not in this content - but I added this key phrase in every title of every page possible. But still this phrase is not appearing on google. So my question is: how do I get google to index my site with a specific key phrase so that my site will appear on the first page? That phrase has not many competitors, there are about 2-3 sites that are kindof big, but the rest are just as small and unpopular as my page is.


Increase Website Traffic

I make one website for online shopping deals and offer code but last 5 to 6 months i updated every day but traffic not increased i request to all SEO Expert please suggest us. how to increase my website traffic.


Google not indexing home page

I have two sites that I'm trying to generate traffic with, and for whatever reason, Google does not seem to want to index the home pages. Other pages on the site are indexing just fine. I need to get these home pages indexed obviously, or perhaps reassess strategy if it's not going to happen. Has anyone seen this before, or can see something wrong with my home pages from Google's perspective?


Google Index problem

I forwarded my site to Google, because Google is not indexing my site. I do not understand why. My website has many backlinks from other sites. What can I do?


Increasing traffic for music blog

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I own a music blog with some articles and of course youtube iframes and mp3 listening plugins. I get traffic from google and some not very popular site (I don't mention it because you can think it's a SPAM) where I post links with pictures to my posts. Any ideas to get more traffic for this kind of blog? I know about Myspace, blog directories, video sharing sites, same niche blogs and relevant forums. Anything I'm missing? Thanks in advance


show my blog content in google search

Recently, I created a blog in Blogger.com(or blogspot.com). My problem is that I can't see my content when I search on google for it. Similarly, I created the same page using Wordpress.com which shows the content on search on google. What should I do to show my content on google search using blogger? **EDIT** : ( _Edited after this **post**_ ) More specific question - what part of a blogger blog does google search. I get the impression that it searches the header and the posts, but not the widgets, so if you are using the blog more as a website, your widget content won't get searched. I may be wrong though. Does anyone know exactly what is searched, heading, subheading, widgets and posts? Please help I am new to blogspot.com or blogger.com


Is it normal to not be indexed in Google after a month?

I started 2 new sites at pretty much the same time. They are both small blogs, running the exact same blogging software (even the same template). The content is different, of course. One of them was indexed in Google 3 days after launch. The other one has not been indexed at all. It gets visited by Googlebot 1-2 times a week, but it won't show up in search results, even if I do a "site:www.example.com" search. Is this normal?


Factors for websites enjoying solely on organic searches

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? What factors should we consider, when building an Q'n'A website which is solely based on organic searches? Note: I am gathering all information about starting a website driven solely on organic searches. **Even a minute detail here will help me a lot.** Please enlighten me. Thanks :)


My site does not appear in the first 30 or more Google pages. What could be the reasons?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I did this site about 2 months ago: www.pbg-bulgaria.com The problem is that I cannot find the site, for keywords such as “bulgarian properties” and related in the first 30 or even more Google pages. The tool I'm using for Google position says that the site cannot be found in the first 100 pages, which is quite alarming. Google Analytics shows no traffic from generic keywords (only keywords associated with the name of the company) I know that a lot of improvements can be made: there is no h1 and h2 titles, I don’t have many backlinks yet, I can put some more keywords here and there, but overall I think the site is ok. In the Google Webmaster account everything looks fine as well. Do you have any suggestions?


Indexing and Page Ranking Issues

Hi all I am on the first page of google for keywords concerned with MOVING, however i cant seem to break the carpet cleaning rankings. I have made changes and additions which havent been indexed yet. Should i wait for the run or please please can someone give me pointers on the carpet cleaning indexing. Also i have 53pages submitted and only 38 indexed, where could the problem be. Is there software to check indexing hiccups . Thanks.


What major SEO steps have I forgotten?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I'm a Java developer-turned-impromptu-web-developer trying to help my father get his woodworking website off the ground. A week ago I knew (next to) nothing about SEO, and have spent a great deal of time revamping his site to meet Google's " _white hat_ " best practices. Here is a list of steps I've taken, and this question is nothing more than a formal request for commentary to see if I've made any grave errors (omission or commission!) that will hurt his site's rankings:   * I've designed every page to have unique, brief/terse, meaningful content   * I've set him up with Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn profiles and linked them to his website (both directions)   * Each page is uniquely/briefly/meaningfully titled   * I use 1-and-only-1 `<h1>` element per page   * I have a single sentence _description_ `<meta>` tag   * I have a list of about 20 common search phrases listed in the _keywords_ `<meta>` tag   * I have populated every `<img>` tag with an `alt` attribute that contains a list of a few short, meaningful phrases (that are similar to the ones in the `<meta name="keywords">` element   * I have set him up with an HTML sitemap   * I have placed a valid `sitemap.xml` in his webroot   * I have placed a valid `ror.xml` in his webroot   * I have placed a valid `robots.txt` in his webroot (contents are below) `robots.txt`:               User-agent: *     Disallow:      (I want Google to crawl everything!) Several years ago I was under the impression that proper SEO involved actually submitting something to Google (like a sitemaps, etc.). But I couldn't find any reference to that while reading up on contemporary SEO best practices. Please, if anyone has any concise, effective recommendations for anything I've overlooked or done poorly, please let me know! As always, any hints, tricks or tips are enormously appreciated! Thanks in advance! **Edit:** I know its foolish to disregard other search engines, but Google is the biggest player and quite frankly, I only have the time & energy to make him rank highly in 1 of them, so Google is my choice.


What does SEO comprise of aside from meta tags?

I have seen people add meta-tags to HTML pages containing keywords and then claim that the SEO was complete. Is this all that SEO is? And doing that, will your site automatically rank highly on a Google search page providing that there isn't too much competition for the search terms?


SEO: why this site won't index?

I recently built a one-page-site, All main pages are loaded via ajax, so they exist as standalone too versions as well in HTML format through jQuery, only pages' content is loaded in the one-page-site. I have created a sitemap and submitted all these things to Google Webmaster Tools, which tells me that everything is fine and pages are indexed and not blocked I also posted the site URL in some specific forums where people talk about main product (Chirofol); a Facebook page is also to be released soon Despite all these things, when I type "chirofol" on Google, the site is not even in the first three or four pages, and this is simply driving me mad.


How would i rank my keywords in Yahoo search engine?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I am working as search engine optimizer team lead in a company and facing problem in a project which name is http://www.Prooftech.com.sg... Problem :- The Website has 10 keywords for which my client wanted the top 10 Ranking in Yahoo Singapore search engine. I have got top 10 ranking for the following 7 keywords Waterproofing, RC Roof ,Wall Leakages ,Ceiling Leakages , Water Leakages ,Roof Tile Coating ,Roof Tiles Repair in my 3 months work but still i am not getting the listing positions for Roof ,Concrete Repair ,Grouting .... I have Done lot of Bookmarking ,Blog Commenting ,Blog Creations ,Press Release,Classified Ads to get these 3 keywords in listing but there is no changes in the results.... Can any help me out from this problem so i can get Good rankings for Roof ,Concrete Repair ,Grouting


Adding tags for SEO in clothing website

I am building a site for a women's accessories brand. The site has a Homepage, a Store page (where all accessories are displayed), a page for each of the accessories description, an about page and a contact page. There is also a whole set up for shopping cart and checkout (irrelevant to this question). My issue is the SEO. Where can I put the keywords? The home page has only the menu and some photos. The store page displays the items and its titles. Then the specific item's page has a description of the item (pulled from the database), category and price. However, I feel like this is not enough for SEO for google ranking. Where could I add tags in this type of site?


What factors help in getting a site indexed by Google fast?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase a site’s position in Google? What should I do to get a site indexed on Google, fast? Taking example of Super User I just did a quick Google for a question that was 20 minutes old, to look for an answer, and it was already on Google Search - how is this possible? I glanced over this article which seems to suggest that SU has added RSS feeds (which SU has, but when I opened the feed the article says last posted 6 minutes ago, but when Googled it is 11 hours old) - which leads me to think (Based on that article, I don't know much about search indexing but I am reading at the moment) that most of this indexing is done thanks to the sitemap. is there anything else I am unaware of that helps SU questions get on Google so fast?


What tags should be used for SEO in simple blog posts?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?   >  Order of HTML meta tags I'm new to websites in general (which is why I'm starting on blogger) and am just curious as to which tags I should be using in my posts? My posts generally include a title relevant to the keyword of my blog, an image, a video, my content, and a link to my twitter. I don't really use any tags and someone mentioned that they may help for SEO. So I figured I would ask for some advice from people who know what they are doing. **EDIT** I apologize for not clarifying, I meant tags such as: Header tag:
This is my title
       Image tags with attributes:                      What other tags and attributes are ones I should use for a well put together website and SEO?


Designing a SEO friendly Website, should i follow any standard HTML format

I am a web developer, developing a web site. I am considering how search engines index my pages. I observed a couple of sites which are ranking well in Google that make me doubt that I am doing it well. This is in the HTML structure of my page:

      I am going to use "web design practice" as the keyword for which I wish to rank in Google. Is this good practice code in this way? Are there any SEO tactics to be considered? I read few articles which talk about white hat and black hat techniques, and I'm not sure which the above might be.


Increasing frequency of least searched keywords

I am working in an organization,I have been given an work of SEO(its not my job actually is job related task).   * A complete scenario about what the problem is given below:       * I live and work in India,where there is very little awareness about products that are used by disabled people like screen magnifiers,specially designed keyboards for partially blind people.      * The problem is that we are not getting enough hits from specific keywords   List of keyword searched collected from `Google trends`(`Location`:India `Year`:2013)         * **disabled** Max search:100(Google Trends URL:https://www.google.co.in/trends/explore#q=disabled&geo=IN&date=1%2F2013%2012m&cmpt=q)        * **low vision product** Max Search:0((Google Trends URL: https://www.google.co.in/trends/explore#q=low%20vision%20product)      * My boss wants the hits to the website from the keyword such as `disabled,low vision product,blind,deaf,dumb` etc. through **organic searches**.      * The data collected from google trends show very less numbers for the above searches. My boss wants some ideas to increase the hits from these keywords.      * In other word people should search the web using this keyword.Once these keywords search increases our website may increase hits(as the people would be aware after they start searching for this keywords).      * My boss wants some ideas from me.I am completely blank about how to make the user search those terms in search engines(surely i cannot force them),but i can make them aware somewhat. Can anybody provide me with some suggestions...


Control the ranking of my sites on Google

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? I have two sites that I both control and have hooked up to Google Webmaster Tools as different sites. My problem is that one of the sites (Site A) was created as a preparation for the other site (Site B). Although I want Site A to still exist (even on Google), I would like to have Site B score better in search engines. Is there anything I can do implicit or explicit to make Google (and preferable also other search engine) prefer Site B's content over Site A's?


How to enhance website product pages for SEO (Opencart, Google)

I launched a UK wide furniture business, which I can appreciate is a very difficult industry to break into but none the less I have implemented the basics by ensuring I have:   1. Good meta data (titles, description, and keywords - eventhough it is ignored by Google)   2. Adequate H1 and H2 tags   3. Sitemap submission   4. Good quality content trying to keep the keywords within a certain percentage of all the text (~4%?).  This has resulted in being within the top 10 SERP on Google for about 30 different keyword combinations as shown by GWT (Not the best of keywords but still giving me an online presence) My question is what can I do to further improve my position? Any general advice which I and others can implement to take it to the next level? Home page: http://www.imbued.co.uk/ sample product page: http://www.imbued.co.uk/sonya-three-sleeper-inc-storage-drawers-white


Is using keywords in a domain enough to ensure a top position in Google?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? If I want to be listed top for the query "where is obama from", what more do I have to do beyond registering a keyword phrase domain such as whereisobamafrom.com?


Site is not indexed on Bing

My site is having a good ranking on google, but the site is not even indexed in yahoo and bing. I have submitted my site to both yahoo and bing search engines 3 months ago. I also submitted the sitemap of my site to bing webmaster tools. Even so, I don't find the site to be indexed. I want the site to be indexed on both yahoo and bing.


SEO tutorials and other learning materials

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? Please recommend one or two trustworthy SEO tutorials or any other reliable source of SEO wisdom. :) I watched the video tutorial from lynda.com and I liked it a lot, but I don't know how up to date it is. I am also reading SEObook by Aaron Wall. Do you think this is a good source? Thank you!


Need help optimizing meta tags for a specific keyword

I need to make my website appear when I google "achar estacionamento" (find parking lot in portuguese). Can you point some tips that could help me achieve this?


Missing from Google

Recently I noticed our site no longer appeared in Google search results. Our site has be in Google for the last 3 years without any issues.   So far I've check:   * In the Web Master tools it says there are no crawl errors and that we have pages indexed.   * In the Web Master tools I've checked that the robot.txt file is reachable by google and works as expected.   * In the Web Master tools I've test that google can reach our site and then submitted the site to be indexed.   * In a page rank checking tool it says our page rank is N/A.   * I've submitted a check to see if Google banned us, which came back fine.   * I've added a sitemap.xml file. (Although our site content is pretty static) Our site is: www.hiveintelligence.com


Competing  against existing well ranked Websites

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? What can I do to compete against existing established websites with Google page rank 3? I will try to add more keyword to my site by populating my website with similar articles (not copies) present on the other websites, but will my page get a good ranking since they have good SEO with lots of good articles and Facebook followers? How can I get customers?


How can I make my website appear in the top position of Google?

I have added some of the keywords in a meta tag, but my site is still not in the top position when Googled. How can I achieve this?


Best S.E.O. practice for backlinking etc

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I'm currently working on a website that I am really looking to optimise in terms of search engines, i've been submitting between 5-20 directory submissions daily, i've validated and optimised my code and i've joined a lot of forums etc to speak of the website in question, however, I don't seem to be making much of an impact in terms of Google. I know that S.E.O. takes a while to start making an impact, and that Google prefers sites that a regularly updated and aged, but are there any more practices that can really help with organic results in Search engines. I have looked on Google itself, and a few other SE's but nobody is willing to talk about extensive S.E.O. practices as they normally don't want people knowing their formula's for S.E.O., also does anyone know of a decent piece of software that really looks into the in's and out's of your page and provides feedback, I usually use http://www.woorank.com, but only using one program doesn't show if it's exactly correct in what it's saying. If anyone could help it would be much appreciated, thank you very much.


Move subdomain into subdirectory SEO question

I have read this article: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and- subdirectories/ But I'm not 100% clear if moving my subdomain website into a subdirectory on the main domain would change anything related to SEO. I inherited this structure: >   1. Informational site related to our specific industry lives at: > http://website.com >   2. StoreFront where we sell product related to our industry lives at: > http://store.website.com > The informational site gives a lot of good information on how to use the products we sell. The storefront is primarily used for the ecommerce function of selling the products, but there is a lot of info specific to the products on that site. **Question:** Is our main domain http://website.com getting page rank credit for the product info contained at http://store.website.com? Would there be a benefit to changing the structure?


django websites and google

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I have recently finished one of my side projects. Now many sites have things like robot.txts (probably not the best file to describe what i need but you get what I mean) and things of that nature not totally sure what else there is but things behind the scenes that sites use to identify themselves to things like google, yahoo, and bing(but I could have just said google! zing!) I was wondering, what I needed to add to my site for it to be fully web compliant and searchable and proper. I am basically looking for best practices. Thanks.


What do first for SEO activity?

I'm newbie in SEO tasking but I motivate to be SEO master. I have done create any website. So, whats do the best first for SEO activity for good SEO in the future? How long any website can be high PageRank?


SEO of your website

Hello I am now learning new things to apply SEO of my website. What are the concepts and tools which I need to follow or use to make my site optimize and how to check about my website is it optimize or not. Thanks in advance.


Is there any good authoritative source of information on SEO practices that is backed up by data?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? Any google search for anything about SEO yields more articles than you can shake a stick at, but lot of the articles are out of date, many have conflicting advice and I just about none of them ever give any reasons/proof/data to back up their claims about what works and what doesn't. Has anyone done any at least somewhat scientific tests to see what works and what doesn't (and ideally why?) or has anyone from Google released any non- basic information about best practices? Really what I would love to do is A/B test different SEO techniques, but the time lag and sheer number of variables makes it very difficult. Has anyone ever tried this type of thing? (And published their results?)


If Googlebot is crawling 25 pages per day, why isn't my website indexed by Google?

I have created a word press site which is 2 months old and has 15 posts. The average crawl rate is 25 pages per day. Is that sufficient for my site to get some organic traffic from Google search? If it is not sufficient, what should I must do to increase crawl rate as well as site traffic organically? My site was http://how2impress.com/


Generating Back lInks

I am new to this field of SEO. My site is intended to target local customers only. I want to generate quality backlinks for my site. Is there any tools to generate quality backlinks. Or blog sites to improve count of backlinks. I am trying to improve my page ranking . Any Other SEO tips also would be highly appreciated! Thanks in Advance


SEO not indexing my site: "A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more."

When googling my site I get following text under the result for my domain: > "A description for this result is not available because of this site's > robots.txt – learn more." My robots.txt, which resides in the root of my V-host, looks like this:               User-agent: *     Disallow:      I did have a problem with this file before since I forgot to change it from the test environment and then I had               User-agent: *     Disallow: /        However, I did change it yesterday or the day before. I have been googling and this seems to be a correct way of handling it as it is now. Checking the access log of httpd for today, I can see that google has tried to it. But the access_log also shows that Googlebot has been accessing the most of my links as well, feels like ok indexing... Nothing in the error_log from today about robots.txt. What I cannot find is if google has been indexing /index.php. But I guess folling entry is the same, isn't it?: > 66.249.75.179 - - [07/Feb/2013:15:23:01 +0100] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 1 > "http://www.mydomain.ext/" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; > +http://www.google.com/bot.html) What is my problem and how to I resolve it? **UPDATE** When testing in Googles Webmaster Tool I get (this is for my .com domain, all above as well): > Blocked by line 2: Disallow: / Detected as a directory; specific files may > have different restrictions And when doing the exact same thing with my .se domain, which points to the exact same content, I get: Allowed by line 2: Disallow: Detected as a directory; specific files may have different restrictions


Links removed from google search results

For my website www.trickwarehouse.com i have created one post on keyloggers. When i search in google that `what are keyloggers?` then my website's post position was 16 but after 1 hour, when i checked once again then **BOOOM!!!!** nothing found for my website within top 100 results. and also other keywords which was in top 100 results was shifted behind by 2-3 results......      Why it is happening?      Any answers?


OpenCart search engine optimization!

What kind of procedures would be important to optimize opencart webshop for car parts? Thanks in advance


Google crawling pages but not adding them to index

I have a website for which Google has — according to Webmaster Tools — been crawling 1000-5000 pages per day. However, the number of pages _indexed_ (as judged by both the Webmaster Tools count and the result count for a `site:` search on Google) has remained fairly static for weeks now. What's going on, and why is this happening?


What are the best SEO techniques for a professional blog?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? Beginner to SEO here, starting with a personal site, looking for some insight and feedback. Question: what's more important, domain name or site title? Question: how important are the meta tags (description and keywords) on your site? Description should be under 60 chars right? How many keywords is ideal? Question: #1 most important SEO principle = ?? (my guess is getting others to link to your site) -thanks.


How to be the first site in google search?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I searched the title of my website in google search, and although it is a very specific tile, I didn't find my site. My question is that how can be the first sites in google search? I heard that google doesn't look up `<meta>`s anymore and using another method.Is it true?


Question about SEO and Domains

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?   >  Move subdomain into subdirectory SEO question This is my first post on here as I am mainly on Stackoverflow and Serverfault. I have been programming for at least 10 years now, have made hundreds of websites but I have just recently started getting into Design and the SEO side of sites, sad that I have been overlooking these for so many years. I have pretty good knowledge from all my years of SEO but I have never really looked into it until now. My question, I would like to build a site that targets many different key words for the search engines, for an example. Let's say I built a site about Outdoor activities called `outdoorreview.com` and I planned on having many sections   `hunting` `fishing` `Hiking` `camping` `cycling` `climbing` `etc...` For best Search Engine results, how could I get the most search engine traffic to all these ares? Also how should I structure the way to get to them, `outdoorreview.com/Hiking/` or `hiking.outdoorreview.com` ?


How can I increase traffic to my website?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I increase the traffic to my site? I developed a site with CMS wordpress, I am currently in the phase referencing, I would like to know how I can have to increase traffic for site visits.


Facebook and Website SEO

I am the webmaster of a website, and one issue that I'm having is getting our home website to appear above our Facebook page. Are there any Google Webmaster Tools or meta data tricks I can employ to make our main website rank higher than our Facebook page?


How do I get the word out about my site?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I increase the traffic to my site? This has plagued me for a long time now. I just can't seem to grasp internet marketing very well. I recently started a website to help people with anxiety, now I just have no idea how to make people aware of it. The website is free and doesn't even have ads. I don't have the money to put into Adwords right now...I've asked people to link my site but nobody wants to because they think it will take away from their own visits. How can I bring more hits to my site?


Why aren't search engines indexing my content?

> _This is a general, community wikicatch-all question and answer pair > intended to address any questions concerning the reasons a site or specific > site contents do not appear in search engine results._ > > _If your question was closed as a duplicate of this question and you feel > that the information provided here does not provide a sufficient answer, > please open a discussion onPro Webmasters Meta._ My site (or specific pages on my site) is not appearing in search engine results. Why isn't my content indexed and what can I do about it?


Must-do regarding on site SEO

I read a lot of articles regarding on site SEO. I focused mostly on Yoast SEO recommendations (since i'm using Wordpress) and Google guidelines.   * Structured headings   * Optimized site speed   * Breadcrumbs   * Updated sitemap   * No-follow all external links   * No index pages with content that is not unique What else should i do, to make my site more SEO optimized? Any recommended reading is welcome :) After making those changes, how soon should i notice some positive changes in page rankings?


Order of HTML meta tags

A SEO company suggested we change the order of our HTML meta tags so that `<title>` and `<meta name="description">` are the first two. They say this is to ensure search engines can utilize these two tags. I've been under the impression that the order of tags inside the document's head is not significant. Have I been wrong? Are there really search engines that assume that the first two tags are always `title` and `description` and give up looking for them if they aren't?


SEO optimizing Blogger blogspots

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? What are some way to optimize a Blogger blogspot for SEO? I have looked at several other articles, but they were old, so the tactics used won't work with the newer Blogger.


site appears in Google Webmaster Tools but no site: search results

My site is geocology.ca. About a year ago I attempted to add geocology.ca to Google's search index by following the steps for 'Moving Your Site' in Google's Webmaster Tools, transferring from my old site at hughstimson.com. Everything seemed to go fine.   * I submitted a sitemap for the new site, and it was read successfully.   * I added a robots.txt file with a single entry ALLOWing all user agents, and it quickly showed up in Webmaster Tools, properly registered.   * When I go to Google Webmaster tools there are no errors and no complaints. **BUT** : my site never appeared in Google's search results. At all. Searching for site:geocology.ca produced no results. After a couple of months I added a small wordpress blog in a sub-domain, as a sandbox for a client. That blog quickly showed up in Google's index, and now if you search for site:geocology.ca the content of that (fake) blog is all that will appear. Does anyone know how I can address this? Is there perhaps a way to completely reset Google's knowledge about my site and start again?


Why do all pages bar the home page turn up in Google?

Our website is made with WordPress. The menu pages all turn up in Google searches, but the index page doesn't. The index page is absent; the others are there. Why would this be?


Landing page not appearing on google

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I a have a website which describes every product made by the company and it appears on google, which is fine. Now i also made a nice landing page, in its own domain, for one product. The page shows a demo video and has a link to the full website that the visitor is supposed to click if he wants to learn more about the product. The problem is that the page does not have text content, just the video and the link. So Google doesn't know what it is about. I added meta keywords and alt attributes but this didn't help, the page is not listed on the results. What should i do to make it appear on Google?


Site not indexed by Google

I typed the following on Google: (1) site: uniquevolve.com (2) site: uniquevolve.com.au Only (2) gets indexed. Is this normal? The strange thing is, my Website is actually hosted on the server with domain (1) and domain (2) only redirects to (1). How do I get (1) indexed by Google? Thank you in advance.


Did what I can to keep my website SEO friendly, yet newer websites are ranked better?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? I have a website that gives information about weddings, My site has been up for almost two years now, I designed it and programmed it entirely, While developing my website I tried to keep it SEO-friendly, I read about SEO at random websites, read articles about it and such. Nowadays my website is still quite bad with the "big" words such as "Wedding" (Not in english) My budget for advertising is not the biggest, I am thinking of advertising with AdWords but I don't think that it really affects SEO, does it? The thing is that about two months ago, I found a new website that does pretty much what my site does, it was after me in google's results, but suddenly started climbing up, now it's on the first page. How does one do such a thing? I looked into the domain history, and is newer than mine as well. I never thought that it's possible to go up so fast , I saw some companies that go around and say that you will be on the first / second page for sure if you pay them a nice amount of money, but I thought that I could skip this because as far as I heard SEO is not really controlled by these people, what they could do is just change a few things in my design to make it even more SEO-friendly, and maybe link to my site from random forums and websites. Am I wrong though? can they really guarantee such a thing? Is there any "SEO Magic" that I dont know of? I'd love to hear what you guys have to say about this and know more about how to improve my website's ranking Thanks


Problem indexing my site

I developed a site but I've got some problems to index it. I've got 10 pages but when I search my site on google the first result is the page "contact" and not "index". I have included title and meta tag description and keywords in the index page but the result is the always the same.