Search Engine Optimization generally refers to all technical and non-technical measures to improve an organizations' visibility in search engine results.
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Any recommendations for getting listing in DMOZ.com directory?
We've been trying for a long time with no success. I've heard all sorts of stories. Anybody have any suggestions?
Appreciate it,
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Is this back link strategy a poor business decision?
I have a health related website which I am in no rush to monetize, my first priority is to build page rank and dominate the serps. I am thinking about letting healthcare providers advertise their ...
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SEO questions for URLs [closed]
I have couple of questions regarding SEO for URLs
Does hyphen vs. underscrore in the urls affect SEO?
e.g. www.mysite.com/my-first-post vs. www.mysite.com/my_first_post
Does capital letter vs. ...
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Is advanced SEO snake oil?
I keep reading about how search engines like google keep changing and optimizing their algorithms so I wonder how effective SEO is beyond the basics of having the right keywords, robots.txt, etc and ...
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Hosting images outside main site?
I noticed that sites like StackOverflow host user-submitted images outside their site, (in the SO case, at imgur). I've also seen forums do the same thing.
Are there advantages to taking this ...
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Register company in UK or France for French internet startup
I am a UK based web developer currently building a French language affiliate marketing website to be hosted in France. My business partners are French and I am trying to decide whether my business ...
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How can I evaluate a link building company?
We're looking for a link building company, but are weary of anything we find in Google. So far I've looked at:
backlinkbuild.com (most promising so far for their blog network)
submitedge.com (for ...
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Multiple Keywords Content Generation SEO Strategy
Hi I'm planning a SEO campaign but stuck on one problem.
The following example is for illustration only
Let's say I sell shoes in continental US, and I want to target the following key words:
Buy ...
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Does domain registration length have any effect on SEO?
I was recently playing around with the Website Grader at websitegrader.com and read this:
Google and other search engines may penalize websites with domains that are set to expire soon. The reason ...
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Promoting startup on Google+
I'm just getting started with promoting my startup in Google+, and am looking for suggestions on the best way to do this.
I can post to Google+ as (1) the "page" for the startup or as (2) my email ...
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Is it worth spending money on SEO consulting and services?
Assuming one wants to launch a website with good reviews from beta-testers-users, is it worth spending money on Search Engine Optimization consulting/specialists or does a hacker with good IT skills ...
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What are main functions of a start up that need continous attention
So we are 2 co-founders having a full time job and from the last 14 months are working on a social network. I wanted to share the name of our start up here, but somehow I think that would be cheap ...
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After hiring a person responsible for SEO for 3 months and having the site online for 5 months how good is it to have 9,000 visitors/month from SEO?
Is it a good number to have 9,000 visitors after 3 months of having someone working on SEO and being online for 5 months just from SEO?
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Where can I find a good SEO/SEM as a partner?
my partner and I are looking for a 3rd business partner who can run our Marketing (SEO/SEM). Is there a good resource out there that can find these sort of people? Any pitfalls to watch out for?
This ...
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In lay mans terms, what is the difference between online SEO and offline SEO services?
We are hunting a company to provide SEO services. They asked us whether we need online or offline SEO services. Can anyone please provide what these mean in laymans language?
For a sports based ...
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Outsourcing SEO on sites like Fiverr
I saw a lot of posts on Fiverr where people who offer creating 1000's of backlinks to your website for a pretty low price.
Is it a good way to improve my SEO?
Is it safe to use this technique? I ...
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How much should I expect to receive per website (for web design)?
I am a student who wants to start a small web design business with a few of my friends. Our clients will be local small businesses (e.g. family-run businesses). We're not expecting them to request ...
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What's a reasonable rate for an SEO consultant?
I am looking to hire an SEO consultant to help us with keyword research and building backlinks.
What are the reasonable rates (hourly, monthly) for a good SEO consultant?
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How should a small business providing local services do link building to get ranked high in the search engines?
Assuming an appropriate amount of on-page optimization has been done, and a sites structure is good, how does a small local business acquire links without resorting to purchasing them?
The numerous ...
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How to approach SEO for a new website?
We have just launched (yesterday actually!) a website for our startup - providing mobile and Facebook app development services. Sales will totally drive from leads generated from the website. ...
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SERP position in google.us
I want to search the SERP position of my website keywords in google.us. The problem is that when I type google.us it redirects me to google.com. So how to find the position of the keywords in ...
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Should I use a separate domain name for each of my apps?
I have a business website where I have the marketing and support pages for a Mac app that I've developed. I also bought the domain name for the app which has the format myappname.com. Should I move ...
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Is building fans on a Facebook fan page or Twitter with Fiverr worthwhile?
I've seen Fiverr used to build fans to a new social network page or profile, build links (spammy) for a website, or design a logo. Is it an effective tool for building fans to a social media page (in ...
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Community Manager - marketer, product person, support? And where does Social Networking fit in the mix?
I'm frequently involved in debates about the skillset that best embodies a successful online community manager.
How do you define their responsibility and what experiences are most valuable therein?
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SEO for a B2B startup
Looking for suggestions on improving the rank/search results positioning for my website.
My business is B2B. My target audience are very internet/computer savvy individuals... mostly software ...
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What is the best free seo rank checker tool? [closed]
I am looking for a tool that can monitor my website rankings on search engines like Google, Yahoo bing etc ..
Is there any such tool around that is free ?
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re-name product website pre-launch?
I've been working on a B2B SAAS product for the last year or so, and it's almost ready to launch.
I havn't done any SEO yet, however I did use BuildMyRank.com a couple of months ago, and during that ...
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Google search trends monetization ideas
I have a simple software which can to get current google search trends. It's based on information about what people are searching now(well i have a little percent of current search queries). Insted of ...
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Importance Of Alexa Ranking
I'm a newbie blogger and I'm bit confused to see the people craving for Alexa ranks.I've got nice Google PR for my blog.Despite good PR Is it really necessary to build up the site or blog to match the ...
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What are your top 3 - 5 SEO tips? [closed]
We're working on improving our website. We're using WordPress with the "All in One SEO Pack" plugin. But I have very limited knowledge on this topic. I'm interested in hearing what your top SEO tips ...
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Ad/SEO Spend Budget
My question is, how should we decide how much money to spend on advertising if the return on this advertising isn't easily measured?
For example, spending it on an adwords campaign to acquire new ...
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Does Google work with audio and video? [closed]
If I put a bunch of time and effort into creating non-text content, namely audio and video, how will Google grasp how to index it? Is there a way to "prep" audio and video so it gets noticed like text ...
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Standard Marketing and SEO Techniques [closed]
The new version of my business website is about to release in coming weeks which mainly includes UI improvement and support for some advance features. Within that time period, I don’t want to contact ...
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Should I go for SEO or PPC?
I am working on starting up a new company for providing software development services for iPhone and Android apps. My goal is to get at least 10 projects in a month to reach break even in 3/4 months. ...
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Looking for SEO testing tool
We have updated our web app so that there will be unique SEO entries(page title, meta keywords, meta description etc) for every page. I am looking for a SEO testing tool that will automatically go ...
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Is there a similar QA site out there for SEO? [closed]
Is there a similar QA site out there for SEO?
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Are download sites effective for google page rank?
Are download sites effective for google page rank?
A competitor is listed on first page of Google for a certain short-tailed key word phrase for which my company does not rank at all(not on first 15 ...
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Which web design Agency to help design a product website / launch?
We got a product and during the launch we need a good, well designed website with product features etc.
Now we wrote all the features and prepared some scenarios for product showcase, videos, ...
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Is marketing the most important thing?
I was reading about the creation of mingle2.com, and what struck me as curious is that at that time (in 2007) the online dating market was well on its way to being saturated (aside from niche areas of ...
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Article writing service?
Anybody has recommendations for good article writing services for SEO purposes? Especially the one that actually writes for real people and not just churn out the article out of a random word ...
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Require attribution with a link for SaaS widget?
I'm trying out a new product where race directors put a widget on their site which gives them access to the mapping data on my site and I'm setting up my contract.
I'm considering whether the ...
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What effect(s) does Google's Panda 2.5 update have on new websites in the SERP?
I recently launched 3 websites (within the past 7-10 months) that had been steadily increasing in the rankings on Google search up until this past weekend, when I noticed a huge drop across most of my ...
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Does Pinterest no-follow all of their outbound links?
I am wondering whether or not search engine robots crawl, follow, and index links from pinterest.com. Or, do they block their outgoing links like facebook does? In other words, can a website build ...
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Backlink question - point to https://www.site or http://www.site ? [closed]
When getting backlinks, should I point them to https://www.site.com or http://www.site.com ? for reference, when someone goes on my site by typing in http://www.site.com or www.site.com they get ...
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How long does it take for a completely new site to grow SEO traffic
I have a site that is just under 3 months old: http://www.problemio.com
Lets say that I am doing a very nice amount of SEO for it considering that it is so young. But the problem is that I don't see ...
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Tips for breaking into domain brokering?
As a web developer I consider myself fairly familiar with SEO and website structure in terms of advising clients where there is room for improvement and such, however recently a client of mine asked ...
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What is the implication of Google Panda on a blog?
What is the implication of Google Panda release on my clients who are "outsourcing" scontent creation for their blogs?
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Does our homepage need lots of keyword rich content?
Quick question - Does our homepage need lots of keyword rich content?
Right now, it has only about 60-70 words on it and apart from the Title of the page, our keywords are not really present. All our ...
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Recommendations for good UK based SEO Companies?
Looking to get some SEO work done on our new website. Seems like a bit of a mine field. Can any one please recommend good companies that you have experience of working with (and if you don't mind the ...
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How Do IP Address and Host Server Influence SEO?
If you have been performing SEO since a long time, you may have witnessed issues with host server and IP address. The troubles with host server and IP address come into play when you frequently switch ...
