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.


Blog is not indexing in google search

I have a blog with url http://webzpedia.blogspot.in which is about 2 years old. In early days there is 200+ pageviews coming from the google search itself. But from last 4-5 months, google stopped indexing my blog in its search results. Can anyone answer why this happening?


How to promote travel blog?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?   >  How can I increase the traffic to my site? I know this question might seem a little off topic, but blogging may become important part of travel. Nowadays, in time of Facebook, Twitter and similar services, keeping a travel blog may seem a little _archaic_. It's not 2005 anymore. But a lot of my travel colleagues update their blogs and have significant number of readers. I also tried to keep my blog when I travel. However it seems that the only reader is my mum ;) **What is your advice on promoting a _travel_ blog?**


How to start learning SEO

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I'm a web developer (.NET) and a newbie to the SEO world! Where and how to start ? What are the steps to go from a newbie to be a more experienced SEO ? Thanks in advance =)


My website not getting any traffic, How to get traffic?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I increase the traffic to my site? I have done pretty nice SEO of my website , the website is made in php , anyone can submit article and the submitted articles are moderated by the moderators , the site is online from more then a month but still the user count is 10-20 only total impressions are 700 according to webmaster google , how much time does google webmaster takes to refresh the data , cause from 3 -4 days the impressions shown in the dashboard are 700 only , I am posting 2 article each day , please help me , I am very disappointed with all my effort and i really need a good motivation to carry on my work. Please help my website url is http://www.viewloud.com


Is Anyone Facing Ranking Problem with their Website and indexing is quietly fine?

My Website gosarkarinaukri and sarkarinaukricareer both are Indian Educational Portal, if i update my pages on these websites, it get indexed by Google but they are not ranked properly as they used to do. Problem is, when i copy entire title and paste in Google, Google doesn;t show any Result from my website? Is anyone facing same problem, suggest me any good.


Only 10% of my site are indexed

I'm newbie in Google Webmaster Tools and I use sitemap.xml to submit urls.   The problem is that I've submitted 150 urls and only 17 are indexed! Is that a problem or they will be indexed later?


Hoping to boost traffic to NFP site. SEO info? HELP!

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I'm doing work for a not-for-profit looking to boost traffic to the site. I need to learn a tremendous amount about SEO and backlinking in a short length of time. Any tips you can give me, or sites you can refer me to, I'll be most grateful. A million thanks, Chaz


How can I increase the traffic to my site?

I don't want to do link exchanges or anything shady. I just want some legitimate ways that I can direct a little bit more traffic to my site. How do I do that?


Google Webmaster Tools Index Status is 0

Statistics show all entries of my wordpress blog have been tracked, but none have been indexed. I thought it would be just a matter of indexing delay, but it has been 3 weeks already, and I can find the entries on google when I query the entry name, (e.g "relaxacion.com musica para dormir bebes" shows at the bottom of search results first page) Is there any problem with my wordpress setup?


How can I bring my website up in the google search result?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I have developed my website few months ago and I added meta tags and described everything as much as I could but my site is still not on the top when I search kashif ejaz on google. Please help !


After replacing all tables in an old website with divs, what other steps should I take?

I have designed a website a few years back, and it ranks pretty well, customer is happy, no problems there. I took one of the pages and replaced manually all the tables with `<div>`, used structured data and got the website to look exactly the same. I would like to know what other steps should I take to improve or at least not hurt this page's rank, or if perhaps I should just not bother altogether. What are best practices here? By the way, the page is not live yet.


Google crawls my website too slowly

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? I think Google crawls it too slowly (every three days). I updated it daily and it's kind of frustrating. Should I build more backlinks? The robots.txt looks ok.


Why isn't my website ranking highly and what can I do to improve it?

What I can improve to make my website rank better on search engines for my target keyword - "address labels". I've tried a lot of things to make it better but I'd love to hear some more suggestions! the address is www.thelabelroom.co.uk


Increase traffic to site

I have made a social networking site and it's been on the web for over 6 months and it has over 8,000 members but I want it to grow bigger. What tools/methods can I use to grow its popularity? e.g CEO, PPC advertising Tools/methods requiring money and without and comparisons? Thanks in advance, Jack.


How to be on google first page results?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I searched the web and find a lot of "techniques" to be on the first page results of google or yahoo. Is it possible to pay for that?


Site not indexed in Google, but indexed in Bing and Yahoo

When I search for mytgp.ph on Google, I don't get any relevant results. But when I search using Yahoo or Bing, the site is the 1st result on the first page. Any ideas? Here's my `site:mytgp.ph` query on Google: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/GuwCW.png)


Our indexed website appearing and disappearing from Google SERP

Our website www.skadate.com used to appear on Google search when searching for a keyword "dating software", now it doesn't. It doesn't come by any other keyword (it used to come up with) as well. Sometimes our index page appears on SERP, sometimes doesn't', usually a PHP page appears. Why is it happening, any ideas?


cannot find my site in Google/Bing - live 4 months

I have a site, led-lights.ie, which went live in January and it is still getting just a handful of visitors a day. I cannot find it searching Google using various terms even after going through over 20 pages of results. However, site:led-lights.ie shows over 100 pages in google also its images are indexed. Google WMT tools shows no errors and that the XML sitemap has been processed. An Alexa site audit got a score of A/91%, (SEO / Performance / Security / HTML scored A, Reputation C ) only issues being Duplicate or long title tags and duplicate meta descriptions. As far as I can tell, the domain is “new” i.e. no previous usage or penalties. Can anyone see if I’m missing something obvious with this site SEO wise? Thank you.


How to get the content right for better showing in google results

I am looking for basic help or guidelines for making my site earn better visibility in google and other search engine results. My site is a price- comparison engine for products so I want to know what shall feature in my meta keywords, meta description, images and content. For example, you can think of Nokia Lumia 920 as one of the products.


SEO/performance - building blog article page

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I've been using WP up and until now, but want to spread my wings and build a bespoke blog for my website. The reason I want my own blog is that I cannot get my WP site to match the branding/design of my main website, and because my blog is very basic, there is a ton of stuff on WP that I really don't need. I'm using ASP/Windows IIS7 and the URL rewrite module, which is all working fine (tested), plus I've built my database and administration pages. I'm now about to tackle the article page itself. Before I get started with it, I would like to hear some suggestions/ideas/tips on building the page correctly, mainly for enhancing SEO rankings, but for general performance too. I know using heading tags (h1-h6), paragraph tags (p), and alt/title attributes will enhance rankings if used correctly. I'm also familiar with meta keywords and description tags, especially being dynamically produced. What other building requirements are there that will help with successful SE ranking and general performance? Is there anything else I should be aware of when building this article page? And also, I'm not bothered that my user cannot remember the URL of the page, but will using a URL like www.mydomain.com/articles/12334435544 be a problem to SE's, using only numbers (representing article ID) and no text?


> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Why isnt google crawling on my blog? What is the best way to get robots to crawl your site from google? With reference to our site [site elided]


Sitemap and url are laid out differently from each other

There is a website and the layout looks something like below:               home->approved->                     education             entertainment               business                         |                      |                        |                 kid, teenager, adult   kid, teenager, adult     kid, teenager, adult                         |                      |                        |                       and so on..            and so on..              and so on..          home->not approved->                     education             entertainment               business                         |                      |                        |                 kid, teenager, adult   kid, teenager, adult     kid, teenager, adult                         |                      |                        |                       and so on..            and so on..              and so on..      **On homepage, one would see two links - approved and not-approved.** Once you click on any of the links, relevant entries will come up and then both pages also have filters on top for further drilling, see above. Urls are organized like below:               Home/Approved will pull up all entries.      Home/Approved/Education will pull up education only (and so on).      Home/Approved/Education/Kid will pull up educational kid only (and so on).       **I am planning to organize my sitemap to have two static parent nodes - approved and not approved, and then add all entries dynamically to the sitemap to these two parent nodes and not include sublevels in sitemap at all.** Do you see any problem/pitfall with this approach - in terms of seo or anything else?


What should a page's minimum word count be in order to be effectively indexed?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Ideal word count per web page? I'm seeding a new site with hundreds of (high quality) posts, but since I am paying per word written, I'm wondering if anybody in the community has any anecdotal evidence as to how many words of content there should now be for a page to be counted just the same as a 700 word+ post, for example? I know there are always examples of pages ranking well with, for instance, 50 words or less of content, but does anyone have any strong evidence on what the minimum count should be, or has anyone read anything very informative in regards to this issue?


command-line zip not working

I have a Wordpress site on a Debian/Linux dedicated server, with a Backupbuddy plugin for making automatic backups. The plugin, however, gives an error 'Your server does not support command line ZIP'. My knowledge of Linux commands is very limited, but I managed installing zip with the command `sudo apt-get install zip` However, I still get the same error message. Plugin documentation mentions the problem could also be caused by disabled exec() or safe_mode - but exec isn't disabled, and safe_mode is off. Any ideas what might be causing this, or how to fix it? The only thing I could think of, is it might be caused by wrong permissions?


Remove SSL from Google Search results

I am working on a WordPress site that serves up HTTP pages statically. The problem is that some of the pages are shown as HTTPS in Google Search results. For instance, if the search term " _Example Press Kit_ " is entered the search result site link comes up as:               https://example.com/presskit/      We don't have a site SSL certificate, so surfers are being bounced. I have tried everything. Most recently I created a new website in Google WebAdmin for the HTTPS version of our home page. Then, I added site links that should have redirected site links intended for `https://example.com/*` to `http://example.com/*`, but it doesn't work! Google still shows a dead link to `http://example.com/presskit`. I didn't think dead links lasted very long on Google results, but there they are, two weeks later. Any ideas? A `301 redirect` won't work because the site doesn't even allow redirection from HTTPS. It is served by CloudFlare.


How do Expires headers and cache manifest rules work together?

I find the W3C's official Offline Web Applications specification to be rather vague about how the cache manifest interacts with headers such as ETag, Expires, or Pragma on cached assets. I know that the manifest should be checked with each request so that the browser knows when to check the other assets for updates. But because the specification doesn't define how the cache manifest interacts with normal cache instructions, I can't predict precisely how the browser will react. Will assets with a future expiration date be refreshed (no matter the cache headers) when the cache manifest is updated? Or, will those assets obey the normal caching rules? Which caching mechanism, HTTP cache versus cache manifest, will take precedence, and when?


Redirection based on user's location

I'm about to redirect my French users from mysite.com to mysite.fr. Is it possible using **DNS CNAME records** or should I write some **GEOLocation** codes to do that? I will appreciate any other ideas. Regards,   Shakib


Does iframe affect SEO of its parent page?

I would like to know that, does _iframe_ affect the SEO of its parent page (the page contains _iframe_ )? I've done some searching, such as Do we still need to avoid using frame/iframe for good SEO? and Using iFrame: SEO and Accessibility Points, which tell me that:   * **The content in an iframe** is not considered part of the parent page.   * **The page within an iframe** may be spidered and indexed (or it may be not) but no PR is definitely passed. But these are the content **in the iframe** , what about the parent page? Does the PageRank of the parent page will decrease because the _iframe_? Or maybe Googlebot wouldn't crawl the parent page? Or is the parent page not affected at all?


Does browser understand PHP?

I know that PHP is server side scripting language, but I got confused when asked in an interview if the browser understands PHP? I have Apache installed in my system. If in a PHP file I write `<?php echo 'HELLO' ?>` and I open it in a browser it shows HELLO. Now how does it happen if the browser does not understand PHP?


Using CSS sprites and hidden text - effect on SEO?

I am using CSS sprites for buttons on my website, They are used for stop/play/download etc. If I'm using for example an `<i class="preview">preview "track name"</i>` play button with the text then I hide the text using `text-indent:-9999px`. Would this be enough to get penalised? (keep in mind there can be 60 products per page and each will have 3 sprites with hidden text!)


practical reasons for using separate domains instead of subdomains?

Quite often, I see web sites that draw resources from multiple domains. Made up example: Foo Bar Ltd has a main web site at foobar.com, which references files at fbltdcdn.com and foobar-rewards.net. They send emails directing people to foobarlatestmarketingslogan.com, which immediately makes me think "phishing scam". Why is this a common practice, rather than using cdn.foobar.com, rewards.foobar.com, slogan.foobar.com, etc?


Set the base url of any menu item in Joomla

I'm not sure if this belongs here, superuser or stackoverflow I'm using virtual domains, which means that www.company.com has one template www.community.com has another template user accounts are shared the site is also in 2 languages now there is a common global Menu navigation and some links should be on the company.com url and some on the community.com url. however menu links stay on the current domain I'm on for example: 1. i'm on company.com/de/about 2. click on forum link 3. want to land on community.com/de/forum however I land on company.com/de/forum but i don't want to use "external links" because if I am on community.com/en/forum and click on about link i need the url to be company.com/en/about so the urls still need to be dynamic for language support. In other words I want to be able to set the base url of any menu item no matter what component, where should I start? Thanks!


Subdomain versus subdirectory

I recently moved from having a main site like `www.example.com` with a subdomain associated site `yyy.example.com`, to moving everything off the subdomain to a subdirectory like `www.example.com/yyy/`, with the same hierarchy underneath the subdirectory, and now `yyy.example.com` is just a redirect page to the subdirectory, so `yyy.example.com/abc/page-x` is redirected to `www.example.com/yyy/abc/page-x` and so on. The effect has been that the traffic increased by several times (the total page views are more than ten times at the present rate) what it was to the `yyy` subdomain. Previously almost all of the traffic to the `yyy` subdomain was from the `www` site. This is from monitoring the old `yyy` site for a year or more. I'm curious to know if there's any research or results which would indicate whether this is universal (subdirectories beat subdomains) or "just me".


Do I get penalized for hosting a blog in a subfolder?

First of all, I know this is an ongoing debate, I’ve read forums and seen different opinions but I’m still confused. Here’s my problem. I’ve started my website from scratch (design and code) and now after a couple of months I realized that it’s not very SEO friendly and my search traffic is close to none. As a result I decided to add a Wordpress blog to it as it’s SEO friendly out of the box and has some good plugins like Yoast. My problem here is that I don’t want my current website to affect the blog section (get lower search results on the blog because my website is poorly optimized). On the other hand, I already have a couple of backlinks to my current website because I keep releasing design freebies and people share those (would those links benefit my blog?). As I understood, if you make a blog on a subdomain, then google will treat it as a new website in which case the backlinks won’t help me. If I choose to go with a subfolder then I may benefit from the backlinks but wouldn’t I get penalized because of the existing website which is poorly optimized and maybe has a couple SEO issues that Google doesn’t like?


Optimize SEO: 2 websites or 1 main website and subdomain?

I'm working on a WordPress website of a little company, let say: `www.xxx.com`. Now they want a different website for their workshops. What is the most optimal construction thinking of SEO? 1) `www.xxx.com` + `www.xxx-workshops.com` 2) `www.xxx.com` + `www.xxx.com/workshops` 3) `www.xxx.com` + `workshops.xxx.com`


SEO and multiple simple websites

From a **SEO point of view** , which one is "better" for a not so little company: **Having one huge site** containing everything regarding the company **or having multiple one?** I think one site is better, because it is easier to optimize and advertise, but I just started working in a company, where we have multiple simple websites (almost single page) to handle offer requests. My boss don't want this site structure changed. (These sites have no connection at all, but the first thing I would do is link them and by linking I mean adding a page where there are links to the other pages). It is easier to explain through an example. We have domains structured like this (not the real ones):   * forkliftparts.com : for forklift parts   * forkliftseat.com : for ordering seats   * forklifttire.com : handling orders regarding tires   * forkliftbattery.com : and for batteries   * ... The sites are basically the same, with a little color difference. Should I start advertising the pages separately? What could I do to improve the standing in search engines? The sites are built with WordPress and with the use of SEO plugins, so I am more interested in **off-site seo**.


Wordpress installation - Subdomain or as folder?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Subdomain versus subdirectory I got a client portfolio website and he opens a Wordpress blog with articles related to his profession. What the best for SEO - install it as subdomain or as folder?               www.myclientsite.com/blog/      or               blog.myclientsite.com      This is fresh domain without any previous content.


SEO and location targeting , sub-domain or sub-directory?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Subdomain versus subdirectory With regards to say a national service that has locations based in 10 cities. Each city needs to have individual content, such as blogs, info pages, etc. Is it better to have (or does it matter): `chicago.example.com` or `example.com/chicago` Furthermore if I go with a subdirectory and each city has a blog, how do I enable it so the blog only effects its parent. For example `example.com/chicago/blog` should not affect `example.com/washington`


example.com/blog vs blog.example.com

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Subdomain versus subdirectory I'm about to start my own blog (adding it to a domain already owned by me) and I'm wondering what is the best way to set it up. There are two common alternatives for blogs: `domain.com/blog` and `blog.domain.com`. My question is: what are the advantages and disadvantages and of each alternative and which one do you think is the best? (in terms of SEO, etc)


SEO: Is it ever good to use subdomains?

I just built a site that I split up as follows:               www.MAINDOMAIN.com         --> a landing page the redirects you to one of the following pages     blog.MAINDOMAIN.com        --> a blog     restaurants.MAINDOMAIN.com --> a page that lists restaurants     shops.MAINDOMAIN.com       --> a page that lists shops      Problem is, won't google see his as 4 seperate domains? i.e Would I not have been better off with something like this:               www.MAINDOMAIN.com     www.MAINDOMAIN.com/blog     www.MAINDOMAIN.com/restaurants     www.MAINDOMAIN.com/shop


Benefits of placing keywords in domain name

I'm now considering the site structure and I need to choose between productname.mysite.com and mysite.com/productname URL format. Question is the following: is there any ranking reasons to use first type of URL or the difference is behavior factor? If the difference is minor I'd choose the second URL type as it is simpler to handle (Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools are not really friendly to multi-domain sites).


Better SEO from sub-directory or sub-domain?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Subdomain versus subdirectory I'm working on a site that will act as a sort of companion site or sub-site to my main site. Is there a difference in SEO of setting it up on a sub-domain or sub- directory?


For SEO purposes, should I put my blog on a webpage or a subdomain?

For example if I want to post under a webpage called “blog”, should I make that `example.com/blog/category/article` or `blog.example.com/category/article`, assuming that example.com has an about page, a music page, a merchandise page? What is best for SEO, or does it even make difference?


Keyword in sub-domain good or keyword in sub folder? Which is good to manage?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Subdomain versus subdirectory Keyword in sub-domain good or keyword in sub folder               keyword.abc.com      or               abc.com/keyword/      Which of this two is good to manage?


What do you call the effect when you gray out the background behind a dialog?

What do you call that effect? Looks like this ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/YqDmF.png)


Best Practise for Micro-Sites that Google will not consider to be doorways

On behalf of my client, I have purchased a few really good URLs, to assist with their SEO. I want to understand whether my proposed use of these domains, as micro-sites to _encouraged_ visitors to visit the main site, will result in blacklisting.                Here's my invented example:          'Farmaceuticals' Ltd. They sell big, purple Tractors.      I would like to know whether is acceptable practise thesedays. If not, can something be done with micro-sites that is acceptable? Apart from the desired action of users clicking through to the main site, I want to ensure all other features are above-board, such as not using hidden keywords and focusing each site on one specific feature.    Examples:   * www.bigtractors.com:    _"Farmaceuticals Ltd sell some of the biggest tractors anywhere. Here's a link to the website: www.farmaceuticals.com"_      * www.purpletractors.com:    _"Farmaceuticals Ltd sell some of the most purple tractors anywhere. Here's a link to the website: www.farmaceuticals.com"_    What makes a micro-site a destination worth ranking, and not to be seen as a direct doorway to redirect visitors? One _extreme_ step could be to provide content that its completely unique to each micro-site, and does not appear on the main site. But, I wonder whether despite all efforts, having a link to take people elsewhere will make each micro-site appear as a 'doorway' whatever I do?


Will using social submitting/seo marketing tools harm my site in the long run?

I'm looking to drive more traffic to some blogs I maintain. We've had good success with submitting to sites like Reddit and Digg but the process is long and tedious with the amount of content we have. I saw products like Social Submitter and xgenseo that automatically create accounts (scarily xgen also creates dummy yahoo mail accounts and even solves the captcha) and submits articles for you. The tools seem like an extremely easy way of building up back links on relevant and important social sites without the tediousness of doing it manually. The only thing I'm worried about is that using tools like this will eventually harm my blogs traffic. Does anyone have any experience with such tools or opinions on the subject?


Why won't webmail receive emails from outside my domain?

I'm new to GoDaddy Linux cPanel web hosting. I've created multiple email accounts @my-domain using cPanel. These addresses can send mail successfully to each other and also to any other email account outside my domain (like Gmail). But all emails @my-domain can only receive email from each other not from outside my domain. That is, if I send an email from my Gmail to my @my-domain account it doesn't appear in my @my-domain account web mail inbox. Why is this happening and what's the solution?


What is the meaning of this sitemap error in Google Webmaster Tools?

In my Google Webmaster Tools, I received an error which I am not understanding: > When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some of > the URLs were unreachable. Please check your webserver for possible > misconfiguration, as these errors may be caused by a server error (such as a > 5xx error) or a network error between Googlebot and your server. All > reachable URLs will still be submitted. I received this warning for a URL that is currently working perfectly. Can you please tell me if this a serious warning, or what it means?


Google Blogger Website CName and/or Text File Issues

I have a blogger Blog website and I would like to have it show up on my company website. I have read a couple articles out there on how to do it. A hand full of them talk about using FTP which is old and no longer available. However, I am trying to following along with this one: http://www.infinite42.com/small-business/integrate-blogger-blog-website Which seems pretty easy but I am having a problem getting Google to Verify the DNS CName or Text Record that I created on my Windows 2007 Server. Do I need to create this record at the registrar level. Right now the domain is setup at the registrar to point the www record to my server where on my server I tried the Txt Record and the CName Record with no luck in DNS. Here are the Google instructions for creating a CName file record in DNS: Follow the steps below to create a DNS (Domain Name System) record that proves to Google that you own the domain. Add the CNAME record below to the DNS configuration for abc.com. CNAME Label / Host: CNAME Destination / Target: Click Verify below. When Google finds this DNS record, we'll make you a verified owner of the domain. (Note: DNS changes may take some time. If we don't find the record immediately, we'll check for it periodically.) To stay verified, don't remove the DNS record, even after verification succeeds. Here is the link to do it with a CName: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/08/domain-verification-using- cname-records.html When I go to add my CName record on my server's DNS the only two fields available are Alias Name and Fully Qualified Domain Name. How am I suppose to create this record can someone please tell me? Thanks, Frank


AdSense: Will Google ban me if I list "No ads" as a reason to sign up at my site?

Can't find anything about this in Google AdSense's TOS. Basically I want to remove ads for logged in users on my site -- but will Google allow me to use this as a value proposition on my front page? > Sign up today for extra benefits: > >   * No ads >   * Personalized profile page >   * Bla bla >


Homepage redirect and impact on SEO?

My website is basically a gallery of pictures that I display one at the time (as seperate posts). I have no need for a landing page and so I redirect all users who visit the homepage to a random post:               <?php     if (have_posts()) {         query_posts('orderby=rand');         while (have_posts()) {             the_post();             wp_redirect(get_permalink(), 302);         }     }          ?>      My homepage is still/and should be the most visited page and so I am wondering if the redirection will have any negative impact on SEO.


How to stop browser from rejecting my downloads?

I have a portfolio site where I am trying to host some of my work, so people can download my work. Some of these files include exe executables, and some are `.jar` executables, which are run through batch. When a user tries to download my apps, it says that the file is not commonly downloaded and may be harmful, and therefore blocks the download. If I zip the folders, it still does the same thing. Any format I choose, still blocks the downloads. How can I stop chrome from doing this. Is there a way I can verify my files so they will be considered as trusted?


Why is my DKIM invalid?

When I use http://dkimcore.org/c/keycheck to test my DKIM it says               This is not a good DKIM key record. You should fix the errors shown in red.          DNS query failed for 'key1._domainkey.board67.com':NXDOMAIN          A public-key (p=) is required      But I do have a public key ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/1W3ON.png) Now I am getting this error:               p=  MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCvjT4cF+/SV69t38ihp7TOMZ2m ruxwtcicE/DmuZJdMcHuEmN9iN03Q8wMdU4TFeirkF79nJMh4wDma1N2LGUiOZrv j1YtCpKZZRlV0IAr7MtA7jjaBEGNU5EsWYcZXriGhkyzl39TXdVIaBuuuqWBN9lk pD+jlA6zCM3nPL6b1wIDAQAB          The p= field must be base64 encoded


Google doesn't show my site's results even for a direct search

> In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries > very similar to the 21 already displayed. > > If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included. When I do a direct search for my blog. This is very disturbing because I've created more than a dozen articles and none are shown in the SERPs for a direct search. The only way to view my pages seems to be on the third page when all the results are exhausted there's the text I've paste above and it's linked. Now clicking that link is the only way to view my pages. You can check this phenomenon out here:   http://google.com/search?q=moviesreva.blogspot.com/


Feedburner is Displaying an Inactive Email Address When Logged In

I have set up a Feedburner subscription through my Google account login. For some reason Feedburner displays an old inactive email address in the top right when logged into Feedburner. I'm concerned since I don't have access to this email account. If for any reason I need to move my Feedburner Feed I'm concerned I'll need to access this email account which is impossible. My email address is correct in every other Google account, profile etc. and has been updated to a working and correct email address. How can I change this? Do I need to be concerned?


What images to use when using a post to a link

I want to be able to use some kind of images for when I put up a post to a link (story, article somewhere else on the web), but what's the rules for what images I can use? can I use an image from the source that I'm linking to? or do I have to completely use stock images?


Schema.org: Having a Product as "about" property

I want to define a Product as the main content of a webpage using Schema.org markup. My idea with the following HTML is to use the structure:                - Webpage      -- WebPageElement (mainContentOfPage of Webpage)      --- Product (about of WebPageElement which is mainContentOfPage of Webpage)      However, using this markup, Google does not seem to recognize the Product properties such as the aggregateRating. The "structured markup tool" is only satisfied if I remove the "about" property on Product. But then the structure breaks into:               - Webpage     -- WebPageElement (mainContentOfPage of Webpage)     -- Product      Product is no longer a part of WebPageElement. Even if I use the property "mainContentOfPage" directly on the Product node, I get the same result: The Product is not recognized properly. It seems like the Product node cannot have any itemprops. **So how should I proceed?**

Acme Toaster Oven

It toasts AND bakes.

Rated 3/5 based on 2 reviews

A great toaster - by John,                     <meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2013-10-16">October 26, 2013
5/5
                     First I had bread.  Then I had toast.  Magic!

A small oven - by Mary,                     <meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2013-10-16">October 26, 2013
1/5
                     My 18-pound turkey wouldn't fit in this thing.

           The HTML can be tested here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets ## Update After experimenting with "itemref", I got pretty good results with this code in Google's tool and Yandex and the Structured Data Linter.
             <meta itemprop="about" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product" itemref="theProduct" />

Acme Toaster Oven

It toasts AND bakes.

Rated 3/5 based on 2 reviews

A great toaster - by John,                 <meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2013-10-16">October 26, 2013
5/5
                 First I had bread.  Then I had toast.  Magic!

A small oven - by Mary,                 <meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2013-10-16">October 26, 2013
1/5
                 My 18-pound turkey wouldn't fit in this thing.

           The only side effect is that the reviews and aggregateRating seem to connect to both the WebPage and the Product. I don't know if that's bad.


Is there a domain search tool on the web that works well?

I would like to search for all available domains ending with a particular word. The best tool I've found for this so far is domainsbot, but it doesn't seem to work as it should (it will only give you the first 10 or so results for your criteria) Does anyone know of a good tool on the web for this type of search?


What schema.org should be used for User Profiles?

I might be taking this a little too far outside of the box but I'm curious about what Microdata from schema.org to use for a user-profile on my site. On the front page for instance (`http://www.findgamers.us`), a random gamer profile loads every time the page is loaded. Would I use the Person schema.org hierachy to make that structured data?


Can minification in Google PageSped service break Adsense?

A few days ago I applied for Adsense account. But it was rejected due website being down. Here is the full message: We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below. Issues:   * Difficult site navigation * * * Further detail: Difficult site navigation: While reviewing your site, we found that it was down. Google ads may not be published on a site that is not fully launched, functioning, or easily navigable. Once your site is functioning and has enough content for our specialists to review, we will be happy to reconsider your application. If there is a typo in the URL submitted, you can resubmit your application with the correct site by following the directions below. I monitor uptime using Pingdom. The site was not down for a single minute during this period. In fact during last month it was down for only 2 minutes. I may have may have singled out the problem: I'm using Google **PageSpeed** service. This service has a **JavaScript minification** option. What it did was was strip the comment and `<!-- / -->` tags from Adsense code. So the Adsense code for my site which was originally like this:               <script type="text/javascript"><!--     google_ad_client = "ca-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";     /* Top Of Post */     google_ad_slot = "4962340904";     google_ad_width = 728;     google_ad_height = 90;     //-->     </script>     <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">     </script>      looked like this:               <script type="text/javascript">google_ad_client="ca-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";google_ad_slot="4962340904";google_ad_width=728;google_ad_height=90;</script>     <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>      I have disabled minification. Can someone confirm this was the problem ? And how should I proceed with reapplication ?


Back link report

Is there an application or site that can generate a back link report for a give web page? The sort of information I'd like to see in this report, for each back link, would be:   1. Page's Title   2. Page's PageRank   3. Page's URL


Who is a great domain registrar company?

I have used numerous domain registrars in the past, including Godaddy, 1&1, Host Monster, IX web Hosting, the list goes on. (not talking about hosting) I currently use GoDaddy, however, I'm not to happy with them. I need a great registrar! One who:   * makes transferring easy   * registration pain free, no up-selling   * has great domain management   * has amazing customer service Maybe such a company does not exist. I don't know. Do you know of one?


Domain Registration

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Who is a great domain registrar company? Hi, I'm about to make my first domain purchase, actually I'm going to buy in bulk ... Any idea about a good host and registrar? I`m looking for a good host with lots of features and not expensive.


Suggestion for cheap but good domain-registrar for com, org or net?

Does anybody have recommendations for good - but cheap - domain-registrars for the com, org or net domain? I'm not after hosting, just registering a few domain-names (unless there's a _really_ good package-deal). Lower prices when registering multiple domains would be a plus. I'm after good personal experiences here... PS: I am going to use the domain, either host them myself or get a web-hotel later... it's not just to register and park indefinitely.


What is 'lack of original content'?

It is written everywhere that lack of original content is has a negative impact on ranking. But what is lack of original content? (I am not talking about duplicate content) I guess if you copy other site's content, this makes sense. But, assuming one develops its own functionalities, but similar functionalities are already available on other sites, is this considered lack of original content? Can Google decide to not index such pages (i.e., not give them a chance at all)? Are there other definition of 'lack of original content'?


Google Analytics "Goals" .. numbers seem inflated?

When I look at the Google Analytics goal report for yesterday, it shows that I had 3,000 conversions for a given goal - 74% completed, and 6% abandoned.   * Where is the missing 20%?   * My numbers show more like 500 conversions for this goal. Why are Google's numbers so different?


Return first image source from google images

Is there a way to fetch the first image source from google search if I have a search term? For example if input is `tomato`, ouput would be `http://www.cksinfo.com/clipart/food/fruits/tomatoes/tomato.png` Thanks!


Three-month freeze on domain transfers?

I am planning on hosting a web app on Google App Engine. I am planning on buying the domain from GoDaddy. Will I have to wait 3 months before I can transfer the domain from GoDaddy to GAE (or at least change the DNS settings to point to the GAE severs)?


The effect in Google of the word "the" in a URL?

Keywords in your URL are extremely weighted, and I am aware of most bad practices, but the question as to whether the word "the" in a URL, as in `www.thewebdesigner.com`, is a bad idea or not is very hard to find information on. Searching has yielded next to nothing because the definite article is a special case in search algorithms. That is, you end up searching for the word "the" which is a bit too random. I'm wondering if this is a good idea, because as in the example case, "web" and "designer" together in a URL would theoretically be a fantastic step in solid SEO. However, if Google somehow reads it as a stop word or treats it differently, it might not be so smart. Can anyone tell me the effect of "the" at the start of a URL like `thewebdesigner.com`, and if this is good or bad practice, and a good or bad idea for a quality URL?


How to maintain and optimize SEO for multiple store locations with individual websites as subdirectories from a main landing page?

My question is how to maintain and optimize SEO when moving a site from the domain root to a subfolder, creating a second parallel subfolder, and having the domain root be a landing page that allows users to choose between the two subfolders. Hopefully a (fake) example will illustrate my question best. Imagine the website for a small local business that serves its surrounding neighborhood -- let's call it ACME Cleaners of Crown Heights. Crown Heights is the neighborhood. The URL is `www.acmecleaners.com`. This site has good SEO and does well for searches looking the cleaning services in the Crown Heights area. Now the business has expanded to a second location in a different neighborhood in the same city, let's call it East End. The new location is called ACME Cleaners of East End. As for the website, the homepage, `www.acmecleaners.com`, which used to be the homepage for the Crown Heights location, has been changed to a landing page that simply shows the ACME Cleaners logo and gives the user a choice between the two locations. The user is then taken to either `www.acmecleaners.com/crown-heights` or `www.acmecleaners.com/east-end`, which are individual WordPress sites for each location. The location is saved in a cookie and users are redirected to the individual location site next time they visit `www.acmecleaners.com` (with a 302 status code thanks to PHP's `header` function with the "location:" parameter). Specific questions:   1. What should I keep in mind to maintain the strong SEO that the Crown Heights location had now that its site is moving from `www.acmecleaners.com` to `www.acmecleaners.com/crown-heights`?   2. Specifically, how do I "tell" Google that the right URL for searches for "cleaning in Crown Heights" is now `www.acmecleaners.com/crown-heights`, not the domain root?   3. Likewise, what do I do to get searches for "cleaning services in East End" to show `www.acmecleaners.com/east-end`? Interestingly, without me doing anything, this search is already generating first-page results for pages within the subfolder, e.g. `www.acmecleaners.com/east-end/about-us`, but not for the location "homepage" which is simply `www.acmecleaners.com/east-end`.    4. What SEO should I do for the new landing page at `www.acmecleaners.com` to support good SEO for both store locations/website subfolders?   5. Any other do's and don't do's in this situation?


How to set preferred URL in Bing Webmaster Tools

My site is `www.example.com` and Bing Webmaster Tools keeping telling me to submit a sitemap for `example.com`, so it is possible to stop Bing stop bothering me the `example.com`?


Database for student Portal(A school website)

I am presently working on a school website, it is going to have student portal in it. Please, i need idea on how you think the database structure will look like. Its a university web, students are in different departments under different faculties. The students will also be offering different courses based on their department.


Is it important to show the current year alongside my (c) Copyright symbol?

Should I update the copyright notice every January? as in > (C) ACME Corp 2011 I'm not asking about how or whether to claim copyright at all (that is dealt with here), but whether the **year** has any importance.


Will having multiple domains improve my seo?

Lets say I have a domain already, for example www.automobile4u.com (not mine), with a website fully running and all. The title of my "Website" says:                 <title>Used cars - buy and sell your used cars here</title>      Also, lets say I have fully SEO the website so when people searching for the term **buy used cars** , I end up on the second or first page. Now, I want to end up higher, so I go to the google adwords page where you can check how many searches are made on specific terms. Lets say the term "used cars" has 20 million searches each month. Here comes the question, could I just go and buy that domain with the search terms adress, in this case **www.usedcars.com** and make a redirect to my original page, and this way when people search for "used cars", my newly bought domain name comes up redirecting people to my original website (www.automobile4u.com)? The reason I believe this benefits me is because it seems search engines first of all check website adresses matching the search, so the query "used cars" would automatically bring www.usedcars.com to the first result right? What are the downsides for this? I already know about google spiders not liking redirects, but there are many methods of redirecting... Is this a good idea generally?


How does SEO work when redirecting to a different site/domain

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this? I have a site (e.g. www.foo.bar). When someone attempts to browse this site, they are redirected to a different site (e.g. www.test.com). I only reason of having foo.bar is because of the domain name. test.com is a 3rd party. I want people to come to foo.bar, so I can market on the domain name. If I am selling parts (e.g. Ford car parts). I want to configure SEO so that my domain name and "Ford car parts" are associated. The intention is when someone googles "foo.bar" and "Ford car parts" search engines start ranking my site/domain. foo.bar isnt the site housing the sale of the parts....the 3rd party is, but I would like to SEO woo.foo.bar if possible to accomplish my intention. Is what I am looking to do possible?


Domain Extensions - redirect from .com or .org to country side domain like .am

i was wondering one thing. Actually `.com` and all generic domain extensions specifies that the site is available for all countries while country side domain extensions like `.fm .mx or .sh` specifies to search engines that your site is developed for that specific country, What if i buy 2 domains like `thisismysite.org` and `site.am` and then i redirect `thisismysite.org` to `site.am` , will `site.am` be treated like a a general domain extension then? OR i'll need anyway a generic domain to say to search engines that my site is generic all country sides available?


2 domain pointing to single website with different meta description and title in SERP

Let's say I have one website `abc.com.my`, and now I want to create a new domain `xyz.my` but with its own meta description and meta title which points to `abc.com.my`. So I need to create one `index.html` inside the `xyz.my` domain then redirect to `abc.com.my`. So in SERP I hope to see `xyz.my` with its own meta description and meta title and `abc.com.my` with a different meta description and title but both point to `abc.com.my`. So will this affect my ranking or is it bad for SEO? ![expected search results](http://i.stack.imgur.com/7DNjA.jpg)


Is a good technique to buy abandoned domains to get link juice?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this? Yesterday I was discussing with a friend an idea he had. To promote your site about, for example, fashion (i.e. example.com), the idea is:   1. Find an expired domain (i.e. fashionsite.com) with a good amount of links from fashion websites (it is, a site that has been abandoned, but still keep a lot of inbound links).   2. Recreate the site structure (i.e. if you have inbound link that points to fashionsite.com/files/boots.html, you have to add a page that responds to this structure).   3. Add links from your new site (fashionsite.com) to the old one you want to promote (example.com) in order to give the link juice to your site.   4. Goto 1 until you cannot find more expired domains related to your site topic. This is a non-trivial process that could take a lot of time, so the question is: worth it? has anybody tried something like this? In fact, maybe that's a well known technique my friend and I didn't hear about it... Definitely I believe we haven't discovered a new technique :) NOTE: I've forget to explain that this idea is specifically to improve a site link building for Google, we are not interested in other search engines by the moment.


Keywords in domain name

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this? Let's assume we have a generic website " **MyWebsiteAboutGamesAndThings.com** ". We discover that a lot of people are searching for " **Make games** ". We find that the domain name **MakeGames.com** is free so we register it with the assumption that a keyword specific domain such as this will rank favorably for the search term we have discovered. We now have two options with the domain name:   * We can 301 redirect **MakeGames.com** to **MyWebsiteAboutGamesAndThings.com**   * Or we can make a simple webpage on it that intends to feed visitors to **MyWebsiteAboutGamesAndThings.com**. The reason for registering **MakeGames.com** was to target that specific search, however I have a feeling that you lose the benefit of the keywords in the domain by 301ing it. Is it better to make a sort of landing website for **MakeGames.com**? If you 301 the domain to **MyWebsiteAboutGamesAndThings.com** will it now rank better for the search **Make games**? Which is a better method?


Add-on domain for better SEO

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this? So here's the thing. Suppose I have my domain called BUSINESS.COM that sells shoes. Now, I want people to find me through Google by searching "best shoes". So on my BUSINESS.COM site I will set all meta descriptions and titles to have a relationship with the keyword "best shoes". I was wondering, is there any way I can buy also the domain BEST-SHOES.COM and make it an add-on domain to my hosting and redirect it to NIKE.COM to improve SEO? I mean so when someone searches in Google for best shoes, my site will appear first because it has those keywords on the url. Or the only way to improve SEO is to make another website with no duplicate content in BEST-SHOES.COM that links very lightly to my site NIKE.COM? Like a site that reviews shoes.


What is the best way to use multiple similar domains for a single business with SEO aspects?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Will having multiple domains improve my seo? **Scenario:** There are around 15 freshly registered domains. All the domains are intended to support a single business activity. **Example:**   * something-useful.com   * something-extraordinary-useful.com   * extraordinary-useful-something.com   * useful-something.com   * etc... What will be the best approach to use these domains to get benefit of SEO? Or to promote the business online? What are the possible approaches to use these domains?


Multiple domains

I got 6 domains : `company.ca` and `company.com` (because both where free, but we are a canadian company but can do business with the rest of the world). Then, we sell sportwear because of the company name is totally unknown to the world. Our product is we have bought product specific domain : `chandails.ca` and `t-shirt.ca` as well as `shorts.ca` and `shorts.com`. So those 6 domains are mine. Now what is the best way to do? Now all are 301 redirect to the main company name (`.com`) or make micro-site, super simple one page optimized for just shirt and one for shorts, then tell people to know more, go to the _main_ site. Because now, I cannot really find the benefit of the _search word in domain name_ edge if never somebody see something in that domain... I got confused and don't find strait answer to this question.