An algorithm used by Google to determine the placement of webpages in Google search results.
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How do I rename a domain and preserve PageRank?
As part of graduating from Area51 and becoming a full fledged site we sometimes change domain names from http://topic.stackexchange.com to http://example.com. Aside from the obvious 301 redirect rules ...
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Does changing web hosting server affects SEO page ranking?
I have been hosting in a server from last 2 years. I am planning to change the hosting server. Before i change the hosting server i would like to know whether it affects my page ranking or not?
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Are page ranks for subdomains independent?
If I have a domain name say stackexchange.com and I want to host 2 sites X and Y as subdomains of that site.
Will x.stackexchange.com help out y.stackexchange.com in page rank? Or will google treat ...
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How do i build backlinks?
I've launch a website long ago. My website URL is : http://www.sunshinetrekking.com
There's already 80 Pages, a sitemap.xml (80 URLs),
english language / french language - url like that "/en/" "/fr/"
...
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Why should I use a subdomain structure over a directory structure?
I want to do blog.mysite.com but i know it will negatively impact my PR with Google. When is it preferable to structure your site like that vs mysite.com/blog? Is it only for the benefit of PR?
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What is PageRank and how do I get it?
I've heard Google's algorithm is based on PageRank, and that it has something to do with the links to your site. Can someone explain it, and more importantly, how I can increase my site's PageRank?
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SEO one longer page vs. several targeted subpages?
We're working on a site and have come to a choice between one long (not too excessive) main page and several subpages.
The subpages would have custom metas/titles/h2 tags and the content that ...
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Subdomains vs. subdirectory – status as of 2012.
This following question by Jeff was in 2010 and I wanted to check how things have changed in the past 2 years.
My problem:
I run a site with most of the content distributed to subdomains that’s are ...
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New META TAGS with positive effects for seo ranking in 2011 and beyond
im trying to make an up to date chart of meta tags, for all of us, with their purposes, their use and their good (or bad) effects on search engines/being found. Also any body knows new/promising meta ...
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Abnormal alexa ranking score
I have 2 websites of ecommerce in France and for these websites I have a strange behaviour of the alexa results. Here are some statistics about the websites :
Unique Visits January 2012
Website A ...
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Effect of adding link from PR1 site to PR0 site?
Site A and B are both new, with few incoming links, and no 'do-follow' outgoing links.
Site A has PR1, and site B has PR0.
I am curious - Can anyone predict what might happen to the respective PRs ...
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Page with 50 internal page links or 5 pages with 10 internal links each?
I would like to know if no. of internal links in a page affects its page rank or not?
lets say:
a page contains 50 internal links is better than 5 pages interlinked with each other having 10 internal ...
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301 redirect and page ranking
Say I have a site 123example.com, with roughly 100 backlinks, which has increased from a google page 27 to page 12 for my keywords over the last month and continues toward the top 10... I have another ...
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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 ...
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Will replacing 'to' with 2 or 'for' with 4 improve my site's PageRank
Is it true that replacing words such as "to" and "for" with numbers (2 and 4 respectively) help increase my website's PageRank.
Is it a useful SEO technique and if so why does it work?
