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SEO is search engine optimization, altering a web site so as to improve its ranking in search engines.

SEO is search engine optimization, altering a web site so as to improve its ranking in search engines.

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SEO - Multiple URL Paths

I have a web application that provides information related to the weather. I am trying to make this information as discoverable as possible. My question is, is it a good idea to post the same content, multiple times, under different URL paths? For…
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Is 301 redirects enough for RSS feeds, or will some readers fail?

I am in the process of moving an entire site from ID based pages to user friendly / descriptive urls, and I would like to move the blogs as well. My problem is then, that I am uncertain if 301 redirects will be enough to be completely covered, as I…
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Sticky Load Balancing with AWS

I have just setup a load balancer with AWS for a few instances as search engine crawlers were bringing down the site (it has millions of pages). Parts of the site allow you to login so I selected: Enable Application Generated Cookie Stickiness and…
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odd query strings in Googlebot requests

Google's indexing bot (edit: yes, it's Google, IP resolves) seems to be adding arbitrary query strings to our home page. xx.xxx.xx.xxx - - [30/Jun/2009:10:14:37 -0400] "GET /?key=61680 HTTP/1.1" 200 3334 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1;…
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How can I 301 redirect all traffic from one URL pattern to another?

I’ve been grappling with a basic rewrite rule as we’ve changed a template name from template-a to template-b and need to 301 all links to the new template-b URLs. Example: /trusted-installers/template-a/something-here/and-possibly-here Should be…
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URL Dash Disadvantage

Anyone know any hard facts about the disadvantage of having a dash in your URL? Heard some disparaging words about having dashes in your URL and it just so happens that our company has a dashes in the URL of our main site. We've got a dashless…
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Is there an advantage to redirecting vs rewriting when "hiding" the 'www' domain prefix?

Using virtual hosts I have gotten into the habit of using this: ServerName www.example.com Redirect permanent / http://example.com/ Yet I often see rewriting used instead: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond…
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Forward domain for flavors.me yet retain own_domain.com/blog

I wish to have my flavors.me use my own domain, yet still wish to retain access to own_domain.com/blog The way flavors.me works now is that I must have the DNS A record point at their IP. Which obviously will prevent me from still having access to…
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What SEO software do you use to analyze your websites?

I'm looking for a tool that would help you manage the SEO work like improving and tracking things like keywords, description, pages links, analyze concurrent websites. I'm not looking for black SEO software that do mass link submission and I'm aware…
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Setting noindex some pages on NGINX

I want to set noindex some URLs. If any URL contains ?lang= | (start with) /plugin | (start with) /account it should be noindex by adding HTTP header in NGINX configuration. I tried below code before, location ~ .*/(?:?lang|plugin|account)/.* { …
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Can I protect my sitemap.xml so that only searchengines can download it?

I'm planning of adding a bunch of aggregated lists of pages in my sitemaps that I don't want make it too easy for outsiders to screnscrape. Can I protect my sitemap.xml so that only searchengines can download it? Install a firewall? I'm using IIS6.…
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URL rewriting and indexation by search engines

For a website, I want using URL rewriting to allow easy access to pages and better indexation. For instance, assume the page about Mozart is: www.site.ext/composers/index.php?cmd=composers&id=123 Instead of this, I would like that the visitors…
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How to check is canonicalized domains are being used? Apache 301 redirect does not preserve referrer

I have multiple domains which are setup to redirect (301) to my main domain. However I know some of these domains have little to no value in terms of SEO and I would like to get rid of them. But a concern of mine is that there may exist backlinks…
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IIS Rewrite with optional query string or adding defaults

I am using IIS 8 and just learning about rewrites as I haven't ever written anything that cared about SEO. I have the following rules that is working assuming the url looks like this: /survey/abc123/email
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Enabling TLS/SSL with SNI on a subset of websites, without losing SEO ranking on the non-TLS sites

We run a number of LAMP servers on AWS with a few dozen websites on them, that customers pay us to design, build and host. They're Ubuntu 14.04 servers with Varnish, Apache and PHP. Currently, if a customer wanted to have SSL/TLS for their website,…
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