Forum: Search Engine Optimization 
25th May 2015, 10:31 AM
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Views: 1,641  Re: google search limits and proxies
I have not experienced any issues so far. My only other concern was that of the queries being tied to my webmaster accounts, and if as such, there could be any negative impact on my website rankings...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
22nd May 2015, 03:40 PM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
21st May 2015, 10:31 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,641 Re: google search limits and proxies
Thank you. I agree that if the query is specific enough the information seems reliable. I'm not trying to measure ranking anyway, just looking for potential customers. The exact order/placement is...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
20th May 2015, 01:39 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,641 google search limits and proxies
I need to do some routine google searches for some marketing analysis. How many searches is a single ip allowed per day without being flagged as a bot. And are there any free proxies that can be used...
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Forum: Website Design
17th May 2015, 11:26 AM
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Replies: 4
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Forum: Website Design
17th May 2015, 10:12 AM
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Forum: Website Design
14th May 2015, 10:23 AM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
10th March 2015, 08:02 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 693 Re: use of custom non-standard meta tags
a non-functioning script block could work... The data could reside in a JavaScript comment? Perhaps this would be preferrable to a non-standard meta tag. I have encountered sites that used them...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
10th March 2015, 08:00 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,357 Re: number of outbound internal links on a page
Random links?
I link for the user, not for SEO. However, that said, I try to avoid anything that could cause problems.
I'm not sure but that all the simple math formulas with regards to links...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
8th March 2015, 12:14 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 516 Re: canonical links and internal juice
Thanks. That's not definitive but it helps. It makes sense that as Google counts the number of times a page is targeted that it transfers the count to the canonical variant. In a large scripted site...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
8th March 2015, 12:10 PM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
7th March 2015, 07:54 PM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
7th March 2015, 07:52 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 693 Re: use of custom non-standard meta tags
Yeah I am studying that. The pages already have microdata. But what other legal means does Google give to put invisible data on the page legally? Surely there's a way to tell Google "don't index this...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
7th March 2015, 07:49 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,357 Re: number of outbound internal links on a page
Doesn't have anything to do with it. I am not in control over the content of these pages (reference materials) only how they are linked. The words are all used in natural context. They are not...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
7th March 2015, 01:25 PM
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Views: 693 use of custom non-standard meta tags
I need to encode some information about a page (not visible to the user) for my own internal use. What is the best way to do this? Is there any reason not to use a custom meta tag?
<meta...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
7th March 2015, 01:12 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 516 canonical links and internal juice
When multiple anchors refer to different urls with the same canonical link, is all internal juice passed on to the canonical page?
In other words let's say we have links:
/link-variant1.htm...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
5th March 2015, 11:31 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,357 Re: number of outbound internal links on a page
I'm not sure what you mean by 'the plan'. The site is already uniquely SILOED and the site gets plenty of traffic. There are over a million pages. I am working on a good sitemap building strategy now...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
4th March 2015, 08:06 AM
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Views: 304 Robots.txt problem/delima
I am trying to reconfigure a robots.txt file. I know this approach may be frowned upon but... I want to exclude everything except certain specified directories (instead of allowing everything except...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
3rd March 2015, 11:14 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,357 Re: number of outbound internal links on a page
Exactly.
It amazes me how everyone wants to simplify how G works. But this a billion dollar enterprise which has had the BEST minds developing their product for close to 15 years now, with...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
3rd March 2015, 11:01 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 884 Re: Alexa rank in SEO
In my opinion, Alexa is garbage. Their data, like so many others, comes from spyware, mostly toolbars. The data they collect is no way representative of anything. Also, like AHREFS and others, people...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
3rd March 2015, 06:19 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,357 Re: number of outbound internal links on a page
I've thought about this and I'm trying to devise a way to cleverly quantify and analyse this to see if this is what's happening...
This is a good point and one I often wrestle with. Judicious use...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
3rd March 2015, 06:14 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 605 sitemaps for larger sites
I need to construct a sitemap for a very large dynamically scripted site with a ridiculous number of pages. I've been reading what I can find and so far it's been a little confusing.
I'm not...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
3rd March 2015, 06:05 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 605 Re: script name vs path
Interesting... I'm not sure I totally agree. SItes with keywords in the domain seem to rank higher with more regularity although I think this significance is less than it once was. However, to be...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
3rd March 2015, 06:01 PM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
3rd March 2015, 05:59 PM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
3rd March 2015, 05:41 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 597 Re: internal search result pages meta
Interestingly I did some fresh analysis of recent landing pages from google refers to my site and found that almost one third of them could be interpreted as search result pages. I think the...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
3rd March 2015, 05:33 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 538 Re: directory depth affect SERP rank?
This brings up an interesting point favoring the use of a good sitemap for large sites in particular.
Let's say you have a large book published. The bread crumb might then be:
Home > Books >...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
3rd March 2015, 05:26 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,357 Re: number of outbound internal links on a page
Your comment seems self-conflicting. Define reasonable. That was the point. But then again, as I stated above I think I am convinced that relevance and quality of content linked to is what counts.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
3rd March 2015, 05:25 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,357 Re: number of outbound internal links on a page
(See above). This is in no way stuffing. Let's take a dictionary page for example. A word might have 30 synonyms, each linked to it's entry in the dictionary. This is a useful and relevant link. Then...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
3rd March 2015, 05:20 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,357 Re: number of outbound internal links on a page
Again, I already have many of these pages with way more than 10 links (internal) that rank. None of the links are junk (see above). This makes me think that the number isn't as important as their...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
3rd March 2015, 05:18 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,357 Re: number of outbound internal links on a page
Depending on the page, some have more than a hundred. They are not junk links, they all link to other parts of the site exactly relevant to the anchor text keyword.
For example, a long article...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
3rd March 2015, 05:11 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 605 Re: script name vs path
I think maybe you are talking about a url that is scripted within a javascript code block and in that case you would be right. At least for the moment, most people think Google doesn't execute client...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
2nd March 2015, 03:29 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 605 Re: script name vs path
Actually I was being specific. What is the weight of the actual script/program name compared to the path and is there a demotion for a file/script that is nested deeper in sub-directory path?
In...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
2nd March 2015, 11:45 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 605 script name vs path
I am wondering about the relevance of what Google sees as the actual filename in a link. For example, on a scripted site the url structure might be:
/path/subpath/scriptname?querystrConsider for ...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
2nd March 2015, 11:32 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,357 number of outbound internal links on a page
I have some pages that contain a lot of links to other internal pages on the same domain. I know many of you have opinions about the optimum/maximum number of outbound external links on a page/site...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
2nd March 2015, 11:29 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 538 directory depth affect SERP rank?
I know bots use directory paths to understand site structure. I know that keywords in the path are generally a good thing. But does directory path impact SERP rankings?
In other words, all things...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
1st March 2015, 08:42 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 463 Re: Google refer string question
My guess is the day is coming when we have nothing to go on but the info Google is willing to share. I have run extensive tests and can say with some certainty that relying on WMT and GA is also not...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
28th February 2015, 05:34 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 463 Google refer string question
I have a database that tracks all incoming requests referrer field. I was looking at something today, and I'm not sure what to make of it. A good number of my refers from google are without any...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
27th February 2015, 09:48 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 501 Re: more on internal search results and nofollow
Ah, an intelligent reply. Thank you. It's a lot of gray area and coding for scale can be tricky as both the good and bad are accentuated. There is less margin for error, hence a good deal of thought...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
27th February 2015, 11:43 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 501 Re: more on internal search results and nofollow
In that case I think Google won't index the search result page itself but it would follow the links and index those pages.
Are there any proven cases of explicitly un-excluded search result pages...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
26th February 2015, 11:21 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 501 more on internal search results and nofollow
I have some topic article pages that contain links to perform custom searches of law based on topic context/content. Without going into avid detail, there are potentially millions of them. Placing...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
25th February 2015, 11:59 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 597 Re: internal search result pages meta
First, I am making perfect sense. Google has stated that they are not keen on indexing search result pages.This issue has been widely discussed on the web, no need to rehash. You can google it :)
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
25th February 2015, 11:39 PM
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Views: 407 Re: robots.txt update clarification
Of course spiders have already crawled the pages. How else would they be in the index? I am quite familiar with 301 and rewrite. 301 is not possible for the script driven functions governing hundreds...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
25th February 2015, 10:06 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 597 internal search result pages meta
I have two questions regarding internal search result pages. I know that Google has stated that it doesn't want them indexed.
In my case, there are lots of search result pages that are relevant...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
25th February 2015, 09:40 AM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
25th February 2015, 09:33 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 407 robots.txt update clarification
I am working on a very large dynamically scripted site with many thousands of indexed pages. All of the urls have been changed. I am reconstructing the robots.txt file.
My question is this: If I...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
24th February 2015, 10:39 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,544 Re: line breaks <BR> in <H> headings
If I was constructing the page from scratch I would totally agree, The issue is whether I need to hunt down tens of thousands of existing occurrences and change them.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
24th February 2015, 10:37 AM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
21st February 2015, 03:44 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,544 Re: line breaks <BR> in <H> headings
I said that in the first line of my post....
I know how to use a <br>, they are already in thousands of headings, that's my point...
I guess if you are saying I should put a space before...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
21st February 2015, 11:48 AM
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Views: 1,544 line breaks <BR> in <H> headings
I have some <H1> headings that contain <br> line breaks. Two successive <H1><H1> makes no sense. Breaking them out into separate <h1><h2> pairs would cause other dominoes to fall.
Is there any...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
21st February 2015, 11:27 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,016 Re: SiteNavigationElement tag
Thanks Yukon. You make a valid point. If the elements aren't needed for snippet text is it even useful beyond marking an area of the page for bots? The <nav> tag already does this...
I guess the...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
21st February 2015, 10:56 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,016 Re: SiteNavigationElement tag
Here is another example that is different. But I think this is wrong because the itemprop="url" is in the <li> instead of the <a href>?
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
21st February 2015, 10:52 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,016 Re: SiteNavigationElement tag
Upon more searching I found still other examples of people using one SiteNavigationElement with multiple names/urls within a single <nav>. So no I'm thinking... unless there are more properties for...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
21st February 2015, 10:30 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,016 Re: SiteNavigationElement tag
Thank you. Use of the nav tag may also be an important consideration here. My question I guess was really about using a separate scope for each item, that is to say each 'SiteNavigationElement' would...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
21st February 2015, 10:24 AM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
20th February 2015, 01:11 PM
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Views: 1,101 Re: WMTools - URL SILO with dynamic scripting
Thanks Yukon. Yes I know the query strings skew and can create duplicate content, hence the need for canonicals. And yes, constructing canonicals on a scripted site working from a large database can...
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