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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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How can I return a 503 status in apache without invoking external scripts

I need to return a 503 status code from one of my sites while it's down for maintenance, in the time-honoured SE_firendly fashion. I can't seem to work out how to do this without invoking external scripts, which I'd rather avoid. Is there an apache…
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Do CNAME DNS entries affect SEO?

I am setting up a website for a client that I will be hosting and maintaining, and I am trying to determine what will be the most pain free setup. My thought is to do the following: Set up the clients domain at client.mydomain.com Have the client…
Chris
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Subdomains vs multiple domain names

I have the domain name for www.foo.co.uk. I am looking to use it as a landing page that will allow people to go to 1 of 2 sections of my site (both having separate blogs). So I have the idea I could direct to either foo.co.uk/yyy/blog or…
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Does hosting multiple sites on one server hurt your SEO?

I have a handful of (content unrelated) sites with decent PRs and I'm considering hosting them all on the same server. I've heard that if you do this, internal linking between two seperate domains on that server may be seen as less "valid" by Google…
MarathonStudios
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IIS 301 Redirect from "/index.html" to "/" for SEO Canonicalization

I used the technique explained here for IIS (http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php), but this appears to result in an infinite loop when applied to "/index.htm" and redirected to "/". Is there another way to do this in IIS so that it…
brainbolt
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Amazon S3 - Options for routing naked URL

Problem I am using a custom domain to host a static index.html on amazon S3. That all works fine on my domain: site.com. However, when I visit www.site.com I get an error. From what I understand I need to do a 301 redirect of the www URL to the…
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SEO Consultant Wants System Credentials

An SEO consultant has asked (demanded) credentials to the web environment so he can do ... Whatever it is that they do. I'm new to the company but an experienced Systems Engineer. I've just now been brought into this situation, but my reaction to…
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What happens if a website does not have a robots.txt file?

If the robots.txt file is missing in the root directory of a website, how are things treated as: the site is not indexed at all the site is indexed without any restrictions It should logically be the second one according to me. I ask in reference…
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Domain name change with minimum seo impact

I am owner of an existing (3 yr. old) domain http://www.22shrutiharmonium.com and my website appears at the top of the search results in case of some search phrases like "22 shruti" , "22 shruti harmonium", "shruti harmonium" etc., in major search…
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Another website in a IIS subfolder

A friend of mine has an ASP.NET site hosted on windows server with IIS7 web server. He wants to install a wordpress blog without using subdomains for SEO reasons. In practice, he would like to have a blog calling url like "site.com/subfolder". I…
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Is there a way to tell robots not to look at a directory?

I have a directory full of images, that I do not want viewed by robots, is there a way to make this directory private? Thanks!
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Should a "temporary" redirect page use a 301 redirect?

Let's say that foo.com is where I eventually want to host a website, when it's ready, and blog.foo.com is where I'm currently hosting a website. Until foo.com is ready, is it okay to do a permanent redirect (301) to blog.foo.com? Once the original…
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Best way to redirect a bad-rated domain to a new one?

I recently bought a domain that has an Alexa rank of ~50000. However the domain has a poor history as the previous owner didn't responded to abuse emails nor any DMCA notices. Long story short, the domain is blacklisted in many places including…
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IIS 6 - Setting up 301 redirect for non-www to www for SEO

Someone in the marketing department ran an SEO tool against our public website and found that about half of the links to our website go to www.mycompany.com, and half go to mycompany.com. Both of these go to the same IIS 6.0 web server. However,…
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Putting language selectors in the domain name or as part of the URL path

I mean what is better to have www.my-domain.de/start.html www.my-domain.com/start.html or www.my-domain.com/de/start.html www.my-domain.com/en/start.html I'm mostly concerned with SEO here (i read the FAQ to know that SEO administration is…
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