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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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Is it possible to remove the .php extension WITHOUT using mod_rewrite?

I'm managing an e-commerce site for a customer that was built using JShop on Apache. For SEO reasons links are like: http://www.domain.com/shop/section/3151/1/flowers http://www.domain.com/shop/product/35465/blueflower which get mapped…
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Domain Masking / Cloaking?

I don't know whats the correct term for it, but what I'd like is to forward users visiting domain1.com to domain2.com without changing the url in their address bar at all, ie. show contents from domain2 but without showing domain2.com in the address…
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Lighttpd redirect from www.domain.com to domain.com

I need to permanently redirect all www.domain.com to domain.com in Lighttpd. Here's relevant part of my lighttpd.conf: $HTTP["host"] =~ "^www\.domain\.com$" { url.redirect = ( "^/(.*)" => "http://domain.com/$1" ) } $HTTP["host"] =~…
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Trying to test Domain Collapsing / Consoldiation validity for SEO purposes

At work, we're trying to determine the effectiveness of domain collapsing for SEO purposes. Our current structure is to have multiple web apps served from different servers, such as PUBLIC URLS - directly accessed by…
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HTTP: 204 No Content Header

I just registered a new domain and at the moment it sends a 403. Is the HTTP-Header "204 No Content" a good header for a domain with no content at the moment, because I'm working on the site and the domain will be a while blank and want no bad…
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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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Google is indexing urls from another site hosted on the same VPS

We have a VPS hosting 2 websites. WebsiteA.com has SSL. WebsiteB.com doesn't have SSL but google indexes WebsiteB.com with HTTPS URLS from WebsiteA.com Example: https://www.websiteB.com/url-from-website-A which of course doesn't exist and gives…
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301 redirects and SEO

I have a site which uses the following structure, domain.com/12/43/45/some-post/ When people link to my site some cms's remove the trailing slash and turn it into, domain.com/12/43/45/some-post both URL's refer to the same content, my question is is…
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HTTP client is redirected, but the old address is shown in address bar

I have a pdf file available on www.example.com/pdf/something. On httpd configuration I have a redirection to www.example1.com/pdf/something. In both cases pdf is downloading, but the redirection to example1 domain can be seen only in the network tab…
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stop ssl redirect going to home page

A site we are working on siterequires forcing to https and www removal When we make that happen using this .htaccess code RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\. RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://safe.org.nz%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301] With this enabled, and we…
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Wordpress - Yoast SEO - robots.txt

I was just reading up on Yoast website here on how the correct robots.txt file should look like with the latest SEO practices. In their example Yoast uses the following: User-Agent: * Disallow: /suggest/?* What exactly does line Disallow:…
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Search-engine friendly DNS redirection

Is it possible to redirect one domain to another using DNS protocol (and not HTTP prococol), and that redirection being friendly to search engines?? i.e. such that search engines know that the two domains are the same website and not different ones.
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acceptable level of crawl / 500 errors

I wonder if there is any industry stats on what is an acceptable level of server errors e.g. crawl errors or total server errors or both, either as an absolute number or as a percentage of requests?
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Need help on Nginx redirects for old url pattern now 404

How to redirect old urls with capturing only the variable end and add multiple possible targets before OLD URLS domain.com/product/product-link-xyz ... TO domain.com/products/brand1/product-link-xyz-1 domain.com/products/brand1/product-link-xyz-2 …
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How to safely and properly switch from a naked domain to a www. subdomain?

I am interested in technical considerations I should mind to safely switch my naked domain to a www. subdomain. By safely I mean things like not loosing SEO (redirects will suffice?) or avoiding some redirect loops (I imagine it's not hard to screw…
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