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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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Nginx simple redirect old uri to new uri

I've got problems with simple SEO friendly redirect. Web page has changed and I'd like to redirect old uris to new ones. For example I'd like to redirect /contact to /contact.html I've tried location = /contact { rewrite ^ /contact.html…
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IIS7 Multiple Sites with redirection on domains for SEO purposes

For SEO purposes with IIS6, I had always set up two sites, one bound to www.domain.com and another site to domain.com that redirects to www.domain.com where the actual site lived. I really hate the clutter and duplicates in IIS (call it being anal…
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Serving images from another hostname vs Apache overload for the rewrites

We are trying to improve further the speed of some sites with older HTML in order as well to obtain better SEO results. We have now applied some minify measures, combined html, css etc. We use a small virtualized infrastructure and we've always…
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301 redirect or disallow on robots.txt?

I recently asked for 301 redirection on ServerFault and I didn't get a proper solution to my problem, but now I have a new idea: use the robots.txt to disallow certain URLs from my site to be "crawled". My problem was simple: after a migration from…
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Is this a valid robots.txt file?

I have this robots.txt file: User-agent: * Sitemap: Path_to_sitemap.xml My Q is, should I have something else in there as well? Like allow All or something? Thanks
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safe 301 redirection using htaccess for two domains

I have two domains, a new domain (newdomain.com) and and old legacy domain (olddomain.com). I want to safely redirect the old domain to the new domain. Easy enough. At the moment I am doing this using htaccess ModReWrite like so # Redirect…
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Subdomain is preventing my search results from rising as expected in page rank

My problem is that I have a site which has requires a dedicated page for every city I choose to support. Early on, I decided to use subdomains rather than a directly after my domain (ie i used la.truxmap.com rather than truxmap.com/la). I realize…
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seems to block /my-beautiful-sef-url-123

I have robots.txt that looks like this: User-agent: * Disallow: /system/ Disallow: /admin/ Disallow: /index.php The obvious goal has been to prevent all the ugly URLs from being indexed, as they all begin with "/index.php". But for some reason all…
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How long does it take Google to update all links from R 301?

I just changed the location of my blog, and have done the appropriate redirects. Does anyone have knowledge or experience for the delay in updating all the links across Google? Reason I ask, I wish to change the A record. So this will eliminate the…
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Redirect folder to different server

Just for clarity, I already posted this on StackOverflow and got advice that this better fits in ServerFault.com so here goes: I know you can redirect subdomains to a different server, but can you do the same with folders? Say I have example.com. I…
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Can nameserver issues affect SEO?

take a look at the DNS errors on this site. Might it affect how google indexes the site? The site is not even returned in searches http://www.intodns.com/legacytrustuk.org
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Two same pages www.example.com and www.example.com/index.php

Can someone help me how to fix this problem, seobility shows me that i have two same pages www.example.com and www.example.com/index.php
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Google search showing AWS elastic IP instead of domain URL

I have a web platform on AWS elastic beanstalk with domain name. However, google search shows IP address instead of domain name. It also directs to HTTP instead of HTTPS, even though I have made so HTTP redirects to HTTPS. In addition, site…
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Redirections, but only on a certain web browser

I have found some cheap SEO pages, whose only purpose is to promote some other sites by feeder links. On Chrome and Safari and Firefox, they show the SEO web page, but on Kiwi Web Browser on my Android phone, the page is redirected to…
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Is ssl CName important for search engine?

My site is under cloudflare and of course I am using free ssl from their side. So, what what can I have sanctions on the site from the search engines while using free ssl? Or what benefits will I have after dedicated ssl?
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