I'm working as a bit of a webmaster for a guy that runs a network of backlinked websites to increase his PR for a couple of his eCommerce sites. I don't know much about them, I just know they generate content and funnel the link juice back to where it's needed.   He is hell-bent on making SEO as good as possible on every one of the sites under his network. We have a VPS running about 10 of these sites on a single IP address and he has been struck with the somewhat logical assumption that if Google thought they all came from different servers, as opposed to one, their SEO and pagerank would be better. I'm however a little more skeptical of this idea, as I don't see why on earth Google would consider the content generated from the same server more valuable than content generated from different servers.  In terms of SEO, would a network of sites that link to each other benefit from having different IP addresses? Or could they result in a penalty if they all used the same IP address?
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I've googled that and I've found many opinions on this subject, and I'm not sure, if, dedicated IP addresses actually really improve SEO? Is it that different from shared IP address (of 50-100 other sites)?
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I have a very stupid question. I developed a website that has only one page at the public html directory(index.php).  all content are dynamically loaded as different pages.   How can i SEO my pages for google?  i mean like the what we type in this site are .............i believe stored in database and search engine find these pages like any static pages...  Just a little tip would be appreciable.......!
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We are currently developing a site that currently has 8 million unique pages that will grow to about 20 million right away, and eventually to about 50 million or more.  Before you criticize... Yes, it provides unique, useful content. We continually process raw data from public records and by doing some data scrubbing, entity rollups, and relationship mapping, we've been able to generate quality content, developing a site that's quite useful and also unique, in part due to the breadth of the data.  It's PR is 0 (new domain, no links), and we're getting spidered at a rate of about 500 pages per day, putting us at about 30,000 pages indexed thus far. At this rate, it would take over 400 years to index all of our data.  I have two questions:   Is the rate of the indexing directly correlated to PR, and by that I mean is it correlated enough that by purchasing an old domain with good PR will get us to a workable indexing rate (in the neighborhood of 100,000 pages per day). Are there any SEO consultants who specialize in aiding the indexing process itself. We're otherwise doing very well with SEO, on-page especially, besides, the competition for our "long-tail" keyword phrases is pretty low, so our success hinges mostly on the number of pages indexed.   Our main competitor has achieved approx 20MM pages indexed in just over one year's time, along with an Alexa 2000-ish ranking.  Noteworthy qualities we have in place:   page download speed is pretty good (250-500 ms) no errors (no 404 or 500 errors when getting spidered) we use Google webmaster tools and login daily friendly URLs in place I'm afraid to submit sitemaps. Some SEO community postings suggest a new site with millions of pages and no PR is suspicious. There is a , too, in order to avoid increased scrutiny (at approx 2:30 in the video).      Clickable site links deliver all pages, no more than four pages deep and typically no more than 250(-ish) internal links on a page. Anchor text for internal links is logical and adds relevance hierarchically to the data on the detail pages. We had previously set the crawl rate to the highest on webmaster tools (only about a page every two seconds, max). I recently turned it back to "let Google decide" which is what is advised.
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For the sake of discussion, pretend that I have an Apache webserver which serves a website at www.example.org. This domain name resolves to the public IP address at 192.168.1.100 (pretend this is a public IP).  The discussion at  demonstrates that anyone can point their domain at my IP. Apache won't prevent this by default, but an administrator can deal with these one at a time through use of a blacklist.  However, it's becoming more common for scammers to register dozens of domains (or more) for use in a scam. I'm concerned about the following possible attack:   A scammer registers hundreds of domain names, and points them at my dedicated IP address. The scammer directs search engines at their scam domains, thus using my content to increase their standing in the search engines. Later, the scammer moves their domain names to point to their own servers which host a scam/porn, or a competing business, etc. thereby reaping the benefits of their standing in the search engines. Some of these domains might be used to in  as well. Profit!!   I believe I have seen scammers using this trick in the past, involving dozens of domains. We didn't realize the scam implications at the time, and assumed these were misconfigured domains.  Is there a term for this nefarious SEO trick? SEO masquerading? DNS Diversion?  How could I prevent this using Apache? I'm considering a "whitelist" fix based on using a default VirtualHosts, ServerNames &amp; ServerAliases so that Apache only responds to requests where these white-listed ServerNames appear in the "Host: " header. Everything else would be rejected (or redirected to a particular page). However, I am unsure if this is the best approach.  For example, I've configured the domain  to point at the IP for Serverfault.com. You can see the results here:  .
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Me and a friend are having a debate where she claims that every and all subdomains will get crawled/indexed by google unless you specifically tell it not to, and I'm saying that if a page isn't linked to from anywhere then it shouldn't get crawled.  For example, let's say I own example.com and I make a new subdomain with a weird  random name such as adayinthewoods.example.com and I throw a wordpress installation on there that I plan to use for testing purposes.  What would have to happen for google to start crawling and indexing this? Is google going to look at the whois records and see that I've added a subdomain in my DNS table and then start crawling it as a result? Is the fact I've installed wordpress on it making my installation "ping search engines"? How does that work? How do top level domains get crawled when it's a brand new domain? I assume the mechanism there is different from random subdomains.  What if I add a new page in my root folder called "noOneWillEverSeeThis.html", could that ever get crawled/indexed if it wasn't included in any sitemap and wasn't linked to from anywhere?  Would really appreciate a solid answer from someone that understands what's going on with this.  Thanks much
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Simple question  What is better:  http://www.example.com/product/123/subpage/456.html   or  http://www.example.com/product?123/subpage/456   As far as I know they would rank the same SEO wise, but my SEO knowledge might be a little off. Also the last one seems to be easier and cleaner to implement on my end.  Please explain to me which is better and for what reasons.
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I've heard Google's algorithm is based on PageRank, and that it has something to do with the links to your site. Can someone explain it, and more importantly, how I can increase my site's PageRank?
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I'm really worried about professionalism.  My site would be something like http://mywebsite.uy instead of http://mywebsite.com.uy.  What do you think about this practice? What should I have in mind at the moment of choosing one?
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A coworker and I are locked in a debate over the value of SEO keywords in the URL of a page. She wants to change all the filenames of the HTML pages of a fencing company so they look like residential-home-chicago.html, contact-chicago-contractor.html, and so on. She is convinced that because Google highlights keywords in URLs in search results, that means that putting keywords here is more valuable.  My position is that these do not improve SEO, since Google doesn't seem to give keywords in the URL any more weight than keywords in the body of the page, and . In the meantime, they make it harder for me to find the pages I want when its time to edit them, and the site as a whole looks cheap and spammy.   suggests to me that yes, keywords in URLs are useful, but not superior, and that they are more useful for human readability than search engine rankings.  I'm looking for authoritative sources that support either position, not blog articles from SEO optimization companies trying to promote themselves.
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I did a search and i found a link to my site... twice. They are exactly the same except one is www and the other is static. How do i tell google to ignore everything in my static domain?
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I made a widget that would ideally live on other sites.  Here is an example:   I guess since the widget would link back to me, it would be an SEO boost for my site.  Is that correct?  Or would it be just an SEO boost for that particular URL?  If it is just an SEO boost for the particular URL, it does me little good since that page does not link to any of my other pages.  Am I thinking about this correctly?  How are these things typically handled so that there is  a benefit to my site's SEO?
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When I check Alexa rankings for my site it says that one site is linking to my site.   Is it only showing back links? If it is then why are other website traffic checking tools like Google showing different different back links?
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Suppose I have been using a domain, say www.bollywoodhatke.com for 3 years, and it has a good Alexa (hypothetical situation). It has backlinks and its has 7,000 pages indexed and 50,000 images indexed, but later there is a reason I am forced to change the domain name where the website is served.  In that case →  Would it be possible to tell Google that we are the same people with the same website, but the domain name changed?  I mean, can I somehow transfer the content to the new domain so that all the pages are indexed immediately, backlink juice is also transferred to the new domain, and all the pages indexed correctly?  I think moz.com  was semoz.com previously. They must have certainly done something.
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Lets say I have a domain already, for example www.automobile4u.com (not mine), with a website fully running and all.  The title of my "Website" says:    &lt;title&gt;Used cars - buy and sell your used cars here&lt;/title&gt;   Also, lets say I have fully SEO the website so when people searching for the term buy used cars, I end up on the second or first page.  Now, I want to end up higher, so I go to the google adwords page where you can check how many searches are made on specific terms.  Lets say the term "used cars" has 20 million searches each month.  Here comes the question, could I just go and buy that domain with the search terms adress, in this case www.usedcars.com and make a redirect to my original page, and this way when people search for "used cars", my newly bought domain name comes up redirecting people to my original website (www.automobile4u.com)?  The reason I believe this benefits me is because it seems search engines first of all check website adresses matching the search, so the query "used cars" would automatically bring www.usedcars.com to the first result right?  What are the downsides for this?  I already know about google spiders not liking redirects, but there are many methods of redirecting...  Is this a good idea generally?
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We are currently planning on registering multiple domains for different parts of the website we own. For example consider that we have example.com as the main domain and have assigned all the sub-departments their own subdomain.    There will be tutorials.example.com, videos.example.com, articles.example.com, etc.  Now for marketing reasons we plan to register examplevids.com, exampletuts.com, etc.    The catch here is all these domains should somehow point to their respective subdomains. We can either use a permanent redirect or have and iframe to display the content directly from the subdomains.   Which approach is better considering SEO?  Will using iframes be considered replicating content by search engines? Or is it at all wise to have different domains?
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Can other websites on your shared host affect the rank of your website in the Google index? (same IP address as yours, potentially malicious/low-trust content) Can other websites on your IP class affect the rank of your website in the Google index? (different actual IP, malicious/low-trust content)   Clarification: Domain class, is what you get when you run a whois query on an IP address.  Example:  NetRange:       69.163.128.0 - 69.163.255.255 CIDR:           69.163.128.0/17   PS: Prefer answers with experience or links to trustworthy material, over speculations, assumptions and gut feelings.
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I have a website http://www.domain_1.com/ hosted in a shared webserver.  I have used SSL for another website https://www.domain_2.com/ on the same server.  Due to some technical limitations (single IP), if you try https://www.domain_1.com, browser will show the same domain_2 website. But this is not a concern for me.  Question: will this scnario impact SEO of domain_1 (non-HTTPS) site?