I bought a domain name and for the moment the page only says something like 'this domain is registered' but does it have a negative impact on SEO if I keep this page for some months, before I'm ready to launch the website? Will Google blacklist the website because it considers that it has no content?
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I am setting up my personal website, and I have designed a simple "Coming Soon / Under Construction" page which basically has nothing but a small notice for the users.   What kind of SEO can I make on this page such that it won't harm the full website's ranking later on?
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Someone has created an exact copy of my site.   At first, the code of his pages were identical to mine.  A few days later he just replaced my internal links with the same links to his own domain. At the top of his source code he uses some "Vodafone securenet" script connecting to my site.  At first I thought he was using embed or iframes or something to reproduce my site, but I have posted a new post and it doesn't show on his domain.  I have contacted the company that protects his whois info and I plan to issue a dmca with Google.  What else can I do?  Btw, this is obviously a neg seo case, since his site has no chance to appear on the search, yet it can hurt mine as duplicate content.
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A search for domains like mysite.com provides thousands of results on  and hundreds on . I sampled some. Each and every one I checked was a post by someone ignorant about ,  and , as defined in . Other "natural examples" domains are abused pretty much too.  My request is - disallow these:   mysite.TLD site.TLD abc.TLD xyz.TLD [one letter repeated].TLD   When they are detected, propose  or . With old questions, use robot or find other way to edit them.    Even if SEO is not a problem, professional sites about Internet and associated technologies should not ignore RFC on such a large scale. Not to mention linking porn like about thousand links to xxx.com - I was already detected as one who visits "sites related to content forbidden here" by a firewall or two thanks to that.  I can assure you: you don't want to explain to your boss why are you searching for "adult content" in working hours, or agrotourism farm owner why that happens under his roof. Even WSODs are not nice. Now I think I have SE whitelisted, but anyway... Sadly, firewall was right, I did have xxx.com mentioned in my search results here and on Drupal Answers.
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I have run a domain for 9 years, which had PR5 two years back with DA 49 (which I remember). Now I have run another domain for 4 years in similar keywords but from a different location (as you can see from the CCTLD).  As my old .np domain is not being useful, I am thinking to redirect it to my new .au domain. Both of them have similar keywords.  Now, my question is: if I do 301 redirection from the old to the new domain, is that going to carry Google penalty with link juice? (I am not sure why PR is down to nothing in two years. I remember it was hacked a few times and I couldn't fix on time.)  The point is I want to take credit of my own domain, which I maintained for almost 9 years and has very good link juice. Saying that, I am very concerned about losing my new domain's SEO value which I have run for 4 years and worked my butt off to bring into good position.  I can't take a risk to experiment at this stage as my business relies on the new domain. Instead, I would like to add some value from my old domain, which can make my life easier.  Thanks for showing interest. I expect to get some expert advice here.
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I'm adding a blog to a site. Would it be better for SEO to put it at blog.example.com or at www.exampleblog.com?  I already own www.exampleblog.com .  Would combining the words together to exampleblog have a negative effect?
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Is there any way to remove a website from appearing in Google search results under an unwanted keyword?   About a year ago, I added a featured project to a company website. This page included the client's name - she requested we keep the project anonymous so we removed any mention of her name and any identifying details.  Today - when you Google her name, our website homepage comes up regardless of her name not being on our website. I've even checked Google's cached page.  I'm stumped as to why our site, without any matching keywords would appear above other relevant results.
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I was searching about removing the a domain/site being listed in Web Search Results (like, Google Search) and i found solution, .  I believe it will be the solution but what i still need to know is:   How long will it take to bring down my Website being listed from Search Engine Results?
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Do you know if I should use &lt;link rel="canonical" tag, or 301 redirect from:  http://example.com to http://www.example.com  ...to avoid a duplicate content penalty in case other pages link to the domain without the www subdomain? Or is Google smart enough now to identify which is the canonical one?
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In 2010 I registered a .net domain name (my family surname). At this time I was very young and it was my first experience with domains/websites, etc.  Around 15 days after registering my domain, a well known squatting company registered the .com equivalent of my domain.  From this it is pretty clear that they were simply monitoring for .net registrations, and would then snap up the .com equivalent.  They are now selling the .com domain for $4,000. It just has a parked domain page with 'For Sale' info, etc.  My .net domain does not represent a registered company or trademark, it is just my family name.  Do you I have any recourse to dispute this based on the fact that they registered it in response to me registering the .net version? Or perhaps because it is my (probably not unique) family name?
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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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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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I have a website with software applications. Is it good for SEO to choose one keyword rich domain name for each of our software products or should we stick to a single domain?  From a user's perspective I think it would be easier to remember a domain that is keyword rich as the user will instantly know what this product is for.  But I have read articles that the latest trend in SEO is to stick to one domain for all of your products and invest on this single domain website.  Is that true? What do you advise? Should I register a separate domain for each of our products or should I use only one single domain?  Should I do a 301 redirect with a .htaccess to a single domain? And what about the sitemaps? Should I register all sites in Google Webmaster Tools and post a separate sitemap for each one of them? should my main site sitemap include all pages or should separate domains have their own sitemaps?
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I several days ago somewhere read that category and tag pages should be noindexed. But later on somewhere else, I read that, they only increase rank for search term, but overall traffic decreases- said one from his experience.  So, if I just concern about traffic, not about individual search term that much, should I make those category and tag pages as indexed to google? I am confused which is the best to do.  Thanks in advance.  Regards Rana
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I will be building a (wordpress) web site. While I am developing, other team members will be pushing content.  I'd like to have it hidden from google while under development.  It will be hosted on godaddy.   I have thought of not pointing the domain name to it until live and using "",   or buying a  during development.    Or hosting dev site in a sub-directory ("/dev/") until ready and then moving it up a level.  If in the dev directory I'd add htaccess or robots.txt to not crawl.   Is any of this a bad idea?  Will google penalize for any of this - like search by IP and then associate that with the domain later on?  Any better ideas?
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I need a counsel about my websites' domain.  Let's say I have just bought two domains: xyz.com and xyzphotography.com.  As we can see, the first one is shorter but way less meaningful than the second one. The second one contains a photography keyword but it's longer.  I have only one website which is my photography portfolio. Can you advise me how to set those domains to make it all as SEO-friendly as possible? Which one should be the main one, does the rest should work on their own or have some kind of SEO-friendly redirect to the main domain?
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I have heard(read) SEO experts who claims that you server position will affect your SEO. In the latest example it was about an international site targeting the Russian market so:   Does the server location affect how many visitor you will get from specific country. Does the TLD affects SEO outside that it is easy to type the TLD of your country   If the above have any effect what will be if you by TLD domain for the countries you are targeting and make them redirect to you international one, for example:   example.com - international example.ru - redirects to example.com/ru/ example.de - redirects to example.com/de/
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I wonder is it legal to register a domain name that contains a company name. For example cococola.cc (considering that this domain name is available). Can I buy and use any domain names that contain a name of a trademark?