I bought a domain name for new site. Within a month, on a domain, there was nothing but an empty root directory of the page something like "Index of / [ICO] Name Last modified Size Description".   I read that for new domains until developing is best to make a page with a brief description of the future site. Very soon I will publish my site on hosting, will i have a negative seo impact for last month with a blank page? Pretty nice domain, but as long as there is a possibility I can change him beforehand. Is there at least some sense to me to do so?
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I am currently developing a website which is going to take some time to finish. I need to move some 'stuff' to production frequently, while maintaining a under construction status. My front page will clearly mention that my website is under construction.  I know crawlers will access my URL before I am ready to go live. Should I tell them my site is under construction (no need to index)? If yes how?  P.S.: Eventually, I am ok to let them see my under construction front page.
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I have a website with a unique name, already indexed and with a perfect SEO. Although there are no websites with the same unique name, when I'm searching on Google I found my homepage listed on the 6th page.  Why something like this happens, and what can I do to improve?
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Before we launched our website, we had set up a "coming soon" page and google picked up the title and description from its contents. So the description in the search results said:     Coming soon! Visit example.org for updates.   It's been a few weeks since we launched our website. We've even created a sitemap and submitted it to Google. In Google Search Console, the pages have been crawled and all the pages are appearing as expected on Google, EXCEPT the homepage which is still not updated! The title and description of the homepage in google search results still says "coming soon.".***  I checked on bing too, but it appears to be fine there.  All other pages seem to be indexed fine on Google. I don't even have any crawl errors in my reports. So what seems to be the problem? I've already waited for 2 weeks.
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We have a ton of alternate domain names. What is the best strategy as far as SEO strategy is concerned? Do we want to 301 redirect them all to our primary domain or set up simple landing pages that link to the main site?
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I have multiple domains hosted on a shared hosting plan which provides a single IP address for all domains hosted. I want domains such as:   www.plumbersinnewyork.com www.plumbersinwashington.com www.electriciansinnewyork.com   (Domains are for example only)  All these websites are on shared hosting and, on pinging each domain, show the same IP Address.  Will this affect my SEO strategy in any way?
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I recently registered a new domain, pointed it to my existing server, and set up a minimal page just saying "test" and nothing else.  I just discovered tonight that the page is already indexed in Google! There are no links to the site (I haven't even told anyone about the domain since I haven't done anything with it yet).  Is Google trawling WHOIS records or something?
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We have to shift our web-site to a new domain due to some unavoidable circumstances. The portal has been up and running there since 2009.  It has good index in various search engines and we are getting a good number of page hits on daily basis.  Losing the search hits and index are our big concern. We are not sure how best we can handle this.  What all can be done to preserve as much as possible while shifting to new domain name.
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I have to take a website down for a month, which is the least intrusive way to keep achieved SEO optimizations?  should I just add in apache config:  &lt;Directory /root-directory-of-web-site-to-be-redirected&gt;     Redirect 301 /  http://www.otherdomain.com/temporarily_offline.html &lt;/Directory&gt;   ....  Reason for the long downtime: some misconfiguration in ruby, while all other php sites work fine. I will fix this after a month when I am back from hollidays
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I am a big fan of minifying everything whenever possible. It is a sin for me to don't do this.  However, I recently read that one of the thousands tips to boost your website rank on search engines was to:     give you content context with good class and id name in your HTML     I always change id and class names to one or two character length...  Is not that I don't believe what that guy said, but I really need some confirmation on this. For me it doesn't make sense why would that matter.   Is that point correct? (in case it is) Why?
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Let's have some fun shall we??  At the bottom of the content for about 1/3rd of my pages, but not in the footer, I create an internal link for each related IP address to the page on my site for that IP address. This was fine 6 months ago, but now that my database has grown so large, I discovered that it was not uncommon to create 700+ links within this section with one page having 2600. Ooopppsss!! ;-) Houston, we have a problem!  Now this is easy enough to fix. For right now, I put a limit 100 on the query. But this got me thinking and searching for a definitive answer. So far... no luck.  Please understand I do fully know the effects regarding SEO. Most of you know that already. I am not looking for a lesson- just an idea of a range.  Q: How many internal links per page is too many?  There are a lot of answers on the net culled from various nether regions and I have a number in mind (also culled), but I was thinking that there has to be an authoritative answer somewhere. Google says reasonable and MOZ's answer seemed to very arbitrary to me. Some so-called SEO experts say as little as 6 and as much as 200. Yeah. That is useful! One said there is no limit. I know there is a semi-flexible practical limit. I remember reading about this years ago, but cannot remember the mechanics behind it right now. I would have to think on this for a while.  Bonus Q: If given a choice of creating links from a random query (and yes I can do this) or first 100 or so (using limit), which would you prefer/advise and why? Again, I have an idea in mind (again, culled). Is there anything definitive in this regard as well?  My primary concerns are UX, download speed, and lastly, Giigle. (&lt;= please do not edit to change)
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There has been a significant drop (90%) in traffic from Google to one of my well-established sites (6+ years) in the last week. Searches show that the top 3 wide keywords all dropped 4 spots. Searches for other keywords do not show ANY results in the first 10 to 25 pages of results, while previously one 1st or 2nd page at most.  Since there are , the question really is:  What steps are necessary to figure out what caused such a drop?  There have been no major changes during this period or the last month on the site and certainly not in the homepage which has dropped in rank. Over all the years of running this site and plenty of others, I have never experienced this. There are is duplicate content on my site and I have rigorously used canonical links for the last few years to ensure it is not misinterpreted as such.
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Will transferring a domain name to a new host cause downtime at all on the domain?  It's the highest traffic time of the year for us but we really want to keep things moving and need to migrate hosts because our current host charges per subdomain. It's imortant we get this subdomain up and running in the next few weeks, so I'm wondering what kind of down time (if any) we should expect migrating the registrar.  It doesn't seem like it would...
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I started working on a blog from last month. My blogs URL was quite big (for ex. http://my-old-long-url-blog.blogspot.com). I used it because I thought having 2-3 keywords in my URL will help me (I am not really sure that it really helps?).  My blog was getting 22-25 visitors everyday. I changed it's URL 4 days ago &amp; added new URL. http://autohippo.blogspot.com. In blogger, there is a provision to edit &amp; take any URL, anytime we want.  Now:   My old URL posts are still indexed (they appear in Google for particular keywords). My new URL posts are indexed but not ranked (i.e. when I searchsite:http://autohippo.blogspot.com they appear but i haven't received single visit from Google yet. I added this URL to my webmasters &amp; even submitted sitemap.
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I'm looking for advice about favicons and their impacts on search engines. Recently I noticed a site which changes its favicon every time you load another page without losing overall recognition of the favicon style. I'd like to incorporate this into my site as well but am I taking any SEO risks here?
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I recently moved from having a main site like www.example.com with a subdomain associated site yyy.example.com, to moving everything off the subdomain to a subdirectory like www.example.com/yyy/, with the same hierarchy underneath the subdirectory, and now yyy.example.com is just a redirect page to the subdirectory, so yyy.example.com/abc/page-x is redirected to www.example.com/yyy/abc/page-x and so on.  The effect has been that the traffic increased by several times (the total page views are more than ten times at the present rate) what it was to the yyy subdomain. Previously almost all of the traffic to the yyy subdomain was from the www site. This is from monitoring the old yyy site for a year or more.  I'm curious to know if there's any research or results which would indicate whether this is universal (subdirectories beat subdomains) or "just me".
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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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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.