I think my CMS might force me to have URLs that look like these:   domain.com/products/new-products/ domain.com/products/used-products/   Instead of:   domain.com/new-products/ domain.com/used-products/   Assume that I was trying to optimize for "new products" and "used products". Will having the URLs my CMS might be forcing on me be bad for SEO? I could do something like this:   domain.com/products/new/ domain.com/products/used/   (but I don't think these are optimizing for "new products" and "used product" due to the ordering of the key words)
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I'm working for a website to convert the website URL to an SEO friendly URL. I plan to use this:  example.com/category-name/pageid-123-page-name  I looked at some similarly categorized, highly ranked websites. They have the same structure, except for one thing. In one case, the URL format was  example.com/category-name/pageid-123-page-name.html  Another was   example.com/category-name/pageid-123-page-name.php  Now I know the text in URLs help with SEO. Is it more helpful to have a file extension? If yes, which one is better?  Or if my current plan is okay, will it be better with a / at the end?
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I'm currently building a website that is not targeted to an English speaking audience. So my thoughts are that if I were to make the URLs in the language of choice (in this case Spanish) then would this help or hinder my SEO for the website? Is it always better to have english URL paths for getting picked up by search engines?
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My company has two websites a main one at www.example.com and one at subdomain.example.com which is a subdomain of the first and is our self hosted blog.   The way Google sees these with the www or no-www (called naked for now on) is that each of these actually are different when the www or naked version is used/not used in the front of the domain. I completely understand this. It is also advised that both should be set up in the Google Webmaster Tools, which I have done. Correct me if I am wrong on that in regard to having both set up.  Now the way it appears is that we can set a preferred domain up in Webmaster Tools only at the root domain level. The subdomain cannot have this and actually says the following:  **Restricted to root level domains only**.  So it appears that the domain should follow what the root domain says, which on our preferred one says to display the www.example.com and not the naked version. That is one issue I have in that one displays one way and the other displays another.   Is it that we have the wrong redirects in place for the subdomain? Another question is does this have any affect on SEO in regards to duplicate content on the web in how we have set this up?
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On one of our classified sites, when doing site:[mysite.com] in Google, the link text is simply [product name] - [mysite.com], where as it should read [product name] classifieds for sale in...  I suspect that the site map may have been submitted when we just had [product name], and updated the page titles later.  However, it has been a couple of weeks that I have confirmed the longer page titles, and still they appear shortened in organic results.  How can I get this looking right in Google's organic results?
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After having read various articles on this site about WWW or Non-WWW website setup, ,  and , and after having setup a correct redirection rule in .Htaccess to at least eliminate duplicate contents (currently the non-www solution (e.g. http://example.com) I have a feeling that my site rank less since I changed this.   My confusion was strengthened by these two opponents:     &amp;     Could the change of www.example.com >> http://example.com have a factual impact on ranking?  say either is better or worse. Are they holding information back?  I am confused fellow folks...  As much as I would like to separate facts from fiction, I am aware that not all the good valid information is written. Not on google webmaster site and perhaps not elsewhere. If so it seems out of date!  Does or does not a WWW domain impact SEO/rank better than its NON-WWW version? (Given that you have setup a proper redirect to avoid duplicates and go with one)
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My urls do not seem to have my main keywords in them. Is this bad for SEO? Should I include them?   Of course I do not mean actually writing one keyword after each other, but have an organically / naturally readably URL which makes sense to the user and to SEO, if at all, hence my question.
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I have changed some URLs in my site then to prevent webmaster tools duplicate error I redirected (301) old URLs to new URLs also I tried to remove old URLs in "Optimization>Remove URLs" section of webmaster tools and still I get Duplicate title error.  I want to know is any problem in redirecting?  For example   redirected to   PS, I used Fiddler to check 301 redirect and think it should be okay.  Thanks in advance
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The name of our company is G2 Builders - What is happening is that if you go to google and type in "G2 Builder" with no "s" at the end, our website has sitelinks.   When you type in our name with the "s" G2 Builders, we do not get sitelinks. My question is, does anyone know how I can fix this?
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I recently posted a question about using a site structure similar to what's shown below.   example.com/bikes/foo-bike/wheels    //content about foo-bike's wheels example.com/bikes/bar-bike/wheels    //content about bar-bike's wheels   If two bikes are at comparable price points, it's likely that they will have similar components. Should I be concerned if multiple bikes have similar content and the only major difference between them is their component name?  The website I'm creating is a user guide for bikes. With the URL structure above I'm a little worried that I run the risk for creating duplicate content.
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We're a web design company that have created several websites for clients, all of which have a back link to our own website. I was just wondering the best strategy for this:   Should the keywords be in the title, alt and link text? E.g &lt;a href="domain.com" title="keyword"&gt;Keyword&lt;/a&gt;? Should we make the keyword the same on all the client web sites? Should we incorporate our company name as the link text?   Are there any other general things I should follow?  UPDATE: Currently we have "designed &amp; built by ". Are we better off having something like ""?
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Let's say I have a website called books.com where I sell books. I've read on  that it's not a bad idea to register another domain that does a 301 redirect to my website, like booksforsale.com.  Now, say I want to only target a specific category withing my website, like books.com/sci-fi/ so I register sci-fi-books.com and do a 301 redirect.  Would this improve my search rankings?  Thanks.
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I want to know, is there a huge difference in terms of SEO between these URLs:  example.com/ontario/toronto/listings   or  example.com/listings.php?p=ontario&amp;c=toronto   Will one URL rank higher than the other? Is there a huge difference here?
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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 am going to choose a domain name for my business. For that I am going to use joined words in my domain name.  For example, let's say my keywords are "painting" and "goa" and also that paintinggoa.com is not available to register.  In this case if I choose paintingoa.com is it good? Is it good for SEO purposes?  How will Google treat this domain name?
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I have myproduct.com which is my master product page.  For UK I also own myproduct.co.uk which is a copy of myproduct.com with some localized content: landing page, promotions, prices, and specific tags.  But there is also duplicate content: myproduct.com/FAQs/ is the same as myproduct.co.uk/FAQs/  I don't want to do a redirect from myproduct.co.uk/FAQs/ to myproduct.com/FAQs/ as I don't want people to leave the localized website.  The myproduct.com/FAQs/ is my "go-to" FAQ page and it's the most likely to be up to date - so I want this page to be indexed my search engines, where as I don't care about myproduct.co.uk/FAQs/ being indexed (unless indexing this page would increase my page rank :) ).  What to do now to be SEO friendly &amp; SEO optimal?   Stop indexing of myproduct.co.uk/FAQs/ via robots.txt? Do some rel="alternate" hreflang="x" configuring on both /FAQs/ page? Something else?
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I am planning to have my own website and would like to ask some questions regarding about the organization (I don't know if this is the right term for it) of domain names.  Let me give an example:  If I have a domain named “www.joe.com” but is planning to have different websites or categories for my varied interests but would still retain the  “joe” name on my domain, would it be better to have a sub-domain instead?  Is that it?  Is this what would turn out:  www.joe.com             = my main site bookworm.joe.com        = a blog for my love of books travel.joe.com          = a blog for my travel experience food.joe.com            = a blog for my love of food and cuisine  I also notice that there are other websites that are like this: (this is just an example, but you get the idea)  www.personname.com          = main site www.personname.com/blog     = a blog for his site ( is this a subdomain now)  Everytime you go to the www.personname.com, you are then redirected to the www.personname.com/blog address.  Is it safe to say that the blog address is a sub-domain and for blogging only and then the www.personname.com is the main site?  What is the difference of this approach compared to the first example I've given above?  Cheers!
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Someone just edited a link in one of my answers to point to a 'better reference'.    I've no problem with links being changed in general, but this smells like part of a concerted attempt to redirect traffic.   Is this kind of activity acceptable on SO?