SEO Question: What Are Top-Level Domains? The term ‘top-level domains’ is used a lot, but what does it mean? Deeho Says: Top-level domains refers to your main URL & only the part of your domain after the last full stop. You might have numerous sub-domains within your TLD, but it is just the last part that […]
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SEO Question: What Is Long Tail Traffic? I’ve been told to focus on long tail traffic for my SEO campaign, but I’m not sure I understand the term fully. Please can you explain? Deeho Says: Keywords can be split up into several different categories. The main two are long tail and short tail. Short tail keywords […]
SEO Question: How Do I Check If My Site Is Search Engine Friendly? I would like to analyse my site to check it’s search engine friendly, especially for Google. How do I go about carrying out the necessary checks? Deeho Says: There isn’t one tool that will check everything for you, so you will need to […]
SEO Question: Do Pages With Query Strings Rank As Well As Without Query Strings? My site generates dynamic pages depending on the way visitors navigate through the site. This means that the same page of content can have multiple query strings in it’s URL. I suspect this is affecting my Google rankings, but i don’t know […]
SEO Question: What is Search Spam, or SEO Spam? Can you tell me what’s considered to be search or SEO spam? Deeho Says: SEO spam is a term that describes everything that falls outside of Google best practice. Commonly called ‘Black Hat SEO‘, search spam includes cloaking (whereby you show Google Bot a different page to […]
SEO Question: Does The Spider Bot Follow All Links On a Web Page? When Google spiders visit my site, do they follow all links on my page or just some of them? Deeho Says: As a rule, Google bot will only follow the first 100 links on each page, so for example, if you added your […]
SEO Question: I Have Two Sites That Mirror Each Other In Content But Utilize Different Keywords and Meta Tags. Will This Help My Chances For Ranking Or Hurt Them? I have two sites that use basically the same content, but are focused on different keywords and have unique meta descriptions. I was told this would help […]
SEO Question: Does The Length Of Time (Domain Age) That a Site Or Domain Name Has Existed Play In Search Engine Placement? I want to change my domain name for a new one that’s more appropriate for our business, but we currently use a URL we have had since 2002. Will a new domain name without […]
SEO Question: Once You Begin Using SEO, How Long Until You See Improvement In Your Search Engine Placement? If I start SEO on my website, how long will it take before I start to see results? Deeho Says: SEO is a two part process, firstly your on-page SEO is carried out which will make your web […]
SEO Question: What are SERPs? The term SERPs seems to be used a lot, but what does SERPs mean? Deeho Says: SERPs is an abbreviation for Search Engine Rank Positions, and is the order in which organic (natural) results appear in each search engine. If a site is referred to as doing well in SERPs, then […]