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Only 3 active adSense slots on page

The qustion is  whether or not you can have more than three slots per page enabled for AdSense price optimization on a page, versus how many AdSense ads can actually serve. You can have more than three ad slots enabled for AdSense on a single page if the following criteria is met:
1. The ad slots [...]

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SEO: Make your site easier to navigate

The navigation of a website is important to help search engines understand what content the webmaster thinks is important. Although Google’s search results are provided at a page level, Google also likes to have a sense of what role a page plays in the bigger picture of the site.
All sites have a home or “root” [...]

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SEO: Yahoo!-specific REP directives

Yahoo!-specific REP directives that are not supported by Microsoft and Google include:
* Crawl-Delay:
Allows a site to delay the frequency with which a crawler checks for new content
* NOYDIR META Tag:
This is similar to the NOODP META Tag above but applies to the Yahoo! Directory, instead of the Open Directory Project

* Robots-nocontent Tag:
Allows you to identify [...]

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SEO: The robots.txt

As stated in the last article, writing a robots.txt file is important for SEO. It helps tell spiders what is useful and public for sharing in the search engine indexes and what is not.
Not all search spiders will follow your instructions left in the robots.txt file.
A poorly done robots.txt file can stop the search spiders [...]

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Improve your URLs

Creating descriptive categories and filenames for the documents on your website can not only help you keep your site better organized, but it could also lead to better crawling of your documents by search engines.
Also, it can create easier, “friendlier” URLs for those that want to link to your content.
Visitors may be intimidated by extremely [...]

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Mozilla add-ons for seeing google ranking

Today I’ve searched for a plug-in to see a site’s google ranking. I’ve found severals. They are all pretty good. My advise is not to install all of them in the same time.
SEO Quake
In the search engine query, this add-on tells you the Google Page Rank, number of indexed pages within a website, and the [...]

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SEO:Make use of the “description” meta tag

A page’s description meta tag gives Google and other search engines a summary of what the page is about. Whereas a page’s title may be a few words or a phrase, a page’s description meta tag might be a sentence or two or a short paragraph. Google Webmaster Tools provides a handy content analysis section [...]

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SEO: unique, accurate page titles

Create unique, accurate page titles!
A title tag tells both users and search engines what the topic of a particular page is. The tag should be placed within the tag of the HTML document. Ideally, you should create a unique title for each page on your site.
The title for your homepage can list the [...]

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