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Is it bad for SEO to have two very similar sites on the same server? What's the best way to set this up?

Does showing the date published for an article in the SERPS help or hurt click-through rate?

Hello,

I just recently implemented adjusted bounce rate onto one of the websites that I track via google analytics. (http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2322974/How-to-Implement-Adjusted-Bounce-Rate-ABR-via-Google-Tag-Manager-Tutorial)

Since doing so, obviously my bounce rate has gone down significantly, nearly half of what it use to be, but I've also noticed an increase in the average time per visitor. In fact, the increase of average time per visitor began the same day I adjusted the bounce rate.

Has this happened to anyone else?

Can someone please explain why/how this may occur?

Hello,

I have a website and my sitemap (generated by the Yoast plugin) is set up into three different sections. One thing I noticed was that my homepage isn't in my sitemap.

Is this an issue? The homepage is indexed, but does it need to be added to the sitemap in order for it to be crawled?

How would I go about adding the homepage to the sitemap?

Hello,

I am curious to know everyones thoughts on speed optimization for wordpress.

I currently use the w3 total cache plugin and was considering adding a CDN like cloudflare.

Does anyone have any experiences with utilizing both of these two together?

What works best for you?

ok so using root domain?

When you say "request removal" are you saying that I need to manually add all 100 URLs into the removal tool?

I own a website (domain.com) and used the subdomain "dev.domain.com" while adding a new section to the site (as a development link). I forgot to block the dev.domain.com in my robots file, and google indexed all of the dev pages (around 100 of them).

I blocked the site (dev.domain.com) in robots, and then proceeded to just delete the entire subdomain altogether.

It's been about a week now and I still see the subdomain pages indexed on Google.

How do I get these pages removed from Google? Are they causing duplicate content/title issues, or does Google know that it's a development subdomain and it's just taking time for them to recognize that I deleted it already?

No, the pop-up doesn't automatically show up.

What about 301ing the URL to the homepage? That would pass the juice wouldn't it?

My main concern is about the entire tags strategy. The whole concept has really been first seen by myself on WordPress which seems to be bringing positive results to these sites and now there are even plugins that auto generate tags.

Can someone detail more about the pros and cons of tags? I was under the impression that google does not want 1000's of pages auto generated just because of a simple tag keyword, and then show relevant content to that specific tag. Usually these are just like search results pages... how are tag pages beneficial?

Is there something going on behind the scenes with wordpress tags that actually bring benefits to these wp blogs? Setting a custom coded tag feature on a custom site just seems to create numerous spammy pages. I understand these pages may be good from a user perspective, but what about from an SEO perspective and getting indexed and driving traffic...

Indexed and driving traffic is my main concern here, so as a recap I'd like to understand the pros and cons about tags on wp vs custom coded sites, and the correct way to set these up for SEO purposes.

Does showing the date published for an article in the SERPS help or hurt click-through rate?

Can someone respond to the questions on my post? Thanks.