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Incubator Q&A Do search engines detect and penalize AI generated content?

If I want to use chat GPT or other large language model AI to generate content for my website, will that be a good strategy for SEO? Can search engines detect and penalize content that was written...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Michael‭

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Incubator Q&A How viable is generic SEO in 2023?

I recall that back in the dark ages of web search (Altavista), search engines were naive and keywords were a huge thing in SEO. People would even create landing pages stuffed with keywords in tiny,...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

Question Webmasters seo
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Incubator Q&A Is fresh content always needed for SEO?

I've seen recommendations that search engines like "fresh" content and that I should be continually launching new content on my website for SEO. Is that always the case? That seems to directly co...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A Will improving my domain authority (DA) as measured by Moz help SEO?

I've been working on improving my site's domain authority as reported by Moz in the hopes that it helps our Google rankings. I have some doubts about it though. Google won't be able to see Moz's c...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A How should canonical URLs be used with comments?

Canonical URLS are highly recommended for SEO and to prevent competition between duplicate pages. I've been trying to implement this, but I'm unsure how to implement this for pages which repeat but...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by Ullallulloo‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A In which order should the brand name and article title appear in the page <title>?

I've read that for usability and SEO, the the <title> tags on your pages should contain both the article title and your brand name. I'm wondering which order is better for them? Which of th...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A Which search engines crawl, render, and index content from single page applications that rely on client side JavaScript rendering?

It would be much easier if our website could use a single page application (SPA) framework such as React or Angular without relying on server side rendering (SSR). I've heard that some search engi...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A Should I truncate my long page titles with ellipsis for SEO?

I've seen SEO advice that the ideal length for a page title is 50 to 60 characters and that the maximum length is 80 characters. Our site relies on user generated titles for our content and our us...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

Question Webmasters title seo
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Incubator Q&A Why is a self-referencing hreflang required?

I recently implemented hreflang tags in my website to tell search engines about content translations in several languages. I was very surprised to find that a self-referencing hreflang is required...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A When importing Creative Commons licensed content from another site, how to ensure that search engines won't penalize my site?

Codidact has tried importing questions from other Q/A sites like Stack Exchange. However search engines have not liked that. Those questions and answers don't usually get indexed on Codidact, and...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A Will multiple dashes in a domain name look spammy to search engines and hurt SEO?

I'm trying to choose between domains with and without multiple dashes: my-awsome-company.example myawesomecompany.example The dashes make it much more readable to me, but I've heard that sea...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

Question seo domains
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Incubator Q&A Is the TITLE tag or the H1 tag more important for SEO?

I've heard that for good SEO you need both a <title> tag and an <h1> tag on each page. I have pages that are very visual, think full screen map or full screen images. I'm not sure that...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

Question seo html