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Adding 'jump to' link to specific section in the page inside search result description
I've noticed Wikipedia has many direct links to specific sections in their pages in search results descriptions. For example when searching for 'stackoverflow history wikipedia' the first result that ...
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Where can I find a list of these colored graphics (hearts, diamonds, etc) that show up in Google SERPs? [closed]
I've been noticing colored gif icons showing up in the description tag in Google SERPs.
Such as: š, š, ā
Where can I find a list of all these icons that Google can cache and display? I really like ...
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Did anyone experience negative SERP movement after implementing rel=author?
I am not intrested in why I don't see the picture in SERPs.
So I know this is borderline off-limits but I turned every stone in the web (including DDgo) trying to find anybody experiencing a worse ...
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SEO: Twitter outranks personal site?
For some reasons, even though I websites has pretty great onsite SEO I thinks, my Twitter profile "outrank" personal site consistently in Google/Bing SERPs on different computer around country and ...
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Why Does the Same Site in Different SERPs Contain and Not Contain Google Sitelinks
Is there a way to get sitelinks on a Google SERP when searching on a site's name vs. the sites' web address?
Example, if you search "twin city kings", the first result is the website for Twin City ...
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SEO - Hidden content before main site content
I have a two hidden divs before my main site content, one with the login form and another with the signup form. I then have login and signup buttons within the page that use JQuery to show or hide ...
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Will rewriting your .htaccess to 404 to return search results from your site negatively effect your ranking in Google?
Depending on the type of site that you are running, it may or may not be advantageous to display search results instead of a 404 page, when someone visits a non-existent page on your site.
I believe ...
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What are the two different types of google search results called?
Google SERPs have search results that appear in two different ways:
Single Search Result
Single Search Result with Sitelinks
Are there official terms for these? I know that a "SERP" is Search ...
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Google position changing on different computers
Afternoon all
Just put my new site live last Saturday and I have found it has completely different search rankings when Iām in two different locations (very similar distance apart).
I get position 3 ...
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Google seems confused about our lists in the SERP
If you do a search for "alternative to Dropbox" or "alternative to spotify" we get listed in the Google SERP.
There is a nice little list there and so on but the problem is that Google isn't ...
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Does Google offer reporting on use of the “Block all … results” feature?
Does Google offer a way to report on how many people actually blocked results from my site from showing up in their results?
This question describes the behavior I'm asking about. I understand why ...
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SEO question regarding huge number of URLs
I'm wondering the best way to handle this situation. I'm about to release a new section on a website where there are literally hundreds of millions of URL combinations that can possibly be crawled ...
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Adding <description> metadata in php / html for google results page [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does Google use the Meta Description Tag for Description of Page?
I've got a simple website that uses a php script to geolocate a user's IP and redirect accordingly - UK ...
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My site is indexed in Google yet does not show in the SERPs
Please someone solve this mystery that has been plaguing me for months! All pages have been cached by Google recently yet still will not show up in a search. I'm guessing it's being penalized? How ...
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Google Ranking for long tail search phrases
When using long tail search phrases for products (items to purchase), google generally returns multiple URLS for various ecommerce sites, but it hides additional urls for each site behind .
Each ...
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Removing date from Google SERP
We are going through our site analysing the SEO. I find that sometimes on a google results page, some results show a date, others don't. Example (from same query):
I prefer the result not to have ...
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After URL rewriting Google still features many of the old and dirty URLs
I did a complete URL rewriting of my site some three months ago, however Google still features many of the old URLs.
They're not dead links as they correctly redirect to the new URLs, but it sort of ...
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Google Webmaster Geographic target: Increases or Decreases Traffic?
My website is an english video streaming website that gets visitors from all over the world (about 70,000 per day). 35% of my traffic is from the US.
Now, in google Webmaster, if I were to set my ...
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www is not displayed in google search result
I have a website at www.matrimonyteam.com ; when I perform a Google search it is only displaying matrimonyteam.com in search results rather than www.matrimonyteam.com
Is there is any setting ...
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How to accomplish a rich snippet with Twitter?
I would like to enhance my CTR for my pages and/or posts. When I publish these I tend to Tweet them so they become known. When doing some research on 'Grails' I just noticed the following snippet in ...
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Why do Google FreshBot crawled and indexed pages disappear from SERPs? Will they come back?
Sometimes a page on our site will show up in the Google SERPs that was previously not indexed (yet) due to a news story or blog posting on another site that points to it.
From what I understand, the ...
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google search differences
i'm preety new to SEO, so please bare with me if the question seems dumb..
I have a webshop, for which I made a sitemap and sent it to google to index.. now, when I am logged in to my google account ...
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Why does Google sometimes show fewer than the standard pair of lines for the “snippet”?
Normally websites listed in Google's results pages are shown with a standard excerpt comprising two lines with a [...] at the end of the second line.
Occasionally Google allows the website a full ...
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How do I get Google to show links to my site hierarchy in search results?
I have recently noticed that for some websites, Google is linking to different locations in the site hierarchy instead of just the destination page URL. For instance, searching for "Malibu Rum Drink ...
