All web resources crawled by Google bots and recorded in Google databases.
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Is making AJAX site crawlable AND degrading gracefully with JS turned off possible?
According to this spec, making AJAX site crawlable by Googlebot means that you have to use hashbang (#!) links in it which means it won't degrade gracefully when JS is turned off. This might mean that ...
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1answer
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Google indexing wrong domain that does not work
Can anyone tell me why Google indexes a site http://0.3c.7aae.static.theplanet.com instead of the actual domain name (my domain was registered with webmaster tools).
The aforementioned link was ...
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Domain migration and duplicate content/index issue
I have a website.net which I want to 301 redirect to website.com and I also want to change URL structure on some pages on the new .com site.
Problem is that .com is currently set as Website Alias of ...
3
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How can I force Google to re-index my site?
I changed the structure of my URLs.
The pages are already indexed by Google and have the following structure:
http://mypage.com/myfolder/page.apsx
The new structure is:
...
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Google Site Search (commercial) not indexing files in sitemap
I have a client for whom we have purchased Google Site Search. It works well for HTML pages served by the CMS, but files aren't being reliably indexed.
I wrote a script to generate an XML feed ...
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1answer
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Removing Google Webmaster URL Parameters
Some time before I have created a post for removing full site from Google Index, after following many advices I have removed large number of pages from Google Index but now facing another problem as ...
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Google Webmaster Tools - Search results are creating subdomained sites that don't exist
I'm very confused and at a loss here, so bare with me.
We were updating our Google search plugin for our domain, when I noticed odd behaviors in the Google search results:
fod.oursite.com
...
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Multiple Sitemaps Doesn't Index Quickly - How To Get Quick Index
I have a serious problem in my site: http://www.coimbatorematrimony.com
I will create multiple sitemaps.xml with all terms & conditions of Google Webmaster and some other search engines. I have ...
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Should I block Wordpress archive pages from search engines?
I use WordPress and /sample-post/ URLs for my posts and /yyyy/mm/ for the archives.
Google has indexed the site fully.
Since the archives currently display full posts I've thought that I shouldn't ...
2
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2answers
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Navigation Category page not indexed by Google
Navigation menu is in the form of categories on website http://bankpo.in, none of the category pages is being indexed by Google.
I searched with exact URL for a category, still related results are ...
5
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1answer
204 views
Getting link to abstract indexed in Google Scholar
We have a large digital library with thousands of papers indexed in Google Scholar. We allow Google Scholar to index our PDFs but they're blocked unless you have a subscription. So Google has ...
3
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1answer
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Why does Google index pages of my blog in seconds, while pages on the rest of the website take longer to get indexed
I have a questions and answers website in Portuguese about a specific subject.
My Q&A website also have a blog, on a sub-directory like www.site.com/articles.
I had not written on the blog for ...
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1answer
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404 errors How to deal with a large number of broken internal links for SEO
I have recently updated my website. In fact I have completely rewritten it using
wordpress. It was originally constructed using ASP.
In the process, I have recycled a a large amount of my original ...
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3answers
205 views
SEO Blog Indexing : Dot Wordpress Versus a Registered Domain?
I've used Wordpress for a few of my client's sites, mostly small businesses and ecommerce sites. I have found through Google Analytics as well as the All in One Webmaster plugin that when it comes to ...
1
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1answer
28 views
Will Google index images from HTML select tag
If i have code like this:
<select>
<option value="path/to/image1.jpg">Image 1</option>
<option value="path/to/image2.jpg">Image 2</option>
<option ...
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1answer
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New site not appearing in index after change of address, no feedback from google webmaster tools [closed]
Our change of address seems to not be taking effect. Here's the story so far:
We're a web company and our product is called The New Hive. Our site used to be at thenewhive.com, but we decided to ...
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2answers
112 views
Google Webmaster Tools site removal
I had a major issue in the last week where a site was found to be showing huge numbers of pages that it shouldn't have been. Naturally Google indexed all of these pages!
Rather than manually remove ...
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4answers
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no description when searching keyword in google
I am new with SEO, and i following a tutorial about meta tags...
when i search my keyword in Google, I can only see the URL of my website but it has no description....
search in google: surebooked
...
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4answers
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How does Google have more results than I have pages?
Our site has about 6500 pages. These are kept up to date in our sitemap.xml.
When I go to our Google Webmaster Tools account I see that Google has indexed about 6000 of our pages. This seems quite ...
0
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2answers
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Google is not indexing the main domain
We have a main domain called www.riya.travel. If a user visits riya.travel from India it will redirect to the subdomain in.riya.travel . If a user visits riya.travel from another country, it will ...
2
votes
1answer
24 views
Missing from Google [duplicate]
Recently I noticed our site no longer appeared in Google search results. Our site has be in Google for the last 3 years without any issues.
So far I've check:
In the Web Master tools it says there ...
4
votes
2answers
228 views
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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2answers
27 views
Does Google search URLs in different languages
I am building a multilingual website (from Spanish origins) however there will be English, Chinese, Spanish, and French users.
We are about to buy a domain however I am confused as to what language I ...
5
votes
4answers
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Total Indexed 0, 99 not selected in webmaster tools
I recently changed domain names from xxx.com to xxx.ca I created all the 301's submitted sitemaps and submitted a change of address to google webmaster tools on Dec 16th. I've since seen urls change ...
2
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1answer
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Same page on 2 different websites. Same SEO, but only 1 gets picked up by Google
I made a page for a website (website A) I'm responsible for. I made sure the SEO is correct. This one got to position 1 in Google very fast. On the second website (website B) I copied exactly the same ...
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2answers
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Google references subfolders
Last week I launched a website and created a robots.txt:
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Sitemap: http://mywebsite.tld/sitemap_robots.xml
Now I've checked the indexed pages (Google -> ...
5
votes
3answers
239 views
Removing full site from Google index
I want to remove the contents from Google index. Google index include my websites huge number of pages indexed in Google index about 5,000,000 Pages earlier but now left pages are 3,025,000.
I have ...
1
vote
0answers
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Website not showing up on Google after removal of blocking robots metatags [duplicate]
A friend asked me to take a look at their website, which had been online for several months, but did not show up on Google. I noticed that they had a subdomain which did show up, so the query
...
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1answer
39 views
How to index dynamic content like Europages.com
is there a good way to index dynamic contetnt? e.g: When I search query "restaurants in norway" in Google, I see a link of www.europages.com/directory/pages/... (not relevant url), but it's content is ...
3
votes
1answer
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Google Webmaster Tools Index Status 0 for one year
I've read this topic with answers but they do not address why zero for one year? but other areas in Google Webmaster Tools report 400 URL indexed.
Google Webmaster Tools Index Status
Only 2 Indexed.
...
0
votes
1answer
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site appears in Google Webmaster Tools but no site: search results [duplicate]
My site is geocology.ca.
About a year ago I attempted to add geocology.ca to Google's search index by following the steps for 'Moving Your Site' in Google's Webmaster Tools, transferring from my old ...
0
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2answers
39 views
Google Webmaster Tools Index Status is 0 [duplicate]
Statistics show all entries of my wordpress blog have been tracked, but none have been indexed.
I thought it would be just a matter of indexing delay, but it has been 3 weeks already, and I can find ...
2
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2answers
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google search index what is fresh content
I read that sites have good reputation in google search index if it is fresh content.
what does fresh content means from google's point of view?
I have many pages. I have created articles and ...
4
votes
1answer
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Site not showing in google search, and webmaster tools showing irrelevant keywords
In Google Webmaster Tools, for my relatively new website: www.caterboxgroup.co.uk, it says there are 3 keywords: domain, registered and caterboxgroup.
The two first ones do not exist in the pages ...
0
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0answers
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How did my post get indexed on Google in less than 4 minutes? [duplicate]
A while ago I asked a question on Stack Overflow and while waiting for answers I decided to try google the problem for the umpteenth time. Much to my surprise, my brand new question was the number one ...
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Does Google cache robots.txt?
I added a robots.txt file to one of my sites a week ago, which should have prevented googlebot from attempting to fetch certain URLs. However, this weekend I can see googlebot loading those exact ...
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1answer
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Why does Google Cache show our G+ page and not the correct page?
For some reason when we try and view the cached version of our website, we see our Google plus page.
We recently removed this code : <link rel="canonical" href="link to our g+ page">.
We ...
3
votes
1answer
613 views
Google Webmaster Tools Index Status is 0 but sitemap URL shows indexed
I've added my site to Google Webmaster tools www.expresspharmacy.co.uk.
The site was submitted a few weeks ago. The index status shows 0 but it shows 6 URLs have been indexed in the sitemaps section.
...
4
votes
1answer
170 views
Google Indexing URL that is a 301 redirect
My website URL structure is:
http://www.website.com/{record-type}/{record-id}/{human-readable-name}
If an invalid human readable name is provided, the page 301 redirects to the correct URL.
I've ...
3
votes
1answer
85 views
How can I force a certain URL for Google to use in search results?
Each page on my site can be accessed by a shortened URL and normal "long" URLs. The shortened URL redirects to the long URL and the long URL includes an optional title that's not parsed (much like on ...
2
votes
2answers
345 views
Why did my Google links disappear after a redesign?
I recently did a complete redesign of my site. As soon as Google picked up the changes (I could tell because the excerpt in the search results was brought up to date), I noticed that my traffic ...
1
vote
3answers
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Page doesn't show up in Google searches
When I search on Google for "pollackstorch" I get an invitation to the administrator rather than the page itself. When I search on Bing or AltaVista I get the page itself. How can I get Google to ...
6
votes
3answers
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How to stop Google indexing both www. and no-www versions of my website
When I do a search of my site in Google it shows both:
mydomain.com
www.mydomain.com
In my .htaccess file I added code to redirect the non-www version to the www version, but both versions are ...
5
votes
1answer
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In Google Webmaster Tools we have 3 sitemaps attributed to 1 domain
I have a website that has been on the internet for almost 10 years created in "Microsoft FrontPage" with over 900 pages. Currently in Google Webmaster tools it shows up as 2 domains and 3 sitemaps:
...
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votes
3answers
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Google is indexing unintended content that is either unpublished or a secret part of site
Google is indexing parts of my site that I haven't linked to, it's a mobile version of website that I'm working on - www.domain.com/m/ <-- note the M.
How is that even possible? Only thing I can ...
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1answer
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home page of my site is not appear in google search, when I type site:example.com
I am totally confused, when I place site:example.com in google I see every page of my website in serp(search engine result page) except the home page. I don’t know why it’s happening but I check ...
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vote
2answers
529 views
SEO: disallowing Google from indexing forms?
From a SEO point of view, would you exclude forms from being indexed/crawled by Google or not?
I mean my forms hardly ever contains keyword/keyphrases.
So I'm wondering what's the point of letting ...
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vote
3answers
172 views
Why isnt google crawling on my blog? [duplicate]
I have a blog.I made it on August,2010,so it has been a while but I am unable to make Google crawl on my site.I have requested Google to crawl but I still there is no response.Any reasons to note why ...
4
votes
3answers
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nofollow doesn't stop crawling?
In my website, most of the pages has a linkedin sharing button written in this way:
<li>
<a id="share_linkedin"
...
4
votes
2answers
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cdn.domain.com indexed by Google. The content is being considered as duplicate content
I am running my website with CodeIgniter framework. I have setup cdn using cname cdn.domain.com which is being indexed by Google. And the content of the both domain.com and cdn.domain.com is having ...
