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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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How reliable is the number of hits provided by Google site: command?

A partner of my company (not sure whether i can tell their name here - i´ll use example.com instead) asked me yesterday, why there is such a big difference when they enter the site command at google ...
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Implementing OpenSearch, what is the benefits?

I have implemented opensearch in my website. But I don't know what is the benefits of it. Does it has any effects in search engines? For example, can I tell google about my implementation?
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Request change of address for non-root level domain name [duplicate]

Old site: http://www.tahlequah.k12.ok.us New site: http://TahlequahSchools.org Our new site is located at the .org domain above; however, we have to keep our old domain/site up until we're sure none ...
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Will 301 redirection to a Google Indexed URL can remove the URL from Google index?

I need to remove some indexed URLs from Google SERP. The problem is I cannot use the 3 types of removal patterns Google suggests like robots.txt, meta name "noindex" and remove the page and make it as ...
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1answer
22 views

Changing GoDaddy Webmaster tools options [duplicate]

A client of mine (for school) has a website hosted on GoDaddy which we wants my team to help him increase his marketability on Google, because currently, when his company name is Google searched no ...
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Regarding sitelinks in google search

I would like my site to display additional site links when preforming a Google Search.. How can this be achieved?
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101 views

Google not indexing/updating rel=“canonical” pages

I had same content with different links and I wanted to prioritize the indexing of different webpages. For example /A/1232 and /A/1232/tum_bin_jiya_jay represent same content but I wanted to give ...
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46 views

seo optimization

I have submitted several pages to Google through Google Webmaster Tools by using a sitemap in XML format. Several pages are indexed by Google as well but the rank of those pages are in 400-500 as my ...
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Image based website and not getting good revenue! [closed]

My website is displaying photos of local movies and local people entertainment photos. Most of the pages in my website having photos only(No contents). And the daily visitors of my site is just ...
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What are others' experience in burning a domain, and 301 redirecting all requests to another domain? [closed]

I had a domain that was performing quite well. However, during a one month instance (last September), the domain was down, throwing a ton of errors. We cleaned up all unwanted URL's with 410 (which ...
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1answer
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New site - 0 indexed 5 Not selected. What does this mean?

Having finally completed my web site, I submitted it and a sitemap to Google at the beginning of December. A look at the index status today, 29/12/12, shows 0 indexed, and 5 Not selected. I can ...
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Where does the Google `site:` operator for site-specific searches get its information?

I have read in many places that one should use Google Webmaster preferably to the site: search operator. However, I would like to know where the site: operator gets its information from? Here is my ...
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155 views

Webmaster Tools - Preferred Domain and Google entries

Our client has two websites with the same content: example.com somethingelse.com When a user searches in Google for "something else" the example.com site appears in the top 10 results on Google. ...
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2answers
138 views

Understanding CTR in Google Webmaster Tools

I've got a site that's showing a 9% CTR for a phrase in Google Webmaster Tools, but the average position for my site is 14th (this includes 7 local results for this phrase). I was a little confused ...
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1answer
58 views

Google not listing my web site [duplicate]

I have a site which is more than 2 months old and it's not showing up when you directly type the URL into Google. Here is the link of site: www.icarda.org However, the site is listed in Bing and ...
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I have done everything correct on my asp.net website, re: SEO; why aren't google backlinks showing? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why are my backlinks not showing on google on this asp.net website with all I’ve done? I recently implemented many SEO techniques for a company on their asp.net website; ...
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Google webmastertools soft 404 - How to update google search after updating it to 200

My site has many modules which are indexed by google. Recently there has been a database problem so the site was not appearing well like many links returned 404 i think. Now i have make it working ...
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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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What percentage of searches are abandoned on Google [and Bing]? [closed]

What is the abandonment ratio for Google [and optional, Bing] searches? That is to say, when someone performs a search, what is the frequency, % wise, that a user just gives up that search and moves ...
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Control the ranking of my sites on Google [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? I have two sites that I both control and have hooked up to Google Webmaster Tools as different sites. ...
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1answer
195 views

Displaying thumbnails in google search results for flash games?

Some sites are somehow displaying video preview thumbnails for pages that contain flash games in google search results. For example search for: site:www.thorgaming.com game I see this only on small ...
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Publisher and author markup not working [closed]

Currently using publisher markup with our site. When we use the rich snippet testing tool our publisher image no longer shows. It originally did when I first set up the links but now we have not been ...
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How do I make the home page of the website to come up in the rankings than the internal pages? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? Suppose I have a website, e.g. www.example.com that comes at number 6 on the Google search ...
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Creating Google sitemap.xml , is it okay for the images to be wrapped in url tags?

I'm using a tool to generate the sitemap.xml file for me, it started to crawl my website, got the pages and all images, but when exporting it, I review the xml(to make sure nothing is wrong) and I ...
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Google search show my website only if i search for the link itself

I uploaded my website, then I add it to Google search to be shown in the results, after a while , I searched for my website by using it's name/unique keywords, but nothing was shown even I searched ...
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367 views

Sudden Drop in Impressions After Host / CMS Switch?

We have a site that was previously run on Wordpress on a different host, but has now been switched to RiVista (a proprietary CMS). The site was cut over a week or two ago. I realize that a ...
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What is the difference between doing a “link:http://www.example.com” google search and the “links to your site” in Webmaster Tools?

I've tried to do two kinds of searches which I had previously thought were a source of the same data, but are apparently different. The first is doing a google search that looks like ...
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3answers
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Google indexes some of pages, but most are ignored from a website, even though a massive sitemap is submitted

We have developed a website, which works somewhat like a wiki - but not entirely. User of the website can submit and update information about their villages to the website and categorize it under ...
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121 views

Blogger homepage won't update!

i am new on blogging webmaster Tools. When i usually add new post to my blog, it will automatic updated my homepage also. But from last 14th January, my homepage won't update by Google SEPR. As a ...
3
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where can I get list of google excluded words, like, to, is, am, in, of, the, ?

where can I get list of google excluded words, like, to, is, am, in, of, the, ? When a search is performed in google? I hope you have understood what I want .. about the list of google excluded ...
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Reset / Remove - Google Keywords

Summary: My site is ranking for filthy keywords and i would like to remove them from google ranking/keywords. Background: My server was hacked using the timthumb exploit/security vulnerability, ...
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High Google page ranking lost overnight [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to diagnose a search engine ranking drop? I had achieved a high ranking for a page on my site of the form: http://domain.com/mypage.htm Overnight the page is not ...
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When will non-existent content be removed from Google Search results?

About 3 weeks ago I launched a complete redesign of our website, and most, if not all, URLs were changed. Now if you search for my website (http://goo.gl/XDjly) you will see the non-existent pages ...
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113 views

How to get the number of website or web pages competing for a specific keyword phrase?

How to get the number of website or web pages competing for a specific keyword phrase? I know one would be going to google and checking one by one manually.
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I wrote an article, now here I want to know which keyword title, which keyword url and which keyword it should rank good? [closed]

I wrote an article, now here I want to know which keyword title, which keyword url and which keyword it should rank good? Please explain me, as I am very much a curious person, and I believe one has ...
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How can i find keywords or phrase which fetch less than 100 or even no results, without manually doing it? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is there any way to find out how often a certain query is sent to a search engine? How can i find keywords or phrase which fetch less than 100 or even no results, ...
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Is there a way or tool to search or know, how many results does google fetch and display with lots of keywords?

Is there a way or tool to search or know, how many results does google fetch and display with lots of keywords? I intend to know, how many relevant searches does google display but with thousand of ...
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How to plan a website, with dependency 80% on google organic search and 20% direct users? [closed]

How to plan a website, with dependency 80% on google organic search and 20% direct users? Please share your views, knowledge and experience... Thanks :)
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1answer
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Why is this stack over flow article comes up on first page of google just typing 3 keywords?

How to increase your site's position in google? In this above article. when I entered just three keywords in google: increase site position This article comes on the first place. Please help me ...
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Relation between number of google search results from a phrase for a domain

The question is when I searched (in google) my researched keyword phrase (3 words) in google with quotes, it bring out about 145,000,000 results. The competition is 0.01 Monthly global searches is ...
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How do I choose a domain name based on monthly searches for keywords?

Suppose I have 3 domain name phrases: thisisfirst.com (competition is 11% and global monthly search is 151,000,000) thisissecond.com (competition is 5% and global monthly search is 33,50,000) ...
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SEO - 2 websites in the same domain

I have my domain (http://www.foobar.com, for example) and my website talks about technology. I want to have another website (with other content, not about technology) inside of it ...
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220 views

What does “Impression Change” in Google webmaster->search mean?

I have been using Google Webmaster Tools. I checked out the search queries section. There I found a lot keywords and its report, but I could not understand what the data in those reports mean. Can ...
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18answers
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The Sitemap Paradox

We use a sitemap on Stack Overflow, but I have mixed feelings about it. Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow ...