Google's Search Engine
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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 ...
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7answers
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Does a site's bounce rate influence Google rankings?
Does Google consider bounce rate or something similar in ranking sites?
Background: here at Stack Exchange we noticed that the latest Google algorithm changes resulted in about a 20% dip in traffic ...
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Google indexed site's address by accident. What do I do now?
I was making a site for a friend of mine and he wanted to be able to see my progress as I worked on the site, so I decided to put the site on a server on my computer and enable access by a domain name ...
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1answer
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Company or website logo as the search result image / Google+ profile
I was considering having for this website I'm working on, the website's logo as the image that gets included in the search results for the articles it publishes. So do to this I want to use Google ...
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How do you get your Google+ profile displayed in the right hand sidebar of the Google search results page?
Does anyone know how to get your Google+ profile displayed in the right hand sidebar of the Google search results page? As in the screenshot below:
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How should I handle search engines auto-correcting the spelling of a site's name?
A client's site and company is called 'Tranin Communications' (Tranin is her last name).
It ranks well in searches for her name but rather poorly in searches for the name of her site/company.
I ...
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How to get Google to crawl AJAX pages without using #! URLs?
In Google's advice on "Making AJAX Applications Crawlable", they advise making AJAX URLs that aren't using hash-bang fragments (#!) crawlable by adding <meta name="fragment" content="!"> to the ...
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How do I get my Google+ picture to show up on Google searches?
I am looking to move my blog: The Geek Tech Blog (which is currently a Blogger blog), over to a .com name with Wordpress. However, I still would lik my picture from Google+ to show up in search ...
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Is Google Analytics Part Of Google's Search Engine Algorithm
I was wondering if anyone knows if Google uses the data it receives from Google Analytics to help determine a websites SERP (Search Engine Rank Position). For example, if my website is getting 1000 ...
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SEO for single-page content-less Web App
as written in the title the website on which I try to do Search Engine Optimization has following two properties:
doesn't have any content in the SEO sense: it doesn't hold any information and only ...
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How does Google recognize publish date of a post
When I search something in Google, I sometimes see the publishing date of the post/article underneath. I've also searched for an article of my own which I have on my Wordpress-powered site, and Google ...
7
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2answers
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How can I show a Google profile image next to my search engine results?
I just performed a Google search for the words "Google Analytics" and noticed half way down the page that there was an image next to one of the results:
How can I achieve this? Having used Yoast's ...
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1answer
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How to get your Google profile in the search results when searching your website
Check out this link:
http://www.google.com/#q=codinghorror.com
How come his profile is chowing up in the search results?
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1answer
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Can a mobile version of site be considered duplication by Google if the page is the same only the css is different?
Hearing about the problems with mobile browser detection I plan to add a button to my site which enables the users to switch manually between normal/mobile version of the site. The button sets a ...
7
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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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2answers
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Google search preview shows content not on the website
My website google search entry is messed up. In the preview in google search results, I get things like cracks, serials, random ip addresses. I scanned all files and my computer for viruses and ...
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3answers
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Is it true that the Google Spider gives the most relevance of a search result to the first 68 characters of the <title>?
I am reading documentation about my CMS and it states that an HTML page <title> tag is really important in SEO.
It states that the Google Spider gives the most relevance to the first 68 ...
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2answers
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HTML snapshotting services
Are there any services out there that will trap Googlebot and serve a html snapshot, rendered by an actual browser, of your website? This is pretty much needed if you want to implement the ajax ...
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2answers
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The right way of using index.html
I have quite a lot of issues I'd like to hear your opinion on, so I hope I'll manage to explain it well enough. I should also note that I'm beginner equipped only with the knowledge of HTML and CSS so ...
5
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2answers
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My site is down everyday for about 15 minutes, how does this affect SEO?
Will this affect the site's ranking with Google and if so, how?
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2answers
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SEO and duplicate content for default document
SEO experts sometimes demand that default document, e.g. www.site.com/index.html redirects with 301 to www.site.com, so:
Is that really necessary?
Does Google really penalize that?
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2answers
847 views
How do Search Engines handle Singular vs. Plural?
In a site's main menu, one link points to the page containing a list of links to several software packages.
By following this link in the main menu, the user's action can be seen from two different ...
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2answers
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Why do Google search results include pages disallowed in robots.txt?
I have some pages on my site that I want to keep search engines away from, so I disallowed them in my robots.txt file like this:
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /email
Yet I recently noticed that Google ...
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3answers
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Will using all the Google web tools boost trust of a website or help SEO?
I have using a single Google account and using that I created Google webmasters account so my website uses single User account access all the service provided by The google like adwords, ...
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1answer
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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 ...
5
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2answers
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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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3answers
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How does Google detect duplicate content?
have a quick question about duplicate content. How does google work this all out? In that on my pages I have a form on each page with the same bit of text explaining it, is this going to count against ...
5
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3answers
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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 ...
5
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1answer
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Why Author Information isn't showing for all pages in google search result?
As you can see on the image, the author information is being shown only for one page, not others, why not all pages are showing the author information? Do I need to do anything additionally to get ...
5
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2answers
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Does having a Google “stop word” in a domain name have less SEO benefit than not having it?
Let me explain. Let's say my keyword I want to optimize is "green giraffes". But the domain greengiraffes.com (singular, plural, no hyphen, hyphen, etc.) is not available. I know that the search ...
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3answers
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Does Google Custom search help with SEO?
When adding a Google custom search box to my site, does that help SEO, so does it influence regular Google webresults? If not: does it provide me with data that help me optimize my website?
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1answer
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Email private information appearing in Google Results
I've got a major problem in that emails sent to our clients are showing up in Google's search results. For confidentiality reasons, I can't post those links (for risk that they get indexed here), but ...
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Will get good traffic from Google if I pull content via RSS feeds?
Now-a-days, There are many plugins available in Wordpress to perform Auto Post / blogging. I know it grabs content from RSS feeds and posts it to our blog. Some of the Premium plugin will grabs full ...
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3answers
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How do I get google to read each site on my server?
I currently building a server to host many sites. How do I get google to crawl each site without submitting a site map to google for each site?
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1answer
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How are Google Site links generated in search results? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google Sitelinks?
I just met a fellow designer who runs a website with the same pagerank as mine. When ...
4
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2answers
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Google suddenly only indexes https and not http
So all of a sudden, searches for our site "radiotuna" give out the result as an HTTPS link.
...
4
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3answers
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SEO Removal Time?
I was searching about removing the a domain/site being listed in Web Search Results (like, Google Search) and i found solution, at here.
I believe it will be the solution but what i still need to ...
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2answers
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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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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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4answers
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Removing a Website Name in Another Website From Google Index
I have a website named indonesiasumateratravel.com, and when I search on Google something like 'indonesiasumateratravel' or something else, my website's name appears telling me it has been hacked. It ...
4
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2answers
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How does Google determine Information about a person for Google Search?
For some queries Google Search will return result with a person's information on a right. It looks a bit differently for different queries but most of the time something like this ...
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1answer
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Why does google does not ignore the word “languages”, although I have set to ignore it in advanced search settings
Why does google does not ignore the word "languages", although I have set to ignore it in advanced search settings.
here is the term I am using in google search:
-languages ...
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1answer
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Does Google rank businesses that are closer to me geographically to a higher postion
If I do a search on Google using a key word phrase used on our website, does it rank the business I work for higher because it can work out that it is a close geographical match (and the key word ...
4
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How to specify importance of html elements?
Is it possible to specify what elements of the page are important, or, more specifically, what elements of the page are not important?
I'm using HTML5 new elements (nav, header, footer, section, ...
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Rel=next & rel=prev in infinite scroll
Based on this article
I have a SERP that does infinite scrolling to load results greater than 10.
How do I go about implement rel=next & rel=prev for that?
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2answers
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Having google index canonicals but users using parameters - correct?
I'm working on a site that has a search facility with multiple parameters that look up property listings. The possible parameters are:
City, Area, Building Type, Min. Bedrooms, Max Rental Price, ...
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A couple of links to our products and 10 pages of crack/keygen/torrent/etc
If you try searching for our company and product name you'll get two useful links and 10 pages of hacker sites where eventually you can download the cracked version of our products.
How can we clean ...
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Is there an easier way to implement 301 redirects when converting a site to WordPress
I have just converted a website to WordPress. The old site has hundreds of hard-coded html files, and the new site does not match the old site's directory structure or file naming system (bad SEO in ...
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Can using microdata from schema.org for local business hurt its exposure nationally?
Here's the dilemma:
This website ranks in the first page for almost all of its products, but it is a local business. I should actually say, 90% of its business are still local, but we are trying to ...
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Using a company for Google authorship?
Can you use a company's page as the author for google authorship or does it have to be an actual persons google + account for it to work ?
I.e. could i have it showing in search results as "-by acme ...
