Questions tagged [google-search]
Google's Search Engine
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Copy content of expired domain
Are there problems with using copied content from an expired domain which was crawled by Google, but now that domain is closed (website is closed by owner)?
I want to use that content on my new ...
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Google's review rich result with "reviews" instead of "votes"
I wanted to show the Ratings on Google Search result but caught up in type selection for ratings.
We wanted to show our Reviews as Review Rating:
but for some reason, they were appearing as Vote ...
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Could a Backlink loss cause clicks drop on Google / Organic Search clicks?
Here is a specific example:
my website is pretty much new and I did not base my popularity on backlinks. Anyway, I did get 3 or 4 backlinks on very authoritative websites. One month later I got ...
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Why did my site votes (stars) disappeared from Google SERP?
I figured out that my website stars disappeared suddenly. What should I do to get my website votes (stars) back?
My website stars had been removed since 1 month ago.
My website is WordPress and I am ...
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Google is showing thumbnail image with page URL on mobile version
Google is showing thumbnail image on the right with page url on mobile version. Yoast SEO plugin using for SEO Optimization purpose. How to remove this image so google will not show the image with ...
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Can we use URL pattern in google remove URL webmaster?
I am working on a project which has some private information. They are indexed in google and is showing as a snippet. Now I want to remove those URL from google index.
I have gone through the google ...
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How to Fix Leverage browser caching connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js?
While testing my site on Google PageSpeed insights tools it showing very much poor result of Mobile Page Load speed as you see on the image. How can i get a well score.is it will be solved if solve ...
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Google Sitelinks showing in lowercase
I'm having an issue with Google sitelinks where the page titles are showing in lowercase only.
I've tried several things to remedy this issue, the page titles and meta data for the page all ...
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Not use Google Analytics could penalize page rank in Google Search?
I am using Yandex Metrika as tool for analytics. However I am concerned about the impacts in terms of SEO. For example. How Google knows how much time the users stay in this website? I mean, things ...
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Meta tags currently supported and required by Google
I know that this question has been asked before but since that was in the past, I have to ask it again. I am new to website development and I don't need a broad answer, just the important tags that ...
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How can I search for specific phrases on my site as if I were not me?
In the body of my page is this line:
"counterfeit bull-fiddle saliva dancer".
Running in incognito mode, if I google search for it, it finds my page, even without the quotes. But I'm wondering if ...
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When changing domain names, can I keep my existing SEO and Google Search ranking?
Suppose I have been using a domain, say www.bollywoodhatke.com for 3 years, and it has a good Alexa (hypothetical situation). It has backlinks and its has 7,000 pages indexed and 50,000 images indexed,...
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SEO impact: changing animated GIF images to PNG image sprites
My project has a lot of GIF images on all pages as it's a library. This makes the page size huge. So I decided to turn all animated GIF images to PNG image sprites (which reduces image size ...
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Deleted website still appearing in Google search results
We deleted a website from our server around 3 weeks ago and the pages are still appearing in Google search results. Unfortunately we don't "own" the property in search console, so we can't suppress ...
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How to redirect multiple new domains back to their primary domain without negatively affecting SEO/Rankings or anything else?
I've searched Google high and low. There are many answers to this question. I even asked another question similar to this one however it lacked specificity. Something this question will not lack.
I ...
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Has any one seen discrepancy in Google desktop search and Google Mobile Search ? Does it means google crawl mobile search prior to desktop search?
e.g
Search this phrases in Mobile and Desktop
" restaurant in koregaon park fitlogy "
Check the Titles. Observe Discrepancy
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Google Search Console no hreflang return tag
I am trying to add herflang in my website, but I got some errors on google search console.
URLs for your site and alternate URLs in 'zh-Hans-CN' that do not have return tags
URLs for your site and ...
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How to remove the old site from Google Search and reset Google Search Console after developing a new website
I have made a web app in Meteor to replace an old site that was made using PHP.
The site is up and it's working. The problem I'm having with it is SEO and Google search. I know this is not easy ...
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Google structured data on homepage doesn’t lead to Knowledge Graph info
We have a website and a few months ago I added the structured data code to its home page (as Google documentations guided me) but I still not get any changes in google search result.
This is what I ...
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Meta tag robots noodp
Does Google still crawl a page when this is used?
<meta name="robots" content="noodp"/>
And when should this be used?
Our robots.txt is set to index all.
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How to target a website to a non-English country?
I want my website to target a non-English speaking country. I believe that I need to modify something other than the page itself.
I don't speak the language that I want to target. When I used Google ...
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Clear old SEO content from Joomla
Current situation
Our previous website was built to be embedded in Joomla, stuff like "About" were Joomla content, but the main page was custom PHP.
Now that we moved to a complete custom ...
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Google Rich Snippet for GTIN & SKU numbers
I see with Google that you can add rich snippits for SKUs, GTINs (barcode numbers): https://developers.google.com/structured-data/rich-snippets/products
Here's an example of what I'm thinking of ...
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Which tags does Google use for displaying titles and descriptions in the search results?
I have a few questions about elements, and which elements Google uses to display our websites. For instance, does Google use the regular title element to display the titles of our website, or the meta-...
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Company name change and new URL - Google showing old company name in result title
I have posted this question on a Google Webmasters forum with no luck.
I also called Google and spoke with a rep with no luck.
Here is our problem.
Overview
Website launch for a client about a year ...
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The postal address showing on google search results is incorrect
I have been asked to be the webmaster of a website. When I type in the name of the company on Google, the address that comes up on the Google search results page is not the correct address.
The ...
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Using the same text copy as another website for a higher search result?
One of my superiors, (whom presumably doesn't understand much about SEO) thought that copying text from another website onto their website would cause their search results to come to the top of an ...
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301 redirect: does Google automatically update its index to the new URL?
If I do a site wide 301 redirect from HTTP to HTTPS, will Google update its index with the new URLs?
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Google search results mobile adding ?m=1 to end of site address
I recently helped a friend migrate from Blogger to Wordpress. Everything is working great, and everything seems to be propagated. Google search results are already displaying the new site ...
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Where is the best place for page's ID in a user friendly URL? [duplicate]
I searched within the site but none where addressing exactly my question, So I ask it here:
Which one of these structures for a user-friendly url is the best with regards to search engines and user ...
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Structuring URLs of an online shop for SEO
I have an online store with categories that have a tree structure (meaning they can be nested inside other categories) and products inside these categories.
What is the best way to structure the URLs ...
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Google Sites page never shows up in Google Search organic results?
I use Google Sites (i.e.: https://sites.google.com/site/EXAMPLE/ ) as a convenient way to maintain up-to-date info on several residential properties, info that's often requested by my property agents, ...
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site:domain.com search doesn't show index page as 1st, how to fix that?
If I enter site:domain.com in Google search I see the index page of a site but it doesn't go as #1 result in SERP, but rather 3 or 5th...
What does that mean, why other pages outrank the index page ...
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What affect does having two URLs pointing to the same path have on SEO?
I have two URLs: http://ent.example.com and http://www.example.com/ent/. Both of them are mapped to my server path /www/ent.
I am very confused, how would this affect my SEO as far as Google is ...
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Remove all results from google search and restart from scratch
the problem with my website is that it has many 404 pages on google , that's why I wanted to remove all the pages from google and restart from the begining .
I have removed all the links from google ...
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Why Google search displays only the English title of a bilingual website?
My website is in two languages; English and Turkish.
I used Resources.resx files to create this bilingual website, and my filenames are:
Resources.resx (default which is Turkish)
Resources....
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Google Displaying "Read More" Rather Than the Page Title for a "site:" Search
I am having some trouble with Search Engine Optimization.
When I look up "site:example.com", the first result is the index page. The third result that pops up says the title is: "Read More". I ...
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How to find out what # you are for google keyword
I'm trying to find out if there's a way to form a Google query to quickly find out what position you are for a search term.
I know that Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics has something ...
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New blog post shows immediately in google search results where as other HTML content takes time, why?
I have a blog which has been active for 3 years. Recently I posted an article and it immediately appeared in google search. Maybe 5 to 10 minutes.
A point to note is I was logged into my google ...
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SERP update frequency
Recently I changed my site improving the title and description metatags of many pages. Looking at Webmaster Tools I saw that Googlebot already crawled the new contents (and also found duplicate titles ...
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Is there a penalty for opposite of cloaking?
Let's assume I have 100 different web pages with original and good content.
But I want to publish on these pages same advert content (text video flash pictures)
If I decided to use ajax and jquery ...
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Image Hot-links & Google's Instant Previews
I'm trying to adjust my site:
1. stop Image Hot-links
2. block Googlebot-Image (because I do not want my images to be searchable)
3. allow Google's Instant Previews
I've tried this but the Instant ...
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Pointing to Google that a specific website is for mobiles
I have 2 websites: let's call them A and B.
A is a Desktop optimized website.
B is a mobile version of A, but it's not on the same domain. It also has a smaller amount of content/pages than A
How do ...
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How does google understand the legitimacy of a website by user activity?
How does google understand the legitimacy of a website by user activity? Apart from:
total time spend on a particular webpage by users
total clicks on the website by users
total unique visitors
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How will Google discover and remove all my new NoIndex pages?
We had around 100 pages indexed which were actually outdated, thin content and causing SEO keyword cannibalisation issues.
For administrative purposes we are unable to remove the pages (as need them ...
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SEO process for new wordpress site after upgrading from old HTML site
i have upgraded a old htlml site(created 15years back) to new wordpress site, when I search the site name in google it list out the home page and other inner page link such as about us, contact us etc
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SEO: Changing product name and domain name to be found when searching for the old name
When switching to a new product name (and also new domain), it seems to make sense to place 301 redirects from all old pages to the new domains pages.
But: what if almost everyone searches for the old ...
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Removing subdomain from Google crawling
Our example.com and example.com/blog links to our web app at app.example.com. The issue is that app.example.com returns a 404 on an uncached load, but the correct page does load — it's a weird setup ...
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Is it a problem if site and domain name includes "hub"
My site and domain name includes the word part "hub". This was the main reason why my site get rejected firstly for "Google News" because it was connected with sexual content (...
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How to show a set of images in Google SERP?
If I search for the keyword "urne cinerarie" (that is "cinerary urns") in my country (Italy) the search results show me a list of sites. In addition to title and description, for ...