Google's Search Engine
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Site Indexed in Yahoo and Bing but not Google [duplicate]
I have a site www.holiday-tuscany.com that has been online for less than a month.
If you put the keyword Holiday Tuscany in Google the site doesn't appear in any of Google rankings. If I do the same ...
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1answer
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Website Not Showing for Keywords in Google Search [duplicate]
I have a Website www.rushinformation.com 4 Months old and I always update my Website almost Everyday...But the Problem is that When I type my keyword 'Rushinformation' only in Google Search Results it ...
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How to remove Google plus author profile picture from blog search results
I created a company blog and linked it to my Google plus account for the SEO weight, my problem is now the blog has gained popularity and my profile photo is appearing in the search results for the ...
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Does google use transliteration when crawling page URLs and indexing them?
In a generic search Google understands transliteration and if I wrote some words using Latin letters but in a non-English language ( for instance phrase "red cat" in Russian using transliteration will ...
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1answer
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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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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 ...
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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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Images not being cached in Google
I have a banner printing site and my site is on top position in Google, but I have one problem - the images (Banners) of my site are not cached in any search engine.
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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 ...
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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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Tagging content for search with Google
I am working on a website that will contain a lot of content and I would like to add ability to tag content, just like Stackexchange does, where each question can be tagged by maximum 5 tags.
Now, I ...
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Consolidate search results from site that gets accessed from multiple domains
I have a site hosted on Windows Azure, and I have a domain pointing to the site, so I can access the site using both mysite.cloudapp.net as well as mysite.com.
Now for some reason Google indexed ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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Remove SSL from Google search results
I am working on a WordPress site that serves up HTTP pages statically. The problem is that some of the pages are shown as HTTPS in Google search results. For instance, if the search term "Example ...
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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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Is Google Adwords keyword tool showing right data like local monthly searches?
For example, for keyword gifts, keyword tool from Google shows Global Monthly Searches as 16,600,000 and (India) Local Monthly Searches as 823,000 so is it really a right numbers?
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If I use my custom domain with my Blogger account will this help in SEO of that blog?
Also I want to know that if my custom domain is nothing but one of the keywords and my blog is also about that keyword, so will this help in improving google ranks of my blog after I change from ...
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Hide a file showing up in google search [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to protect PDF file from indexing?
Hi guys,
Really basic question here I'm sure - I'm not a webmaster however am thrown into it sometimes!!
We have a particular ...
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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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1answer
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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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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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Differences between google domains in different countries
We are currently trying to see if our site is being indexed successfully by google. Mind you we got millions of pages.
A trick some people use is the google site: command.
I always assumed that ...
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2answers
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When entered into Google, what's the difference between “link:www.mysite.com” and “links:www.mysite.com”?
I've heard this is the way to measure inbound links to a website? What is the difference between the two and is there a better way besides these?
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How can I check the position of newly indexed pages within Google Search
How can I check the position of newly indexed pages within Google Search
Exactly what the title reads what is the best way of finding out the position and page number of newly indexed pages within ...
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Is there any direct/indirect relationship with the number of search results in choosing a successful keyword phrase?
Is there any direct/indirect relationship with the number of search results in choosing a successful keyword phrase?
I have about 22,500,000 results for my keyword phrase, which I intend to target.
...
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Google Custom Search layout problems
When I install the custom search script on my page, the layout is broken. See the attached screenshot.
I cut and pasted the following code:
<script>
(function() {
var cx = ...
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Redirects On Image Files to Counter Google Image Gallery
The recent update to the way that Google displays images appears to have resulted in a significant drop in the traffic reaching the actual pages of our website. We are considering potential solutions ...
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How long does it take for Google to re-index pages or update the link titles?
On one of our classified sites, when doing site:[mysite.com] in Google, the link text is simply [product name] - [mysite.com], where as it should read [product name] classifieds for sale in...
I ...
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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 ...
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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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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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For SEO, should I direct an existing website with a lower page rank to a new, better-ranked site?
I have a client that has an existing site, let's call it bobthebuilder.com. My client has been posting blog posts to it for the past couple of years and a modest amount of sites are naturally linking ...
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2answers
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Blog is not indexing in google search [duplicate]
I have a blog with url http://webzpedia.blogspot.in which is about 2 years old. In early days there is 200+ pageviews coming from the google search itself. But from last 4-5 months, google stopped ...
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Site not indexed in Google, but indexed in Bing and Yahoo [duplicate]
When I search for mytgp.ph on Google, I don't get any relevant results. But when I search using Yahoo or Bing, the site is the 1st result on the first page. Any ideas?
Here's my site:mytgp.ph query ...
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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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Block Google (and other) from indexing a domain
We want to open a new domain for certain purposes (call them PR). The thing is we want the domain to point to the same website we currently have.
We do not want this new domain to appear on search ...
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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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Display Google Custom Search results on your own site
Is there a way for Google's Custom Search engine to show it's results on a page on your website?
On a custom page which you put on your server, so you can still display ads and links to pages in your ...
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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 ...
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Google search showing “Index of /. cgi-bin/”
I recently decided to leave GoDaddy in choice of NameCheap as my preferred hosting package for my mothers business, I also had to bring my domain name to the guys i register my local domain names.
...
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How do I stop googlebot from guessing urls parameters
When the googlebot visits our sites it seemingly tries to visit urls that do not exist resulting in exception being thrown. The url is is like http://ourdomain/thepage.aspx/x/8/x/ etc.x stands for no ...
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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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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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3answers
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My page no longer shows up in Google's results for a keyword
I have a small website about a commercial product, with a description and tutorial. 2 days ago it was in position 11th in Google search results, without any kind of SEO optimization on my part. Today ...
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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 ...
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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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Will Google's decision to encrypt all searches from Chrome mean that we lose all keyword data in Google Analytics?
Context.
At the end of 2011 Google announced that they would start encrypting searches for logged in users.
What does this mean for sites that receive clicks from Google search results? When you ...
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Find old web content via Google cache or similar
I have a bit of a problem. My client is running a Joomla 1.0 site and some content (text) was lost. There was no backup configured of the MySQL database. The content was lost approx. around the 16:th ...
