Google's Search Engine
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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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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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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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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 ...
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Will text that appears dynamically (via javascript/jquery) be indexed by search engines? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does the Google spider render JavaScript?
I'm writing an article that is broken up into sections, where the content of each section is hidden unless the user expands ...
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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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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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Site cannot be found in Google [closed]
I've made a site for a friend, and here's the url:
http://mensasana.it
Issue: There is no trace of it in google. He used to have an html site, and at least it was indexed. I changed it to a ...
2
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1answer
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What is more preferable, Creating dedicated domains for mobile apps that shares different content or associate them with folders in one domain?
I want to consult you in an SEO matter which i am completely lost with,
I've built a social mobile application that allows users to share text content and made all the content that appears on the ...
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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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How to display an image in google search result
I managed to do it with my blog like this:
by using google+ (found it somewhere on the web):
<link rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/115170983146246266025/"/>
UPDATE:
This is the ...
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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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Percentage of users that get to business website by searching vs typing business url into address bar
My friend's company(lets call it SomeThingsAreWorthTheMoney ) has been affected by a competitor's cybersquatting attack. SomeThingsAreWorthTheMoney is primarily an offline, real-world company that ...
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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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Can we tell search engines (google, yahoo) that a particular website is geographical region specific?
I have a website which caters to a specific district. It is of no use if the visitor is from outside this district.
Question:
Can I tell/indicate to search engines (mainly google and Yahoo) that ...
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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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Google can not see my site [closed]
when I type my domain name http://www.mcqtoday.com in google it shows some other site. I have submitted the sitemap to google web master, it says 2 page is indexed, but does not show in search result. ...
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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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131 views
Need help choosing between broad match and exact match keyword for organic SEO campaign
I am getting a mixed response on targeting broad match vs exact match keywords in Google keywords tool for organic seo campaign.
some say that its not possible to target a broad match keyword using
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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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Google is crawling my website but not indexing any pages [closed]
I own the website http://ecservice.ro. I have added keyword description and everything any tutorial said but it looks like google is refusing to index any of my pages. site:ecservice.ro works but ...
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Need advice on 301 redirect from hyphenated domain to
I have been an online service since 2005 and have gained some good ranking on Google and other search engines.
My domain name is for example is: www.smart-service.co.uk.
I have recently got hold of ...
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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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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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Will search engines penalize my site if I reuse a paragraph from the frontpage on the subpage?
My website's frontpage lists my various services with a synopsis for each. If I use that short synopsis as an introductory paragraph on the subpage for that service, would that be considered duplicate ...
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51 views
check when a page was first seen by google
Is there a way to see when a page was first published, by checking when it was first cahced by google (obviously its not 100% fool proof because there is a couple of days delay in some cases but it ...
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1answer
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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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2answers
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can't find my site on google search
I write "XXX" on google search with location and language filter and look for 50+ pages and can't see my site, then same filters and search like this "site:www.foo.com XXX" google finds 10+ pages. so ...
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Multilingual sites and Google search results, using sub-folders for language
About three months ago we added an English version of our, previously Japanese only, site under the subfolder /en/ we've tried to follow the sometimes incomplete best practices laid out by Google by ...
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My approach towards SEO implementation needs improvements. [closed]
I have always copy/paste this below code as a template for meta tags on project, but I think they are not effective as they could possible be. So, I need to know if there is anyway I can improve it. ...
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Customizing Google Custom Search Controls
As part of a new site design, I've upgraded to V2 of the Custom Search Element Control API (searchbox-only), and the new controls that it renders are terrible. It uses nested tables, which are picking ...
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Does Google treat AWS IP addresses as related?
We are hosting several websites on one of our servers, and wondering if because they are on the same subnet that they have been somehow penalized.
We are not inter-linking between websites.
However ...
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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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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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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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Is it safe to buy links through fiverr? [closed]
edu and org back links are so cheap at fiverr. Has any one tried and get hit by penguin or is benefiting through it?
Whats your view on those tempting back links at fiverr?
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using blank image to improve post value
I have seen people (including popular digital agencies) using 1 x 1px transparent image, so that they can add page title as alt value.
Does that really increases the value of a web page or that's a ...
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1answer
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Why does Google Search Engine reject my title tag's change? [closed]
I made a simple webpage http://pundaquitboat.michaelspages.com/ giving it the the title tag "Boat – Pundaquit" and I have submitted it to Google bot by Google Webmaster Tools.
Then I decided to ...
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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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Search Engine Query Word Order
I've pages with titles like 'Alpha to Beta'.
For every such page, there is an inverse page 'Beta to Alpha'. Both pages link to each other.
When someone on Google searches for 'Beta to Alpha', I'd ...
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How to make Google recognize language for a multilingual website?
A few weeks ago I implemented a translation functionality for my company website. The website now offers content in french and English and I took the time to look on various guides on the internet on ...
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1answer
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Why is my page ranked *very* low in Google? [closed]
I have created a web site mianatura.net that doesn't even rank in the top 100 results in Google for the query "Mia Natura".
I have the text Mia Natura in the domain, <title>, <h1>, I have ...
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My parked domain was de-indexed by Google - what to do?
I have a question about how to handle my domain. In a nutshell, I bought a domain last year from Go Daddy. My intention was to launch a real site with this domain and I have spent the last year ...
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How to figure out recent pagrank of websites or any particular page (Homepage)
Question just comes in front because the very recent published algorithm changes by Google been affected my website traffic.
And I've been wondering that my homepage page-rank is been also drop to 6 ...
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Will keep google traffic on new site from old site when moving content from old site? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
new domain, old links are 301’d from old domain to new, how will this affect my rankings?
I have a site about bikers. Now I created a dating site for bikers. I don't ...
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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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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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Linking competitor with the same keyword i am targeting : Good or Bad for Seo?
I am linking one of my competitors from my site for the same keyword which is I am targeting for my site (My competitor is paying me for that).
For Example:
Me and my competitor both are targeting ...
