Google's Search Engine
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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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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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AJAX website doesn't get indexed properly
Why http://anuary.com doesn't get indexed properly?
I've submitted the sitemap ( http://anuary.com/?sitemap=true ) almost a month ago. However, 0 pages appear in Google index.
I've also prepared the ...
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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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Pages are indexed but disappear after few days
My pages get indexed after 1 day, but some days later disappear from search results.
Any idea why this happens?
I've been trying to find any of the usual problems like hidden links or other issues, ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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4answers
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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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0answers
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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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Noindex, Nofollow affect “Google Custom Search” results?
I am using Google Custom Search on my site, if I set pages to "noindex" or "nofollow", does it also affect the custom search results on my site?
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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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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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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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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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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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My site disappeared from Google search, how long does it take to get back?
Due to damage by malicious code, Google wrote:
Google Analytics web property: link has been removed from http://swebdizajn.com November 29, 2011
Your Webmaster Tools http://swebdizajn.com ...
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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 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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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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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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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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Embeding a generic google search with autocomplete - not a custom site search
Most people's home page is google.com. My homepage is just a custom html page hosted on my computer. I do this because I am a web developer, and I have several projects that I work on a one time, so ...
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No search data in Google Analytics or Webmasters
I have a domain that has been registered in Google Webmasters and using Google Analytics for over 4 months.
I get lots of analytics data, but am getting no information on Google searches in ...
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How can one keep an ecommerce site active?
So, you build an e-commerce site, all your products are on there, but then very little changes which obviously causes your site to become less active, and ultimately not ranking as highly in search ...
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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 ...
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adwords traffic shows as 'not set' in google analytics
in google analytics if i go to traffic sources > search > paid all i get is "not set".
instead of the usual list of keywords that people have used to find the ad, this makes it really difficult to ...
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How much of a benefit does a changing landing page give in terms of SEO?
I have a friend with a small business with a website. He asked me if he should make a put a section on his landing page under the fold that with his most recent review (or something along those ...
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Google Search not displaying results from sub-pages
I published a new site with some delicate content on September 26, 2012 UTC and no results from sub-pages - only from the main page - appear in Google Search. Entering "neven lovrić" "cat out of the ...
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Why google is not crawling my website [closed]
I am running a design and development blog http://www.thetutlage.com/ . From last couple of days my search traffic have been reduced from 70% to 10%.
I myself is against black hat seo and all it do ...
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Website Stopped Showing From Google Search Results Sunddenly [closed]
I have a design and development blog http://www.thetutlage.com (1.5 years old), which was doing really well in Google search as I was getting over 70% of my traffic from Google. Now suddenly from last ...
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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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SEO when loading items through AJAX
Let's say I have standard scenario of commerce site that has categories on the left and items on the right.
What I would like to do is that when user clicks on category it will pass it's ID to js, js ...
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Why the difference in Google search result using script for search and using a browser for search?
I wrote a script to find the position in Google search result for a search keyword. I also did the same with the browser. The two results are different.
Let me explain in detail here. I have a ...
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What meta tag do you use to provide Google with a publication date? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How does Google recognize publish date of a post
I read about the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and some spotty documentation from Google, but I can't find an official ...
