Google's Search Engine
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What does Google do with indexed pages returning 403?
I guess that Google removes already indexed pages that are now returning the HTTP error 403.
Unfortunately I can't find any definitive statement on that matter. Do you know the answer?
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When will non-existent content be removed from Google Search results?
About 3 weeks ago I launched a complete redesign of our website, and most, if not all, URLs were changed. Now if you search for my website (http://goo.gl/XDjly) you will see the non-existent pages ...
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What effect(s) does Google's Panda 2.5 update have on new websites in the SERP?
I recently launched 3 websites (within the past 7-10 months) that had been steadily increasing in the rankings on Google search up until this past weekend, when I noticed a huge drop across most of my ...
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How to present videos for Google Bot
i have a website which streams Flash Videos. For Google i have a special page due to using AJAX for normal Users (see articles on "_escaped_fragment_" for this).
What i want to know is how i should ...
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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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Google indexes some of pages, but most are ignored from a website, even though a massive sitemap is submitted
We have developed a website, which works somewhat like a wiki - but not entirely.
User of the website can submit and update information about their villages to the website and categorize it under ...
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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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How do we get our sites' sections displayed under the description in a Google search? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google Sitelinks?
For Example, if I Google "Stack Overflow" the site comes up but also links to the main ...
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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 ...
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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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Facebook likes Influence SEO ranking
I have seen some data that shows strong correlation between number of Facebook shares and Google ranking position. It makes sense. But I am wondering how does Google know number of Facebook shares. ...
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google search index what is fresh content
I read that sites have good reputation in google search index if it is fresh content.
what does fresh content means from google's point of view?
I have many pages. I have created articles and ...
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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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Forbid content in google results summary
I put a professional directory project online since few weeks, Google has started to index some pages but i just noticed a flaw in the design of the pages.
Each page have an adress, some content and ...
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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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How long can a site be stuck in the Google sandbox?
I have recently made a new website, built over 300+ links to it (which finally shown up on google webmaster tools btw), but it seems my site is in the sandbox. My site doesn't appear in the results ...
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How to get the number of website or web pages competing for a specific keyword phrase?
How to get the number of website or web pages competing for a specific keyword phrase?
I know one would be going to google and checking one by one manually.
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Does google first search as per the user given order of keywords in search bar?
Does google first search as per the user given order of keywords in search bar?
For example :
I typed word1 word2 word3 word4 word5 in google search bar.
Now my question is does google first ...
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Is it Okay to add Keyword TAGS at the beginning or endiing of the post?
This question is bugging me from last few days..
I have seen many sites have 'TAGS' or 'INCOMING SEARCH ITEMS' and they have big list of keywords under it.
Check out this example:
One of my blog ...
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Search result page > category defined or understood by Google to co relate with search query?
I searched in Google: does nioxin work?
One of the top results is:
Does nioxin shampoo make hair grow? - Yahoo! Answers answers.yahoo.com
› ... › Beauty & Style › Hair
Why is ...
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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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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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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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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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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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A particular url on a website suddenly disappeared from google search results - why?
I have a website which had a particular page url that was indexed in google search results - in the first 10 results. Suddenly it disappeared. Now that page is not even in the first 100 results. What ...
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SEO company really need to know the language of the site they work on?
I'm thinking to outsource SEO for my non-English site to the company listed on like elance.com or odesk.com
But I'm wondering if they really can work on the none-English site when they don't speak ...
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Ranking in Google for New Sites
I have a 3-months old site. I have been doing decent SEO for it.
I have just 1 or 0 people visiting the site from Google and its concerning me. Is there some wait period before sites start to rank?
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Allintitle Operators - How do they work?
I've been using the allintitle operators to determine keyword competition (in conjunction with using the Adwords Keyword Generator), my understanding is that when you do an allintitle search, the ...
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Is it good to use same keyword for multiple pages in one domain?
I want to know after Google recent updates, will it be good opt to use same keywords for multiple pages? Say- my keyword is "driver update" and I have a folder "HP" in website. Hp has lots of models ...
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Google Search API
Can someome tell me if there is an API to get search results form Google? I went through the Google Search APIs, but could not find anything that will let me get search results (the custom search api ...
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Why website position on the google is shifting
I want to know what's the reason behind shifting of website on google is there, whenever I updated the website with the new content.
Whenever I go ahead with the new content, it goes beyond 150 on ...
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Google Search results not showing up
I have added a custom Google Search to a site and while the search box functions the results page is pathetically empty.
Here is the search box code:
<form ...
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Image Rankings on Google Image Search (Images hosted on external sites)
I saw that when I stopped uploading images to my own server my content on Google images disappeared. I stopped uploading images to my server for two main reasons: Traffic and Storage space on the VPS.
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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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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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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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SEOs: mobile version using AJAX: how to be properly read by SEOs?
Before anything else, I'd like to emphasize that I've already read this and this.
Here's what I can do:
Choice (1):
create classical Web version with all products in that page - ...
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Google Places seo? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What determines the order of results for Google Places?
Im familiar with seo and getting higher google listings but for allot of services google has recently been making ...
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Why isn't my site showing on google.com but it's on top of another local Google search results? [closed]
I'm trying to figure out why my site doesn't show up on google.com (from the United States). Even if I search for the domain name (mysitename.com) on google.com, the site doesn't show up. The only way ...
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Why my site not linking with google.com? [closed]
i am very tired about my website ranking in google. i am dong hard work about it but not getting anywhere my site in google. actually i am web master of a www.panbeli.in matrimony website INDIA. i am ...
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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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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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How much significance does Google give to the presence of search terms in the domain name?
When setting up a new website, how important is it to include keywords and potential search terms in the actual domain name? How heavily is this weighted when it comes to ranking highly on google ...
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Does google index its search result page?
Does google index its search result page?
assuming, google as a website, search results text as a content.
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How does Google verify the trustworthiness of a website? How does one create trust with Google?
How does Google verify the trustworthiness of a website?
How does one create trust with Google?
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Preventing Spiders on One Subdomain?
We currently host multiple sites on the same domain that all live in the same physical directory on the server. Each is database driven and lives at a unique subdomain. For example, site1.example.com, ...
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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 ...
