Google's Search Engine
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What meta tag do you use to provide Google with a publication date? [duplicate]
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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 ...
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Google shows my tumblr blog with original URL instead of custom domain
I'm new to domains and related stuff, I recently bought a custom domain for my tumblr blog, however when I google it, the original tumblr address shows up (jonathanwiesel.tumblr.com) not my custom ...
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Google Places seo? [duplicate]
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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 do Google search results include pages disallowed in robots.txt?
I have some pages on my site that I want to keep search engines away from, so I disallowed them in my robots.txt file like this:
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /email
Yet I recently noticed that Google ...
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Does having a Google “stop word” in a domain name have less SEO benefit than not having it?
Let me explain. Let's say my keyword I want to optimize is "green giraffes". But the domain greengiraffes.com (singular, plural, no hyphen, hyphen, etc.) is not available. I know that the search ...
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Google suddenly only indexes https and not http
So all of a sudden, searches for our site "radiotuna" give out the result as an HTTPS link.
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Why does google does not ignore the word “languages”, although I have set to ignore it in advanced search settings
Why does google does not ignore the word "languages", although I have set to ignore it in advanced search settings.
here is the term I am using in google search:
-languages ...
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How should I handle search engines auto-correcting the spelling of a site's name?
A client's site and company is called 'Tranin Communications' (Tranin is her last name).
It ranks well in searches for her name but rather poorly in searches for the name of her site/company.
I ...
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How do I get my Google+ picture to show up on Google searches?
I am looking to move my blog: The Geek Tech Blog (which is currently a Blogger blog), over to a .com name with Wordpress. However, I still would lik my picture from Google+ to show up in search ...
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Is Google Analytics Part Of Google's Search Engine Algorithm
I was wondering if anyone knows if Google uses the data it receives from Google Analytics to help determine a websites SERP (Search Engine Rank Position). For example, if my website is getting 1000 ...
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will main domains be more seo friendly than subdomains?
Web hosting providers offer services such as hosting multiple domains in one account. Then my concern is about seo friendliness. say the main domain of my account is maindomain.com on which I have ...
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Google Position Ranking for Specisific Keyword and Domain
How i can now my website position ranking for specific keywords?
example my website is gusdecool.com and i want to know my position ranking on Google search for keyword Rapidleech
How to do that? or ...
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NIST tests (Discrete Fourier Transform (Spectral) Test
what means the following sentence in in Discrete Fourier Transform (Spectral) Test
The intention is to detect whether the number of peaks exceeding the 95 % threshold is significantly different ...
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blowfish block cipher [closed]
i have question ....in blowfish algorithm in block cipher in cryptography what means
1. Initialize first the P-array and then the four S-boxes, in order, with a fixed string. This string consists of ...
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How Improve the website rank in all countiers [closed]
If u get the alexa rank less then 200,000 then u r site will apper in the all contrys
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What percentage of searches are abandoned on Google [and Bing]? [closed]
What is the abandonment ratio for Google [and optional, Bing] searches? That is to say, when someone performs a search, what is the frequency, % wise, that a user just gives up that search and moves ...
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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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Did what I can to keep my website SEO friendly, yet newer websites are ranked better? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google?
I have a website that gives information about weddings,
My site has been up for almost two years now, ...
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How to add menu on google search result? [duplicate]
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What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google Sitelinks?
I want to ask how to make menu on google search result.E.g : when you search on google ...
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Google shows wrong results for site domain search
I entered site:example.com on google search it gave me list of unique pages exists on my website, and then I selected 'Past Week' filter under 'Show search tools' it gives me just 4 results when I ...
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when optimising for a “location” based term, are links from the countries tld worth more?
When optimizing for a term such as "bike shop london", do links from .co.uk and .com.uk domains carry more weight? ie. Would a link from a identical in every aspect apart from TLD be worth less in ...
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How to save money on AdWords?
Currently I am spending quite a lot on Google AdWord for search campaign, I am looking at methods to save money while maintaining the clicks.
I have tried to switch from automatic pricing to manual ...
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Control the ranking of my sites on Google [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google?
I have two sites that I both control and have hooked up to Google Webmaster Tools as different sites. ...
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How does Google recognize publish date of a post
When I search something in Google, I sometimes see the publishing date of the post/article underneath. I've also searched for an article of my own which I have on my Wordpress-powered site, and Google ...
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Google Custom Search Engine: How can I get all of my site indexed?
I am trying to use Google CSE for my website however without any success as it is not able to find half of the pages?
what could be wrong?
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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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SSL Certificate
I've received the email below from google about my wordpress site and have no idea how to follow the instructions. Any help out there?
Dear Webmaster, The host name of your site, ...
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Displaying thumbnails in google search results for flash games?
Some sites are somehow displaying video preview thumbnails for pages that contain flash games in google search results. For example search for:
site:www.thorgaming.com game
I see this only on small ...
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Will rewriting your .htaccess to 404 to return search results from your site negatively effect your ranking in Google?
Depending on the type of site that you are running, it may or may not be advantageous to display search results instead of a 404 page, when someone visits a non-existent page on your site.
I believe ...
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Google search results are invalid
I'm writing a program that lets a user perform a Google search.
When the result comes back, all of the links in the search results are links not to other sites but to Google, and if the user clicks ...
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Does Google penalize changed H1 tags?
A friend of mine is worried that changing the font of the H1 tag will cause Google to penalize it (or not assign as much weight to it). He described a situation where small H1 text could be used to ...
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Does google not count certain words in search queries
Does google not count certain words in search queries, and if so which words, i remember hearing somewhere that woulds such as "how to" and "in" get discounted so if you searched for a "painter in new ...
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How long usually it takes to effect google ranking after revise contents? [duplicate]
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SERP update frequency
I sightly changed the title, h1 and some keywords in the content on some pages of my site. How long generally it takes to effect the google ...
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SEO title tag and earning a high rank on search engines [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?
One of the most basic SEO techiniques is including accurate description below 64 characters in the ...
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Creating Google sitemap.xml , is it okay for the images to be wrapped in url tags?
I'm using a tool to generate the sitemap.xml file for me, it started to crawl my website, got the pages and all images, but when exporting it, I review the xml(to make sure nothing is wrong) and I ...
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Publisher and author markup not working [closed]
Currently using publisher markup with our site. When we use the rich snippet testing tool our publisher image no longer shows. It originally did when I first set up the links but now we have not been ...
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How do I make the home page of the website to come up in the rankings than the internal pages? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?
Suppose I have a website, e.g. www.example.com that comes at number 6 on the Google search ...
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Can you search for code in google? [closed]
can you search for code in google ? not just git hub ect but i mean live code so instead of searching by site content, search by sites source code ? (obviously only client side code)
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The right way of using index.html
I have quite a lot of issues I'd like to hear your opinion on, so I hope I'll manage to explain it well enough. I should also note that I'm beginner equipped only with the knowledge of HTML and CSS so ...
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Google search results [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I get Google to show links to my site hierarchy in search results?
In some search results I see something like categories below the results.
But I have no idea ...
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Different google searches return different titles for the same page
This is a hypothetical example of an actual problem. I hope it's clear.
When I search google for "dogs" I can see my website homepage http://dogs123.com.au with the title "Dogs a mans best friend!".
...
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Google search show my website only if i search for the link itself
I uploaded my website, then I add it to Google search to be shown in the results, after a while , I searched for my website by using it's name/unique keywords, but nothing was shown even I searched ...
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Why some of new indexed pages of my web site disappeared from search results?
10 days ago i have activated my web-site with whole new design and content and because of it's an old web site and has 2 pr, it's quickly added to search results by google.
Then i sent some important ...
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What should be considered as a good quality micro-site instead of doorway pages? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?
I have developed multiple web sites with original backend and front end based on codeigniter.
As ...
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Search engines crawling non-existent subdomains
A few years ago, a previous developer added my company's website to a link farm he ran. My company has a wildcard subdomain, so any subdomains will return the user to the homepage. As such, the dev ...
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'passing juice' in internal and external links and text to html ratio
Couple of questions about SEO:
Is there any evidence to support the idea that 'passing juice' is a
bad thing for internal and external web links?
Equally is there any evidence to support the idea ...
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SEO and duplicate content for default document
SEO experts sometimes demand that default document, e.g. www.site.com/index.html redirects with 301 to www.site.com, so:
Is that really necessary?
Does Google really penalize that?
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How do you feed reviews to Google places page for businesses? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to provide Google reviews information?
Check out this google places page as an example:
...
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Google not indexing home page [duplicate]
I have two sites that I'm trying to generate traffic with, and for whatever reason, Google does not seem to want to index the home pages. Other pages on the site are indexing just fine.
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Sudden Drop in Impressions After Host / CMS Switch?
We have a site that was previously run on Wordpress on a different host, but has now been switched to RiVista (a proprietary CMS). The site was cut over a week or two ago.
I realize that a ...
