Google's Search Engine
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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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Google search results [duplicate]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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]
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How to provide Google reviews information?
Check out this google places page as an example:
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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 ...
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Does a click through from a google search get counted in analytics if the page dosnt load due to the server being down?
I was wandering does google count a click though and credit it to your analytics account if a user finds you in search, clicks through but the server is busy / slow for what ever reason,
So the user ...
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Promoting certain keywords [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?
I am not a person from SEO background so its quite possible that my question might either is off ...
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Why does not google let me view the next search result pages? [closed]
Why does not google let me view the next search result pages, although the keyword fetched 50 pages of results, BUT it only take me till 5th page and there is no other option to move ahead. However, ...
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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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What is the difference between doing a “link:http://www.example.com” google search and the “links to your site” in Webmaster Tools?
I've tried to do two kinds of searches which I had previously thought were a source of the same data, but are apparently different.
The first is doing a google search that looks like ...
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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 started to ignore some of my top traffic generator pages, How to fix it?
I had top search results on certain keywords with some of my articles. but google started to ignore them now and it completely ignores all pages with this keyword. I lost top search position and other ...
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What is the feature of a Google Page Snippet that this man is describing called now?
At 3:39s this rather old video from the Google Documentation the man describes a feature of enhanced data associated with the Starbuck website displayed in the search result. He also invites the ...
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How to restrict a incoming URL from Google Search link only for a certain File in a Folder of my application
Google Search displays a link to a file in my application, which is located in a certain folder structure.
I would appreciate if someone help me in knowing how google picked up this file in its ...
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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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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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Having internal website search as Google search result
Sorry if this has been asked before.
Let's assume there is a website as www.example.com and there is a private search engine with URLs simmilar to www.example.com/search/search+pattern
How do I have ...
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Is there some kind of API for submitting a site to Google for indexing?
I have a client that is insisting there is a method to send a URL automatically to Google to get it indexed quickly.
Here are the methods I know of to tell Google about your site for indexing:
1. ...
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How to show Fixture on Google search result
I was searching for some football match fixture when i saw google showing fixtures right on the search result.
That makes me wondering if there is some technology I am missing (like microformat ...
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Show “results - of” of internal search in Google search result
I was doing some searches on Google Search and I stumbled on this
As you can see in the screenshot above, the search results show a summary of an internal search page (the one I highlighted by red ...
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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 it true that the Google Spider gives the most relevance of a search result to the first 68 characters of the <title>?
I am reading documentation about my CMS and it states that an HTML page <title> tag is really important in SEO.
It states that the Google Spider gives the most relevance to the first 68 ...
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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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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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Why google isn't updating my site title in search results? [duplicate]
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Google doesn't seem to update the description or title of my homepage
I had my domain for few days before I uploaded site to it, and it had one title, and then when ...
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Rel=next & rel=prev in infinite scroll
Based on this article
I have a SERP that does infinite scrolling to load results greater than 10.
How do I go about implement rel=next & rel=prev for that?
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Significant drop in SERPs on 12th November 2011
Earlier this year I decided to have a look at the SEO of our website. We noticed almost immediately that we dropped significantly in the SERPs for the keyword 'probiotics' (plural) on the 12th ...
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Does Google rank businesses that are closer to me geographically to a higher postion
If I do a search on Google using a key word phrase used on our website, does it rank the business I work for higher because it can work out that it is a close geographical match (and the key word ...
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Searching a query with Asterisk as * on Google [closed]
When searching on Google the query function* js, Google regards '*' as a placeholder to a word instead of a normal character. How do you get it to treat Asterisks normally?
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Google authorship information, for a whole website?
To make Google Authorship Information work, you should follow some steps one of which is to login to your Google profile, and add the links of the articles you've contributed to.
This is a good ...
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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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Does Google Custom search help with SEO?
When adding a Google custom search box to my site, does that help SEO, so does it influence regular Google webresults? If not: does it provide me with data that help me optimize my website?
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How do Search Engines handle Singular vs. Plural?
In a site's main menu, one link points to the page containing a list of links to several software packages.
By following this link in the main menu, the user's action can be seen from two different ...
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Strange description appearing in Google search results [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does Google use the Meta Description Tag for Description of Page?
I just noticed that when searching Google for the name of a website I'm working on, the search result ...
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Alternative to the deprecated Google Web Seach API
This question is slightly related to the question located here.
My current solution is using the deprecated Google Web Search API - but since it's deprecated, qeuries to the API is now limited. This ...
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Can a mobile version of site be considered duplication by Google if the page is the same only the css is different?
Hearing about the problems with mobile browser detection I plan to add a button to my site which enables the users to switch manually between normal/mobile version of the site. The button sets a ...
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Google Search results show one link but no description
Search for this term in Google: cop-groningen or click the link to get to the page without typing. It shows you a link at the top of the search results page: www.cop-groningen.nl/.
Below it I see ...
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Does Google penalize daily updated <lastmod> tags in sitemaps if the data is not daily updated?
I've got a sitemap that is generated daily with a lot of links to product pages. These products are imported daily from another data source. Because the update consists of throwing away all current ...
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SERP update frequency
Recently I changed my site improving the title and description metatags of many pages. Looking at Webmaster Tools I saw that Googlebot already crawled the new contents (and also found duplicate titles ...
