Google's Search Engine
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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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How to remove Google plus author profile picture from blog search results
I created a company blog and linked it to my Google plus account for the SEO weight, my problem is now the blog has gained popularity and my profile photo is appearing in the search results for the ...
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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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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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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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adwords traffic showing up in analytics as organic traffic, not paid?
I've got adsense ads running driving ppc traffic to my site. When I go into Google analytics under the tab traffic sources > search > organic, I get all the search terms people have come through for. ...
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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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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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Fetch as Google error 403
2 weeks ago, Google started being unable access my website anymore. In Webmaster Tools I can't fetch any pages, always getting error 403, and the website has been completely dropped from Google search ...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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]
Possible Duplicate:
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]
Possible Duplicate:
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]
Possible Duplicate:
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 ...
