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How do you Google search without personalisation and localisation?

Google Search results are customised based on your location and your search history. Can you do a search that is independent of these factors, so that different users in different parts of the world ...
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SEO - why did my google search rank drop?

My nutrition shop websites for tampa and brandon were coming up on page one of google search results and now they have dissappeared. The 2 websites serve different markets although they are close ...
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display product price in google search result

While I search for the magento module in google, I noticed the price is displayed in google search. Can we display the price of the product in google search by using any tag or any other way. Someone ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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Google doesn't recognize content

My website is here but when I search term "ghiasi" in google, in text preview of my site, Google shows the menu content. But it is not useful! How to let google know where is the main content, So ...
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Is Google Adwords keyword tool showing right data like local monthly searches?

For example, for keyword gifts, keyword tool from Google shows Global Monthly Searches as 16,600,000 and (India) Local Monthly Searches as 823,000 so is it really a right numbers?
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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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Blog is not indexing in google search [duplicate]

I have a blog with url http://webzpedia.blogspot.in which is about 2 years old. In early days there is 200+ pageviews coming from the google search itself. But from last 4-5 months, google stopped ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Is the organic search page rank I see the same as the organic search page rank you see?

The short story is that I'm trying to find out whether we'd all get the same results (more or less) from Google if we all searched for the same term at the same time. Our site targets 10 specific ...
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It is a good idea always bold or italic keywords for SEO?

it is a good idea always bold or italic keywords in the page contents for SEO (google)? (not programmatically, but in the most of cases, near the totality) thank you in advance, feel free to correct ...
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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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Google: URLs in Index doubled, Impressions & clicks halved

I was wondering if anyone could shed any light on the trend I've seen in relation to one of my sites on Google over the last 4 or so days. According to Webmaster tools, over a period of 4 days: the ...
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How can I get my own customised Google search page like Firefox?

How can I get my own customised Google search page like Firefox? Example: http://www.google.co.uk/firefox Also, can I earn from Adsense like that?
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how to control google's search engine result page of a website

lately google search seem to have interesting new result snippets and I wonder how they generate them. More specifically one got my attention, see the links "15 minutes - 5 minutes - Timer - ...
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Indexing pages from own search engine

I would like to know what the best way is to have google index pages that visitors access through search on my website. These pages are accessible through a direct link like mywebsite.com/CompanyId. ...
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Where does Google pull the results for the define operator

Google has a define: operator which provides a list of definitions for a given word. Where does Google pull those definitions from? i.e. what does Google look for on a page to determine that that page ...
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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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Local monthly searches in Google keyword tool

For a target keyword made of two words the Local monthly searches shows: Broad: 300,000 searches Phrase: 250,000 searches Competition is nil. Does it mean that -- this many people search for ...
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Display Google Custom Search results on your own site

Is there a way for Google's Custom Search engine to show it's results on a page on your website? On a custom page which you put on your server, so you can still display ads and links to pages in your ...
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How do I get google to see keywords on a one page web application site?

I'm going to have to link to the web site to explain this, http://www.diagram.ly, it's a free service, so I hope this doesn't break advertising rules. Basically, it's a one page web application, I ...
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Searching for a page with a Very Unique title, doesnt find that intended page… Why?

a question about appearing in search results in google: A page of mine has this extremely unique page title: Ein gutes Logo passt wie ein Handschuh auf Ihre Marke in die Hände Now, when I search ...
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How can I find out how many times a specific term has been searched on Google?

Is this information possible to get? If not is there any other source of information that can provide this? Thank you
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Google and SEO services [closed]

Are there any good and reasonably priced SEO services that work well? Also can I pay Google to have my site at the top of searches? I was looking into Google Adsense and I am not sure if that is what ...
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Implementing OpenSearch, what is the benefits?

I have implemented opensearch in my website. But I don't know what is the benefits of it. Does it has any effects in search engines? For example, can I tell google about my implementation?
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Google not indexing/updating rel=“canonical” pages

I had same content with different links and I wanted to prioritize the indexing of different webpages. For example /A/1232 and /A/1232/tum_bin_jiya_jay represent same content but I wanted to give ...
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Why does Google Cache show our G+ page and not the correct page?

For some reason when we try and view the cached version of our website, we see our Google plus page. We recently removed this code : <link rel="canonical" href="link to our g+ page">. We ...
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For SEO, should I direct an existing website with a lower page rank to a new, better-ranked site?

I have a client that has an existing site, let's call it bobthebuilder.com. My client has been posting blog posts to it for the past couple of years and a modest amount of sites are naturally linking ...
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Google search showing “Index of /. cgi-bin/”

I recently decided to leave GoDaddy in choice of NameCheap as my preferred hosting package for my mothers business, I also had to bring my domain name to the guys i register my local domain names. ...
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Will Google's decision to encrypt all searches from Chrome mean that we lose all keyword data in Google Analytics?

Context. At the end of 2011 Google announced that they would start encrypting searches for logged in users. What does this mean for sites that receive clicks from Google search results? When you ...
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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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How long does it take for Google to re-index pages or update the link titles?

On one of our classified sites, when doing site:[mysite.com] in Google, the link text is simply [product name] - [mysite.com], where as it should read [product name] classifieds for sale in... I ...
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Remove SSL from Google search results

I am working on a WordPress site that serves up HTTP pages statically. The problem is that some of the pages are shown as HTTPS in Google search results. For instance, if the search term "Example ...
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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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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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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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