Google's Search Engine
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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Multilingual site and Google search
I have a multilingual site with only one domain www.mydomain.com, this domain serves content in English and Norwegian. And language is handled using a server side session parameter, which is triggered ...
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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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How do I block US users from my website without interfering with SEO?
My website uses Apache 2.2.14 (which forwards all requests to Tomcat underneath).
I need to block all US users from accessing the website (and potentially users from other countries). But importantly ...
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Google site search on pre-launch website
We have a website being developed. It is currently on a staging URL. eg: stage.testdomain.com
We want to use Google Site Search for searching on the site. To make the site go live we need sign-off ...
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Different Title/Description for Google in different regions
I have multilanguage website targeting by subdomain:
http://en.site.com/ - Displays only contents in English
http://de.site.com/ - Displays only contents in German
...
http://site.com/ - Displays ...
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Google indexes 301 source, with the destination content
It seems like when you 301 a page A to page B, sometime google indexes page A, showing the url in the results, with the contents of page B?
Google "site:http://tinyurl.com/" to see some examples
Is ...
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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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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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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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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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sitemap.xml for huge online store
I'm running online store with 30,000+ products (having unique urls) which are updated every day. I want google to index my products faster. Now crawler index ~500 pages/day (reports from google ...
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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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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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Having google index canonicals but users using parameters - correct?
I'm working on a site that has a search facility with multiple parameters that look up property listings. The possible parameters are:
City, Area, Building Type, Min. Bedrooms, Max Rental Price, ...
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Does having images in an article based website is more likely to do good in seo or without images?
Is an article-based website more likely to do good in seo with or without images?
What are the benefits of having images in terms of seo?
Would stackoverflow sites perform better if there were ...
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Is there a way or tool to search or know, how many results does google fetch and display with lots of keywords?
Is there a way or tool to search or know, how many results does google fetch and display with lots of keywords?
I intend to know, how many relevant searches does google display but with thousand of ...
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where can I get list of google excluded words, like, to, is, am, in, of, the, ?
where can I get list of google excluded words, like, to, is, am, in, of, the, ?
When a search is performed in google?
I hope you have understood what I want .. about the list of google excluded ...
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Google: On Everything : Why does google shuffle/change images, news, videos section periodically? [closed]
Google: On Everything : Why does google shuffle/change images, news, videos section periodically ON THE SEARCH RESULT PAGE?
And what basis does it shuffle?
Hope you people have observed this, that ...
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your fresh content on Google
I have actually pretty simple question. Having new sitemap every week and get it indexed immediately. How can I guarantee that the new fresh content will be indexed immediately by Google without ...
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How do I get google to read each site on my server?
I currently building a server to host many sites. How do I get google to crawl each site without submitting a site map to google for each site?
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Website Name shown at the end of HTML Titles
A google search for
site:cnn.com cnn
returns results like
Kenyans one dance away from semifinals - Sports - CNN.com
Health News - Medical, Mental and Dental Treatment ... - CNN.com
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