Questions tagged [google-search]
Google's Search Engine
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Does Google consider a website that publishes data reports (same words, different numbers) as duplicate content?
I am working on a website that generate reports from a template. This template will be using the exact same keywords but different numbers to generate webpages that contains reports.
The generated ...
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Given the login wall, why do Instagram pages show in Google SERPs?
If you search for Cristiano Ronaldo on Google, one of the search results is his Instagram page. When you click on that search result, you are met with a login wall (at least on desktop). You cannot ...
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Do the <detail> and <summary> HTML tags which hide text until clicked have any effect on SEO?
For example:
<details>
<summary>
short summary
</summary>
long details
</details>
Will Google treat "long details" normally or will it ...
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I'm being outranked by iframe of my ownsite
My website is being outranked by another third party website through an iframe of my website. Their website is featuring my website through an iFrame on a basic page. This page consists of a header, ...
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BreadcrumblList JSON-LD Schema Should I include First Home Page in All Category's Page?
I am looking for a perfect website BreadcrumblList JSON-LD for e-commerce
I am read this google article and I got confused https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/breadcrumb
The reason ...
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How to change my website's map data image (maybe from knowledge graph) in the search results?
I'm trying to change the image shown in a website's SERP, when using Google. I installed the JSON-LD Knowledge Graph application script already.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
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Can I Use Local Business Schema Without Google My Business
There is any way to use Local Business Schema without Creating a business profile on google my business.
How to use Schema and where to place this code on the website.
should we do or not?
<script ...
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What is the longest a page can be in the Google Search cache before it is re-crawled?
The more popular a page is, the more often Googlebot crawls it.
For less popular pages, Googlebot can go many months between crawls. If the page were taken down in between crawls, the page could ...
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Display the name of the developer when we search for the website on Google [duplicate]
I am very curious about SEO for the past few days. I noticed that when searching the Laravel website, below the website description, the name of the developer appears.
I tested three search engines, ...
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If the link is not visible in the google SERP, does it count as impressions in Google Search Console?
Does it count as impressions if for example I have a link appearing in the 7th page of SERP but a user did not bother checking the SERP until the 7th page?
For example in the image below, I know that ...
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Google displays an event info box saying that its canceled when its not
I manage a site for a trade show and with COVID we switched from an in-person event to a virtual one. The event is now over and we are marketing for next year's event. When I search for the event name ...
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Should a job listing site use structured data in a country which Google Jobs doesn't cover?
Firstly, I suspect ‘Google for Jobs’ may be the incorrect term, is it called 'Google Jobs' now?
I'm in Europe, Ireland to be precise. We don't have ‘Google for Jobs’ here, and I read that we may not ...
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I appear to be completely invisible on google despite their search console claiming that I am indexed [duplicate]
I recently put the site for my web design business up on google. It's been online for about two weeks and according to Google Search Console, has been indexed several times. Despite this, I can only ...
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Why is the link from a featured snippet not behaving like one from a regular search result?
When I run the search "rick ross net worth" the featured snippet is an article from theexchange.africa. When I open the link on mobile, there are no ads shown.
If instead I search "in: ...
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SEO friendly best practice for putting id and title in different language
I know there are very similar questions like this, but I didn't find the best answerer.
I have url like site.com/:id1/:id2/:id3
For having best result in SEO, someone told its better to put titles in ...
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Google knowledge graph not properly showing two companies have merged, it shows one aquired the other
My org recently merged with another org. A joint press release was issued and everybody has gone out of their way to stress that this is a merger and not an acquisition. However, when you search for ...
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Should translated English keywords pointing to local language landing page be in a separate Campaign / Ad group or same as original?
We have done quite a bit of testing with driving local traffic using English terms (eg. used cars Stockholm) instead of local language terms (begagnade bilar Stockholm). Basically, English keywords ...
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How Google decides the image results for the Image tab?
Whenever I search on Google, Google shows the results cards in All tab at SERP and Images at Images tab. So how Google decides which image will be placed at first position or at first row according to ...
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meta data / tags for bootstrap modals
I created a website on bootstrap and a lot of content is in the modals (pop ups) of the webpage,
I was wondering how do I tell search engines that for example Contact Us page www.example.com/#...
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Search Site name on Google, my FB page appear top of the site, not the site
When I search my site name on Google, its first result is my Facebook page which I created. I never built any backlinks to my FB page. This is not a new site, I have purchased it in 2015 and I use the ...
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Get Google to index new URLs after migrating to Godaddy Simple Website Builder which doesn't support redirects
I recently updated a website for my company from its extremely outdated design (last edited in 2009). After the update, when you click on the page in the google search it says that there is nothing ...
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Google shows image alt text in the search result rather than the meta description
Google search shows random alt text of images in my site instead of the meta description tag text. I couldn't find similar problems on the net so I guess I'm doing something wrong, but what is it?
If ...
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Rank for a my name and surname when it's not in the content?
I have a website which has the post of the results of some research I do on a monthly basis. It is basically survey results.
My name does not appear in my site, and I want my website appear in Google ...
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How to find elements which harm Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) after a GSC warning
Within Google Search Console (Core Web Vitals), I've received a warning, with 200,000+ webpages, under the message "CLS issue: more than 0.25 (mobile)".
I did some changes, and I managed to ...
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how to specify all values for a parameter in robots.txt and sitemap.xml?
I have a php file that extracts a post id from a url's parameter to show a specific post content. for example it uses the postid parameter from the following url to show the post content with id of 21:...
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Google shows IP instead of domain
I've tried breaking my problem down into some smaller stuff that I asked here but I couldn't figure it out so I am looking for a complete solution now. Google is showing my website's IP address https:/...
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Can I change the name of my site as shown in the mobile search results on Google?
I'm working on a wp site that is displaying the incorrect name of the brand for Google search results. This only happens on a phone/mobile. Each search result is in a card with a little breadcrumb ...
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How to manage my site appearance in serp like this examples? [duplicate]
So for example when you Google the name "Microsoft", you'll see a sidebar on the right showing information and links etc., and below the main link on the left, you see the main categories of ...
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Browsers shows my website's IP instead of domain name in search results
My website's IP address shows up when searching on google. Google knows the site exists, if I search for my website. Bing doesn't though, if I search for my website on bing.
my nginx config file:
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How do I ask google to purge / reindex / flush their cache of a URL I do NOT control?
How do I ask google to purge / reindex / flush their cache of a URL I do NOT control?
I am helping out a busy, important webmaster who has corrected an error in the content in a vital PDF. I noticed ...
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In robots.txt, should I use a wildcard at the end of a disallow directive?
I want to disallow a specific folder and all of its files and subdirectories but I don't know the difference between Disallow: /somedir/ and Disallow: /somedir/*. which one of these lines should I use?...
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If I remove a property from Google Search Console and re-add it few days later, will it have any future bad impact for indexation / SEO?
I made the mistake of adding a property without thinking of a few things I wanted to take care of before the final site goes live. I'm in the process of getting an SSL certificate, replacing some ...
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150 'no-follow' links to another site I own. Will I get a penalty?
I have two websites. One website has 50 articles published and is doing quite well. In all the articles published, I have 2-3 links that go to a subdomain of that website. Now I just started a second ...
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If I hide some scripts from Google bot, will it be considered as cloaking?
I have a website built with Gatsby.js. After building it, I receive a lot of static HTML files, with React app bound to them. All content is in HTML already, JS is needed for some fancy transitions, ...
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Why my website is not showing up when searched for in Google Maps pack in Google Search
I have a client and we've been doing SEO for them since more than the past 6 months now. We're almost getting them on the first page for target keywords. It's a local business and, thus, we're doing ...
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Use XML Based Sitemap and/or Static Page Sitemap?
I have a question about which sitemap to use - XML based that is sent to Google Search Console or static HTML based sitemap that is added to the website footer.
If you search "dump trucks for ...
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Google picks wrong canonical url in search results
When I do a search in google I receive results as expected. When I hover over the search result I can see the correct url. But when I click on it I'm redirected to the homepage. In the search console ...
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How do I "noindex" a text (.txt) file?
I have a directory full of .txt files that are used as part of a larger javascript application. The text files are not inteded to be directly accessed, and are used as includes on separate pages as ...
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So, what's left to do? (GSC Performance Drops) [duplicate]
As a developer, I am quite new in SEO area. I published my website 40 days ago. Before to start this goal, I read and learn much about SEO. I am still learning but actually I can not find so much ...
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Run beta versions of sites SEO safely [duplicate]
We have domain.com and want to test a new site template on beta.domain.com.
What is the correct way to run a beta test without affecting SEO of the main domain.com?
In the topic SEO safe way to run ...
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How Does Google Search Find Pages On Web Site
Google is finding pages on my site that are not listed in my site map. How does Google Search find a list of pages on a site to index?
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Google rich snippet always shows "Sold out" for available (ld+json) offer schema
We have listing menu items for the restaurant and something wrong, it always shows "Sold Out" in Google's search results. The items given to Gooogle as ld+json schema with the availability ...
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Why is Google showing the outdated contents of www.google.com/amp/s/MYAMPURL?
Recently I updated the contents of 100,000+ AMP pages of my server. However, when I search on my mobile, the results which Google shows are on the following URL:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp....
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How does site name change impact to seo?
I have a site, ranked 1st in my purpose keyword of google search result.
I have to change brand name or site name, but I will not change domain url.
Does this change impact to seo? Will my site's ...
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Google search says No information is available for my GitHub page
Today I search my GitHub page in Google Chrome and Firefox (Through Google search) and for the first time, it says no information is available (it says 2019- GitHub under that it says no information ...
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Where to put anchor tags in Angular CSR Applications such that URLs get indexed?
I built a site with Angular 10. When the home page is visited it reroutes to this /welcome.
However There's no link to that from anywhere within the app, so I don't think Google has any way of ...
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Submit URLs created by our client side rendered Angular site through Google Search Console or will Google automatically find them?
When deploying an Angular App with client side rendering only, do we need to take additional steps for Google to index the app, or is it automatic.
I did go to search console and register the site, ...
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URLs is indexed but doesn't show up in the search results
Some of the URLs marked as indexed in Google search console are not shown in search results when related keywords are searched.
The URLs in question include query strings and their canonical URL is ...
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Google won't update page cache
I had a virus donatelloflowfirstly on my page. After cleaning the virus, the site looks like it was before (from any device and IP I tested). However, Google page cache for homepage is still the virus ...
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I've moved to a new domain a long time ago but a site:search for the old domain still shows results, can I request removal of those now?
My website is located at example.cc. Another domain, example.com, redirects to it.
I wonder why searching for site:example.com yields different results with site:example.cc? Shouldn't Google detect ...