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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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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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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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Site not indexed in Google, but indexed in Bing and Yahoo [duplicate]

When I search for mytgp.ph on Google, I don't get any relevant results. But when I search using Yahoo or Bing, the site is the 1st result on the first page. Any ideas? Here's my site:mytgp.ph query ...
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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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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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My site disappeared from Google search, how long does it take to get back?

Due to damage by malicious code, Google wrote: Google Analytics web property: link has been removed from http://swebdizajn.com November 29, 2011 Your Webmaster Tools http://swebdizajn.com ...
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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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Google Free Views and Crawling

We plan on giving our users 5 free article views before prompting them to buy a subscription. (for logged in or anonymous users). This will be a cookie-based security (we are all aware of the ...
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Strange results of google's indexing of my site

I have a site named comehike.com which got hit by the panda update and I am trying to de-index some bad pages. If I do this search in google: site:comehike.com/outdoors then I see about a 1000 ...
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Google Author information in search results still havent displayed my details in search results

I followed the following instructions but still not clear whether i had completely understood it. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1408986 ...
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How do I choose a domain name based on monthly searches for keywords?

Suppose I have 3 domain name phrases: thisisfirst.com (competition is 11% and global monthly search is 151,000,000) thisissecond.com (competition is 5% and global monthly search is 33,50,000) ...
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Google new algorithm: My company have a 40 sites with different domains that some of their articles appears in my main website

My company have a 40 sites with different domains that some of their articles appears in my main website with reference to their source. Our articles write by high level processionals in the field ...
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Embeding a generic google search with autocomplete - not a custom site search

Most people's home page is google.com. My homepage is just a custom html page hosted on my computer. I do this because I am a web developer, and I have several projects that I work on a one time, so ...
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How can I show ads for search on own web site

On my web site there is a (self-coded) search functionality that searches through the web site's specific contents. However I'd like to display one banner in addition to the site's results, showing ...
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Google failing to recognize authoritive website?

I have a situation that I do not fully understand, related to syndicated content. My site - where the original version of my articles is being published, is being seen by Google not as the ...
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Does Google bot always treat dot as word separator?

One of our products is a grid control called iGrid, and we have two versions for two different platforms. One is iGrid ActiveX, the other is iGrid for .NET Framework WinForms called "iGrid.NET". At ...
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Why do all pages bar the home page turn up in Google? [duplicate]

Our website is made with WordPress. The menu pages all turn up in Google searches, but the index page doesn't. The index page is absent; the others are there. Why would this be?
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Will 301 redirection to a Google Indexed URL can remove the URL from Google index?

I need to remove some indexed URLs from Google SERP. The problem is I cannot use the 3 types of removal patterns Google suggests like robots.txt, meta name "noindex" and remove the page and make it as ...
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Does google use transliteration when crawling page URLs and indexing them?

In a generic search Google understands transliteration and if I wrote some words using Latin letters but in a non-English language ( for instance phrase "red cat" in Russian using transliteration will ...
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Site cannot be found in Google [closed]

I've made a site for a friend, and here's the url: http://mensasana.it Issue: There is no trace of it in google. He used to have an html site, and at least it was indexed. I changed it to a ...
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Search Engine Query Word Order

I've pages with titles like 'Alpha to Beta'. For every such page, there is an inverse page 'Beta to Alpha'. Both pages link to each other. When someone on Google searches for 'Beta to Alpha', I'd ...
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Did what I can to keep my website SEO friendly, yet newer websites are ranked better? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? I have a website that gives information about weddings, My site has been up for almost two years now, ...
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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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How long usually it takes to effect google ranking after revise contents? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: 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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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 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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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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Blogger homepage won't update!

i am new on blogging webmaster Tools. When i usually add new post to my blog, it will automatic updated my homepage also. But from last 14th January, my homepage won't update by Google SEPR. As a ...
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High Google page ranking lost overnight [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to diagnose a search engine ranking drop? I had achieved a high ranking for a page on my site of the form: http://domain.com/mypage.htm Overnight the page is not ...
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What is this technique called and why it is done? [closed]

What is this technique called and why it is done? I typed to search for "cheap 2b memory card" in google with quotes. I find an alibaba link matching to my title, I opened it and saw the same title ...
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Pseudo-external links and SEO

I don't know, how to name such a links. Main idea is following: I write a post at a community, which I do not control, and place a link to my web-site: www.mywebsite.com When post is saved, my ...
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How does Stack Overflow have questions appear in Google so quickly? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: StackOverflow and Google search I have noticed while asking questions on Stack Overflow that they appear in Google almost instantly. How does SO do this? Is it a feed ...
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Relation between number of google search results from a phrase for a domain

The question is when I searched (in google) my researched keyword phrase (3 words) in google with quotes, it bring out about 145,000,000 results. The competition is 0.01 Monthly global searches is ...
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How do i tell google to ignore my subdomain?

I did a search and i found a link to my site... twice. They are exactly the same except one is www and the other is static. How do i tell google to ignore everything in my static domain?
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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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Regarding sitelinks in google search

I would like my site to display additional site links when preforming a Google Search.. How can this be achieved?
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using blank image to improve post value

I have seen people (including popular digital agencies) using 1 x 1px transparent image, so that they can add page title as alt value. Does that really increases the value of a web page or that's a ...
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SEO when loading items through AJAX

Let's say I have standard scenario of commerce site that has categories on the left and items on the right. What I would like to do is that when user clicks on category it will pass it's ID to js, js ...
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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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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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will site url with repeating keywords gets penalized by search engines

I have an url structure like the following sitename.com/cellphone/nokia/galaxy-5678-nokia-cellphone-from-abc/ for more example ...
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will main domains be more seo friendly than subdomains?

Web hosting providers offer services such as hosting multiple domains in one account. Then my concern is about seo friendliness. say the main domain of my account is maindomain.com on which I have ...
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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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What does it mean when google says “0 search results found”?

What does it means, when google says "0 search results found"? Did google try to get relevant search results from every website it knows about before displaying 0 results?
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Major Indexing problem with my site [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: I cannot see my website in google Hey guys I am having problem with indexing my site http://www.loosediamondschicago.com which is in wordpress hosted on godaddy. Its ...
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my main key word is struggling to perform as there is already domain in that word?

( To respect the Privacy of our Competitors Brand and their Website Domain name and to follow Our Company Policy I changed Name of the actual Domain and Keywords for this question ) We are ...
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Will Google penalize my site for switching content upon page load? [duplicate]

We run a Bible site where users can request arbitrary passages (e.g. John 3:16). We would like to start showing passages highlighted within their context (e.g. John 3:16 would show all of John 3 to ...
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How to figure out recent pagrank of websites or any particular page (Homepage)

Question just comes in front because the very recent published algorithm changes by Google been affected my website traffic. And I've been wondering that my homepage page-rank is been also drop to 6 ...
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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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