Google's Search Engine
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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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SEO for single-page content-less Web App
as written in the title the website on which I try to do Search Engine Optimization has following two properties:
doesn't have any content in the SEO sense: it doesn't hold any information and only ...
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Does google first search as per the user given order of keywords in search bar?
Does google first search as per the user given order of keywords in search bar?
For example :
I typed word1 word2 word3 word4 word5 in google search bar.
Now my question is does google first ...
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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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How can I check the position of newly indexed pages within Google Search
How can I check the position of newly indexed pages within Google Search
Exactly what the title reads what is the best way of finding out the position and page number of newly indexed pages within ...
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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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Softonic displaying Google Ads for my software in Google search
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question but not sure where else to ask..
I was doing a Google search to check the results of my Software's name which I sell on my website. I ...
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1answer
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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 to plan a website, with dependency 80% on google organic search and 20% direct users? [closed]
How to plan a website, with dependency 80% on google organic search and 20% direct users?
Please share your views, knowledge and experience...
Thanks :)
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1answer
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Is it Okay to add Keyword TAGS at the beginning or endiing of the post?
This question is bugging me from last few days..
I have seen many sites have 'TAGS' or 'INCOMING SEARCH ITEMS' and they have big list of keywords under it.
Check out this example:
One of my blog ...
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How to get Google to crawl AJAX pages without using #! URLs?
In Google's advice on "Making AJAX Applications Crawlable", they advise making AJAX URLs that aren't using hash-bang fragments (#!) crawlable by adding <meta name="fragment" content="!"> to the ...
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How to best format your HTML to help Google display your websites navigation with the search result for your site in Google Search? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google Sitelinks?
Look at the first result for "smashing magazine" in the image below. See how Google ...
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How to get your Google profile in the search results when searching your website
Check out this link:
http://www.google.com/#q=codinghorror.com
How come his profile is chowing up in the search results?
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1answer
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How are Google Site links generated in search results? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google Sitelinks?
I just met a fellow designer who runs a website with the same pagerank as mine. When ...
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How does Google recognize publish date of a post
When I search something in Google, I sometimes see the publishing date of the post/article underneath. I've also searched for an article of my own which I have on my Wordpress-powered site, and Google ...
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Web content that cannot be found in Google's index is considered unique content?
What is the criteria for determining what unique content is? Is it content that cannot be found in Google's index? Or is there more to it?
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Does google index its search result page?
Does google index its search result page?
assuming, google as a website, search results text as a content.
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Google search results now shows last updated for some results. How does it work?
I started noticing that for some search results by google, there is a "x hours ago" before the description under the link. How does google determine this?
There is also this link "Get more results ...
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How can I show a Google profile image next to my search engine results?
I just performed a Google search for the words "Google Analytics" and noticed half way down the page that there was an image next to one of the results:
How can I achieve this? Having used Yoast's ...
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1answer
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Why is this stack over flow article comes up on first page of google just typing 3 keywords?
How to increase your site's position in google?
In this above article. when I entered just three keywords in google:
increase
site
position
This article comes on the first place.
Please help me ...
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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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Will using all the Google web tools boost trust of a website or help SEO?
I have using a single Google account and using that I created Google webmasters account so my website uses single User account access all the service provided by The google like adwords, ...
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How does Google verify the trustworthiness of a website? How does one create trust with Google?
How does Google verify the trustworthiness of a website?
How does one create trust with Google?
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How does google understand the legitimacy of a website by user activity?
How does google understand the legitimacy of a website by user activity? Apart from:
total time spend on a particular webpage by users
total clicks on the website by users
total unique visitors
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1answer
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Search result page > category defined or understood by Google to co relate with search query?
I searched in Google: does nioxin work?
One of the top results is:
Does nioxin shampoo make hair grow? - Yahoo! Answers answers.yahoo.com
› ... › Beauty & Style › Hair
Why is ...
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1answer
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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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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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Opinions on seo factors from listed below [closed]
This are few MAY or MAY NOT factors in seo, according to me.
I want to know the weightage (%) among the listed below or any additional factor with their corresponding weightage.
1.Domain name
...
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How to present videos for Google Bot
i have a website which streams Flash Videos. For Google i have a special page due to using AJAX for normal Users (see articles on "_escaped_fragment_" for this).
What i want to know is how i should ...
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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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1answer
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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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Email private information appearing in Google Results
I've got a major problem in that emails sent to our clients are showing up in Google's search results. For confidentiality reasons, I can't post those links (for risk that they get indexed here), but ...
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Google Search Positioning and AdSense [closed]
Is there a "best tips to place better your site in Google searches" book, online help, tutorial, pdf or whatever?
Is there a "best tips to place AdSense in your Site" book, online help, tutorial, pdf ...
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Controlling text that appears in google search results
I have recently made a simple (pure HTML) website. The most important key phrase that I want to capture is "full reserve banking". Currently, if I type "full reserve banking" (without quotes) into ...
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1answer
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Google crawl on uncompleted site
I am preparing to have my web application in a private beta. The application when fully live will have a lot more content than in beta. Currently our plan is to release it to limited users with ...
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1answer
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Hide a file showing up in google search [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to protect PDF file from indexing?
Hi guys,
Really basic question here I'm sure - I'm not a webmaster however am thrown into it sometimes!!
We have a particular ...
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1answer
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Google instant previews and adsense
I have a site with a normal image header, a menu,
then below that an adsense leaderboard, and then the content below that.
The problem is that google instant previews, capture the adsense text and ...
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2answers
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My Blog not not showing in Google Search Results [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
I cannot see my website in google
Hello Everyone,
yesterday, i created two blog entries and published them on blogger but it is not showing up in google search results. ...
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How can I force a certain URL for Google to use in search results?
Each page on my site can be accessed by a shortened URL and normal "long" URLs. The shortened URL redirects to the long URL and the long URL includes an optional title that's not parsed (much like on ...
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Does a site's bounce rate influence Google rankings?
Does Google consider bounce rate or something similar in ranking sites?
Background: here at Stack Exchange we noticed that the latest Google algorithm changes resulted in about a 20% dip in traffic ...
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1answer
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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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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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Preventing Spiders on One Subdomain?
We currently host multiple sites on the same domain that all live in the same physical directory on the server. Each is database driven and lives at a unique subdomain. For example, site1.example.com, ...
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Can we Use Google's Ajax Proposal?
In October 2009 on Google's blog (see this link) there was a proposal presented to make ajax websites crawlable.
Does anyone know if this got past the proposal stage and is it safe to use the methods ...
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3answers
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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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1answer
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Google custom search can't find anything other than the main page
I added a google custom search to my website several weeks ago, and it has been unable to find anything other than the home page of my site.
I have manually submitted a sitemap to the custom search, ...
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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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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 ...
