Google's Search Engine
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The Sitemap Paradox
We use a sitemap on Stack Overflow, but I have mixed feelings about it.
Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow ...
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2answers
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Why do Google search results include pages disallowed in robots.txt?
I have some pages on my site that I want to keep search engines away from, so I disallowed them in my robots.txt file like this:
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /email
Yet I recently noticed that Google ...
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1answer
481 views
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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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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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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Differences between google domains in different countries
We are currently trying to see if our site is being indexed successfully by google. Mind you we got millions of pages.
A trick some people use is the google site: command.
I always assumed that ...
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2answers
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How should I handle search engines auto-correcting the spelling of a site's name?
A client's site and company is called 'Tranin Communications' (Tranin is her last name).
It ranks well in searches for her name but rather poorly in searches for the name of her site/company.
I ...
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3answers
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SEO - Hidden content before main site content
I have a two hidden divs before my main site content, one with the login form and another with the signup form. I then have login and signup buttons within the page that use JQuery to show or hide ...
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1answer
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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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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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1answer
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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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How do I get my Google+ picture to show up on Google searches?
I am looking to move my blog: The Geek Tech Blog (which is currently a Blogger blog), over to a .com name with Wordpress. However, I still would lik my picture from Google+ to show up in search ...
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1answer
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Why Author Information isn't showing for all pages in google search result?
As you can see on the image, the author information is being shown only for one page, not others, why not all pages are showing the author information? Do I need to do anything additionally to get ...
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2answers
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How to display an image in google search result
I managed to do it with my blog like this:
by using google+ (found it somewhere on the web):
<link rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/115170983146246266025/"/>
UPDATE:
This is the ...
7
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2answers
314 views
Google search preview shows content not on the website
My website google search entry is messed up. In the preview in google search results, I get things like cracks, serials, random ip addresses. I scanned all files and my computer for viruses and ...
4
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3answers
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SEO Removal Time?
I was searching about removing the a domain/site being listed in Web Search Results (like, Google Search) and i found solution, at here.
I believe it will be the solution but what i still need to ...
4
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2answers
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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Sudden Drop in Impressions After Host / CMS Switch?
We have a site that was previously run on Wordpress on a different host, but has now been switched to RiVista (a proprietary CMS). The site was cut over a week or two ago.
I realize that a ...
3
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2answers
872 views
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 ...
3
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1answer
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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 ...
2
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3answers
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A particular url on a website suddenly disappeared from google search results - why?
I have a website which had a particular page url that was indexed in google search results - in the first 10 results. Suddenly it disappeared. Now that page is not even in the first 100 results. What ...
2
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1answer
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Google Search API
Can someome tell me if there is an API to get search results form Google? I went through the Google Search APIs, but could not find anything that will let me get search results (the custom search api ...
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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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1answer
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Google custom search code does not return the result of google.com [closed]
I have generated a code from Google custom search .
I want to fetch the results for a keyword exactly same as the results on www.google.com So I put www.google.com in sites to search textfield and ...
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