A Google web-based console that provides additional insight into a registered website's search performance and potential issues.
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GWT “Big traffic change for top URL”
I recently received an email from GWT saying that one of my URL's traffic has suddenly dropped. As it turned out the traffic to the whole site has drastically dropped, from some 300+ unique visitors ...
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How to manage Google Webmaster Tools for Multiple Clients
I need to set up Google Webmaster Tools for several of my clients. Is it alright to add multiple sites under my own Google account and then add clients as other owners if they need access? If further ...
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Is it possible to find out whether one given page has been indexed?
When one submits sitemaps in Google Webmaster, Google may not index all pages of your site/blog.
Is there a way to find out whether one specific page belonging to the sitemap has been indexed or not? ...
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Google Webmaster Tools - Crawl errors with 500 status code
I will try to explain the situation:
In December 2012 I deployed a website with a sitemap.xml, etc... there were circa 2000 URLs.
After a while I changed something on my website, upgrading my pages ...
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Does Google reprocesses submitted sitemaps from time to time?
Assuming one submits a sitemap for a website in Google Webmaster, does Google reprocess it from time to time? If yes, at which rate?
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How to see all “Not selected” urls in Index Status of Google Webmaster Tools
Google Webmaster Tools have the menu Health > Index Status in which it shows:
Total indexed url's
Total not selected url's
Blocked url's
For the second one that is Not selected url's the reason ...
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Total Indexed 0, 99 not selected in webmaster tools
I recently changed domain names from xxx.com to xxx.ca I created all the 301's submitted sitemaps and submitted a change of address to google webmaster tools on Dec 16th. I've since seen urls change ...
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SEO and non seo internal linking
on my video web page which has rewritten url, I am linking to related videos with non-rewitten urls , this results that google considering it as Duplicate meta descriptions for the pages ,example:
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Is it better to burn old domain names and 301 to a new one for domains that experienced a high number of errors?
As discussed in this topic, several sites were down due to a server issue for about a month. I have slowly watched some of the more popular sites gain some traffic. I did say slowly.
I have also ...
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Phishing alert but file never existed
I got an alert from Google Webmasters. They say the following file was present in my host:
example.com/~jhostgop/identity.php
I checked my files and it never existed at all.
I've experience this ...
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What are others' experience in burning a domain, and 301 redirecting all requests to another domain? [closed]
I had a domain that was performing quite well. However, during a one month instance (last September), the domain was down, throwing a ton of errors. We cleaned up all unwanted URL's with 410 (which ...
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SEO impact of server errors
Our website is up and running fine but a WordPress plugin is broken (we can't fix it very quickly) so a few hundred pages show server errors.
The pages would load header and page of the page body but ...
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What should be done after renaming the urls of my website?
One month ago, I updated all the product URLs on my site which were separated by _ sign to be separated by - sign.
Example:
.com/Calipers/Insize_1108
now looks like
.com/Calipers/Insize-1108
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Why are there differences in data between Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools?
Why are there differences between Google Analytics And Google Webmaster Tools in external links data? Generally this data do not coincide with each other.
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Error in Google Webmaster tools
Google Webmaster tools says I have many faults. I wonder how I might supposed to improve them in a way such as to make a robot.txt to the server? Where I decide where you should go, etc? ..
You can ...
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Lasting discrepancy between the site command and indexed pages in Google Webmaster
I have recently uploaded a blog on blogger. The pages of my blog are accessible for crawling and indexing and I can see that some crawling has started two weeks ago.
I have noticed that the ...
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New site - 0 indexed 5 Not selected. What does this mean?
Having finally completed my web site, I submitted it and a sitemap to Google at the beginning of December.
A look at the index status today, 29/12/12, shows 0 indexed, and 5 Not selected.
I can ...
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When is the best time to list a domain name / website in Google Analytics account?
I have just booked a domain name and it has only one page showing my Office Address (only text...no links) which I have already listed in Google Analytics after opeing my Google Analytics Account.
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Where does the Google `site:` operator for site-specific searches get its information?
I have read in many places that one should use Google Webmaster preferably to the site: search operator. However, I would like to know where the site: operator gets its information from?
Here is my ...
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Webmaster Tools - Preferred Domain and Google entries
Our client has two websites with the same content:
example.com
somethingelse.com
When a user searches in Google for "something else" the example.com site appears in the top 10 results on Google. ...
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Understanding CTR in Google Webmaster Tools
I've got a site that's showing a 9% CTR for a phrase in Google Webmaster Tools, but the average position for my site is 14th (this includes 7 local results for this phrase).
I was a little confused ...
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Sitemaps - do I need to submit each sitemap in sitemap_index.xml to Google Webmaster tools?
I am having a Wordpress blog on my CentOS server. There is no sitemap.xml in the root directory but there is sitemap_index.xml file in the root directory which contains the following code:
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Google Webmaster Tools, DNS Errors & HostPapa
I received this message from Google Webmaster Tools:
Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 2 errors while
attempting to retrieve DNS information for your site. The overall
error rate ...
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Buying a custom domain for blogger
I'm about to move my blogger site to a custom domain.
I do all the steps as told but whenever I find the perfect custom domain (that is free) I get redirected to Google apps for business.
Is it ...
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Robots.txt never downloaded but some blocked URLs in GWT
There is something I don't understand in Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) for my Wordpress site.
In menu "Blocked URLs", it mention that my robots.txt has never been downloaded but there are some blocked ...
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Notify Google of new incoming links?
If I obtain a new incoming link to my website, can I inform Google of it using the Add URL tool?
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Google not listing my web site [duplicate]
I have a site which is more than 2 months old and it's not showing up when you directly type the URL into Google. Here is the link of site: www.icarda.org
However, the site is listed in Bing and ...
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When Will the Google Webmaster Tools API allow access to the Average Position in the Search Queries section of their tool? [closed]
I'm wondering if anyone has early access to the search queries / average position data via the Google Webmaster Tools API yet?
Do you know of any tools that have access to this part of the API? Does ...
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How to get rid of crawling errors due to the URL Encoded Slashes (%2F) problem in Apache
The Google web crawler has indexed a whole set of URLs with encoded slashes (%2F) for our site. I assume it has picked up the pages from our XML sitemap file. The problem is that the live pages will ...
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Webmaster Tools - URL Parameters Settings Do Not Work
Google Webmaster Tools shows problems with duplicate title tags under Optimization -> HTML Improvements, for example:
ราคาแอร์ Mitsubishi Electric Mr. Slim PC Series PC-3KAKLT (220V) 30000 BTU
> ...
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Why would urls submitted in google webmaster tools drop to 0?
Why would urls submitted in google webmaster tools drop to 0? It's a small site, only like 20 pages, I submitted the xml sitemap and for about a week it said 20 urls submitted. A day or so ago it ...
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Web master tools is throwing out 404 errors on link not on page
Webmaster tools is showing thousands of 404 errors, where pages on the site are referring to another incorrect url. For example, URL not found www.plantify.co.uk/shop/=, linked from ...
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Why does my main domain sill show up as addon domain? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I rename a domain and preserve PageRank?
I made my addon domain as a main domain, but Google search still show my new main domain as addon domain. What do i need ...
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“Most linked content” - a page has disappeared
So for my site, under "Most linked content" there is a whole list of pages, but one top page has recently disappeared. It used to be on the list with about 1000+ incoming links. Now it's totally gone.
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Site gone from google due to dmca complain
My sites traffic gone null but after Google receive one DMCA complain for my site. My site is a MP3 search engine so I can index copyright MP3 out of my knowledge. I received a message in webmasters ...
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I've changed my URL schema. How do I tell Google to index the new schema and forget the old one?
I had a site where the urls were constructed like this
/index.php/Topic
/index.php/AnotherTopic
These were indexed in google, and search results returned that pointed to these.
However, I've ...
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Adding users to multiple/all sites in Google Webmaster Tools?
I didn't find an answer to this, but maybe I didn't use the right terms for my search. So I'm sorry if this is a duplicate.
Anyway, my situation is this: the company I work at manages a lot of sites ...
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hProduct-microformats not work in google
I'm trying to work with hProduct
was testing tool for google microformats ( http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets ), but it is not recognizing the data:
does not recognize the photo
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moving url - telling bing webmaster tools
Were moving a site, we've set up 301's from the old pages to the new ones and told google about the move, but i could find any were to tell bing, is it a feature in there webmaster tools ?
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google webmaster showing warnings - blocked by robots.txt, but its not?
im getting a warning when submitting my sitemap to webmaster tools it saying that my pages are blocked by robots.txt but its not, has any one come across this or a way to resolve this before ?
the ...
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Unindex google code svn repository content from google index
I developed a small web site and saved the code to google code repository. Everything has been running smoothly for a while until results from google code svn repository started showing up before the ...
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May I face problems with expired domains in Google Apps / Webmaster / Analytics?
I want to buy an expired domain name. It was dropped 4 times before.
Is it safe to buy expired domain name?
May I face problems with Google Apps / Google Webmaster / Google Analytics if previous ...
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Major Google not follow increase since introducing 301 to site
Recently we implemented Varnish in front of our web nodes so that the backend would get some rest from time to time. Since varnish is case sensitive and our app was not we implemented
a 301 in varnish ...
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I have done everything correct on my asp.net website, re: SEO; why aren't google backlinks showing? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why are my backlinks not showing on google on this asp.net website with all I’ve done?
I recently implemented many SEO techniques for a company on their asp.net website; ...
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HTML 5, Fluid Pages and Google Mobile Index
I am currently migrating my site to HTML5, at the same time designing pages so that they are "fluid" and are equally presentable for a mobile or a large screen.
I took the fluid approach so as not to ...
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Is there any benefit to having a link to your website's XML sitemap?
In Google's WebmasterTools, I submitted my site's XML sitemap, which is accessible through www.mysite.com/sitemap. However, no where on the site do I have an actual link that points to this.
Is ...
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Invalid Google markup rel=publisher
Why is Google publisher HTML tag invalid according to W3C specification? Is there any way to correct this example:
<a href="http://plus.google.com/109469573972649651137?prsrc=3" rel="publisher" ...
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Weird URLs being access by Googlebot
Lately I've been seing all sorts of strange URLs show up as errors in my Webmaster tools account, but they're URLs that don't actually exist on my site, nor are linked from the pages that Google ...
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How to get number of views for a page using Google Analytics
I have a website and for each post that I write (that is a particular page) in my blog, I would like to show the number of views that Google Analytics tracks.
How to do this using Analytics API?
Or ...
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Does “Google Webmaster Tools” service send notification if finds broken links?
Can GWT email me if a broken link is found on my website?
