A Google web-based console that provides additional insight into a registered website's search performance and potential issues.
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Google isn't indexing URLs after a redirect that differs only in percent-encoding/decoding?
Will Google's crawler refuse to follow redirects when the difference between the redirected-from and redirected-to URLs is solely whether specific characters are percent-encoded or not? For example:
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Do I add both www and no-www for my Domain in Google webmaster tools?
When register my site to Google webmaster tools, which one should I register?
mydomain.com
www.mydomain.com
Both?
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Google Webmasters tools crawl error caused by URL split into two lines
I am looking in to Google Webmaster Tools - Crawl Error section.
How should I handle for those URL due their system / application showed invalid URL.
e.g
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How to view history more than 30 days in the past?
It seems that in Google Webmaster Tools I can only see about a month and a half of crawler history for my website.
My site has been verified for several months now. Analytics has a broader history ...
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Why the number of indexed pages got decreased?
Recently I have created a website with hundreds of thousands of unique pages. A week before Google indexed about 250,000 pages but it has decreased to 90k urls today (site:domain.com). What should I ...
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How to avoid duplicate META and TITLE tag warnings in Google Webmaster Tools for the same URL in lowercase and CamelCase?
looking through Google's Webmaster Tools today I saw a long list of supposedly duplicate <meta name=description> / <title> tag content with all of them showing a duplicate count of 2. A ...
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Different data for www and no-www in Google Webmasters Tools
My Webmasters Tools home page contains example.com and www.example.com in the sites section.
There is a rewrite rule (301 redirect) on my server that redirects all requests from www.example.com to ...
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is it google webmaster crawler's fault or a virus?
Last day when i visited google webmaster tools, i found crawler errors for 42 not found pages. all the pages were having "luminous-solutions.net" at last in the URL. Like
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Solving “Googlebot encountered extremely large numbers of links on your site.”
I'm getting the following warning over and over again in google webmaster tools
Googlebot encountered extremely large numbers of links on your site.
The examples he's showing don't give me much ...
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Network unreachable: robots.txt unreachable
I am trying to add a valid sitemap to Google Webmaster. Yet, it says:
Network unreachable: robots.txt unreachableWe were unable to crawl
your Sitemap because we found a robots.txt file at ...
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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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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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Google webmaster tools Site Performance says site is faster but shows it slow in the graph
Looking into Google webmaster tools it happened to me many times to see for some of my sites these type of inconsistency, in the text they say my site is faster than 63% of sites, but when I look at ...
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Multiple webmaster tools accounts on website
I've got a google webmasters tool account with a website I help look after, they've employed the services of an SEO/SEM company* who have asked to add google/microsoft/yahoo webmasters tools accounts
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How do I resolve this error?
I found my website on Google recently, and the sublinks underneath the search entity title contains a suspicious link to Viagra tablets:
Professionals are observing my website all the time. How can ...
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Transfer Google Webmaster Tools data to another account
How can I transfer my Google Webmaster Tools data to another account?
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When will non-existent content be removed from Google Search results?
About 3 weeks ago I launched a complete redesign of our website, and most, if not all, URLs were changed. Now if you search for my website (http://goo.gl/XDjly) you will see the non-existent pages ...
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Why do many valid links in my blog show error 500 in Google WebMaster Tools?
Majority of the links in the screenshot below are valid! Such as:
http://wayneye.com/Blog/HTML5-Web-Socket-In-Essence
http://wayneye.com/Blog/There-Is-No-The-Hope-Project
And so on... Even if I ...
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Google webmaster Verification failed
I have a site created by Ruby on Rails. I had successfully verified the site with Google Webmaster Tools some months ago. However, recently Webmaster Tools has been asking me to verify my site. I ...
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Why is the number of pages (of my website) indexd by googlebot decreasing?
I am monitoring the number of pages indexed by Gbot, for one of my websites .
I noticed that since last week, the number of pages has dropped by about 60 or so. Now to be fair, I have not added that ...
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What happens when you suddenly get too many back links from a single domain?
I'm quite baffled by this issue and I have absolutely no idea who could be causing it. I have a normal php page and we are optimizing it for few keywords. We have been doing general SEO activities ...
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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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410 Responses when your CMS host doesn't support them?
Sending a 410 responses for a page that no longer exist should make Google stop crawling for that page.
The site I am working on has been recently migrated, and very little of the content was ...
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Why do my Google sitelinks show gibberish for a PDF link?
I have a website which Google lists nicely along with site links. One of the site links - to a PDF file - shows un-human gibberish e.g
67,8;45:: 56 83 @7<1. (7/0;,*;: /59( (7/0;,;<7, ...
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Google indexes some of pages, but most are ignored from a website, even though a massive sitemap is submitted
We have developed a website, which works somewhat like a wiki - but not entirely.
User of the website can submit and update information about their villages to the website and categorize it under ...
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Why does google only index a part of my site?
For a while now I have been having issues with google indexing my site. For some reason it would'nt take over 33 pages from my xml sitemap: (images not allowed for new users...)
It has been the case ...
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Google Optimizer code, validation and cdata
I ran my site through the W3C validator, and a bunch of errors were caused by the Google Website Optimizer javascript.
It seems weird that would happen. If I put CDATA around it, the error go away. I ...
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How can I set Webmaster Tools to “Fetch as Google Bot” using SSL?
I have page which requires SSL so the page is https://. I want to fetch this page as google bot inside of google webmasters' diagnostic tools however Google, from what I can tell, only allows http ...
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Google Webmaster Tools reporting crawl error 404 (Not found) for a page which has never existed
Google Webmaster Tools is reporting a crawl error "404 (Not Found)" for an .html page which has never existed on a web site I developed. The page being reported is "tyuiabmog.html", which doesn't ...
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Do or don't submit the comment-feed of your blog?
A commentsfeed (of a blog) might serve perfectly as a commentssitemap. I'm wondering if it's a good idea to submit this feed to Google's webmaster tools.
What are the pros & cons?
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What's the extent of the “damage” to having a broken URL found by the spiders (showing in Google Webmaster Tools)?
An error with our URL rewrite rules caused some pages to be not found (404 errors) when Google crawled our site.
I regularly watch for errors and fix database or coding issues when they arise. We ...
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Google webmaster tool is not updating my site related information
I am very thanks ful to google webbmaster since it suggested me many of the pages which were causing 404.
But i am surprised why were this information still being shown even after one week of ...
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“Google couldn't access your site because of a server connectivity issue”
In Google Webmaster Tools on my dashboard I have a notice that appeared 2-3 days ago that says "Googlebot can't access your site".
Under the Current Status it has:
DNS - SUCCESS
Server Connectivity ...
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Google doesn't list the links to my website
It is more than a month that there are 24+ links listed on my Google Webmasters Tools account. However, when I use Google like this: link:m.a.sharpasand.com none of them appears. Also, my PageRank is ...
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GWT: Generate more complete crawl error report
I'm a developer in charge of managing Webmasters and related issues (including correcting crawl errors) for dozens (hundreds, maybe?) of active sites and as part of my duties I create a report of ...
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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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Moving URL - telling Bing Webmaster Tools
We're 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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Issue with sitemap in GWT
I have an e-commerce website www.beyondtime.in, i have been constantly monitoring the google bot crawling on my website and my webmaster account. Lately, i have found two issues that i have not been ...
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Can´t verify my site on Google (error 403 Forbidden). I have other sites in the same host with no problems whatsoever
I can´t verify my site on Google.
I´ve done this several times for several sites, all inside the same host.
I´ve tried the HTML tag method, HTML upload, Domain Name provider (I canp´t find the ...
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Google Webmaster Tools is reporting crawl errors for links that don't exist
In Google webmaster tools > diagnostics > crawl errors I'm seeing a bunch of errors that link to sub-pages like
/tour/overview/Scripts/ForceDownload.asp
The /tour/overview does exist, but this ...
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AJAX file 403's
Google webmaster tools shows a couple of 403 crawl errors (URL errors, access denied) for folders holding AJAX files on the ColdFusion server:
CFIDE/scripts/ajax/FCKeditor/
CFIDE/scripts/ajax
Will ...
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Meta Descriptions not working for google search
I have unique meta descriptions on each of my pages, and when I search my site in google it will come up with no description.
Any idea what I might have done wrong?
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Why am I getting this message “Some important page is blocked by robots.txt”?
My site's URL is: www.hackinguniverse.org
From some day in Google Webmaster tool a message is showing that says "Some important page is blocked by robots.txt".
My robots.txt is:
User-agent: ...
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Site.xml with #!, still ok to have bare URL as home page?
I'm trying to get some ajax content on my main page indexed by google. I've implemented the #! url structure for that content and the corresponding piece on the server which renders what users see ...
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How to get the number of website or web pages competing for a specific keyword phrase?
How to get the number of website or web pages competing for a specific keyword phrase?
I know one would be going to google and checking one by one manually.
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Is there anyway to re-submit all sitemaps in Google Webmaster Tools at once for a domain?
Something happened and I need to resubmit A LOT of sitemaps across a lot of domains.
Is there any way I can submit all sitemaps/all errorful sitemaps per domain even? It would make things easier for ...
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How long does it take for URL Parameters changes to take effect on Google Webmaster Tools?
Google was showing up pages with affiliate ID parameter in the search results. After some research on how to disallow this, I came across URL parameters in Webmaster tools. I set the parameters for ...
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How long before Google counts my .htaccess 301 redirect links?
I have a friend who had around 2000 visitors per day to his website before webdesigner with no SEO knowledge changed all his urls. Ive used the wayback machine and google analytics to determine the ...
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Duplicated contents warning in Google Webmaster Tools even though I use canonical links
I have some duplicated pages that show the exact same content on different URLS on my website, and I use canonical links to point them all to one of the pages.
So if Page A, B, C, D and E have the ...
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Panda-struck Diagnosis
I have been reading about the Panda Update going to be on a rollout launch in the year to come. As a webmaster, how do I know for sure that my website has been struck by the Panda update? Does a ...
