A Google web-based console that provides additional insight into a registered website's search performance and potential issues.
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google page scan and backlinks
As i seen using google webmaster tools, google was cahing near about all links present on a webpage of my site.
I just want to be ensure, if there is an external link present on my webpage outside ...
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Why does Google's search results display my home page instead of my target page?
Our ecommerce site www.example.com ranks very high for the search term: "turtle food". The homepage shows up on the 1st page of Google's search results. I found this out by using Google Webmaster ...
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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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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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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 is not indexing URLs in my XML SiteMap?
I have used multiple sitemap.xml for my product pages and my category pages and problem is google only not index my whole site map's link.
/sitemap_main.xml -- URLs submitted:114 // ...
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when will google revert back page rank after i cleared network unrechable error
For the past one month i was getting network unreachable error.
I contacted my web hosting and they said that google bots were blocked if it were causing more traffic.
And then they witelisted ...
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Google Indexing Pages with noindex meta tag
I got a message in Google Webmaster Tools about "Googlebot found an extremely high number of URLs on your site" with a long list of example URLs.
For some of the pages listed, there was nothing to ...
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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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My sitemap is indexed but I don't see the site pages being indexed
Hi I have a site and my site map is being indexed by google correctly (almost I have 1.165 links and it indexed 1.156).
But when I go to the Indexed pages view in Google webmaster tools it only show ...
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Google Webmaster Tools suddenly shows 1379 crawl errors
Just checking GWT today and it's suddenly showing 1,379 crawl errors (404) but for the most non-sensical URL's that don't exist, for example...
www.example.com/services/newsletters/services/contact
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Google Incoming Links only display for my localhost?
I recently noticed that if I search google for:
link:mysite.com
There are zero results. This is false, because in Google Webmaster Tools, I have plenty of incoming links.
If I change the query ...
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Why a page that works returns a 500 error?
I have this url that seems to work fine but it returns a 500 error.
http://comehike.com/outdoors/hike_widget.php?hike_id=164&height=700&width=500
Any idea why that is possibly happening? I ...
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Redirect error in Google Webmaster Tools report
I built a CMS and I used it to create the following website http://www.tkdmontecatini.com . After some days, Google Webmaster Tools started to give me several "Redirect error" on some pages like the ...
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Google Webmasters Tools: Denied by robots.txt
I have a website: http://46.105.30.3/
And I'm trying to get testing it using the Fetch as Googlebot option in the Google Webmasters Tools.
When I try it it returns Denied by robots.txt.
My ...
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Which is more accurate? Google Webmaster or Google Analytics
I see differences between Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools. Why are they different and which is more accurate. How can i interpret data from both correctly?
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Is there a googlebot equivalent for RSS feeds?
I have a lot of feeds generated on my pages - and it seems to let them go to waste (Googlebot does not seem to see them). The RSS feeds display correctly in the pages when viewed through a browser, so ...
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sitemap.xml file extension, does it have to be .xml?
Do XML sitemap files have to end with the .xml file extension?
On the Bigcommerce platform, their XML sitemap file are defined as:
http://www.examplesite.com/xmlsitemap.php
The sitemap file is ...
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Problem with not found page for feed in Google Webmaster Tools
I have a Wordpress blog. In Google Webmaster Tools, I found mutiple "not found pages" like this from feed: kart-postal/k-imam-zaman/feed/.
How can I add noindex to feed and why I get not found page?
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duplicate meta description even though link is removed?
I thought this was just webmaster taking it time to catch up but it has been there for weeks now and webmaster crawled as recently as 16th May. I am being advised in HTML improvements the below but I ...
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Googlebot craw rate is too slow for a huge site
I have a new website with 140k pages, according to my sitemaps.
After submission of my sitemap index to Google, the Googlebot has started crawling the site a couple of hours ago, and at a steady ...
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How to index dynamic content like Europages.com
is there a good way to index dynamic contetnt? e.g: When I search query "restaurants in norway" in Google, I see a link of www.europages.com/directory/pages/... (not relevant url), but it's content is ...
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(Google) Title of page not updated, everything else did
My website changed significantly this month. Amongst the changes was the website's title. Two weeks ago, I finally used Webmaster Tools and submitted the page.
So far, Yahoo and Bing have updated ...
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90% sudden drop in search engine ranking with no changes made
This is a recurring topic, but I am very very panicking right now...
I noticed a 90% "impressions" drop (from 60k to 5k) from 2013-03-05 to 2013-03-06.
My keywords dropped, and for a few of them I ...
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Why are my site's Google Webmaster Tools index status and URLs submitted statistics different?
On the dashboard of my site where it shows sitemap I see 18 URLs submitted, 9 URLs indexed.
However under Index Status it shows Total Indexed: 0, Ever Crawled: 332.
What does this mean, why are the ...
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How often does GWT check dynamic sitemaps?
I'm working on a fairly large site, that generates a dynamic sitemap hourly. Now in Google Webmaster Tools the sitemap isn't submitted yet and I'm shying away because I'm afraid that the new content ...
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Fetch as Google goes infinite loop (again)
A couple of days ago, I faced an issue with Google Webmaster's Fetch as Google functionality. The page was going into an infinite refresh loop. I started a thread on Google's forum. The issue ...
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Google Webmaster tools showing sitemap URL's indexed but not showing up in search results
I have submitted simple text sitemap to Google Webmaster tools and after few days it was crawled, after few more most links were indexed according to GWT but it is not showing those links in google. ...
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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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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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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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Google webmastertools soft 404 - How to update google search after updating it to 200
My site has many modules which are indexed by google.
Recently there has been a database problem so the site was not appearing well like many links returned 404 i think.
Now i have make it working ...
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Suddenly I have started getting 404 wordpress errors
Suddenly I have started getting 404 error on Google Webmaster.
The backend is wordpress.
404 link is ...
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SiteMap / webmaster / google adsense
Can we apply for Adsense without sending Sitemap to webmaster tools ?
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Unify google sites and my own domain in webmaster tools and google search
Currently my website neolisk.com appears as itself and also as sites.google.com/site/neolisk in webmaster tools. Sometimes it is also an issue when users do Google search - results appear under both ...
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Google Webmaster tools restricted to certain pages only
Is it possible to give someone access to webmaster tools, but restrict their access to specific pages only?
We have a franchise and each franchisee might have their own SEO people who at the moment ...
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Does sitewide html refactoring affect Google traffic?
I have recently made a big structural change on my site and the very next day the number of Google impressions went from 75.000 to 3.000, with a proportional drop of traffic from searches.
No URLs ...
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My website is Google shielding, help me thankyou [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Users often say my website is infected, but can't find any evidence of this?
This is my website is google shielding。In firefox to show in the web site has the virus, ...
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Canonical links and best way to use parameters with url rewriting
I use my own custom routing module in PHP and mod_rewrite. A typical main page URL looks like this:
http://www.example.com/services
There's a large part of the website that displays the products on ...
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Why does Google show sitelinks for our domain with one search and not another?
The name of our company is G2 Builders - What is happening is that if you go to google and type in "G2 Builder" with no "s" at the end, our website has sitelinks.
When you type in our name with the ...
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How to fix some damages from site hack?
My site had been hacked. I found vulnerability,fixed it, and removed shell scripts.
But hacker had uploaded thousands of web pages on my web server. after I removed those pages I got over 4 thousand ...
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301 redirect, keyword being in bold
Regarding 301; If I redirect no-www to www domain with 301 redirect, do I still have to determinate inside Google webmaster tools which version (www or nonwww) is prefered? Or is setting up redirect ...
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How to fix Google 404 not found Crawl Errors?
I was checking on Google webmater tool for my blog site to see if there's any indication on why my blog traffic decreased to half in one day and i saw 43 Not Found crawl errors and 5 in Sitemap Not ...
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Subscriber stats tool in google webmaster tools has no data
In Google webmaster tools under Subscriber stats, it is always in the state: No data available. (Why not?) I want to ask it to do? google and how to display data for that tool
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“Restricted by Robots.txt” in Google Webmaster Tools when no robots.txt exists
In Google Webmaster Tools, I have 832 errors in the sitemap with the error being "URL restricted by robots.txt". I don't have a robots.txt file, and the robots meta tag equals "index, follow".
I did ...
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Google Groups in Google Webmaster Tools?
I have a GoogleSite binded to a Blogger account, and a GoogleGroups account (so googleish of me)
Google webmaster tools adds without any trouble the site ant the blog but complains when I try to add ...
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Google Webmaster Geographic target: Increases or Decreases Traffic?
My website is an english video streaming website that gets visitors from all over the world (about 70,000 per day). 35% of my traffic is from the US.
Now, in google Webmaster, if I were to set my ...
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Google Analytics crawl url hash
I have a few pages on a website where some sections use a JavaScript slider to display content and I was wondering if it's possible for Google Analytics to track those sections?
For now when a ...
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google webmastertools will curtom crawl rate affects indexing what are the effects of custom crawl rate
My site was running well for the past three years. Recently googlebot's request my server got increased. and at one time i got network unreachable error. When i contacted my hosting company they asked ...
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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 ...
