A Google web-based console that provides additional insight into a registered website's search performance and potential issues.
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How to recover organic position in Google results after server down?
I have several sites that were doing quite well in terms of organic SEO rankings. I have the important sites setup in Google's Webmaster tools.
Long story short, the system was down for about two ...
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Ceiling for search with Google
I use Google Webmaster tools to follow my website and I'm confused about search stats. For several months, the curve about search requests reached the limit on 3000 search by day. The curve never goes ...
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Do your 'fetch as google bot' allowances refresh?
in google webmaster tools you can fetch as google bot - which you can do 500 times, and you also have submit to index that you can do 10 times, do these allowances refresh or are they for the life of ...
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404 crawl error for mailto:info@mydoamin.co.uk in google webmaster
im getting a 404 crawl error for mailto:info@mydoamin.co.uk, in google webmaster tools under the health > crawl errors
surly google should see that mailto: is related to an email not a webpage..
the ...
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Google webmaster for Adult site
I am developing an adult wallpaper website.
My question is can I use Google Webmaster Tools? Please tell me the benefit or disadvantage.
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How to submit sitemap when your website has partial https? - Error: “Not in Domain”
My website is an eCommerce that is set up to do HTTP for the item browsing portion, but HTTPS for things like shopping cart, contact us, etc.. (anything that has forms on it).
I've submitted my ...
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Site has 300+ inbound do follow links, they once all showed up in webmaster but now dont
I under took a link building project on a site, in total around 300 do follow links where made, arictle submissions, directory listings, posts in dofollow forums ect ect built and indexed over a ...
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How to determine if Google's Crawl Rate for your site is eating up too much Bandwidth?
I was reading about changing Google's crawl rate and how there is a balance in which if the crawl rate is too fast, it will slow your site down; but if the crawl rate is too slow, then page ...
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Issue with google indexes | non www URL
I have a website which has URL of kind https://www.example.com (Please notice HTTPS and www). It is the only correct URL of the website and I also have SSL certificate for www URL only.
I have added ...
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3 language website using subdomains and mapped domains. Add subdomains or mapped domains to WMT?
I have a new wordpress multisite setup.
The main language is Italian and there are two subdomains using en and de for english and german.
There is no auto translation plugins being used.
The ...
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google changing crawl speed: doesn't seem to work. Why?
I've changed 3 days ago the google crawling speed of mywebsite.
Here it is:
This means: 2 demands by second.
I've got the message on the google webmasters tools that the change speed has been ...
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WMT Change of Address Question
I may be splitting hairs here, but the Change of Address form on WMT states "new" domain:
If you've moved your site to a new domain, you can use the Change of address tool to tell Google about ...
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Web traffic analysis of third-party sites
Is there any way we can know how many people landed on an article page of a third-party site directly or by searching from Google?
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Google finding irrelevant keywords on my pages?
I have a dynamic site with thousands of pages (database driven). Every page has a log in link up in the header. Not so unusual. All of my pages have a title which is an H2 (I am changing it to H1 ...
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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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Webmaster tools showing 404 for non existent folder pages
Google webmaster tools is reporting some/many 404 urls that don't exist on my site. The links are things such as domain.com/xyz/ However that doesn't exist, but domain.com/xyz/index.html does ...
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Move site to new domain divided by language across subdomains
I managed to find a nice domain for a fairly fledgling site of mine that actually hasn't been parked by scumbag squatters. Given the upcoming move I'm thinking I'd take the opportunity to split the ...
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Removing domain from google search results
I bought a domain few months back.I am no longer using it.But it displaying in google search results.I dont know how google picked up.I want to remove from search results.But my domain is not ...
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Google webmaster tools: changing address from domain name to subdomain
So we originally have our blog on our main domain (for example, it would be on www.example.com). Now we have moved it to http://blog.example.com. My question is how do we change the address from ...
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Google webmaster tools reporting entire nil subdomain linking to www domain, despite permanent redirect
Looking in webmaster tools it is reported that I have a thousand of so inbound links from my root domain, domain.com, to www.domain.com. This is despite the fact I have a permanent redirect setup in ...
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Subdomain as home page
I'm looking at how best to launch a project using subdomains to create around 10 'minisites' of sufficiently differing content using the subdomain as branding. There will never really be much content ...
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Is it good to start a website with keyword very popular or not so popular?
I am planning to launch a website. However, it is still undecided as there are many keywords on google to begin with.
My question is whether it is good to be a part of well established keyword with ...
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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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Cannot delete an added site from Google account on Google website translator
I can't seem to delete a site that I added on my Google account. When I login
at here it displays that I am the owner/editor of the site but wherever I look, I can't seem to find a delete site ...
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Why a word having high significance in content keywords does not get a high rank in Google?
When I check my website - meethiangeethi - in google webmaster tool, then keyword 'angeethi' is shown to be at the 3rd position in terms of significance. But when I search for angeethi at google, then ...
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Display major links in Google [duplicate]
I am wondering how some websites get their sublinks too displayed on Google. For example when I enter "accenture" on Google apart from the main link (which is common) look at the links "Graduate ...
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Google Adwords have flagged my site as containing malware
However, there Webmaster Tools does not - and never has. And we have never had a message via Webmaster Tools or Analytics that we have malware.
To quote Google:
[The Malware Team] have looked at ...
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Website not showing up on Google after removal of blocking robots metatags [duplicate]
A friend asked me to take a look at their website, which had been online for several months, but did not show up on Google. I noticed that they had a subdomain which did show up, so the query
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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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Google says my site has malware but nothing comes up in Webmaster Tools
A few days ago my site was infected with Malware. I've sinced removed it and all is well. However, logging into the back end of my CMS I get the malware warning again.
I've followed the instructions ...
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Will 301 redirection to a Google Indexed URL can remove the URL from Google index?
I need to remove some indexed URLs from Google SERP. The problem is I cannot use the 3 types of removal patterns Google suggests like robots.txt, meta name "noindex" and remove the page and make it as ...
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Google's webmaster tools saying invalid URL in sitemap
I've recently made some big changes to my site and as a result, have had to change my sitemap. In doing so, I resubmitted my sitemap file only to see 3 errors reading invalid URL's. I'm not sure if ...
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URL blocked by robots.txt in webmaster for blogger site
Remove: Disallow: /search
From where can i remove this line. I am using blogger and in webmaster it shows my many pages are blocked. From one of your answers i know that i need to remove this text ...
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Multiple Sitemaps Doesn't Index Quickly - How To Get Quick Index
I have a serious problem in my site: http://www.coimbatorematrimony.com
I will create multiple sitemaps.xml with all terms & conditions of Google Webmaster and some other search engines. I have ...
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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 can I do? I accidentally delete google and alexa verification meta code
I accidentally delete Google and Alexa verification <meta> code from <head> and all have gone.
I went to both Google Webmaster tools and Alexa but I cannot find where I can get ...
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Google Webmaster Tools show only common words in the keywords list
I have a greek site with greek domain (gr) and even so, the keyword list of google shows in the first places the greek equivalent words of the common words like "in", "a", "and",etc.
All them would be ...
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https:// search results appearing on Google for purely http:// site
I started weeding through my site's search results from Google today, using a site: search, to determine if there are any links that cause 404s and thus need redirecting. To my amazement I noticed ...
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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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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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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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Nonexistant links under SiteLinks in Google Webmaster Tools
When I used Google Webmaster Tools to check one of my websites, I found that
there are 37 links under site links which do not belong to my websites at all.
The site links should be the inner pages of ...
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The “Total Indexed” is always zero in Google Webmaster Tools
I'm a newbie in Google Webmaster Tools. I've verified my site, created my sitemap and submitted it to the google webmaster account.
But after a week of waiting I've found that 46 out of 250 URLs in ...
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Google indexing and ranking a custom domain served by Google App Engine
I have a website served on the following URL: http://www.plugimmo.com which is a custom domain served by Google App Engine on the following URL: plugimmo.appspot.com.
Optimizing Google Indexing and ...
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Google Webmaster Tools - crawl errors
I know that I can "clear" the crawl errors for Not Found pages, but I did completely remove the pages that I'm getting the errors for (no 301s, those pages do not exist anywhere anymore). Should I do ...
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google webmaster showing 6 pages submitted 0 indexed, yet i can see them all there when i search in google?
I have a small 'brochure' type site with 6 pages, i can see them all the pages showing up in google when i search for my site.
But in webmaster tools under the sitemaps section it says 6 submitted, ...
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Displaying thumbnails in google search results for flash games?
Some sites are somehow displaying video preview thumbnails for pages that contain flash games in google search results. For example search for:
site:www.thorgaming.com game
I see this only on small ...
