A Google web-based console that provides additional insight into a registered website's search performance and potential issues.
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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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Are there any clear indicators that my sitemap file is beneficial?
I have recently created a sitemap.xml file and uploaded it to my Google Webmasters Tools account. Google didn't report any issues or errors with the uploaded sitemap of my site.
Now my question is:
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How exactly is Google Webmaster Tools measuring “Site Performance”?
I've been working for two months now on improving our response time (mainly server side) on a new forum (a brand new product on a technical point of view) we've launched in Germany a few month ago and ...
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How to get tens of millions of pages indexed by Google bot?
We are currently developing a site that currently has 8 million unique pages that will grow to about 20 million right away, and eventually to about 50 million or more.
Before you criticize... Yes, it ...
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SEO (or other) problems with a 404?
I am a member of a writing website called HubPages. We are each given a subdomain on which to write articles and are also given access to Google Webmaster Tools for our subdomain.
Upon checking out ...
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Is it better to have an ErrorDocument 404 redirect back to the homepage or a standard 404 error page?
We run an ecommerce site that was setup by a third party ecommerce software provider, basic shop with product pages, basket and checkout.
The third party vendor set up the htaccess file so that if a ...
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Google Keyword Relevancy
I hope this is the correct place to ask this question. I've got a few websites going, so i'm ok with the usual terminology and have looked in SEO and tried to implement it as best i can on my sites. ...
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Delay before getting URLs into Google's in web index?
4 days ago, I have submitted a sitemap.xml into Google's WebMaster Tool for a new website. It contains 3 entries. I have tested the site map and Google found not errors.
In about how much time can I ...
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Thousands of 404 errors in Google Webmaster Tools
Because of a former error in our ASP.Net application, created by my predecessor and undiscovered for a long time, thousands of wrong URLs where created dynamically. The normal user did not notice it, ...
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Google Webmaster Tools says my XML sitemap “appears to be an HTML page”
We're running a lot of sites and we've started to get a lot of these errors in Webmaster Tools:
Sitemap is HTML
Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format ...
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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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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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What constitutes a “substantial, good-faith effort to remove the links”
We engaged the services of a 3rd party SEO consultant to assist us in managing our Meta data and to write regular blogs on our site http://cyberdesignworks.com.au
Without our authorisation, the SEO ...
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Why is Google Webmaster Tools crawling invalid URLS and showing 500 errors?
Google Webmaster tools is reporting 12k+ 500 errors. Eeek!
None of the URLS are valid- they all contain www.youtube.com. First, why is Google crawling these URLS if they don't exist? I supplied a ...
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robots.txt not updated
I have updated some url's and files in robots.txt file to block url's and files from google search results but, still files displaying in search results. As per a suggestion from a site I tried to ...
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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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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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problem with google search in link:article-stack.com [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why google is not showing links to my site in result?
If I google link:article-stack.com, it shows 4 interlinks in result.
If it shows interlinks it should show > 250 ...
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Does Google use Google Analytics information in its search algorithms?
Does anyone know whether Google makes use of the information it obtains via Google analytics in ranking of search results?
Does it, for instance, make use of the bounce rate for a page given a ...
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Removing full site from Google index
I want to remove the contents from Google index. Google index include my websites huge number of pages indexed in Google index about 5,000,000 Pages earlier but now left pages are 3,025,000.
I have ...
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Geographic location settings
I am building an website. It has an .nl domain. Now only my domain is showing up on google.nl I hope I can change this somehow that it could be findable in all google's (like google.com / co.uk) and ...
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nofollow doesn't stop crawling?
In my website, most of the pages has a linkedin sharing button written in this way:
<li>
<a id="share_linkedin"
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Adding pages to google webmaster tools by the bulk
Is there a method of adding websites in bulk to google webmaster tools?
My host username and password were hacked and all of my sites were injected with malicious scripts. I've cleaned everything up ...
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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 crawling the site but refusing to index dynamic content
I am trying to get Google to index an AJAX site (davidelifestyle.com). It's crawlable with JavaScript turned off and I have also recently implemented _escaped_content_ snapshot mechanism but all ...
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Redirect subdomain (weblog) to new domain without access to .htaccess
I have a blog that has PR 1 on a subdomain aaaa.domain.com of a blog server domain.com.
Now I want to buy a domain newdomain.com and I want to tell google webmaster to redirect the old subdomain to ...
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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 ...
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Can I drop multiple URLs from Google's Cache using a wildcard in a query string?
I made a mistake with one of my sites and a whole bunch of data got picked up by Google before I caught it. I need to fix this relatively fast by asking Google to drop the cached copy of the pages ...
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How to remove old robots.txt from google as old file block the whole site
I have a website which still shows old robots.txt in the google webmaster tools.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Which is blocking Googlebot. I have removed old file updated new robots.txt file with ...
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How does Google treat unlinked URLs?
In Google Webmaster Tools I've recently noticed several concatenated URLs appearing in the Crawl Errors. On investigation it seems Google is picking up these links from a page that shows a user's ...
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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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Googlebot crawler: URL restricted by robots.txt - how to fix the entries in robots.txt?
I noticed recently that Google is not caching all of the pages on my website. Upon using the Google webmaster diagnostic tool, I realized that some of my pages were being restricted by entries in my ...
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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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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 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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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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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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What does the impression and ctr means in google webmaster
I am checking google webmaster tools. I entered the search queries section. There i found alot keywords and their impression and ctr etc. I clicked on one of the query keyword there it shows the ...
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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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When does Google Webmaster Tools re-evaluate re-submitted sitemaps?
When I alter and re-submit a sitemap does GWTs immediately re-evaluate it or do I have to wait 'til GoogleBot crawls our site again?
I just re-submitted a problematic sitemap and it now displays ...
