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How to have google index a login protected url?
For example, my site:
http://abcde.foobar.com is protected by a "single sign on" login page hosted at http://sso.foobar.com, so when a user visits "abcde", they get redirected to the "sso" login page ...
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is google seeing my keyword as boiler plate text
My webmaster tools is telling me that the search term
mini diggers
is not a content keyword, Diggers is but mini diggers is not listed.
Yet the search queries has this as the 10th most popular ...
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Comparison of phrases containing the same word in Google Trends
If I compare three phrases in google trends :
house
sale house
white house
I get the following numbers:
house -> 91
sale house -> 3
white house -> 2
The question is: Is "sale house" and ...
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google webmaster tools - I want to target by language, should I add location targeting?
I have a multilingual site, which I would like to target by language. Google Webmaster tools provides the option to add a subdomain per language sub-domain which can be geo targeted. If I'm more ...
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Does Bing support anything like Google's First Click Free program?
Google has a program for webmasters called First Click Free.
To implement First Click Free, you need to allow all users who find a document on your site via Google search to see the full text of ...
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Google Analytics www 301 causing issues with In-Page Analytics
The closest question I could find to my problem is This one. The similarity is:
I have a profile in Google Analytics (GA) that has been collecting data for a year. The domain setting in GA is ...
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Blogger homepage won't update!
i am new on blogging webmaster Tools. When i usually add new post to my blog, it will automatic updated my homepage also. But from last 14th January, my homepage won't update by Google SEPR. As a ...
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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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ampersand (&) sign in sitemap generating error
I have ampersand sign in urls and Google is not able to parse my sitemap.xml due to this.
I can't remove the sign but i have to submit my xml to google.
Is there any solution for this.
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Subdomain 000Webhost
I'm currently learning to create a blog using wordpress.org. My site is hosted free on 000webhost. I have trouble creating a Subdomain for my website. This is what I have done so far. Somebody please ...
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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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Good idea if I only have <header> and <footer> inside <article>?
Due to nature of my blog I don't need to display any content, I only need to display a title inside a <header> and some meta info inside <footer> both inside article. Above them there is ...
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Will multivariate (A/B) testing applied with 302 redirects to a subdomain affect my Google ranking?
I want to do an A B test of an entire site for a new design and UX with only slight changes in content (a big brand site that has good Google rankings for many generic keywords.
My idea of ...
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How to use rel='canonical' properly
I have 3 URLS that serve the same data:
www.example.com/product/foo
www.example.com/product/foo?id=1
www.example.com?product=foo
For Google's sake I want the URL www.example.com/product/foo to be ...
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Does being a Google News publisher affect current ranking of site?
I run a large multiple author platform that rank very well on Google. Our content qualifies for the Google News publishing program. My concern is, if I will join this, will my current ranking for ...
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Google Bots Crawling my Site daily is this good or a bad thing?
Currently my site is being crawled by the Googlebot on a daily basis. Is a daily crawl from the Googlebot a good thing or bad thing?
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Multilingual website avoiding duplicate content and right referral in SERP
I have a site with UGC in many languages. The translation I'm doing is for the titles so for each page I have multiple copies, one per language. I want to make sure
Search engines don't see this as ...
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Adding 'jump to' link to specific section in the page inside search result description
I've noticed Wikipedia has many direct links to specific sections in their pages in search results descriptions. For example when searching for 'stackoverflow history wikipedia' the first result that ...
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How to avoid duplicate content even when using 301 redirections?
I manage a website with tens of thousands of pages named /view.php?id=1234 and so on. Because we wanted it to be more SEO-friendly, a 301 Moved Permanently redirection of each one of them to ...
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0answers
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Tracking goals in Google Analytics content experiments
I seem to have a hard time getting goals to track properly in GA's content experiments.
I have my landing page which has the GA tracking code.
On the conversion page (this is on a different domain ...
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1answer
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Google search: how to filter results to display just subdomains homepage without pages or folders [closed]
What i want: I'm looking for way to retrieve list of all subdomains of a domain name without their inner pages and directories.
Current result page:
somesubdomain.domain.com/somepage.html
...
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Does Google's algorithm look at a websites nameserver?
This might seem like a strange question but does Google's ranking algorithm look at what nameserver a website uses. For example, if it uses an enterprise dns provider does it rank higher?
I appear to ...
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SEO implications of having multiple languages available at same URL
I am in the process of translating a set of websites to multiple languages. Would there be any negative implications if I were to serve each different language from identical URLs?
I fully intend to ...
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1answer
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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 account. However, when google link:m.a.sharpasand.com none of them appears. Also, my page rank is zero.
I have tried ...
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How to insert homepage and current page in breadcrumbs? [closed]
I'm working on breadcrumbs for a client's website, and I'm asking myself if homepage has to be in its code.
I'm mostly concerned by SEO, not really for users navigation.
So, is it better to do :
...
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are keywords in URLs good SEO or needlessly redundant?
A coworker and I are locked in a debate over the value of SEO keywords in the URL of a page. She wants to change all the filenames of the HTML pages of a fencing company so they look like ...
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1answer
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Is Google ok with multiple rel=“author” links? [duplicate]
I'm working on a site with multiple authors, and am trying to set up Google authorship via rel tags. Since it's a multi-author site, the links to the authors Google+ profiles will be on their profile ...
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Are there any SEO benefits by using Google Tag Manager?
Google introduced Google Tag Manager. When following the 4 steps to create it, the keyword and website URL are optional. I created a container without keyword and URL, but it gave me the following ...
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Does google take into account page load differences from caching?
Here's what I mean by that. If I use internal CSS, the page will load a bit quicker on the first time it is visited, but with external CSS a user can cache the document and load the rest of the site ...
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2answers
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How to make Google recognize language for a multilingual website?
A few weeks ago I implemented a translation functionality for my company website. The website now offers content in french and English and I took the time to look on various guides on the internet on ...
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1answer
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site appears in Google Webmaster Tools but no site: search results [duplicate]
My site is geocology.ca.
About a year ago I attempted to add geocology.ca to Google's search index by following the steps for 'Moving Your Site' in Google's Webmaster Tools, transferring from my old ...
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Google and SEO services [closed]
Are there any good and reasonably priced SEO services that work well?
Also can I pay Google to have my site at the top of searches? I was looking into Google Adsense and I am not sure if that is what ...
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Google - will they penalize you for random content ordering?
A client of mine wants to have their work ordered randomly on the website each time you load the page. My concern is that Google will see this as an effort to try and trick it into changing content ...
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Fetch as Google error 403
2 weeks ago, Google started being unable access my website anymore. In Webmaster Tools I can't fetch any pages, always getting error 403, and the website has been completely dropped from Google search ...
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3answers
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Is this Google proxy a fake crawler: google-proxy-66-249-81-131.google.com?
Recently I discover that some variants of a google proxy visits my sites. I doubt these are legal google crawlers because these crawlers are NOT always behind a proxy (like the hostname describes) and ...
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Google Webmaster Tools Index Status is 0 [duplicate]
Statistics show all entries of my wordpress blog have been tracked, but none have been indexed.
I thought it would be just a matter of indexing delay, but it has been 3 weeks already, and I can find ...
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1answer
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How reliable is the number of hits provided by Google site: command?
A partner of my company (not sure whether i can tell their name here - iยดll use example.com instead) asked me yesterday, why there is such a big difference when they enter the site command at google ...
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How to overcome duplicate URLS
I am having a website which is 3 years old, now I wanted to do some SEO chages into it. so, changed the some urls.
From: /psd-layouts.html to /psd-web-layouts.html
Now my question is that, I had ...
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Site indexed in Google but not in Bing [duplicate]
I have a site, with an XML sitemap, that has tens of thousands of pages. Google's webmaster tools show that almost all fo the pages are indexed, but Bing's show that only about 300 pages are in the ...
0
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2answers
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Googlebot ignore my new site [duplicate]
I have the following situation: I had a blog (made using Joomla) that in some month was pretty indexed by Google.
For some technical problem I have delete it and I have newly created using WordPress ...
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Google pagerank calculation
I know this might be a stupid question, but I have recently heard, that google pagerank takes into account links from my sites to big pages, ie.: when I link to big sites, my site get more pagerank. ...
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Google analytics Real time continously showing visitors from one location
I have two sites about tablet pc.
In "Real-Time" option in Google analytics, both sites at any movement of time shows active visitors from Putney which is located in UK.
What I found odd is that ...
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Embed Google Docs Public Folder into webpage
I have a user that wants to upload PDFs to a website whenever he wants. Of course adding it myself is too easy... he wants to have the ability to add and delete PDFs on demand.
I thought about ...
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Will get good traffic from Google if I pull content via RSS feeds?
Now-a-days, There are many plugins available in Wordpress to perform Auto Post / blogging. I know it grabs content from RSS feeds and posts it to our blog. Some of the Premium plugin will grabs full ...
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1answer
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How to add/change sitelinks on google search?
Hy everyone,
I'm new to the SEO and google search optimizing so this seemed to be a good place to ask my question so please be gentle.
So, I have created a new website to replace the old one.
The ...
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“Not Provided” keywords from Google search: If your site uses https, does Google always send the keywords in the referrer?
Over the last two years the number of "keyword not provided" referrals from Google Search has grown to close to 30% for my websites. Google does not send the keyword in the referer URL when the user ...
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Getting Images To Show In Google Results
I'm wondering if it's possible to get Google to show an image next to a search result without using the og:video meta tag. I've only ever seen websites using said tag to get Google to show images next ...
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Where can I find a list of these colored graphics (hearts, diamonds, etc) that show up in Google SERPs? [closed]
I've been noticing colored gif icons showing up in the description tag in Google SERPs.
Such as: ๐, ๐, โ
Where can I find a list of all these icons that Google can cache and display? I really like ...
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Rewritten URLs stopped getting indexed a month ago
I'm working on a website for someone which sells their products on their web site. There is an item.php page which displays the item for sale. I switched all item pages/inks from dynamic URLs to ...
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Facebook likes Influence SEO ranking
I have seen some data that shows strong correlation between number of Facebook shares and Google ranking position. It makes sense. But I am wondering how does Google know number of Facebook shares. ...
