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Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies.

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No indexing to all the URLs ending in feed

I want to add no indexing to all the URLs ending in "/feed" using an x-robots-tag. There is a code to noindex doc files <FilesMatch ".doc$"> Header set X-Robots-Tag "...
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Both my HTTP and HTTPS version of website are available in Google Search Console

I had recently done some changes to my SSL for my website, but eventually 2 versions of my website came up in Google Search Console, you can check in images: One was HTTP another is HTTPS]. Now ...
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Google seemingly ignoring redirects

So a bit of background. We previously maintained a blog-style news site to supplement our main e-commerce site, on a separate domain, let's call it magazine.example.com. The site was built using ...
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Does the root domain hold more power then an inner page? [duplicate]

I am building a new site and I am just thinking out the structure of the whole site. It's is going to be a pretty big site with a lot of different content and I was wondering if the root domain is ...
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When removing AMP pages, should they be redirected to normal pages?

I have been told not to publish AMP pages anymore, that is was useless for the ranking on Google. Furthermore, I noticed that sometines, people fall into my website from Google search on AMP pages ...
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Is it valid for HowTO schema have description property?

This is a HowTo schema I copied from Google. { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "HowTo", "name": "How to tile a ...
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How to reduce the indexing of a website on the google?

I have to build two websites: one for the staging and another one for the production. and both are hosted on the server, but when I search on google with the website name, both websites are comes ...
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How do local rank trackers ping google maps rankings from specific gps points?

There are a few services like Brightlocal or Whitespark that can show you rankings based on different parts of the city. Can this be done manually? I would struggle to even find a proxy for a specific ...
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How to create regional landing pages?

How can I have different landing pages for different region - different language, image, and other widgets too? For an example, I want to use: Region A: Display language of region A, Images related ...
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Why does Google discover a web page but not crawl it?

Several years ago, posts on my site would be indexed very quickly (usually 1-2 days after I publish them). But now, it takes 2-3 months after publish before pages get indexed. This is not due to low ...
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How to show an image beside a web page in Google search results?

How can I specify an image for Google to use alongside my web page in the search results? Please see the following screenshot which illustrates what I am referring to. Can I control what image is ...
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Sitemap.xml for multi language pages without canonicalized

I have a case of an old site that is causing me problems. It's an old wordpress site, which has several pages, with an option to change languages. But, the system makes that for each page, it keeps ...
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301 or 302 Redirect for regularly changing subsites

We have a site https://example.org/forecast/ that at the time of writing redirects to a "time-stamped" (/forecast/month-year/) URL, like so: https://example.org/forecast/june-2022/. Say, in ...
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Official list for PageMap/DataObject tags and values for rich snippets?

To help search engines (like google) in generating "rich results" for your site, you can add a PageMap in the form of commented html-ish markup in your . But how to know all the useful name-...
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Which has better SEO for a large amount of similar products? Shorter or longer product descriptions

I am building a e-commerce site with a large amount (100s) of similar products. Product descriptions will be batch generated and will therefore be very similar, with only slight modifications in the ...
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Does Google index text from CSS and HTML files?

Our website's template is for a job directory site, but it was repurposed for a school directory. The CSS, HTML, and PHP strings still show Company in the code, but the company name can't be seen on ...
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With GA4 server side tracking: Where is the database?

With E.U. based websites, being compliant with the GDPR is a requirement. Googles promise with Google Analytics 4 and server side tracking is, that this setup will be compliant (as per their ...
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Google is indexing pages so slowly that it will take 25 years to index all 8 milliion [duplicate]

We have a website with about 8 million pages https://www.tibrains.com/ We try to index it, but have not very good results We had about 13-14 000 indexed pages for the last several months Then Google ...
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Low impressions, high CTR for the same keywords with one difference - how to interpret?

Let's say you're A/B testing book titles. All the book titles use the same metadata/description and keywords, but the only thing that changes is the title. Why would you only get 1,000 impressions for ...
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Does Google still pay attention to the <!-- google_ad_section_start --> hints?

Does Google still pay attention to the <!-- google_ad_section_start --> and <!-- google_ad_section_end --> or <!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --> hints nowadays? I've ...
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Can we request google to crawl our website every single day to update its indexes and tags on our domain?

I m thinking of making a blog website and noticed that google search results appear as per Google's indexing upon the crawled website. And this web crawling by google happens like once in 2 weeks to a ...
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Will my ranking drop if I don't comply with GDPR?

I have a site that is not doing well on search and I don't know why. My site doesn't have the GDPR popup, will that be an issue with Google rankings? If so, how does Google know?
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Can Google show a simple list of URLs visited?

Is there a way for Google Analytics (v4) to show me a simple detail log of URLs visited? I don't want any aggregate data, just a simple HTTP log like the kind you'd get from NGINX or something like ...
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Displaying GoogleDocs on my own domain

Is there a way to have pages from a domain I own mirror my googledocs documents? I know that I could set my domain to redirect to a googledoc URL, but basically I want my visitors to see my googledoc, ...
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Remove my website from google search results [duplicate]

My website had a negative reference to it in comments on a prominent website. I contacted their admin (not the site owner who I cannot get hold of) and the comment was removed. However, 2 weeks later ...
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The Value of SiteNavigationElement Structured Data

I've been researching https://schema.org/SiteNavigationElement markup and there's a lot of conflicting information out there as to its value. Some people are suggesting if you define this data in your ...
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Why can I use Google web fonts in CSS without an Internet connection or them being installed locally on my computer?

I used a Google font for my website, which isn't stored locally on my computer. When I refresh the page, nothing goes wrong and the font is working fine. However, when I disconnect my Internet ...
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Seo using a container with class hidden with links inside as fallback of a carousel SSR

I'm using svelteKit and swiper to make a carousel. It works fine, and it is pretty cool, but the problem is there is no HTML output as SSR. Inside the carousel, I've got a bunch of linked articles. To ...
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Use noindex for URL with parameters?

I have a homepage, https://example.com, where a parameter can be added to unlock a discount on our website https://example.com?code=abc. I don't want this URL to be appear in Google search results, ...
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Date in Sitemap invalid but the date is correct, maybe too old?

I have a sitemap where a lastmod date is 1969-08-26, the format is correct: https://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime , however Google says that it is incorrect. Is there a min value for a date? I can not ...
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"unrecognized feature:'attribution-reporting'" from Google Tag Manager causing drop in ad conversions for Facebook and Google

I'm seeing 1 warning from the gtm.js library in Chrome browser console which could be related to this issue but I didn't find any information about them online.This is the error message: unrecognized ...
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3 months since my pages are blocked with status "Discovered - currently not indexed" [duplicate]

I am trying to get my website fully indexed by google. Google has indexed 30 pages out of 92. So Google still have to index 62 pages. Since January I have 54 pages out of these 62 that are blocked ...
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How to exclude user/audience from displaying ads in Google Ads API, in real-time?

I want to exclude the user from displaying my ads once he/she clicks my ad; in real-time. So next time he/she should not be displayed same ad again and again. Is there any such api provided by google ...
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Are 'robots.txt' rules "starts with" or "contains" rules (clarification on confusing Google documentation)

Searching for robots.txt pattern matching rules (inc. the non official Google rules), I found this Google dev page where it says the /fish rule matches any path that starts with /fish (...) it doesn'...
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Page resources couldn’t be loaded in mobile friendly test (wordpress site)

Hi there to webmasters community. I have a wordpress site and I just realized a problem. When I run the mobile friendly test by google and go to Crawling - http response - more information - page ...
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How to use Google Programmable Search as an internal search engine when it doesn't index new pages quickly?

We've developed a Firebase Web App like Wikipedia for students, where each page is an essay that they write for their course assignments and link to one another. Firebase offers multiple third-party ...
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How to make sure my google ads conversions are working?

I'm pretty new in the Google Ads world and I was, for the first time, setting up conversion links to know the different type of actions my users do. I created conversions in the Google Ads backoffice, ...
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Google Lighthouse and SVGs with preserveAspectRatio="none"

Google Lighthouse has a red triangle error which significantly impacts the Best Practices score: Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio I can understand why this would be regarded as an error ...
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Is Server-Side-Rendering with Spring Boot backend and React.JS front end possible?

I am making a web application that utilizes java & spring boot for the back-end and react.js for the front-end. I have been doing research more recently on SEO performance on client-side-rendering ...
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My Websites were hacked - how to remove virus?

I help my parents run their appliance repair business. They have a few websites in GoDaddy which use Wordpress. Recently I noticed they have been hacked. If someone goes to the website through Google, ...
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How to connected Google Analytics 4 to Google Ads Campaign to track goals?

Trying to connect Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to my google ads account, but in the google ads campaign it only pulls the old, universal analytics properties (UA). Is there a way for google ads to pull ...
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where does Google test core web vitals from?

Is it possible to know where Google tests core web vitals from? I ask so that I can prepare our Cloudflare cache for their tests. I say this because ahrefs.com runs its site audit from France, and was ...
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Why is my page title appearing in lower case on Google?

My page title, in google search results is now in lower case, with the exception of our company name. The title tag is in title case: <title>Free Mobile Home Value - Used Mobile Home Book Values&...
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If there is same content on knowledge base article and website page then it Google considered it duplicate?

We are having a knowledge base on freshdesk (support articles) and some website pages have the same content as on knowledge base article. I want to know does Google consider this as duplicate content. ...
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How to show Google reviews on my website properly [closed]

Google offers data like photos or up to 5 reviews via their Places API. I just want to know, if I can use this data on my website without SEO penalization... Do I need include source of that data ...
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How can i add rel="nofollow" in img tags?

Does it make sense to have a rel="nofollow" attribute in img tag? Do search engines' crawlers use this attribute in some way for calculating PageRank score? What is the practical sense for ...
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The property causeOf is not recognised by the schema for an object of type DDxElement

<script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "MedicalCondition", "alternateName": "...
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How to get cart data showing up in google chrome blank 'new tab'

I've been seeing that this is somewhat of a new feature but I have just experienced it myself for the first time Do I need to have a certain schema for my cart/checkout page? I'm not sure what the ...
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Does Google analytics count as new users if users not revisit within 24hours on IOS14?

With regards to first party cookies, does Google analytics count as new users if the users not revisit on the website within 24 hours as a first party cookie is deleted within 24 hours?
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10 ranking places of difference between Safari@MacOS and Chrome@Win10

My client's site is differently ranked on MacOS and Windows. Safari@MacOS displays his site on place 7, Chrome@Win10 display him on the place 17. Both surely incognito windows. This ranking difference ...
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