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Webmaster tools show old URLs are crawled
We renewed our website last year (2012) in December. After that we have put 301 redirection in place for the required pages. We removed some pages in old site when we moved to new site.
For example ...
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Image Rankings on Google Image Search (Images hosted on external sites)
I saw that when I stopped uploading images to my own server my content on Google images disappeared. I stopped uploading images to my server for two main reasons: Traffic and Storage space on the VPS.
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Google not indexing/updating rel=“canonical” pages
I had same content with different links and I wanted to prioritize the indexing of different webpages.
For example /A/1232 and /A/1232/tum_bin_jiya_jay represent same content but I wanted to give ...
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Redirect pages to fix crawl errors
Google is giving me a crawl error for pages that I have removed like www.mysite.com/mypage.html. I want to redirect this pages to the new page www.mysite.com/mysite/mypage.
I tried to do that by ...
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Google indexing titles of login only pages
Google is indexing some pages which require login on our site, but just the title of each page.
I am quite baffled as to how this can happen, Has anyone experienced something similar?
One thing ...
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Google does not find/ignore alternate hreflang content
I have a problem with Google indexing our site in different languages using the alternate hreflang.
It's a forum and every thread is translated in the background and based on the language, the user ...
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Can't resubmit my Adsense application? [closed]
I have a blog which I'm trying to get approval on, and before I have submited the application about 4 times and got a reply email within 24 hours.
But now when I want to resubmit, normally on the ...
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View traffic source on google analytics?
I noticed there was a sudden spike in traffic in my Google analytics. Is there a way to possibly identify where the traffic was from? It only happened on a specific date though.
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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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When moving to a new domain should I ensure the old domain returns 410?
I recently moved from a .com domain to a .co.uk, this was a few months ago now, and essentially I still have my .com pointing to the same server as the .co.uk, and if accessed it performs a redirect ...
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Keyword meta tags to work with google
I'm trying to optimize my website for better search results, I currently have a meta tag created for keywords like so..
<meta name="keywords" content="key1, key2, key3" />
I have waited 30 ...
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Asynchronous page loading and SEO
To speed up my website (or at least the time to first byte (TTFB)), I'd like to only send the layout of the page and then get the page content with an asynchronous request.
This way, the TTFB will be ...
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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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google removed links from the index [duplicate]
I asked google to crawl a site through webmaster tool and include it to the index.
How actually it was done:
Firstly, i picked some urls manually. Approx. after half of a day those pages were ...
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seo optimization
I have submitted several pages to Google through Google Webmaster Tools by using a sitemap in XML format. Several pages are indexed by Google as well but the rank of those pages are in 400-500 as my ...
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Different Blocked URLS Stats in Google Webmaster
Just want to know i got different blocked urls stats at webmaster.
I blocked entire site for revamp and latest builds implementation. Here are different stats
Under Health tab> Blocked URls>2,580
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SEO and APIs: Helping or hurting?
I have a couple Real Estate sites for some clients, and I was wondering about APIs and how that would affect SEO.
Particularly, I'm looking at using the Yelp API for nearby stuff, and possibly a ...
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How to promote external sites besides my own in search results? [closed]
I have a site which, after fixing a lot of SEO issues, is now doing fairly well in Google search result rankings; the problem is I would like some related pages on other people's websites to show ...
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Why Google stopped caching my site?
Today I noticed that Google has stopped caching my site. I don't know why? cache:www.technostall.com (that's how I check cached pages in Chrome) gives a 404 page. Can anyone let me know why is this ...
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Website stopped appearing on Google results [closed]
I have a website with a Page Rank 3. Yesterday it was listed in Google as the second link (under a specific Hebrew keyword). 12 hours later I checked it with my Google Monitor tool and it seems my ...
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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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Are 307 Temporary Redirects safe for temporary new web site tests?
Our current site is getting close to being replaced. I was looking to do a test of our new sales funnel on the new site and compare the traffic and conversion ratios for a few days. So I was planning ...
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How to do SEO for a one page web application? [duplicate]
I have created a web application. It lets you search facebook update with keywords at run time. How can I do SEO for it?
There is just one page so its difficult to get ranking.
Who ever I disscussed ...
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Google's microdata for product images which aren't displayed in the page?
My internet shop displays thumbnails of products' images, and I see that these thumbnail are (slowly) being indexed by Google. I want also full images to be indexed. (I've seen some other questions on ...
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Google's microdata and html5 validation errors
According to Google's documentation about product microdata, when I want to mark product's availability in my internet shop, I should do the following:
<span itemprop="availability" ...
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Effect of removing home page content
I have a business website that I'm working on and I'm replacing the text I initially had on the home page with new columnized paragraphs of text. The text I'm removing though has a h1 tag and probably ...
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SEO semi-mirrored sites that don't anger google
I'm working with a client who manages real-estate agents. All of these agents have their own individual sites, and they all want the same layout and functionality. So, I have a "master" site designed ...
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google not showing indexed pages
problem #1
on my sitemap.xml is my home page.. www.sitename.in.rs, but when i search google using full url, or just a sitename, it doesn't show my website in results at all (45 pages of results, but ...
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Very low CTR in google organic results
My webpage is positioned for some phrases, but does not generate much visits. Eg. the most searched phrase had average 5.6 position in google, but the CTR is about 2%.
What should I do to improve ...
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Google analytics data is contradictory
For this post http://mytabletguru.com/forgot-password-pattern-unlock-of-android-tablet/
I am two different report.
1) When I see the Content -> Site Content -> Landing page, then it has following ...
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How to prevent duplicate title tags for multilingual content
Google is reporting duplicate title tags for a website that is built for 2 languages.
The URL structure seems fine it is something like:
example.com/place-1
example.com/fr/place-1
The title tags ...
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I dont want to hide my headings, but I dont want untitled articles
I'm currently building a site, that contains tabs (Bootstrap) for the articles. I dont want to show headings in the articles, because the tabs work as headings for the user.
But the tab buttons are ...
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Google does not auto complete my website's name
When I type in my website's name into Google it gives all other competing websites names but never autocompletes mine. Did the other sites buy the autocomplete option from Google?
My website is ...
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How do I map a (keyword rich) domain name to an existing website?
I am not experienced technical person, and still learning but will try to explain what I have done so far and what my query is.
I have a (hypothetical) domain az-studios.com
On that domain I have 3 ...
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Making Search Queries Indexable
Looking around, most sites (eg. Amazon) encode the parameters of searches into query string. This means that search engines cannot index these queries.
Why don't such sites use URLs rather than query ...
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Google Plus Vanity URL Dilema [closed]
Google Plus has just made vanity URLs available for pages, wanted your advice.
The page is pre approved (so all I need to is click accept) to get
www.google.com/+shoes
But my FB vanity URL is
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If I use my custom domain with my Blogger account will this help in SEO of that blog?
Also I want to know that if my custom domain is nothing but one of the keywords and my blog is also about that keyword, so will this help in improving google ranks of my blog after I change from ...
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Google Authorship not displaying
A few months back I set to the task of verifying my blog content for Google Authorship. I'm fairly confident I've ticked all the boxes and when I test my posts with the Google Structured Data tool it ...
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How DDNS can link to 3G simcard dynamic IP
I have CCTV that work via 3G (use simcard). I can access it directly using dynamic IP but as it keep changes, I won't be able to access it. My question if I set DDNS on CCTV, how can DDNS detect the ...
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Will Google Crawl Display:None Dropdown? [duplicate]
I have a navigation set up like so:
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li data-dropdown="page_1">Page_1</li>
<li ...
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Loss of page rank by Google after 301 Redirect?
I have developed a stock discussion forum whereby I separate each forum by the ticker symbol. The issue is, recently, the makers of the Blackberry phone, Research in Motion (formerly ticker symbol ...
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Seo Fake backlinking from other sites
The title might be a little bit confusing. Well, I noticed that someone had used a page's URL for backlinking or indexing his keywords.
This is what he did:
The normal url:
http:// ...
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Do long geographic lists “we cover these towns” work or are they penalised by Google?
Some small business type websites list their geographic areas covered, often crudely listing 30 or 40 towns, and then a big list of postcode areas.
Here's an example for skip hire:
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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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Tell Google to Refresh Search Screenshot
I recently remodeled a website for a client of mine. When doing a search on Google for their website the old website is still showing as the image for the website.
Is there a way in the Google ...
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Google Cache CSS and HTML files are out-of-sync
I am monitoring the cached version of the main page of one of my sites. I have noticed something strange.
Obviously, the cached pages is displayed with the latest CSS file. Yet, the page content is ...
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When should a webmaster call it a day POST Penguin & Panda?
A friend of mine, an ex-client whose site I designed, has a problem with his ranking and I want your personal spin on his situation. It'll help if I recall some of his site history.
Basically for 10 ...
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Searching for acronym keywords in Google brings up full domain as first result
For years, I've had two domains (this is a ficticious example):
allbenchescatchdirt.com and abcd.com
They both do okay in terms of ranking for their keywords. However, I noticed something weird:
If ...
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How can I prevent Google from mixing different languages in my sitelinks?
I have a web site in two different languages (English and Spanish). It is indexed by Google but, when searched, sitelinks below my result appear mixed with Spanish and English subtitles.
Each ...
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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 ...
