Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies.
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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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Images not indexed by google since moving to cdn
Last week I moved all the images on coffeeandvanilla.com to a cdn( maxcdn.coffeeandvanilla.com ).
The problem I'm having is that although the sitemap—generated by Yoast WordPress SEO plugin—points ...
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How do you exclude yourself from Google Analytics on your website using cookies?
I'm trying to set up an exclusion filter with a browser cookie, so that my own visits to my don't show up in my Google Analytics. I tried 3 different methods and none of them have worked so far. I ...
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Why are my backlinks not showing on google on this asp.net website with all I've done?
I recently implemented many SEO techniques for a company on their asp.net website; in 6 months, we jumped from a PR1 to a PR3. But I'm having issues with google backlinking.
Here are some of the ...
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Why is Google not listing my site using its preferred domain?
Using Google Webmaster tools my site is set to 'Display URLs as www.mydomain.com' as opposed 'mydomain.com'. This is the setting for both of these sites in Webmaster tools and has been for several ...
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Why can't I verify my website with Google?
Here's the error I receive when trying to verify:
Verification failed for http://oracleoflegends.com/ using the Google
Analytics method (1 minute ago). Your verification file returns a
status ...
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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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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 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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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 do I get a list of all indexed links?
I am looking for a way to take every link that I have indexed by Google and export them to a CSV file. Recently I have had way more pages indexed by Google then I actually have and I want to find ...
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Why are there differences in data between Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools?
Why are there differences between Google Analytics And Google Webmaster Tools in external links data? Generally this data do not coincide with each other.
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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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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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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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Traffic fall after a server problem
I have a website from which I analyse the traffic with Google analytics.
Day after day the traffic (mainly from Google SE) incresed until I get a problem with my server.
For one day the server has ...
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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 Indexing URL that is a 301 redirect
My website URL structure is:
http://www.website.com/{record-type}/{record-id}/{human-readable-name}
If an invalid human readable name is provided, the page 301 redirects to the correct URL.
I've ...
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Backlink from page with low pagerank but site has high pagerank - effect from Google?
My understanding is that if I have too many backlinks from low PR (pagerank) sites, Google considers them to be low quality links and if you have too many, your site may even be de-indexed from ...
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Understanding the Google “show map of” feature
I noticed that the "show map of" link has recently popped up in the Google listings of some of my projects.
I searched on the net to understand the mechanics behind this feature, but I couldn't find ...
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How does redirects affect SEO?
I'm currently working on a new landing page for this site. I want the landing page to replace the existing front page of the site. However I don't want to lose the Page Rank of the current front page ...
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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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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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STRONG and EM tags inside H1 and H2 and SEO on database-driven website
I am trying to tweak the SEO of my Website, I have read a 400 SEO Bible PDF document that I came across. An aspect of my website that was not included in my SEO optimisation.
The STRONG and EM HTML ...
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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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Static Google +1 button
Google+’ +1 button generator only shows options for generating dynamic buttons (i.e. via client-side scripting).
For reasons related to German privacy & data protection law, this isn’t acceptable ...
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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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Link Building is Still a factor for getting rank in google?
Is Link Building still a major factor for good ranking in SERP’s?
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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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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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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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Slashes in URLs and SEO
My question is simple: Is there any disadvantage (in terms of SEO and search engine behavior) to using / instead of other delimiters in URLs like http://example.com/en/items/1234/page3?
I vaguely ...
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Gaining back page rank and seach engine ranking
I have my blog website with alot of do-follow links posted. If i remove all those links do my search engine ranking gets down or not?
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I Purchased a Domain that Previously had a Google Apps Account. How Do I Re-Create The Google Apps Account or Take Ownership of it?
I recently purchased a domain name. We'll call it example.com. The previous owner of the domain had a Google Apps account.
Now that I own the domain, I want to create a Google Apps account so I can ...
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rel=“Canonical”: Ranking Benefits ? & specifying for PDF?
I think I understand the basic case for using rel="canonical": to tell Google which is the preferred URI when the same page/content may be accessed via more than one URI.
This helps you avoid ...
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Which of this is search-engine friendly - google?
Which of this is search-engine friendly - Google?
www.example.com/keyword
www.keyword.example.com
www.example.com/keyword1-keyword2
Please explain the logic behind while answering and rate them.
...
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SEO wikipedia content and blockquote - duplicate content
I have a large website that aggregates content both from the websites and Wikipedia.
Even thought it's someone else content, the way it's combined is unique ad provides a valuable user experience ...
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Curious about a cached old domain
I am a bit curious about my new domain. I had a domain before, let's say http://example.com/. Before expiration of that domain, I bought a new one with the name http://another-domain.com/. I uploaded ...
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Multiple Google Analytics code for url under same domain
I have one domain: www.example.com, and www.example.com/sales. The analytic code on both urls are different.
So when I login to my Google account it displays two separate analytic accounts. on ...
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Google AdSense bot's algorithm and behavior [closed]
I am interesting in Google AdSense bot's algorithm and behavior with web site. I did not work with AdSense and I do not have account. So I need your help to understand:
1) Google's bot from time to ...
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Using rel=canonical with syndication
I work at a site which allows syndication of content (via API's and data dumps). We are finding that a number of sites which republish our content are appearing higher in Google search results, even ...
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Moving a WordPress installation from a subdomain to its own domain without losing PageRank
I'd like to move a WP installation from a subdomain to its own without losing the PageRank achieved by that subdomain.
What are the best steps in order to do this properly? Especially how do I set ...
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What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google?
What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google?
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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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Migrating from a wordpress.com to wordpress.org blog without harming SEO
I've had a Wordpress.com weblog for 3 years. And its pages have a good pagerank and are shown in first search results pages.
Because of the limitations, I should migrate to my own WordPress.
How to ...
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Email private information appearing in Google Results
I've got a major problem in that emails sent to our clients are showing up in Google's search results. For confidentiality reasons, I can't post those links (for risk that they get indexed here), but ...
