The process of recording where particular words occur. In the web context search engines crawl the web and make a list of which pages have particular words - this is the index.
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How to get google and bing to index original image, not thumbnail?
I've read this post Make google index the actual image not the thumbnail but my case is a little different.
I have over a thousand images, in many different directories, with many different names, ...
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Prevent crawler that doesn't honoring robots.txt
I have some problem, when I try to write robots.txt for my site ...
I find some issues by search on Google, and tell me about honor and not honoring robots.txt, how I can prevent it, can I perform it ...
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why my website doesn't ranked by alexa? [closed]
I created a website with WordPress and post 10+ article in period of two month, but alexa doesn't rank my website. i tried to change my theme, URL and other related things and submit my website URL ...
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Do wordpress websites get indexed quicker by SE than a regular website?
I registered a couple of domains with the names of categories of products we sell.
I then installed wordpress in one of those domains and played around with it for a bit, and left it alone for about a ...
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Google indexes everything but homepage [duplicate]
I own markasoftware.getenjoyment.net. I submitted a sitemap for it, but Google is still not indexing things right: It indexes everything but the homepage!!! I have a JavaScript game on the site and it ...
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Blogger still visible after moving to WP; Google Indexing issues after moving from Blogger to WP
I recently migrated from Blogger to Wordpress and am having two major transition issues that are really hurting. Despite literally hours of searching and experimenting, I cannot resolve the following:
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I've changed my URL schema. How do I tell Google to index the new schema and forget the old one?
I had a site where the urls were constructed like this
/index.php/Topic
/index.php/AnotherTopic
These were indexed in google, and search results returned that pointed to these.
However, I've ...
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How to index Facebook & Twitter company pages by location?
I own a regional business directory and want to collect and add URLs of company Facebook Pages and Twitter pages by location (City and/or Zip code). What would be the best method to accomplish this ...
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How do I get Google to crawl my content when it's only displayed when you fill in a form?
I have a webpage. It has a form and the "results" section is blank. When the user searches for items, and a list that pops up, he/she chooses one option from list and then the corresponding results ...
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Does google crawl css scripts to check of hidden content [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
hidden texts and page rank
Does googlebot crawl CSS scripts to determine if content is hidden or not? If so, is it advisable to hide or not to hide content to improve on ...
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How to disallow indexing but allow crawling?
In the front page of my website, I have some previews to articles (with a small introduction to them) that link to the full articles.
I want to disallow the front page to prevent duplicate content. ...
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Easy way to identify pages which are index, but not linked to on my site
I'm just wondering if there is an easy way to find out what pages Google has indexed, that are not directly linked on my site, for example: www.mysite.com/skype.html originally had a link in my site ...
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How to properly remove URL's from Google's index?
On some of our sites, we now have several thousand pages that dilute our website's keyword density. The website is an MVC site with SEO routing.
If I submit a new sitemap with say only the 2000 or ...
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Site is not indexed by google but some pages are [closed]
Some of the pages of my site are indexed but the site isnot..how is it possible..and what can be done about it.
My site: www.viclaw.com
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Only 10% of my site are indexed [duplicate]
I'm newbie in Google Webmaster Tools and I use sitemap.xml to submit urls.
The problem is that I've submitted 150 urls and only 17 are indexed! Is that a problem or they will be indexed later?
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Indexing and crawling [duplicate]
Earlier, my site was indexed immediately after I posted anything. Last month my website crashed due to server problems and I didn't have a back up at that time so I recovered everything from cached ...
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Will JavaScript (document.write) content be indexed by search engines?
I have an external JS file embedding some content inline in a web page.
Basically it just does a document.write("my content") via a script tag and loaded externally with the src attribute.
Any ...
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Google De-Index many pages at once?
On one of our websites, Google has been indexing something it wasn't supposed to. We fixed the problem so it shouldn't happen anymore, but are interested in requesting that Google de-index these ...
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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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Want Google to index redirect urls
I'm having issues with users who think that Google Search is the address bar.
Some of the sites that link to my site use user friendly addresses with 301 redirects to pages that have less friendly ...
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Webmaster Tools show the “Total Indexed” number to be zero
I recently switched my domain from yannbane.blogspot.com to www.yannbane.com, and added my new domain to my Webmaster Tools account. After a few days, I went there and checked the data, and I was a ...
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Google webmaster Index Status. Total Indexed=0
I previously changed my domain from www.visualstudiolearn.blogspot.com to www.visualstudiolearn.com.
I had around 300 posts with the previous domain name and most of them where showing up on Google. ...
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As SEO writer, how can I put more quality in a repeated website section? [closed]
I was looking at the minimum words in a text for a seo page --> What should a page's minimum word count be in order to be effectively indexed? <--
and I understand quality matters. Thing is, I ...
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New site not appearing in index after change of address, no feedback from google webmaster tools [closed]
Our change of address seems to not be taking effect. Here's the story so far:
We're a web company and our product is called The New Hive. Our site used to be at thenewhive.com, but we decided to ...
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How to optimize website for SEO when content is accessed via one search field
We are developing a website (sort of information index for companies) where almost all content is accessed via one search field (similar to Google): you type a search phrase, get results and then can ...
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Challenging nameserver problem
I really appreciate you reading this. I have spent close to 6 months putting my soul into creating my first ruby on rails app, and now my site is all buggered up SEO-wise and I'm really bummed. I'm ...
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Are there any examples of #! indexed websites on the internet? [closed]
It seems that although google say they can index Ajax websites I cannot find any websites where this currently works. Does anyone know of any sites that are indexed?
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google webmaster showing 6 pages submitted 0 indexed, yet i can see them all there when i search in google?
I have a small 'brochure' type site with 6 pages, i can see them all the pages showing up in google when i search for my site.
But in webmaster tools under the sitemaps section it says 6 submitted, ...
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How can I get my dynamic site search results content indexed by Google?
I have a site that is simply a search box to search a cloud-hosted database of .tiff images, and then all of my content can only be accessed by entering a search term. So for example, you're on the ...
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Indexing big amount of keywords by google [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google?
I have a site with big amount of keywords to be index ;-)
It is a classified / listing site and I am ...
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Indexing issues when the SAME page has meta noindex when accsessed from the sites front page and meta index when accessed from sites archives
People post different questions on my site.
I have a php code which searches for duplicate questions before putting them inside my ARCHIVES.
Due to the sites architecture and coding there is a time ...
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Does displaying rss feeds in different blogs help get indexed and increase page rank?
I have a number of blogs that I run. One of them is old and gets good traffic so what I did is that I have placed the rss of all of the blogs onto the sidebar of each. I was wondering if this is good ...
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How sitemap.xml influences indexation?
If a page is missing in sitemap.xml (but crawable through HTML hyperlinks), may this cause it not to be indexed? (I mean it would be indexed without sitemap, but not indexed with sitemap because it is ...
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Pages are indexed but disappear after few days
My pages get indexed after 1 day, but some days later disappear from search results.
Any idea why this happens?
I've been trying to find any of the usual problems like hidden links or other issues, ...
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PDF crawled an indexed and valued as 'normal' content [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Do search engines crawl PDFs and if so are there any rules to follow when making them
I am adding several .pdf documents to my site. Now I am wondering if the content ...
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Mobile Sitemap in Google Webmaster Tools [closed]
I have a problem with my mobile sitemap because google index the urls as web instead of mobile. Why?
You can check the sitemap and one url.
I need your help.
Thanks
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Google has'nt indexed my website [duplicate]
Can anyone provide help for my problem? i submitted my site to many search engines a week before. Many Search engines have indexed my site except for Google.
I submitted my site to Google via Google ...
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Remove urls to unidex blog content from google, then copy blogs content to new blog [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
migrating PR / rankings from one site to another
Ive been writing a blog for the past yr or so, with about 300 published articles, the blog have been running under a ...
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Does searchbots index content in iframe [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Do we still need to avoid using frame/iframe for good SEO?
I have a html page that has a map of a country with lots of dots indicating location of companies through out ...
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Promoting certain keywords [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?
I am not a person from SEO background so its quite possible that my question might either is off ...
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Search Engine Indexing of a Database-Driven Website
Suppose I have a MySQL whose rows are dog breeds and whose columns are properties of the breeds (e.g. coat color). The purpose of the site is to allow users to query the database with questions like ...
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What does Google do with indexed pages returning 403?
I guess that Google removes already indexed pages that are now returning the HTTP error 403.
Unfortunately I can't find any definitive statement on that matter. Do you know the answer?
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Google has not indexed my site <what else do I need to do?> [closed]
Can anyone provide any insight? my site does not look indexed nor ranked on google or another other search engine. Please help. site: photowizdesign.com
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Google is not indexing my pages [duplicate]
I just typed a post title from a few days ago into Google with "quotes" around it and nothing is showing up.
Does Google hate me? I am doing nothing but white hat marketing and even took down the ...
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301 redirect to different page on different domain?
I want to make a 301 redirect to a different page on a different domain. The page is on the same topic, but is different content.
Also, the traffic to the original page comes from the alt text on an ...
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Should I notify 'under construction' websites to crawlers? If yes how?
I am currently developing a website which is going to take some time to finish. I need to move some 'stuff' to production frequently, while maintaining a under construction status. My front page will ...
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Is there a way to index multiple sites at once on google
I have a site with 60 subdomains. I was wondering if there was a way to index each of the subdomans seperately but quickly.
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Is text in Javascript HMTL scripts taken into account in Google (or other) indexes?
I have a HTML page where I update the content of a div to display some introduction text when displaying the page. It is hard for me to create copies of this page for all possibilities and move the ...
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Have SQL reports on separate database than same database that is serving web app?
We use SQL reports in a .NET web application, but some of our reports are heavy and involve more table join and columns.
As you know we cannot index all the involved columns (performance problem).
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Why are new pages not being indexed and old pages stay in the index?
I currently have a site that was recently restructured, causing much of its content to be reposted, creating new URL's for each page.
To avoid duplicates, all of the existing pages were added to the ...
