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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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 make sure an individual website is not indexed by search engines?
I'm setting up a personal website with a blog that I would like to be indexed by search engines. But the blog will link to CV with personal information that shouldn't be indexed.
Can it be reliably ...
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When will iframe content be indexed as part of the surrounding page?
Our system provides a web front-end. A potential client would like to set up his own portal, and place our pages within his own pages, using iframes. He'd also like Google to index the joined content. ...
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Prohibit search engines before going live
I want to prohibit search engines to index my web site before going live with it.
If I simple do a robots.txt with:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Would that cause any issues later when I decide to ...
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What's the best way to handle multiple sites on a shared server?
I'm on a shared server (via LunarPages), and I also host a few low-impact sites for a few small businesses. I recently had a problem (blocked crawlers by messing with the internal settings) that made ...
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Index manager in cpanel. Do contents still get indexed with “No Indexing”?
Simple question.
A folder, lets say for example abc.com/images/
Is being displayed on google as "index of", which I don't like.
The contents of this folder are important, and it is important that ...
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Need advice, previous parked domain not indexing on Google
I originally bought the domain (www.iconicphotos.co.uk) a while ago, I then decided to try and sell it on Sedo. The domain was up for sale for a few months before I noticed that the ads being pulled ...
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Google Webmaster tools showing sitemap URL's indexed but not showing up in search results
I have submitted simple text sitemap to Google Webmaster tools and after few days it was crawled, after few more most links were indexed according to GWT but it is not showing those links in google. ...
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What should be done after renaming the urls of my website?
One month ago, I updated all the product URLs on my site which were separated by _ sign to be separated by - sign.
Example:
.com/Calipers/Insize_1108
now looks like
.com/Calipers/Insize-1108
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Blog is not indexing in google search [duplicate]
I have a blog with url http://webzpedia.blogspot.in which is about 2 years old. In early days there is 200+ pageviews coming from the google search itself. But from last 4-5 months, google stopped ...
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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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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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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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Does having a website inside a frame (<frameset>) helps or affect search engine rankings?
I have been working to promote my website from long time but not getting such traffic as work I have done on that.
My website is running online with another domain using framset so is it somewhere ...
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How to test robots.txt in googlebot to find out what is being indexed
This question is a continuation for this answer
How to check if googlebot will index a given url?
As was told I did go to the Webmaster Tools and tested contents of my robots.txt file. However this is ...
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I want the links in my HTML sitemap to be crawled but I do not want the sitemap in the SERPs
I have a website that has some pages and then it has a folder that has the majority of the pages. All the pages that exist in this folder could only be accessed by using my website search engine, then ...
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Index Company Name but not other keywords
I'm working on a website that doesn't want it's content indexed by search engines because it only caters to a specific segment of the population. It purposefully wants to stay hidden from the general ...
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Old pages still appearing in Google?
Many pages that have been deleted for a long time are still appearing in Google? When I then click on them, they obviously can't be found. Am I doing something wrong/forgetting something?
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Will Google index images from HTML select tag
If i have code like this:
<select>
<option value="path/to/image1.jpg">Image 1</option>
<option value="path/to/image2.jpg">Image 2</option>
<option ...
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www.*.us.com not being indexed, but *.us.com is on Google Webmasters
I've read the FAQ and searched the help center. My URL is http://www.etechsupport.us.com.
I have also done 301 redirect of no-www to www.
But www is not being indexed by Google and no-www is. My SEO ...
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How to make Google index files retrieved from database?
We use Joomla with Remository to store and manage publications (don't ask me why). Files (PDF) are stored in a database and can be accessed via dynamic, rewritten links of the form
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How to make image only website friendly to googlebot? [duplicate]
so I making this portfolio site for some artist. She draw all the menus and texts manually(on paper), then scanned, some "post processing" in photoshop and that's how the whole layout was created.
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Provide Search Across Multiple PDFs
I know there are probably many solutions, but what's the easiest and/or most user friendly way to provide search capabilities across PDF files? I'm thinking of a webpage that links to several PDFs and ...
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How to create and submit multiple sitemaps into categories?
I have a questions. I need to know how to create and submit multiple sitemaps into categories? This is for a big online auction site with a lot of products that needs to be indexed.
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Changing uri-design SEO
I think I need to redesign my uri-collections of my site.
Right now I am using the following structure by a mistake:
/fruits for the whole collection
/fruit/banana for an item in the collection
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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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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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Site not indexed in Google, but indexed in Bing and Yahoo [duplicate]
When I search for mytgp.ph on Google, I don't get any relevant results. But when I search using Yahoo or Bing, the site is the 1st result on the first page. Any ideas?
Here's my site:mytgp.ph query ...
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your fresh content on Google
I have actually pretty simple question. Having new sitemap every week and get it indexed immediately. How can I guarantee that the new fresh content will be indexed immediately by Google without ...
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Google not detecting new page addresses after redesign
I recently moved our company's site to WordPress. It was necessary since the old site's structure was poor at best. It's now been three weeks and the addresses listed in Google have not changed. ...
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Will search engines reindex a page that has been set to redirect on to a newer site page?
We were asked by a client to change a website so that any pages/Urls we were hosting on an older site would now redirect to a newer site hosted somewhere else and a different domain name to boot.
We ...
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Will Google preserve URL parameters when indexing my site if the explicit in the site and/or site map
I have written some functionality that opens tabbed content on page when visiting a page via a URL with certain parameters.
What i have been asked is that will Google, or any other search engine, ...
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JavaScript loaded external content SEO
I wonder what is the best way to have Javascript loaded content indexed by search engines. I know that search engines don't execute Javascript, but I am thinking more of an progressive enchantment.
I ...
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Webmaster tools reports fake 404 errors
I have a website where Google Webmaster Tools reports 15,000 links as 404 errors. However, all links return a 200 when I visit them. The problem is, that eventhough I can visit these pages and return ...
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Does Google search URLs in different languages
I am building a multilingual website (from Spanish origins) however there will be English, Chinese, Spanish, and French users.
We are about to buy a domain however I am confused as to what language I ...
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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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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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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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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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Why is Google not indexing my forum?
I have this web site that as you can see on the top right has is a "Forums" button that links to my forums.
My problem is that if, for instance, I make a Google search "site:heliumscraper.com ...
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If my index page has no textual content, should it be present in sitemap?
My index page contains no textual content at all (except some footer links, copyright notice and some stuff in tag). It has, however, big Google's map with some pins attached which lead to articles. ...
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Major Indexing problem with my site [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
I cannot see my website in google
Hey guys I am having problem with indexing my site http://www.loosediamondschicago.com which is in wordpress hosted on godaddy. Its ...
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How to know that my site is getting index/rank by search engine
As per subject, anyone can tell me how to check that my site is getting index/rank by search engine(e.g. google, yahoo)?
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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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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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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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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 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 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 ...
