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 can I force a certain URL for Google to use in search results?
Each page on my site can be accessed by a shortened URL and normal "long" URLs. The shortened URL redirects to the long URL and the long URL includes an optional title that's not parsed (much like on ...
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Do search engines index text contained in SVG elements?
Example:
<svg><text>Hello World</text></svg>?
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Google is not indexing my Tumblr blog sufficiently
I have a 35-day-old blog on tumblr. I submitted it to Google using "Add your URL to Google" page about a month ago. However, when I search Google for the content of my blog using the following query, ...
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Best approach to have Google index content primarily generated by Javascript
I'm developing an app where customers can drop in a Javascript tag onto their website, and it will generate content. What is the best approach to have Google index this content and associate it with ...
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SEO - New web page are not getting indexing [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to know that my site is getting index/rank by search engine
Hi
I have uploaded dozen of new web page(those are xxx.html file) one month ago, but I can't find them on ...
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How to tell which URLs have fallen out of search engine index
I've had a few pages trimmed from google's indexed number on my sitemap in webmaster tools. How can I tell which pages have been dropped?
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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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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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Indexing for Google scholar, which tags to use?
In the "Inclusion Guidelines for Webmasters" for Google Scholar is written under Indexing Guidelines:
Google Scholar supports Highwire Press tags (e.g., citation_title), Eprints tags (e.g., ...
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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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How to protect PDF file from indexing?
I have link to PDF document on a public web-page. How to prevent search engines to index this link and PDF document. The only idea that came to my mind is to use captcha. However I wounder if there ...
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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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Why won't title attributes get indexed in Google?
When I search for Ride On + my site's name, I see that it's indexed.
But when I search for Green Horse + my site's name, I don't see my site appearing in the results anywhere!
Here's my code:
...
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How to suppress PHPSESSID in URL for Googlebot?
I use cookie based sessions, and they work for normal interaction with our site. However, when Googlebot comes crawling our PHP framework, Yii, needs to append ?PHPSESSID to each URL, which doesn't ...
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problem showing my website correctly in search engines
I have a website which i have indexed on google for example (like 15 days ago).
some of my pages pass arguments like:
http://www.bla.com/products.php?pro=bla&page=view
suddently i saw that ...
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Indexing dynamic loading page
Does Google index dynamic loading page?
For example
index.html
<div id="dynamic_message"></div>
index.html after few seconds
<div id="dynamic_message">Hello Google, do you see ...
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I disabled indexing WP tags,wp-contents,etc in robot.txt but it google still indexing!
This is totally killing me.
I have a wordpress website about flash games and this is the link if you want to check x1q.com (it is not english)
Well the problem is that I've disabled indexing tags ...
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Is it positive or negative for the average website to allow search engines to index user comments?
I've been trying to answer this question myself by researching and searching on google but I haven't been able to come with a final answer.
I have some hypothesis I would like share anyway:
The ...
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Should I strategically use NoFollow on internal links to make our indexing crawl more efficient?
We have a well designed internal linking system that makes certain no page is more than four pages deep, and the indexing process has gone well for us.
However, in addition to the hierarchical page ...
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Why do Google FreshBot crawled and indexed pages disappear from SERPs? Will they come back?
Sometimes a page on our site will show up in the Google SERPs that was previously not indexed (yet) due to a news story or blog posting on another site that points to it.
From what I understand, the ...
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2answers
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How to explain visitors that we don't control Google's results?
I have a message boards. Once in a while, some people contact us to remove anything related to them. We comply and delete all the posts and all traces. Some of those visitors still complain that they ...
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How do I get images containing text to be indexed by search engines?
I am building a small portfolio website for a friend, and being in advertising and all, she hates the standard fonts and wants everything written in a custom font.
As CSS font-embedding is not really ...
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Page appears indexed in Google but not findable for any search terms?
(Note that I am going to use screenshots here because I suspect writing about this will change the behavior over time.)
If you do a Google search for
uiviewcontroller best practices
either with ...
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How to get tens of millions of pages indexed by Google bot?
We are currently developing a site that currently has 8 million unique pages that will grow to about 20 million right away, and eventually to about 50 million or more.
Before you criticize... Yes, it ...
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My archives are beating my current content, how do I stop from competing against myself?
I've inherited a site with about 15,000 pages going back 16 years. Often current events are outranked by previous events. What are the best techniques to make sure that I'm not fighting against ...
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How to determine why a page is banned by Google
There is a website which is correctly indexed by Google. And there is a page which was correctly indexed initially but after a couple of week was removed from the Google index. Most probably a page ...
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Site not indexed by Google [duplicate]
I typed the following on Google: (1) site: uniquevolve.com (2) site: uniquevolve.com.au
Only (2) gets indexed. Is this normal?
The strange thing is, my Website is actually hosted on the server with ...
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Possible reasons RSS generated content won't index
I built a digg-like clone at fantasybookmark.com. Google crawled the site, but only indexed about 21 pages out of the 2,000 or so (and growing) pages on the site. We use rss feeds to find and ...
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1answer
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Optimizing with filtered results?
I'm finishing up development on a tourist information website that lists hotels, restaurants, bars, among other things for an up-and-coming tourist area in Cambodia:
...
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How quickly does Bing index URLs submitted through Webmaster Tools?
In Bing's Webmaster Tools, there is a Submit URLs page that allows you to "Submit URLs that are currently not in the Bing index or that should be reindexed due to recent changes."
Does anyone know ...
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3answers
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Multiple site pages not accesible via main site nav- SEO implications?
I run a site that has some of the site pages accessible through the site's main navigation. Then, there are 50+ "state" pages that are accessible to a user if they click on a specific state on a ...
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How long did it take for your new website to be indexed by search engines [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why isn't my website in Google search results?
I have added my website to the webmaster tools of some major search engines already, and supplied the sitemap for the ...
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4answers
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Is there any way to have search engines not index a certain section of a page?
I have Blogger setup with the Blog Archive panel shown on every page so that users can easily get to old posts. The problem is that it lists the title of each page in this panel, meaning that the ...
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How can I get Google to not index archive pages in Blogger?
I'm using Blogger with a custom domain. When I use the Google search site:example.com, the top results are in the form Example: 2010-01-10. These are archive pages that Blogger generates. My relevant ...
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Is using URL Rewritting the only way to make sure all pages are cached by Google?
If I keep the pattern (index.php?module=test¶m=1) will pages be less likely to be indexed then if I use the pattern (test_param_1.html) ?
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How long does it take for Google Webmasters to index site after submitting sitemap? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why isn't my website in Google search results?
I have submitted my website today into Google search using Google Webmasters using sitemaps.
The status on the ...
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How can I get Google to index my PDF documents?
We are having troubles getting Google to index the PDF files in our site. There are about 50 PDF and range in size for 20 KB to a little under two megs. They are not protected, can be read ...
