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Strange description appearing in Google search results

I just noticed that when searching Google for the name of a website I'm working on, the search result description now has a broken English phrase which does not appear anywhere on that website, nor on ...
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How do I have Google not index any of my site, except my domain?

Disallow: / I want Google to index the index page, but nothing else. Will this achieve it?
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How can i find a function which is included in multiple files from directories and sub directories?

Let's say i have this php function called from multiple php files do_something($var); How can i find the files from which the function is called? later edit: i want to do this on windows
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How to be the first site in google search? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I searched the title of my website in google search, and although it is a very specific tile, I ...
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Is there a wordpress plugin enabling an autocomplete search box, then jump to page? [migrated]

I have very little experience with WordPress. I am exploring it as a potential solution for our needs. I would like to implement an autocomplete search box (a bit like jQuery's) where users could ...
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Create a search for my HTML and CSS site that runs without an internet connection or database?

I have a website that I have written out in plain old HTML and CSS, and want to integrate a search function into it. However, the site is meant to be run offline, from host machines in their local web ...
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Are multiple results from a website search considered duplicate content?

The website is a Magento store , but I believe this applies to any product search. We have a search form which takes several parameters. Each combination of parameters results in a different set ...
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How do I search server for all instances of a given database user?

We just migrated one of our machines to a new box. Same web host, but new IP and physical machine. I've found a lot of the databases are using a generic dbuser/pw combo. With the new server, I want ...
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Can anyone recommened some up to date documentation on SEO [closed]

Possible Duplicate: What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I havnt done this for a while and know that search engines are more clever now. Does anyone know ...
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Invalidate Google site verification (Google Webmaster)

I started verifying the server by putting a couple of static HTML's in place. Then I noticed that Google wants you to keep these files in place. I didn't want to keep the static HTMLs in, so I want to ...
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How can I prevent a search engine from indexing a specific file or files on my website? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Blocking Search Engines to Crawl Parts of a Website? In general, I want my site to be indexed, but there are certain files I don't wish to be searchable from Google, ...
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Titles in Google results contain spammy prefixes

Over the past couple of weeks, we've noticed that the search results from Google for some of our drupal-powered sites are having their page titles hijacked somehow. An example would be: free ...
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Why is Google ignoring my pages after a sitemap submit?

I've submitted a Google sitemap with 12 links in, and Google has accepted the links (2 weeks ago) but it insists on only showing 4 out of the 12 pages in the search results. Even when doing a site: ...
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.htaccess rule to redirect from 404 to search results

When a user (or bot) request on non existing page, i want to redirect him to the search results. I Prefere to do it the .htaccess file. Things like ErrorDocument 404 ...
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How to get a share of Google's search revenue?

Mozilla gets money from Google when somebody searches in Google through Firefox and then clicks an ad. If people search on your own website with Google, you also get a share if they click an ad in ...
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Mysterious subdomains to my site indexed by Google

We have an issue with strange subdomains pointing to (pages on) our site such as: www2.example.com 2.example.com anothersite.com.example.com A few things are perplexing: who created them? why ...
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Is there a Q&A for SEO (Search Engine Optimization)?

Is there a great free Q&A (like Stack Overflow) for SEO (Search Engine Optimization)?
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Google search : pubdate issue

At some point this year, Google Search started to show the publication date. When I updated my website, I noticed that the publication date was actually my birthday, simply because it's the first ...
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Google search : pubdate issue [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Google search : pubdate issue At some point this year, Google Search started to show the publication date. When I updated my website, I noticed that the publication ...
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Web traffic analysis of third-party sites

Is there any way we can know how many people landed on an article page of a third-party site directly or by searching from Google?
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How can i check, which search result number this page is put to a stand in google?

How can i check, which search result number this page is put to a stand in google? Google will indexed this page, in matter of minutes or hours. Now, if I am searching in google by keywords - how ...
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Using scripts to visit site and leave immediately to lower Page Rank of competitors?

Using Google Analytics, in the past week we've noticed an extremely high percentage of people visiting our pages and leaving after less than one second. In some cases they are leaving after zero ...
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What search queries give my site highest rank?

This is just a curiosity to me. Is there a reasonable way to find out what queries put my site near the top of search results? I know it's not really a solvable problem, since there's an unlimited ...
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Targetting website users by consumer characteristics or by product qualities, which is more effective?

I develop a website (shermanbrothers.com) that sells products (gasp). I'm trying to figure out whether it's more effective to create navigation that target my users based on their general ...
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How to recover my inclusion in google results after being penalized for receiving comment spam?

My website had very high search engine results, especially in Google. But I left the website for a couple of months and didn't notice the comments were full of SPAM, about 20k comments of SPAM. Then i ...
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Is there a legal way to serve data-dump content without incurring search engine penalties?

I have a games site and I'm writing an API that will pull relevant Q&A from my copy of the SE data dump. I will abide by all licensing rules. That said, I'm hesitant to do this because Google ...
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Finally is it bad to mention words around sex in your page?

Among other I run a humor site, developed in php. I have a custom search built where people search for everything under the sun. I have noticed that it helps me to have a "Latest searches section" ...
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Google Doorway Penatly

Ok so i have been trying to figure this out for about a month now. The case: I have a blog network with unique content on each post and at the end of each post each blog links to ...
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Language Specific URLs for SEO

I'm currently building a website that is not targeted to an English speaking audience. So my thoughts are that if I were to make the URLs in the language of choice (in this case Spanish) then would ...
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How can I bring my website up in the google search result? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I have developed my website few months ago and I added meta tags and described everything as much ...
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Does the “canonical name” in DNS make any difference to search engines?

Some of our sites are setup with an "a record" to an ip address and some are setup as a cname of a server that then has an "a name" to the same server ip. I want it to be consistent. Which is the best ...
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Free search tool for static website

I am looking for a free search tool for a website hosting html documentation files. the tool should display the results as listings of page title and few lines of text from that page. It should also ...
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Advice on trying to determine the rankings of my keywords via PHP

I've written a piece of code, which crawls the search engines, first 40 50 results and check's for the specified keywords and tries to gather some statistics for them. I've heard that this may be ...
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How to increase site ranking? for a keyword: Sushil Handa [closed]

Possible Duplicate: What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I have a website located at: http://www.fifthvedaentrepreneurs.com I am trying to get this ...
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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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How can I search DNS records by registrant or admin contact info, email address for example?

I'd like to search for all domain names administered by jon.doe@domain.com for example. Are there any search tools out there that allow such a search?
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How to grep (or find) on cPanel?

How can I search for a specific string (function name or a variable name) in my files which are in various directories under cPanel file manager? I have been using a library directory and functions ...
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How to make sure that Google indexes your site in less than a day?

I am thinking of creating a website where the content will be only useful for a max of one week. I am also assuming that I will be getting most of the traffic thru search engines basically Google. For ...
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SEO - 2 websites in the same domain [closed]

Possible Duplicate: SEO - 2 websites in the same domain I have my domain (http://www.foobar.com, for example) and my website talks about technology. I want to have another website (with ...
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Website not showing in Google search

I have a site hosted at Brinkster and all keywords are there, but I still can't get it to show up in a Google search. I thought if I searched for it by domain name, it would show up in the Google ...
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Highlighting Search Results

A website I've recently worked on has a fairly extensive product search. The search returns results from the company's affiliates as well as products that the company produces and sponsors. A ...
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Searching for a page with a Very Unique title, doesnt find that intended page… Why?

a question about appearing in search results in google: A page of mine has this extremely unique page title: Ein gutes Logo passt wie ein Handschuh auf Ihre Marke in die Hände Now, when I search ...
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Does your company name in an article title damage Search Engine relevance

I've been wondering about this for a while but never come across a solid answer. Many websites include their name in all the title tags of their articles. This is often apparent in word-press blogs ...
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Ensure we're found in Facebook search for both full & abbreviated company names?

We have a client with a facebook page, let's say his company is called Bob Roberts Super Widgets. And if you search in Facebook for Bob Roberts Super Widgets then up he pops. But the shorthand he's ...
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how to use ip address in the search content source?

I have configured the alternate access for my sharepoint site using the server IP address. I need to use the server path as ip address in the search content source (http;10.104.55.333:100) instead ...
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the zen of adwords

I'm a hardcore developer gone freelance and I'm getting more and more requests for adwords from my clients. I've just started to read up on it, and of course I'm starting with wikipedia and have moved ...
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Why my site is not ranking for particular keyword

My site is only 3 days to be 6 months old. This website is unique, that is there is no competitor to this type site in India, providing comparison of payment gateways in India, besides the payment ...
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New site. Tons of traffic from Google. Nothing from Yahoo or Bing. What gives?

I've launched a number of sites recently (8-12 weeks) that are getting tons of traffic from google search at an increasing rate (both image and web), but they are getting absolutely nothing from bing ...
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Does anyone have statistics on percentage of people that use search feature on a website as opposed to the navigation bar

I was interested in knowing percentage of people that use search feature on a website as opposed to the navigation bar. Has search bar become more powerful than the traditional navigation bar for ...
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Do you know any independant keyword(phrase) statistics trend website?

does anyone know an equally impressive service that shows the amount of times a specific keyword(phrase) has been searched, as well as a branch of other similar words? The one discussed in this video ...

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