A search engine is program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found.
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Why isn't my website in Google search results?
I've made a website one month ago and it still isn't indexed by Google.
I haven't change any setting in the robot.txt file. I've tried to search for site:websitename.com but I still can't see it, and ...
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Why aren't search engines indexing my content?
This is a general, community wiki catch-all question and answer pair intended to address any questions
concerning the reasons a site or specific site contents do not appear
in search engine ...
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How can I get search engines to crawl my site and see a localised view of my data?
(I hope I asked the question right..)
Fake site
Our site lists products for sale.
eg : http://www.myWebSite.com/products/some-drink-we-love-to-guzzle
Each product page has been translated into a ...
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StackOverflow and Google search
How is it that questions posted to the Stack Overflow show up as #1 in Google search results just minutes after being submitted? What SEO practices are being used to generate this sort of ...
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Preventing robots from crawling specific part of a page
As a webmaster in charge of a tiny site that has a forum, I regularly receive complains from users that both the internal search engine and that external searches (like when using Google) are totally ...
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How to Remove URLs from Google Search Engine
I have used so many things like url removal request and deleted the pages etc., but still the errors are shown in my webmaster tools.
How can I remove the urls completely from Google?
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How do I get Google to show links to my site hierarchy in search results?
I have recently noticed that for some websites, Google is linking to different locations in the site hierarchy instead of just the destination page URL. For instance, searching for "Malibu Rum Drink ...
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Do dedicated IP addresses improve SEO?
I've googled that and I've found many opinions on this subject, and I'm not sure, if, dedicated IP addresses actually really improve SEO? Is it that different from shared IP address (of 50-100 other ...
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Google doesn't seem to update the description or title of my homepage
Before we launched our website, we had set up a "coming soon" page and google picked up the title and description from its contents. So the description in the search results said, "Coming soon! Visit ...
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Anchor tag inside H1 or H1 inside achor tag : Which is better?
I am trying to use h1 tags on my blog for the post title and came across one problem.
Title is hyperlinked.
so
Case 1:
<h1> <a href=""> xyz </a> </h1>
case 2:
<a ...
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Validation Meta tags for search engines
Should validation meta tags for search engines be left on the site following validation? For example, should I leave my msvalidate meta tag after I've validated the site.
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Is minifying id and class names a bad SEO practice?
I am a big fan of minifying everything whenever possible. It is a sin for me to don't do this.
However, I recently read that one of the thousands tips to boost your website rank on search engines was ...
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Effect on Google rankings if my site is down?
My site has been down for the last 8 hours due to hardware problems.
Any ideas on how this will affect my Google rankings/serps ??
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How do I control how often search engines visit my site?
I've been using the following line in the <head> of my sites for years:
<meta name="revisit-after" content="3 days" />
I recently discovered that it's not one of the meta tags that ...
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Problem with description of my site and google search
My HTML page :
http://www.faressoft.com
<meta name="description" content="فارس سوفت الاسم الرائد في عالم البرمجيات العربية" />
When I search for my site name "فارس سوفت" using google, the ...
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New META TAGS with positive effects for seo ranking in 2011 and beyond
im trying to make an up to date chart of meta tags, for all of us, with their purposes, their use and their good (or bad) effects on search engines/being found. Also any body knows new/promising meta ...
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Which of these 3 URL-Rewritings are better seo friendly URLs?
Imagine my current flat-file non-cms website with an URL like http://website.com/en/tomato
This is of course very unsexy and could be anything really from tomato soup, tomato the music band, tomato ...
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Is there any way to find out how often a certain query is sent to a search engine?
For example, let's assume a string 'green apple'. Is there at least one SE (or, maybe 3rd-party site) which provides its statistics on how often do users search this concrete string?
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Differences between google domains in different countries
We are currently trying to see if our site is being indexed successfully by google. Mind you we got millions of pages.
A trick some people use is the google site: command.
I always assumed that ...
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How should I handle search engines auto-correcting the spelling of a site's name?
A client's site and company is called 'Tranin Communications' (Tranin is her last name).
It ranks well in searches for her name but rather poorly in searches for the name of her site/company.
I ...
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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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Canonical Tag Not Being Recognized
I'm puzzled by the first Google search result in this list.
The first result has the following rel="canonical" tag:
<link rel="canonical" ...
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Hide a Subdomain from Google/Search Engine SEO Result?
I have a subomain which I do not want to be listed in any search engine result. Let say I have:
http://www.example.com
http://child.example.com
How can I hide all URLs of child.example.com domain ...
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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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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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The SEO Benefit of Breaking Up Content Onto Different Websites
i had a question i need help with
i have a client who's been told that breaking up his content onto multiple websites will give him a seo boost. im wondering if this is true
let me break it down ...
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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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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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How do I get Images for my site to Return in Google Searches
I know when I search Google for specific things I get back images underneath some sites. How do I get that to work for my site? I have even seen some sites that will return 4 or 5 images for the the ...
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is it a good seo practice to put relative keywords in a hidden div? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
hidden texts and page rank
I was wondering what would happen if we put some (around 25) relative keywords in the page using a hidden div so that the actual user does not ...
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Do search engines see comments in the source code as a backlink?
I would like to know if Google or any other search engine would regard a comment in the source-code containing a link:
<!-- domain.com -->
as a back-link.
If yes how much weight is put ...
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How to display an image in google search result
I managed to do it with my blog like this:
by using google+ (found it somewhere on the web):
<link rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/115170983146246266025/"/>
UPDATE:
This is the ...
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Moving to a new domain - what to do to minimize visitor loss
I want to move my website to a new domain. Would be nice if you can share some experience or suggestion to minimize loss of visitors.
In google webmaster tools there is an option which allows to move ...
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Site Search Engine for 1,000 page website
I manage a website with about 1,000 articles that need to be searchable by my members.
The site search engines I've tried all had their own problems:
Fluid Dynamics Search Engine
Since it's ...
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Where can I find a list of search engine crawler user agents and their domain names?
I'm trying to follow stackoverflow's approach of using a white list for the sitemap. I have tried to find an extensive list of search engine crawlers (and other crawlers) to use in my white list but ...
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SEO Removal Time?
I was searching about removing the a domain/site being listed in Web Search Results (like, Google Search) and i found solution, at here.
I believe it will be the solution but what i still need to ...
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Rel=next & rel=prev in infinite scroll
Based on this article
I have a SERP that does infinite scrolling to load results greater than 10.
How do I go about implement rel=next & rel=prev for that?
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Does pinging the page on social bookmarking sites whre your site has been bookmarked help SEO?
If you bookmark your site on say, delicious, does it help to then ping the url on delicious that contains the bookmark to your site?
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Does using spaces in a URL affect SEO?
When creating URLs for my website I need to use a space, for example http://mydomain.com/start home
I've seen some sites using + or -, what are the advantages of using space, + and - (dashes) in SEO?
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A particular url on a website suddenly disappeared from google search results - why?
I have a website which had a particular page url that was indexed in google search results - in the first 10 results. Suddenly it disappeared. Now that page is not even in the first 100 results. What ...
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How to remove old robots.txt from google as old file block the whole site
I have a website which still shows old robots.txt in the google webmaster tools.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Which is blocking Googlebot. I have removed old file updated new robots.txt file with ...
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Preserve Search engine index while shifting to new Domain
I am not a SEO guy so not sure how relevant my question is.
We have to shift our web-site to a new domain due to some unavoidable circumstances but since the portal is up and running there from 2009 ...
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Will we be penalized for having multiple external links to the same site?
There seem to be conflicting answers on this question. The most relevant ones seem to be at least a year or two old, so I thought it would be worth re-asking this question.
My gut says it's ok, ...
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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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Can search engines change language and read the cookie?
I am building a multi language website in PHP and prepared all my strings in English by default using gettext()
My locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/default.mo file is working correctly and now I need to sort ...
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Should I make a search-engine only page for my domain (which re-directs visitors depending on geographic location)?
I manage a domain which is an umbrella domain - it is used in marketing/advertising a product around the world. When users visit the domain the site re-directs them to a sub-domain specifically for ...
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