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Using Ajax #! for Google but site is not being crawled any more
We used to have all links in a normal way (thus with parameters?), we changed to Ajax loading cause we installed a music player. Here's an example:
Old links: ...
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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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What does “all” mean in meta robots tag?
Several websites have the following meta tag aimed at search engines like Google, Bing, etc.:
<meta name="robots" content="all" />
What does it do?
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Can a sitemap index file reference sitemap files under different domains?
My company owns several domain names. We also host websites for our users at their custom domains.
Our domains:
company.com
product1.com
product2.com
Users's domains:
user1.com
user2.com
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How to index jobs portal website? [closed]
I just finished developing my new website which is basically a jobs portal.
Most of the content (company and jobs) available following search.
I've indexed whole of the public pages but I want ...
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Using .htaccess for proper indexing/SEO of timthumb images
I don't know a whole lot about the intricacies of SEO so I was wondering if someone here could provide some insight to this problem.
When you use the php script timthumb on a website, it means images ...
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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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Addon domains and SEO
I have a shared hosting account with a main domain and many add-on domains. I don't actually use the main domain, it just has a landing page.
Can I tell bots not to index the main domain WITHOUT ...
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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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Difference between canonical and base tag
I am a little bit confused regarding the usage of canonical tags and base tags.
I have placed canonical tag (rel="canonical") on my website because of my website opening with no-www. I have reviewed ...
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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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Seo Fake backlinking from other sites
The title might be a little bit confusing. Well, I noticed that someone had used a page's URL for backlinking or indexing his keywords.
This is what he did:
The normal url:
http:// ...
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How to allow Google to index protected content?
I'm working on my site and as it require users to log in it will be hard to Google to index the sites, because to see 90% of the content you have to be online.
So I've made a script which looks for ...
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How to let Google know that content on the page has just changed?
I'd never thought of such a problem in the whole SEO spectrum before I considered launching my own website.
Imagine that I have a website which is updated once per month and Google spider knows ...
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Will history of a domain affect rankings for new site?
Bought the domain and initially parked the domain. Google did not rank the domain because it was parked, it has however began to index in the last day or so. My question is will the fact that the site ...
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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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Indexing a multilingual website
I am trying to create a multilingual website using the Django framework, all default content is English. I have added a native translation (Dutch).
https://mydomain.com/ redirects to the user request ...
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I don't think my site is being detected/crawled properly/having backlinks, and it's ruining SEO [closed]
This is really frustrating. I'm setting up a computer repairs business called Darley Tech. I have listed my site on many online directories to encourage backlinks. I have relevant and useful ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hiding a particulat page from search engines not to index [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Blocking Search Engines to Crawl Parts of a Website?
I have a page which i don't want search engines to index or crawl. I am not sure hat should i put in my robots.txt ...
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Difference between “/” at end of URL and without “/” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does it make a difference if your url ends in a trailing slash or not?
Why treat these as different URLs?
I am doing a 301 redirect in my WP application using ...
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Changed my Blog's url: what next?
I started working on a blog from last month. My blogs URL was quite big (for ex. http://my-old-long-url-blog.blogspot.com). I used it because i thought having 2-3 keywords in my url will help me.(i am ...
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Why is <my site url> not indexed by search engines? [closed]
was indexed fine until about a year ago.
The only thing I can think of is that search engines throw up at using h5 before h4, or that some person (fantasizing now) has reported my site as unsafe to ...
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Pre-Launch Indexing - Is it good to posting on-topic content for indexing prior to launch?
Is it worthwhile to put up some content, sans design, just for the purpose of getting indexed on the topic/product of the site that will be launched.
For example:
Domain = ...
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how to set 301 redirect in wordpress .htacces file
In continuation of my previously asked question preserve-search-engine-index-while-shifting-to-new-domain.
The migration is being done in the word-press and we will have same server with same IP.Since ...
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Redirecting URLs when launching a new website - how to avoid dropping page rank
i have over 100 urls in my website which i need to redirect:
E.g.
/page/how-to-bake-chocolate-cookies/ will redirect to /cookies/how-to-bake-chocolate-cookies/
/page/contact/ will redirect to ...
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Index a 301 Redirect to help a user locate a page
On a site I'm currently working on, there is a 301 Redirect to redirect a nice short URL for users to type in when trying to find a particular piece of content - e.g. www.mydomain.com/apply -> ...
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Huge drop in indexed pages [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why the # of indexed pages got dicreased?
My site's indexed pages drop every now and then. It suddenly drops from ~800.000 to ~20.000 pages, along with a huge drop in ...
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Getting indexed after removing meta noindex, Google
My question is, will my pages be indexed now in Google if they had <meta name="robots" content="noindex" /> in the past, since they were created? Of course, now they are <meta name="robots" ...
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What measures can be taken to make sure Google is aware of the existence of a newly created page?
Consider a website with a large number of pages. New pages are published regularly.
When publishing a new page the website operator wants to get the newly created paged crawled/indexed in Google as ...
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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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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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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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New domain and submission to search engines
I have registered a new domain with a hosting company. They offer the feature that for each new domain there is an associated placeholder page. Actually it is a "Site not configured page" with some ...
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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 ...
