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Having some amount of duplicate content is expected on every site. Most sites are going to have the same links in multiple places. Sites based on Wordpress and similar CMS systems are going to have the same post on the home page, on the archive page, on the post page, and on each tag page.
Duplicate content hurts the most when it is copied from another ...
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That can be normal.
If you're building an app for this, one thing that might be worth looking into is integrating the top search query data from Google's Webmaster Tools (since it does include these queries, even if no referrer was sent for the request). There's a rough "API" to get that data (see the blog post) with a reference implementation in Python, ...
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The URL removal tool prevents your site from appearing in search results, it doesn't "reset" your site's indexing. To allow your site to appear in search again, you need to cancel the removal request.
In general, if those unnecessary URLs now return 404, then they'll drop out on their own, there's no need to submit URL removal requests for them. It can ...
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The reason is merely because your articles may be hosted on an authoritative domain. You can host an article on your website and on Wikipedia. You shall see that the Wikipedia article ranks higher. This is what we call domain name authority.
Give it some time for Google to figure out the original content. Meanwhile keep building authority backlinks to your ...
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Do I need to "reinclude" the site using the removal tool?
You can't "reinclude" the site using the removal tool?! It is a removal tool. Although it seems you can "undo" (ie. re-include the URLs) by canceling the removal request. However, the docs, suggest that "your content may later reappear in search results" regardless of this action.
You generally ...
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Gregor, i would not recommend blocking forum at all as you will loose your traffic and potential visitors who may visit your forum directly from search engine.
What i think is, the reason behind better search ranks of forum pages are the uniqueness and fresh content that is updated frequently. Kindly follow below steps to improve the rankings of your ...
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Sorry but there's no workarounds for this, custom search is different in terms of results for many reasons. Checkout:
Custom Search vs Google.com
In this case, however, your results are unlikely to match those
returned by Google Web Search, for several reasons:
Your custom search engine doesn't include Google Web Search features
such as ...
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That's the Knowledge Graph feature launched last year.
In the past, Google's search results were largely a matter of matching keywords. Now, for certain things, it makes an attempt to actually "understand" what you're looking for, and provide answers right on the results page. It's not anything you can really take direct action to make happen.
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Google usually pulls this data from various reputable sources. In the example you have shown the bio details is from Wikipedia and the image is from theverge.
In case of people, different professions get different kind of profile details, like movie stars get a list of recent movies and a football player gets details about awards and team he plays in.
Each ...
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OpenSearch has no bearing on search engine rankings. OpenSearch allows users to add your search engine to their browser.
To quote wikipedia:
“OpenSearch is a collection of technologies that allow publishing of search results in a format suitable for syndication and aggregation. It is a way for websites and search engines to publish search results in a ...
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As Suggested by Mr. Lavalamp, i went through the Google's Documentation and found the same even after searching the different sites as well. but Talking about Googlebots, they are far more smarter, i think:
Googlebot will not reject a page just because its size is too large, rather it will first crawl Title, URL, Images, headings, Subheadings and ...
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