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First of all, the number of results shown by a site: search is only an estimate.
Try going forward to the next page in the site:mydomain.com search results, and see if the number changes, or if you find something revealing (like some files that shouldn't be there).
If there's really an issue, it could be duplicate content, or some non-HTML content that ...
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Essentially this message means that we (Google) discovered a surprisingly large number of unique URLs while crawling previously-known URLs. This message is sent out before we attempt to crawl those new, unique URLs (since that can take quite some time), it can be useful to inform you of issues with regards to crawlability of your website's structure. Because ...
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This sounds like you want to index search results. If I'm right, it's against Google's guidelines, according to Matt Cutts.
I recommend you to only index valuable content and not auto generated pages.
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These types of problems are more common than less common in Webmaster Tools sadly, GWT is often out dated or incorrect. GWT does not update as frequently as real time results and you often see these types of problems.
The Google Webmaster Tools Sitemaps Panel looks to be reporting correct as the picture shows that your only viewing that month and I imagine ...
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Both: /catalog/plant/concrete-preparation/ and /catalog/tools/concrete-preparation/ are accessible and I can confirm but have the same meta description and same content which Google will not like. If /catalog/tools/concrete-preparation/ is the new page then you need to do a 301 redirect from the old page to that page. The old ...
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To further investigate this problem you should:
Look at your server log files. Find the requests from Googlebot and verify that they are resulting in 301 status. If you direct Googlebot to hit your server and there is no request in the server log, then you have a DNS problem. Your domain name is not pointing to the server that you think it is pointing ...
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Google sends out a notice whenever it has issues connecting to your site.
The message will be similar to:
Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 205 errors while
attempting to connect to your site.
I've seen it send notices for outages less than 1 hour but still reference the 24 hour window. If you only received one message on one day, then ...
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My question is how long does it take before google notices the redirects and passes link juice?
It varies from site-to-site. Stack Overflow will see virtually immediate effects while "smaller" sites could have to wait weeks for all of their pages to be found and updated in their index. If this site gets 2,000 visitors a day, they probably have plenty ...
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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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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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