New answers tagged google-webmaster-tools
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You should not target by location unless you don't want visitors from certain countries. Here are some reasons to use location targeting:
You can only ship your product to a specific country
Your have information that is only of interest to people in a specific country (such as information about the laws of that country)
You have separate sites for each ...
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"Effect": "None" doesn't mean that it isn't working. That means that the parameter has no effect on the output of the page. If you set "Crawl" to "Representative URL" then "Effect" automatically becomes "None" (and stays that way forever). If you set "Crawl" to "Every URL", then "Effect" becomes "Specifies".
You will know it is working when Googlebot ...
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This problem often occurs with Wordpress websites.
You get "not found pages" (404) because Googlebot find some links on the source code of your website. Wordpress in particular add some links for feeds in the <head> section even if you don't want. You can see these links by displaying the source code of your webpages (CTRL + U with Google Chrome, ...
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A starting point is to check the Google Webmaster Tools API - Developers Guide, where pretty much all your answers are covered. Unfortunately, this only outputs information about domains you have verified yourself through the GWT. It does not work on third party domains!
That said, there are a plethory of tools, API's (see Programmableweb.com, Mashape) and ...
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Here are instructions on how to tell Bing you have moved site:
Bing Site Move tool
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You can check your website backlinks with a tool like Ahrefs. You can easily identify bad links to your website by reading this webpage from Google.
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Google has announced that they will try to give more example links in cases when they send
out unnatural links warnings. Its dissapointing to here that you get no guidance in webmaster tools.
Here are some third party tools that list links to your site:
Bing Webmaster Tools Link Explorer
Open Site Explorer
Google Analytics Referral Traffic Report
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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 analytics shouldn't care that the IP addresses are different for different subdomains, or even that it is using DNS CNAME vs A records.
You may have issues with:
Putting your analytics tracking code onto all of those servers. The software running each subdomain will have to be able to serve up the analytics code.
Tracking domain.atlassain.net ...
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A closer look at the date range selected tells me that the dates selected show that the past two days have been included.
GWMT does not report the data for the past two days, which means that data for 2 days is being compared to the previous period which has data for 4 days.
This unfair comparison has to be avoided.
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I have found quality websites linking 2 you+related content from those sites will ump your overall PR, like said above, Apple rank whois better, and just because I have millions of unique users (Porn) and link to your site I assume no Adult related content the extra bump in traffic helps pageviews not pagerank. FFA lists, Picpost, TGP, etc traffic is high ...
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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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A factor is how your keyword is related from an outside perspective to your domain.
If your link appears on other places in the context of your keyword it ranks the site higher.
For example an article on a blog (ideally solely writing about your keyword context) with your link you intend to rank for.
The higher the page value of the linking site the more ...
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At the 3rd position in the Terms of significance at your Webmaster Page Means that you'll rank higher than other sites. AFAIK It means that the keyword 'angeethi' at the top 3 of your sites (in the terms of quantity).
You must consider the popularity, quality, trustworthy, and BIG 'G' factor of your sites among others.
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Google puts great emphasis on keywords. Why do you think they even had Panda and Penguin in the first place? Keyword Density, Relevancy, and Anchor Text Density were a big indication for Google to detect optimized websites.
Don't let Google figure out your keywords. That is not the mark of a webmaster. You need Google to see your keywords the way that you ...
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If I have the keyword "Apple" as the prominent keyword in my website, does that mean that I shall rank better than the official Apple website? It does not.
You need to work on your SEO skills to get your website ranked higher. As a start, I shall suggest you to add more content to your website, and optimize its page load time. Start building quality links ...
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Remember, google also index tags, category, and taxonomy. Those also considered as pages by google.
Sometimes , google also index query of your script
e.g.
Example.com/user?id=54
example.com/search?query=query
or maybe, the result is not right,
some time google result is less than it estimates . I once discovered that google said it found 1000++ results, ...
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It depends on what you choose to do with the traffic that you receive. In case of niches like dentists, 100 searches a month can be profitable. But when it comes to earning revenue through ads, its recommended to choose a keyword with more than 1000 local searches.
Also, stop using the "Phrase" searches, and move over to "Exact". Exact means it shall list ...
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The reason can be due to canonical urls. WWW and non-WWW versions can be seen as different pages by Google. That may explain why the numbers doubled. The other reason may be the fact that the pages that you have removed are not yet de-indexed by Google.
To diagnose the issue, I suggest you look through a couple of urls manually.
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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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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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6500 is the total number of contents/pages or it also keeps track of aggregations, subsections or things like that? if you have, for example, a WP site, you also have to keep in mind that each tag also have at leas one page, so while maybe you do not have content duplicate problems, maybe there are some CMS feature that actually create more pages than you ...
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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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You could submit an XML sitemap of the OLD site URLs trough Webmaster Tools, if you still have information about those old URLs. This way Google would both recognize the redirects and find the new URLs as well. I did this for a client once, to speed up things when the site was redesigned.
You could also share some of the new URLs on Google+, as this often ...
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The problem has resolved itself, after about 1 month. Not sure what the delay was originally, but indexing has returned to normal. Apologies on not updating this thread.
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Try going to google.com and use the Google Operator "site:mywebsite.ca" to see how many pages are indexed. If nothing is indexed then, either there is a problem with your WordPress installation or the migration, or your site might have been penalised.
To rule out WordPress/Migration try the following:
Check the robots.txt file on the off change that the ...
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To cover your last point first, if you have 97k URLs indexed but 1.2m URLs found with a parameter, then Googlebot is ignoring many URLs (over 1.1m in fact).
As for the main question, Webmaster Tools states when you set the option "No URL" that they may remove URLs from the index - so there is no guarantee they will be removed.
You should go through those ...
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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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Use this tool.
Enter your URL in the authorship testing result and check your status.
If your website is already linked to Google+, you will get "Authorship is working for this webpage".
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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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If you have the list of those URLs then you can delete those URLs with of help of Google Webmaster tool. Visit the link for complete pictorial description: http://infoheap.com/how-to-remove-urls-from-google-index-using-webmaster-tools/
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To get Googlebot to crawl faster you need:
A fast server. The less time that it takes for Googlebot to download each page the faster it will crawl. Don't worry about the images, css, and javascript. Just serve the html faster. I find that enabling gzip compression helps. Cache and preload some of your site's data if appropriate. Shrink your page ...
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