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First, let's clear up a misconception in the other answers: Google search does not use Google Analytics in any way for ranking.
Matt Cutts at Google confirmed this years ago. And if you think about it logically, for the most part it does not make sense for them to use that data for two reasons: (1) most sites get most of their traffic from Google, so ...
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No you shouldn't concern yourself, it makes perfect user sense.
If you want to be nice to those with javascript disabled though you could place a <noscript> element with your hidden images.
I would also put the photo numbers in the alt tags, something like alt="Photo #2 of bmw 328 manual 2008 black 18 inch rims"
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You should login to Google Webmaster Tools and do a fetch as Google, if the page returns a status 200 then you know that your pages are working as intended and what your experiencing is just the Google cache service not working, which should resolve itself in time.
Google Cache is not Realtime
It's worth mentioning that the Google cache system runs ...
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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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A Google Analytics 'visitor' is tracked by a unique cookie. If the cookie is present since the last visit the visitor is counted as returning.
For more GA definitions see http://www.analyticsmarket.com/blog/google-analytics-definitions
Also GA´s Interpreting Reports might be of interest.
For GA´s cookie information see Google Analytics Cookie Usage on ...
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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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The problem is that you are using noindex on your pages, see line:97 when viewing the source of your page. See below:
Line 96: <meta name="description" content="xxxx" />
Line 97: <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />
Line 98: <meta name="googlebot" content="noarchive" />
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Google reads content within a element that uses display:none, it also checks to make sure there is a trigger point, i.e that the content can be revealed though JavaScript.
Many people don't put in trust in Google being able to understand their scripts and many people opt to use <noscript> as Anthony has mentioned, using noscript ensures that Google ...
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In order to block all robots in your website, the correct code is:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Don't forget the / (slash) after Disallow:.
To block only subdirectories and their internal webpages with robots.txt, you have to list them one by one. Thus you need to know their names:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /vendor/
Disallow: /module/
...
To understand how ...
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In this case how do i add link back in Google plus contributor
section? is just linking from my website to Google plus enough?
Absolutely! Simply link to their Google Plus account, ensure that you only ever have one link on a page at a time otherwise it doesn't work, you can read more by using the link below (No need to do option 1). If you don't want ...
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If I read your question right is that basically you do not want users or any other bots than Bing and Google having the ability to visit sitemap.xml as the contents of the sitemap are generated real time which could cause additional server load that you want to avoid.
If I'm correct you are approaching this in the wrong manner and there should be no reason ...
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The surest way to get those pages out of index is to use this in the html head section:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />
Sometimes Google indexes some URLs (but not the content) despite the Disallow in robots.txt. See my answer to this question for details.
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Google scans your source code for items that look like URLs and will try to crawl them and index them, even if they are not in an <a href.
Based on the crawling that Googlebot has done on my site, Google seems to think that strings in the page source are URLs if:
They end in a common page extension such as "html", "htm", or "php".
They contain a slash ...
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Google has a lot of ways to collect data about you and your website. They can tell how much traffic you get via Google search and Google analytics (as you mentioned) they also have android, gmail, chome browser, chrome OS, Google reader (for a little longer at least), youtube, and Google plus just to name a few sources. You don't need to rely on GA to get ...
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EDIT: your question is a bit misleading, but as per the comment you gave on your question.. here is my answer.
Page Views / Traffic is only tracked via Google Analytics, but that doesn't mean that your site wont get indexed anymore. You will gain page rank even without google analytics via the amount of link backs (other sites linking back to you) thus your ...
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Using site:www.yoursite.com
I can tell that you have many cached by using site:www.yoursite.com
for example:
30th April
1st April
23 March
22nd Feb
Above examples
As you can see from the above examples that your pages are caching just fine, Google search results and caching services work independently and has no effect on your rankings. The more you ...
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No, it wont help. A penalty is not applied to a single page, but rather applied to the entire domain name.
If you want to stick to Google's good pages, I suggest you try removing all the spam links and then report it to Google through the Webmasters Tools. Even if you have not removed all the links, Google shall reward you for your efforts by getting your ...
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Google is pretty vague on how the penguin penalty works from spammy links with keywords so your never an official answer, in fact Google doesn't want people knowing otherwise blackhatters would reverse engineer every-time they got hit.
As far as I've learned from clients that I've worked with is that penalties are not just applied to the page that is being ...
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There is an easy way to do this: Put the comment display in an iframe and block the path to that iframe using robots.txt. They way search engines you not be allowed to see it.
Another way is to load the comments dynamically via AJAX. Without special markup, crawlers cannot view the content loaded asynchronously. They may some day but for now they do not. ...
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Your robots.txt own these lines:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
It indicates to Googlebot and other search spiders to not index your website.
Just put these lines instead and wait:
User-agent: *
Allow: /
That way, all search spiders (Googlebot included) will index your website.
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OK, I've finally found a plausible explanation, why Google has indexed folders and files outside of the document root:
The website I've launched last week is a second version of a project. The first version was Joomla! based and its dosument root was to the project root:
/var/www/.../mywebsite.tld
The second version bases on Zend Framework 2 and ...
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There are many approaches you can take to resolve this problem which are:
Rel Canonical See: How to use rel canonical properly
.htaccess See: Convert forward backslashes into forward slashes (Look for same header).
noindex See: 2 main ways to prevent search engines from indexing specific pages.
Personally I would opt to use the rel canonical as this will ...
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Your robots.txt is just fine. However, it might not be enough to totally prevent indexing: Disallow command in robots.txt will block crawling, but in some cases the URLs themselves will still be indexed because of links or other factors.
Robots.txt is not meant to prevent the indexing of URLs, its purpose is to prevent crawling.
Best way to prevent Google ...
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