New answers tagged google
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Here are instructions on how to tell Bing you have moved site:
Bing Site Move tool
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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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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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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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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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You first need to edit your profile (click on "Profile" in the sidebar) so it includes the website in question in your "Contributor to" section.
Then, you need to place a link on any page that you want the Google+ Authorship system to take effect that links to your Google+ profile.
<a href="https://plus.google.com/[Profile ID]" rel="author">My ...
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You can use WebRank Toolbar 4.4 for you Chrome Browser. It will show the real and clear PR as well as Alexa Rank, Similar Sites, Pages Indexed in Google,Bing, Whois Dmain checker and other SEO Tools.
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Id like to chime in on this question simply because i run a few SSL sites one used to be non-SSL and i turned it full SSL
But take paypal for instance.
https://www.Paypal.com has PR8
http://www paypal.com redirects to the https version.
If google treated pagerank exactly the same on SSLvsNON i'd argue that a page such as:
...
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I found for you two solutions:
I think the best what you can do is serving big thumbnails, but detecting smaller screen (like for example smaller than 1900x1400) loaded images will be smaller (170px for ex.). Benefits? Thats white SEO you don't lie user you just provide smaller thumbs for user with "small" resolution screen. Make sure you give option to ...
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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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I usually create a single test account and use it over and over again rather than create a new account each time the test is run. I don't know of any way to create a Google account using automated test scripts.
The alternative would be to build a backdoor into your application login. Something that creates a test account on your site without using ...
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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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Depending on the volume of URLS that need removing it could take weeks to months, Google simply doesn't like to quickly drop pages as it gives some time in case the webmaster has made a mistake. So you either need to be patient or simply remove them using the tool.
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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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If the page redirects using a standard 301 then it would take sometime for Google to drop the page and amend the new one. New pages and changes to existing pages via redirects take time as said and this can take anywhere from 1 week to a couple of months if the page is regularly visited. You do not have control over the Facebook.com domain so there is ...
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If you take a look at your name servers:
http://host.robtex.com/ns2.hostinginmind.com.html#records you can clearly see this is on their network. What's happened at some point in DECEMBER 2012 your site was operating on that domain. Now the problem seems fixed as http://0.3c.7aae.static.theplanet.com no longer works. It may take a couple of weeks for Google ...
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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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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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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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The competition in the Adwords Tool is not an indication of the amount of webmaster competing for that keyword in search rankings. Its rather a measure of the advertisers who are competing for that keyword in Adwords.
In case you are opting for a website to earn revenue through Adsense, I suggest you pick your keywords as ones with high competition.
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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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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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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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The problem with Rich Snippets currently is that we currently don't know if they improve SEO, Google is always vague at best and has said it does not. But from what is reported Rich Snippets do help things like:
Drawing a searchers attention to your site in their results.
Provides instant useful information to what they are searching.
Increases ...
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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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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 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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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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You should make sure that the comment links are equipped with the rel='nofollow' attribute. That way Google doesn't use them as ranking signals.
You may also want to consider using some smart anti-spam system like Akismet that isn't vulnerable to manual or algorithmic decoding of captchas.
Of course, you should clean up the existing spam comments as ...
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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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Reason VCard/Hcard Not working
Warning: The information will not appear as a rich snippet in
search results, because the marked-up content does
not appear to be the main focus of the page.
More information. (Is this correct? Let us know.)
The reason you are giving the above problem is because you need to ensure that all vcard data is ...
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You would need to hide contents of these comments by using questionable tactics, the punishment of hiding these comments would be outweigh the dilution of your page by useless comments. We refer to this as cloaking and search engines do not take too kindly to most cloaking. Search engines want to see what your audience sees and everything should be a factor.
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The best way to do this would be to download the data as a csv, which is readable by excel, and then make the chart in there.
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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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Your robots.txt tells all bots (User-agent: *) not (Disallow:) to crawl any URL starting with a slash (/), which would be all URLs, of course.
If you want to allow all bots crawling all your pages, remove the slash:
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Note that Allow: is not part of the original robots.txt specification, however, some/many crawlers recognize it. ...
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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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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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I can confirm that your robots.txt and HTML are not blocking Google from scanning your site, so whats the problem? In short... time.
Google may state that it takes two days for Google to take note of a robots.txt but in no way does this imply that all these pages blocked previously will be unblocked and instantly crawled.
Now that Google can crawl your ...
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Edit: If you domain is not a new one you might be out of luck. You will have to upgrade (or try the trial) to Apps for Business to escalate your problem to a google engineer.
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What Google says about titles and descriptions:
It’s important to have distinct, descriptive titles for each page on your site. Titling every page on a commerce site "Cheap products for sale", for example, makes it impossible for users to distinguish one page differs another
Source: ...
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Yes, this can be a problem. I would google for something like "multiple languages SEO".
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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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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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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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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/
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To understand how ...
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I do not recommend keeping same content in all sub-domain as it is against search engine's guidelines and may result in poor performance.
If you are operating different country, you can have same content but still you will have to change the offer price/services location etc. To redirecting crawlers is not a good practice as there is not country specific ...
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Sign in to Google Tag Manager.
Select the account and the container within the account.
Click the Users link on the left side. A list of users will be displayed with the container permissions to the right.
Click the user name to update the account and container permissions. The icons pertain to the permissions allowed.
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From an SEO standpoint, it's not necessarily bad to force HTTPS. From a User Experience perspective however, it's usually not a great idea. Forcing HTTPS will use more bandwidth, and more resources on your server, which will result in a someone degraded User Experience. This could potentially cause your site to have a higher Bounce Rate, which in turn can ...
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