Hot answers tagged indexing
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EMBED THE FONTS!
No, but really, Embeddable fonts work on all current browsers (FF, Chrome, Safari, Opera) and IE5.5+ (yes, it's been working in IE since the 90s.)
Get your TTF upload it here:
http://www.kirsle.net/wizards/ttf2eot.cgi
It'll give you the code and 2 files back (a TTF and then an EOT[M$ web font]) back. Copy, paste, upload, done. Win win!
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There's not much you can do about this. There's a teensy bit you can do to help, but the problem is endemic to Google's index.
There isn't just one Google "index;" it's sharded. Pages with low PageRank appear in very few shards. Using site:stackoverflow.com forces your query onto a shard that has a larger fraction of your URLs indexed. That explains the ...
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Some potential strategies:
Google Webmaster Tools allows you to
request an increased crawl rate. Try
doing that if you haven't already.
Take another look at your navigation
architecture to see if you can't
improve access to more of your
content. Look at it from a user's perspective: If it's hard for a user to find a specific piece of information, it may be ...
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No, URL rewriting has no positive influence on crawling or indexing; oftentimes it can even have a negative effect. For instance, many websites embed all parameters as well as plain text (eg the "title") in the URL when rewriting them, creating pages with many possible URLs (we often even see session-IDs rewritten in URLs...).
We did a blog post on this at ...
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I do not believe Google says. It used to be true that test_param_1.html was better than index.php?module=test¶m=1 but I do not believe that is the case anymore for Google.
However, if your 2 examples pages are very similar in content then you will want to use a rel canonical on them so Google knows which one is the master. Otherwise your pagerank ...
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Create a Webmasters Account from Google, here http://www.google.com/webmasters/.
Once you have an account you can attach it to the website in question by putting a file into the root folder of your site. Google will then recognize that you as the owner of the Webmaster account also own/control the site in question.
Once you have done this Google will ...
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Unless she is selling her own fonts on this website, I think you both could work more on CSS embedding (yeah, I read this is not an option for you now, but I insist).
If the case is a heavier graphic work upon fonts (gradient colors, twisted alignment, glossing, embossing, engraving...), making it really impossible to render thorugh CSS options as she ...
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Google has been able to crawl HTML forms since 2008.
Having chosen the values for each input, we generate and then try to crawl URLs that correspond to a possible query a user may have made. If we ascertain that the web page resulting from our query is valid, interesting, and includes content not in our index, we may include it in our index much as we ...
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IE conditional comments are just a special kind of HTML comments. It is accepted that search engines do not index or give any weight to content in HTML comments. From a StackOverflow answer where they give a quote from Matt Cutts:
I believe that we have the ability to
index them, but we usually don't index
comments.
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The best way is to use 301 redirects in your .htaccess file, the 301 code signals to google that the url has been permanently redirected.
I'd also recommend signing up for Google Webmaster Tools and submitting a sitemap to them, if you haven't already, as this will help them to understand the changes you're making to your site.
redirect 301 /old-url ...
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Technically speaking http://www.new.com/tag/relationships and http://www.new.com/tag/relationships/ are two different pages just like http://www.example.com/ and http://www.example.com/index.html are two different pages even though they pull up the same page.
To make sure the search engines understand that http://www.new.com/tag/relationships and ...
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Yuck. She really needs to get over her font issues as she's killing the accessibility of her site and is causing all other kinds of issues like slowing down the rendering of her pages, etc.
Having said that you can try adding the longdesc attribute to your images. It's hard to say how much weight, if any, the search engines give to it but it's probably more ...
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You can:
Add a big link at the top of every old page linking to the corresponding current events page - this will let visitors easily find the current page and signal to search engines the new page is the important page.
Submit an XML sitemap to all the major search engines, sitemaps have a priority field that let you specify what are the important pages.
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In general it's best to have ordinary text links to those pages somewhere on the site, if not for SEO then for accessibility reasons. A portion of users will not have Flash or have it disabled through FlashBlock etc.
For a site I completed recently we did something similar with a map of the UK. I put links to the cities (only 5 at the moment) underneath the ...
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Supposedly you can add the class robots-nocontent to elements on your page, like this:
<div class="robots-nocontent">
<p>Ignore this stuff.</p>
</div>
Yahoo respects this, though I don't know if other search engines respect this. It appears Google is not supporting this at this time. I suspect if you load your content via ...
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A database-driven site doesn't necessarily have to have only a single URL or be entirely search-based. Most sites on the web today (including SE) are database-driven, but they still have different pages with individual URLs. And even search-based sites can be made to be search-engine-friendly.
Your site should have a RESTful architecture wherever possible. ...
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I believe what you want is to add this inside the <head> tags in your site's template - this should be a conditional piece of code that adds a noindex meta tag to ONLY your archive pages:
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "archive"'>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />
</b:if>
See more on blogger template variables.
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Here's some related information from Google themselves:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=164133&cbid=-a2l7h00q1r9q&src=cb&lev=%20answer
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It is generally considered that title attributes are not indexed, while the alt attribute is.
The alt attribute is only valid on img tags while you can place the title attribute on any tag.
Use title for enhancing user experience. It controls the tooltip when you hover over the tag in question.
Use alt on images when the image needs explaining so that ...
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Based on the code sample you used there could be a few reasons for this:
1) The hyperlink essentially points to the page it is on and only as a technicality because you only have a hash as the URL and not an otherwise valid URI. That really has no meaning and probably carries no value as a hyperlink.
2) If the page in question is not indexed then it will ...
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Eprints tags are used in the EPrints academic repository software. BE Press tags are used in The Berkley Electronic Press SelectedWorks product. Neither offers documentation on their proprietary meta tags that I could find.
You can, however, view the source of any HTML page generated by an Eprints or SelectedWorks server to see their metadata tags in use. ...
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are all the pdfs located at the same spot? I once had the problem that one of my pdf-locations was inside a folder that was excluded by the robots.txt. Submit your sitemap directly to the google-webmaster tool-site and you may get valuable information as to the whyness of the pdfs not appearing. in my case google told me 'hey, these 54 pdf documents are on ...
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If you submit a page to be viewed as Googlebot it will also trigger indexing.
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You're correct in your understanding. The rel="index" is designed to point bots to the index for the current document, which could be a category listing, a monthly archive, or the root of the site itself.
If the page designated as the index is marked "noindex, follow", it's because the website maintainer wants search engines to ignore the listing page, but ...
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First, the Google Webmaster Tools will tell you how many pages are in the index.
Google may have dropped pages from its index from multiple reasons, which they will NOT tell you, but the most probable is duplication or very similar content.
If you feel that Google is not indexing enough content then you should check the webmaster tools under ...
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Simple answer: they don't deserve to be there. They could be thin-content, duplicate content, poor content or any other such reason.
It's Google's prerogative to decide what should, and what shouldn't be included in it's index.
The purpose of an XML sitemap is to allow Google to discover pages that would be suitable for inclusion in it's index, but for one ...
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The following question may help: Why isn't a newly purchased domain showing up in Google searches?
The best solution for a new domain is not to park it but create a basic "coming soon" page. You don't need a lot of detail, anything relevant is great, e.g. the site name and what it's about, maybe an image or logo.
There is no way to specifically tell ...
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Here are some steps you can take...
Ping the page to indicate new or updated content. This automatically happens with some CMS systems like WordPress but others may need to run an external script. You only need to do this once for each new content item or for each update. Excessive automated pinging can cause your site to be ignored but don't get paranoid ...
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Would generating sitemap xml improve indexing?
In theory, but there are no promises, either. ("Google doesn't guarantee that we'll crawl or index all of your URLs." etc.) Sitemaps can be helpful for bots to find all your pages, but they're informational; they aren't required to do anything with them. The search engines may decide to disregard some ...
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Yes, the sooner you can get relevant related content indexed on the site the better. As we all know search engine indexing can be a bit of a black art so getting a head start with relevant content should give you an advantage when you come to launching the site fully as the search engine will already be looking for the site.
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