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Exceed crawl limits for a website [duplicate]

In previous month i created a lot of pages (> 200K), and google indexed it. After some time a relized that i don't need some of these pages and created a new ones, but google don't indexing it. I ...
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How long it takes for new images to get indexed by Google in general? (now i'm on a Squarespace site if it makes any difference)

i'm wondering, if there is some benchmark out there on this info? I see many sources say it's about 4 days to 4 weeks to get new sites indexed But it's about general web crawling and not ...
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URL will be indexed only if certain conditions are met

I've got a few pages of my site that are coming up in G Webmaster Tools with errors. The pages are fully working, not restricted by noindex or robots.txt file. The pages don'r have a lot of content, ...
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Deleted tags & categories from my blog still come up in Google search results

I am a newbie in blogging. I've deleted some of the unwanted tags and categories from my wordpress blog but they kinda still come put in the search results when I search my website on Google. How do ...
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Ampersand (&) in actual URL and sitemap

I have a sitemap (which is submitted to Google for indexing) in which I am adding URLs which have an ampersand (&) in it. Since in sitemap & has to be escaped I replaced & with & ...
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How to say, "Google, index my web site only during specific times?"

Is it possible tell Google to only index my site between certain hours? If it is, how can I manage it?
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How to prevent Googlebot from doing API requests?

I have a currency converter site around 32k pages. Every pair for each page. And every page has 2 API requests. I started to see huge number of API requests. From users I have only few page views ...
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Wordpress Website not indexing in google, no error on google webmaster [duplicate]

I just recognized my SEO Score is 0 and that my wordpress website is not indexed on google search engine, no automatic filling as well. I am not an expert, I never used a sitemap, nor htaccess but it ...
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Google is adding "Archive" to the title of tag and category pages and not using the meta description

I am wondering why Google is indexing my tags and categories as archives. Is that OK to be like that or I should change them? How to change them? Actually it looks so awkward! I have configured my ...
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How long before Google indexes a new (to me) domain that previously had spam and virus problems?

I registered a new ".com" domain, but when I added it to the Google Search Console I saw that there were problems with viruses and spam problems. I submitted a request for reconsideration. Google ...
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Google is indexing pages as HTTP despite 301 redirects from HTTP to HTTPS

on 9/23 we migrated our entire site to HTTPS. Almost 3 months later and Google has recently cached versions of http:// URLs in the index. We have an http:// sitemap that is live with 100% 301 ...
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Google doesn't index my pages managed by session

My website has an architecture like this: em1 sub1 sub2 ... em2 sub1 sub2 ... em3 ... ... All elements "em" has the same "sub" associated. The difference only resides on the content in the "...
Amanite Laurine's user avatar
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Trick to index infinite scroll content on Google?

I have a Question & Answer website, sort of like stackoverflow. When you open it, it displays 20 latest questions. When scroll to bottom of page, and it fetches 20 more, and so on, infinitely. ...
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URL Dynamically changes after first edit

We are developing a magento eCommerce website with main category pages, sub-category pages and details page along with other static pages. Our condition is if any miss-spelled URLs entered directly ...
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can google index/crawl random subdomains that aren't linked to from anywhere

Me and a friend are having a debate where she claims that every and all subdomains will get crawled/indexed by google unless you specifically tell it not to, and I'm saying that if a page isn't linked ...
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Google's cache (text version) does not show hyperlinks

I have list of product links on one of our website's page. For some reason when I view the google's cached version of this page, google strips out all the product links. Links in the header and footer ...
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Having issues getting new pages indexed in Google

We are having issues getting our new pages crawled by Google and cannot figure out why. We've done lots of research and are still having trouble finding answers. Here's some information regarding our ...
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How do I remove a LOT of indexed pages from Google?

A few weeks ago we have figured out that Google has indexed some information we would rather keep in some confidentiality, in the format of individual PDF files. Our assumption was that this was a ...
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Why URL and linked pages submissions for Google?

Why Google Webmaster Tools have limitation on URL and linked pages submissions? Is there any solution to submit more than 10 URL?
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Google not crawling my website [duplicate]

I own a website http://citrusbug.com. We did not have proper content before so to prevent search engine from crawling our site we added a robots.txt with code to prevent crawling. Now we had ...
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Total Indexed 0, 99 not selected in webmaster tools

I recently changed domain names from xxx.com to xxx.ca I created all the 301's submitted sitemaps and submitted a change of address to google webmaster tools on Dec 16th. I've since seen urls change ...
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Are the following assumptions about indexing and ranking correct?

Are the following statements true or false: If a page is crawled by Google, it automatically gets into the index (unless explicitly blocked by robots.txt) An indexed page always gets a ranking (high ...
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Can Google stop crawling/indexing your site because you are working a lot on it?

I think I read somewhere that Google could stop crawling/indexing a site/blog if there was a lot of work performed on it (like many pages are modified, deleted or loaded daily). It would wait until ...
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Is there a weight for html link?

I would like to know if there is any weight associated with a html link (its backlink) when google does crawling/indexing. Will 1,2 & 3 be ever considered as a backlink by Google? 1. <a href="...
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SEO: disallowing Google from indexing forms?

From a SEO point of view, would you exclude forms from being indexed/crawled by Google or not? I mean my forms hardly ever contains keyword/keyphrases. So I'm wondering what's the point of letting ...
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Why isn't Google crawling on my blog? [duplicate]

I have a blog. I made it in August, 2010. It has been awhile, but I am unable to make Google crawl on my site. I have requested Google to crawl but there is still no response. Are there any reasons of ...
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