Questions tagged [google]
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies.
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How to increase the domain power of my website? [duplicate]
My teacher gave me a website to increase its domain power. He said I should create backlinks, and fix other problems so Google will bring up my domain in the list.
I searched using link:amazon.com and ...
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How was Google able to find out my subdomain when it wasn't linked from anywhere
I created a subdomain xyz.domain.com literally like yesterday. I'm using Dreamhost VPS and CloudFlare.
Today was showing up in Google index. The subdomain is literally a coming soon page. It was not ...
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Why is my page a page with redirect and meaning of "referring page" in Google Search Console
I have a small blog on github.io since a few months. Recently, I noticed that it's not showing up in the search results at all, so I created an account for Google Search Console and requested an ...
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Google Search page always light theme [migrated]
Is there any way to force the light theme on the Google Search page (google.com)?, let's say that the page always loads the light theme regardless of the history or browser cookies. I'm using Brave ...
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How to monitor just specific type of URLs in google analytics 4?
How to monitor count of views, average spend time, bounce rate and other parameters for just specific type of URL in a google analytics 4,
e.g.
all URLs which start with domain.com/tag/
this mean e.g.
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Condensing size for language variations while remaining good with SEO
I have a multi-lingual website. For each page, in the HTML header, I set the language variations as follows:
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.example.com/a-page/" ...
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Google Appending Company name In Front Of Search Results Title
My website home page title is in the following format, Homepage | Title of the page | Companyname. But however in the google search, it shows differently and add automatically a prefix like below ...
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Deep Understanding of Redirects and Canonical Tags and how Google processes them
I posted this question before in MOZ Forums, tbh i'm a bit disappointed, because nobody seemed to be able to answer my question. They just closed the topic after 1 useless answer.
I am new to ...
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GA4 total sessions don't match page-wise sessions. Any insights on why or how to fix it?
I'm facing an issue with my GA4 data and could use some help. I've noticed that the total sessions reported do not match the sum of the sessions reported on a page-by-page basis. For example, the ...
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Google search engine indexes ?m=1 page instead of canonical page
So i have my site, and it is working fine, except for one thing, google indexing, I just uploaded some posts and it seems likes google doesn't like links that does not end with a ?m=1. Let me explain, ...
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Indexed in Bing and Yahoo Search but not in Google although Sitemap is accessed by Google Bot [duplicate]
My website is indexed in Yahoo and Bing. If I search for website, I could see both Yahoo and Bing show it as first result.
In Google Search I do not see my website indexed at all. I have tried the ...
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routing email to unrecognized domain addresses from google workspace to m365
We're trying to migrate from google to microsoft 365 (slowly). Right now, our mx record still points to google, and the majority of our users are attached to workspace. We have a handful of new users ...
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Are Wordpress Category Pages Causing SEO Issues?
We've got a very large Wordpress site with many tags/categories, which means many indexable archive pages such as /culture/ and /sports/ and often posts are cross posted across tags, so they appear on ...
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After a significant site change should a Google drop in rank be expected?
After removing the title graphic from my website should a drop in Google position be expected?
The title graphic in question was only small (64x64) but was in the top-left corner of every single page ...
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Google's Automatic "Malicious Software" False Positives?
So we run 40 or so websites and they are quite secure. We have Netacea for bot management, who is one of the top 2 forester pics for botmanagement. We also have Akamai for WAF, CDN, and another layer ...
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How do I set a website's name that appears above the URL on Google search? [duplicate]
When searching for Stackoverflow on Google different things are displayed on the result:
"Stack Overflow"
"https://stackoverflow.com" > The url
"Stack Overflow - Where ...
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I bought a domain that had many past DMCA violations. Is there anything I can do to improve the poor search ranking results?
I bought a domain that seemed great for an existing project of mine. After carefully redirecting the site to the new domain, I noticed that the organic search results (which were previously quite good)...
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How to handle subtagline on landing page, above the fold, for mobile, without getting penalized by Google?
So I have a pretty good above the fold page for desktop, and it's structured like this:
The issue is, I am changing my website to make it more mobile friendly. On mobile, when I use the same landing ...
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Any idea why I have discrepancies between Google Looker and the LSA platform?
I am looking at the costs for a date range in both a Google Looker report and in the GLSA platform.
Across all accounts the GLSA costs are lower than what shows in Google Looker. The date ranges match ...
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Invite to someone's Google Analytics Account
I received an email invite to look at someone's Google Analytics account to check if there is tracking. Here is the email:
But for some reason, when I click the link, it just takes me to my own ...
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Best approach to have 2 domains at the same website ( my case is different ) read it [closed]
I have a problem so I decided to create two domains and redirect some of my users from google search results straight to the second domain by their geo location.
The Problem :
My problem is that my ...
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Can I set HTTP headers on Google crawler user agent?
I have a website with public limited access, via maximum number of requests per IP per day. Though I don't want to block Google crawler. Just checking for the Google user agent default headers is not ...
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Site dropped from 1st to 30th after moving hosts and changing to PHP
For about the last 18 months my site (jimpix.co.uk) has been first in the US region on Google search results for the phrase "username generator".
It used to run on Classic ASP code on a ...
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Best practice for delivering multi-language website
I'm about to turn my website into one that's for multiple languages. I read these two points from Google Search Central which I find rather conflicting.
The first point states:
Use different URLs for ...
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Domain name not properly migrated from Google Domains after Squarespace acquisition
My client said she bought a google domain. As we know Google has moved domain names to Square Space! SquareSpace emailed her and said "[redacted_name].com is now available on your Squarespace ...
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How to export a lot of data from Google Analytics?
I have a few million rows of data to export. GA only lets you export 5,000 rows at a time.
What's an easy and free way to do this?
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What causes are there for Google not to be able to access my website
I have a server with multiple websites on it.
One of these websites loads fine in all browsers and is successfully loaded by any third party tools (such as DNS testers, HTTP header testers, SSL Query ...
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Google is showing a short title in the mobile search results taken from the navigation menu rather than using the page title
We found out that Google shows different site titles on the SERP depending on whether the search happens on mobile or desktop (see images below). We set the title tag to be "Your Export Partner: ...
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SEO: Does redirect using Status 200 provide accurate Signals to Google?
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I am currently maintaining my blog using the Jekyll Static Site Generator. To manage redirects, I use a plugin called the jekyll-redirect-from plugin.
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For the example that I have ...
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Google SERP not being updated despite new title and meta
When I first published and submitted/indexed my site, I didn't have any html tags. I realized that quickly and fixed the problem. I've resubmitted my site with the proper seo stuff, but it's not ...
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Multiple consecutive hyphens in slug without words between them
Does Google care about multiple consecutive dashes without characters between them in URL? I mean something like how-to-----cook. Does Google lower the rank of these URLs in SERP?
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Incorrect name of the sitename coming under Google search
I am a research student. I have a built a website for a conference. This is the third edition of the conference.
Today when I searched the keyword "ICSP 2024", the search result is showing ...
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Do browser extensions worsen the position of pages in Google SERP?
Since March, Google also takes into account how quickly the content is loaded for its SERP metrics and the position of the website in the search results. (Announced https://web.dev/blog/inp-cwv-launch?...
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Google Search Console crawled too many fake urls not exisit in website
I'm having a big trouble
Goolge Search Console crawled my website but HTML crawled by Google has too many fake urls not exisit in my website. These urls seem to be appended, illegitimate and ...
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Google Business Profile Acquiring All Locations
How do I go about getting all of our locations? I have a location that some random person has taken and they will not relinquish it and then how can I quickly verify each location?
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Google Analytics: This property is no longer processing new data. Save your property data before it's deleted
I see this when I login to GA:
This property is no longer processing new data. Save your property
data before it's deleted.
Finish migrating to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) before July 1, 2024 using
the ...
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Why aren't search engines showing my site anymore? [duplicate]
I have created a site as a home project but for some reason, it stopped showing my site in Google. I connected my site to Google Search Console and most of the pages are indexed. At least I can see it ...
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My Job Postings Are In Google For Jobs But Not Showing In GSC Job Postings Report
While the majority of the listings published on our website are present on Google For Jobs, only 19 listings are visible in the Job Postings section of Google Search Console. Additionally, in the ...
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How to Get Google to Include My Adult Website?
I read online that Google doesn't include adult content, but still a lot of it comes up when searching from adult content, what if I let my adult human products be included?
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Google search Console with lack of data
I am not very good with Google Search Console, but I noticed that on one of the websites of the company I work for, the data just dropped to 0 on the 13 Jan and there is no data until 19 of March.
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Is google ranking higher social media and forum answers in results?
I know SERP pages can differ based on search history and other factors, but on my computer on Mar. 17, 2024, this search:
"social media has so many views it destroys brain"
highlights a ...
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Excluding interactions from event we put on as a company
We have a SaaS offering (we call it "the Hub"), which we use as part of (IRL) events that we put on as a company, Mainly to demo our expertise in our field, but also to demo the Hub. As part ...
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Can I find my own Google analytics audience segments I belong to?
I want to be see my own data about what Google has grouped me as for things like affinity audience etc. I am aware I can see broad categories in 'insights' but I am interested in the more specific ...
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301 Old content to New Content but now different language (negative SEO effect?)
I have a question. I have a Dutch website and used to receive backlinks from good and high-quality websites. Now, I want to 301 redirect the Dutch page to an English page. Will this affect my website'...
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Competitive SEO Vs Multiple Websites / Domains [duplicate]
We are a tour operator providing tours in a specific location within the UK.
Over the years we have focused on SEO on our site to ensure good Google rankings etc.
We have been optimising our site (...
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Google Merchant Center: Unable to link business profile
What is the issue?
We are using Google Merchant Center and are unable to link out business profile to MCA. We had a merchant center account in the past, that was deleted to start over fresh. Somehow ...
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Website aggregators
I have a marketplace website (with 1.5 m pages), these pages has categories with items that links directly to another site, google is very poor indexing it (only main page without subpages). Google is ...
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Site's Impressions, click and ranking were drop to 0 in one day, without any visible technical problem. What might be the reason? [duplicate]
My site is about 6 months old. During that time its impressions and clicks increased. Over time the site gained momentum and the number of impressions and clicks has increased in the last two months.
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How can I address traffic decline using SEO strategies after the Helpful Content Update (HCU)
Following the recent Helpful Content Update (HCU) in late 2023, my website has experienced a significant drop in traffic.
I'm interested in knowledge relating to the HCU update made in about September....
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UTM Tracking in GA4 | Firing Problem?
I've created a few UTM links for social media tracking and have validated them as working/proper with multiple tools. That said, when I try to replicate an organic user with the UTM link on a ...
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