Questions tagged [google-search]
Google's Search Engine
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Translation of website: new top level domain vs subfolder of current
About 3 months ago, we translated our website to Spanish. Because our brand name has a meaning on its own, we decided to translate the brand name as well. The hope was that it would benefit our SEO.
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How to stop Google from indexing my webpage? [duplicate]
I have a webpage /user/login , I want to keep it private but Google has indexed the page.
I have tried lots of ways:
In robos.txt, I added a new line:Disallow: /user/, added header header("Robots: ...
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After updating Meta Description of my blogs, would google recrawl it in some time or do I have request re-indexing?
I have published a few blogs that have value to offer it's receiving significant impressions on Google SERP but not influencing CTR, so my question is after updating meta description would google ...
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TripAdvisor use two H1 tags, why is this and is it ok? [duplicate]
I'm guessing its probably ok if TripAdvisor are doing it,
I am slightly confused as to why the H1 on the line of the breadcrumbs is a H1 (is it just TripAdvisor trying to rank higher for keywords?)
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Redirect domain name to a specific page
I have theses domain names installed:
Main domain name: www.example.com
Others domains:
www.example.org
www.example.fr
www.animals.example
I first made a rule on my .htaccess to redirect all ...
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Mysterious rank drops from page 1 after subdomain went rogue [duplicate]
To give a bit of background, we're a web design agency and ranked highly on page 1 for web design in our region. We had a lot of traffic from this, as well as other minor sub domains.
We host client ...
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Searching for the exact post title doesn't return it in Google SERP [duplicate]
I noticed this today for some posts. Not new ones, but some that have been posted quite a while ago.
I am searching for the exact title (which is quite long) and I'm returned with either pages that ...
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How to show important links in search result with Brand Name search [duplicate]
A simple search with brand name shows me undesirable result while a search with full domain name gives the desired result. Please have a look at Images Attached. Why this any SEO error or Schema error?...
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Displayed Google meta description varies depending on whether the URL is partial or not
Using React, I have a meta description in my index.html file and am adding meta descriptions on individual blog articles with react-helmet on each article page load.
When I search on Google with ...
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Google Analytics Not Providing Google Traffic Keywords [duplicate]
Why Google analytics not tracking my organic google keywords and can track other search engines like bing, yahoo, etc?
screenshot: http://prnt.sc/n60ahn
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Google Search with Image [duplicate]
I am running Rent a car bussines and I am wondering how to setup image for google search... When someone search for Skoda Fabia, I am SEO optimised enough to be shown on the first page of google ...
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Is there any evidence that Google randomizes the SERP results for equivalent domains?
I realize that there's been a lot of apparent Google fluctuations over the past few months.
However, to me, it looks as though Google might be randomly ordering positions 3-10 in my particular niche ...
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How to get whitelist my IP address in GMAIL? [duplicate]
How to get white-list my IP address in GMAIL?
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Meta Description says “Your browser does not currently recognize video format”
My site is indexed on google search but the description is "Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available. Click here to visit our frequently asked questions about HTML5 ...
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Extra Domain (TLD) in Google Breadcrumb
We are using structured data breadcrumbs, and everything looks good on desktop, but on mobile it shows extra .io after the root. I'm not really sure what might be causing this / whether it's from ...
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Showing icon in google mobile search
There is a preview image shown in the second result of the search (yellow lemon). I couldn't find how to do that. Can anyone help?
Thanks
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How to protect my site's SEO reputation from random 404 backlinks [duplicate]
After I read some articles about SEO 404 issues, I found that 404 pages can hurt a site's SEO reputation.
I think if Google finds a lot of 404 pages on a domain, Google will decrease its SEO rank for ...
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Add Wordpress subdomain sites and mapped domains to Google Search Console [duplicate]
I have a WordPress subdomain network with 14 sites like this:
https://mynetwork.example/
https://site1.mynetwork.example/
https://site2.mynetwork.example/
https://site3.mynetwork.example/
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https://...
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Google is indexing the page title but not the meta description
The pages on my clients website, are built with SEO best practices. Please note that I am not an SEO expert, more of a web dev but make sure the SEO practices like proper title, description, hreflangs ...
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SEO: Google Search Console Redirect [closed]
i'm facing some serious problems when I try to myke our multilangual website SEO friendly.
When you access our website
https://url.com
You get immediately redirected by your current browser local ...
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Root domain missing description in Google's index after redirecting to subdomain
I have set up my site at www.mysite.example.
Google did index it and I can search it, find it and view the site description and title.
I have created a redirect rule from mysite.example to www.mysite....
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Many sites, same IP address, all linked together
Our client will have 5 domains on the same IP address. he uses Shopware (e-commerce platform). He wants to migrate his shops to a single shop with sub shops. So he can access them all from single /...
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How would Google react if I redirected currently ranking landing pages to the home page?
I have some tag pages on my website which contain specific keywords. They appear in the Google search results for those keywords.
Those pages bring in a fair amount of traffic but the bounce rate is ...
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Get expanded results from Google.com searches for your own site [duplicate]
For some pages, when I search for them on Google.com, I get a form of expanded result with a search box and links to some of the main site's subpages (see image below).
Is it possible to get ...
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Will keywords written into a page using JavaScript replacing placeholders in the page source affect SEO?
Website pages use SEO content (words) that are dynamically generated. Like the store name (on a multi store site).
However the dynamically generated words only show when you inspect element, as below....
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Google SERP ranks wrong URL for target keywords [duplicate]
I have [1] https://www.example.com/landing-1 ranking for "landing-1" keyword.
I have created [2] https://www.example.com/landing-2 page for "landing-2" keyword.
When I observed my rankings in google,...
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Telephone number displays below description in Google
I've noticed that Google is displaying a phone number immediately below some descriptions in the organic SERPs. It displays as a line below the description with the telephone icon next to it.
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Index Bloat Killing SEO [duplicate]
I have a strange problem with my WordPress site that has no common solution.
I’m currently in the middle of turning my site from a Lifestyle blog to a book-oriented blog and had to delete over 400 ...
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Why Google search console shows wrong SERP position for keywords and pages?
google search console data shows lots of 1st positions for example but when I check it really in google SERP by my self manually, I see its wrong. Can anyone know what is the reason and how I can ...
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Google's Inspect URL shows incorrect source code for my page's “Google Index”, but correct for “Live Test”
My web page is incorrectly indexed and is showing a different header than the one that is actually updated in my website.
When I used the URL Inspection Tool in Google Search Console, The index shows ...
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Google Search Console says page is “Not on Google” but shows in search results
A client asked me to make sure his old, nonexistent pages got removed from the Google search results.
I made sure all the old links returned a 404/410 error or have the noindex tag and then used the ...
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Competitor websites in the “recent” results for a Google search on my business name
I try to keep aware of my online presence with things like Google Alerts & checking for mention of my business name within the past 24 hours etc.
Recently I noticed two competing websites appear ...
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Does google search index by IP address or domain name? [duplicate]
I'm thinking of moving a mostly static website from homestead to heroku (using their free dyno plan to save monthly hosting costs). All else equal (e.g. let's say the content and files all remain as ...
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Google keeps crawling old site, ignores new (& better) one
Searching 'Dragon Notes' in Google predominantly yields (1) rather than (2) - even for images; (2)'s almost non-existent. Differences:
(2) is more up-to-date, has a better sitemap and source code
(2) ...
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How do I remove old ip address URL from Google search results?
I have a simple blog.
In google search engine page ranking, I notice it ranks the IP address URL of dev server. Whoops. However, the final site was moved to different server and is live there. ...
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Google Search is showing my website in Japanese instead of English
When my site is searched for in Google, it shows the website in Japanese (see the second link in the screenshot below), however the entire website is in English.
Does anyone know why this might be?
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Upper/lower case ranking problem in Google - How to remove in Webmasters?
I have only this single URL on my website:
https://www.aadseducation.com/isms-lead-auditor-training/details
Previously, this URL because of a mistake done by developer, Google started ranking the ...
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How to show website in only one country Google
My client has 3 websites, each has it's region.
eu.ralphkerlesart.com - for Europe countries
us.ralphkerlesart.com - for USA and Canada
ralphkerlesart.com - for other regions
I need only one website ...
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Remove a site from Google search once it has been retired and shut down
I’m shutting down my website which has a few thousands pages. What is the best way to remove my entire site and related pages from Google search results?
Removing full site from Google index has ...
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Mobile usability issues reported by Google at Search Console [duplicate]
Our website is responsive but it is showing the below mobile usability issues at Google search console.
Content wider than scree
Clickable elements too close together
When tested using mobile ...
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Would a JavaScript redirect for location based on the IP affect SEO?
So, we've got 2 separate-but-identical sites (one for US, one for the rest of the world), and were planning on redirecting visitors to their correct one, provided we can guess their location by their ...
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I have an arabic website, but my target keyword impression mostly searched from non Arabic country, India
In search console, One of my target keywords with very high impressions mostly seen from a country with non arabic language, India.
it is very strange, and also the google trends show different ...
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SEO domain setup for network of locations
I am looking for some industry expert weigh-in on best practices to how to best approach the business scenario described below.
Tim runs a business, timsbusinesswebsite.com. Tim's business has ...
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Could it be good for SEO to use keyword rich domains under the .forsale TLD?
One of the top level domain (TLD) that I came across ".forsale" caught my attention. If we are to buy "accessories" domain, and apply different subdomains like mobile, laptop would that have any SEO ...
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Looking for key-value rich result documentation
Do you know where I can find documentation or any kind of information for key-value (under the description) SERP rich result?
I've checked Wikipedia (and other websites that give the same results) ...
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What determines which 404 errors gets listed on a website's Google Search Console?
If I put https://example.com/french-fries in a browser, I get a 404. Will that 404 get listed on example.com's Google Search Console?
Or does /french-fries have to be a coded link, get crawled and ...
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No cached date in Google cache for PDF files
Google displays no cache date in their cached version of PDF files. Does somebody know any way to determine when a certain PDF file was cached?
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google ignores our landing pages [duplicate]
we have a website with a directory of addresses. The main purpose is the search of for addresses matching different criteria.
now we wanted to build some special landing pages for (google) searches ...
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Would Schema.org 'Comment' be indexed by Google?
I'm considering to output comments on my blog post as Schema.org Comments.
Google doesn't seem to list Comment in their structured data documentation, and more specifically doesn't mention it on the ...
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What is 'source=user_profile---------------------------' on URLs in Google results?
Just recently I've found my website showing in Google as
www.example.com/?source=user_profile---------------------------
I thought this might be something I'd inadvertently done in my code, but a ...
