Questions tagged [google-search]
Google's Search Engine
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Good position but low impressions on Google Search Console [closed]
I'm seeing good position of some of my website's keywords, like position 3 on Google Search Console, but the number of impressions are low. What is the problem in your opinion?
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How long until Google Search Console merges a page with 301 redirect to a canonical?
I have a server with routes in English and that I moved to Portuguese. For example, https://ginja.org/schools now redirects with a 301 to https://ginja.org/escolas. I set up a canonical tag too:
<...
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Shield Icons on Google Results Page
The shield icons (circled) appear on my Google search results. My question is - if you have a site that's already https (and shows as such in the search results) what other action do you need to take ...
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Google search does not display my favicons
I have some favicon problems with Google search. I noticed that two of my webpages are displayed in Google search, but there are no favicons next to the link in the Google search listing, like this:
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Best way to ensure Google indexes a video iframe that is dynamically injected upon user interaction?
I work on a publishing site and sometimes we use Youtube videos instead of a hero image at the top of articles. When Core Web Vitals rolled out, we noticed that the YT video became the LCP element and ...
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How do I get the top n search keywords from google? [closed]
I need the top billion or so google search results for a project I'm working on.
I've tried using google-trends api to find this data, but it only gives me the top 10 - 20 results. https://trends....
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Will bots crawl my page generated by javascript
I use simple javascript to generate pages based on thousands of products stored in a JSON object.
The page URLs will be like /productList?keyword=XXX&page=x. The keyowrd is what uses input through ...
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Google SERP not showing my metatags OR auto-generated ones
I manage a multilingual e-commerce Drupal website which is now included in Google's index, but Google SERPs show URL and page title but no text at all where the meta description (or auto-generated ...
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What should I do to have my website show an automatic language page in search results?
When you search for the word Pinterest in Google search results, tr.pinterest.com comes up first. I'm in Turkey, it's very normal for it to come out like this and actually this is what I want.
What I ...
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How to specify paywall contents for multiple pages
I am reading this guide to apply paywall contents to my website so that Google knows I am not cloaking. Unless I have misunderstood something, the example in that guide only deals with 1 particular ...
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Does Google Search Ranking punish websites which use fingerprint tracking?
My website uses flexible sampling to limit the number of free articles unregistered users can view. I use fingerprint tracking to keep track of which customers have reached their monthly view limit. ...
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Did Google discontinue rich snippets for MusicRecording structured data?
In August 2011, Google added rich snippet support for MusicRecording structured data. It looked like this:
But today, I don't see any mention of it in their current rich snippet feature guides.
I ...
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Why I cannot get indexed on Google but it works well on Bing (Vercel/NextJS)?
I have recently launched a new website using Vercel and NextJS and am trying to get it indexed on Google using Google Search console. The Bing console worked like a charm however I cannot get it ...
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How can we make Google show results from our site with a table (see image inside)?
This is one of the results when you search "Apple company" in Google.
https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/AAPL:US
In the search results, it appears like this:
As you see, Google takes ...
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Redirecting smaller successful site to domain of new site - SEO impacts
Our client has 2 websites, each on their own domain, let's call them A.example and B.example, both interesting to the same demographic.
A.example is a small but very successful single purpose site ...
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Page title not showing on google search due to embedded videos [duplicate]
I have two pages on my website, both have one embedded youtube video each.
But on google search engine, original page titles are not showing rather some garbage titles are showing. Look at the picture ...
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What kind of SEO work should be followed in order to be in the 1st place for multiple words on a page?
You may not have fully understood the title. I will explain my question with an example.
https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_exercises.asp Page ranks 1st in HTML Exercies word because the page is ...
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Hide site from google search if visitors country is not Ukraine
I want to hide site from another countries but not Ukraine. It has to be hidden in google search. I heard that it could be done with Cloudflare but I don't know how to do this.
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How to allow Googlebot to crawl paywall content?
My website has pages for around 1000 companies. Without an account, I only allow users to view 5 company pages a month (I track them by cookie). And Googlebot can crawl my site freely since it does ...
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Can replacing URL with pushState to a cleaner URL that redirects be bad for SEO?
We have a Shopify store. It has URL structure for blogs like mysite.myshopify.example/blogs/blogname/article-name
To overcome Shopify rigid URL structure and make links more human-readable and ...
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Can Google bot index pages built with websocket if I implement dynamic rendering?
This is the first time I build a website so I did not know anything about SEO when I started. I built many pages of my website to be rendered by React + Redux with the data received from websocket (...
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Is it possible to trace the IP-address of users on Google Images viewing hot-linked images?
Is it possible to track the IP-addresses of users on Google Images viewing my photos (even though they don’t leave Google)?
Since all content on Google Images is actually hot-linked, it should be ...
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Having Trouble indexing a free Wordpress Site for Google Search [duplicate]
I'm having trouble indexing a free wordpress site I made. It won't come up in google search.
I followed this guide (https://wordpress.com/support/webmaster-tools/) but to no avail.
Most guides involve ...
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Do "web" stats in Google Search Console include Google shopping queries?
Does search type 'Web' in Google Search Console (screenshot 1) include free traffic from Shopping tab (screenshot 2)?
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"URL not in property" when I submit a removal request for an old subdomain's URLs to Google Search Console
I have website called example.com. Somehow an admin URL admin.example.com was crawled (more than 2-3 years ago) and it has more than 150 search results.
Now the technology stack used to create that ...
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Will Google Analytics maintain the data history for pages if I change my URL pattern?
I am considering simplifying the URL pattern for my website from:
example.com/journal/posts/42-article-title
to:
example.com/posts/42-article-title
But, I am concerned that the history of activity on ...
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How to show same company's different office address in google based on the user's country?
our company has five offices in five countries , once the user search in google, I need to show the office address based on the user's country, for example if the user search from US , I need google ...
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Ensure that all pharma URLs are removed from Google after cleaning up from a hacked site
My client's website was hacked by a "pharma hack" which was a WORDPRESS website. Since then we reworked the website(design and logic) and it's a completely new website that is no longer ...
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Do tags that are not recognized by HTML affect SEO?
For some reason, I'm trying to use tags that are not included in HTML tags, for example <new_tag>This is new to html</new_tag> Everything seems to work as I wanted across all browsers, but ...
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Google Search result with changing URL with JS pushState?
I have a WordPress blog on a specific site, lets say example.com/blog. It is installed in a subfolder /blog on my server. The main site example.com is hosted elsewhere (where I have no access) and ...
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How to tell Google Search Console a link that led to a Server Coverage Error is a bad link that's not valid?
I got 3 coverage server errors 5xx because of typos and bad linking. So one of my websites had 3 links, say for example:
www.mypage.com/section-a
www.mypage.com/section-b
www.mypage.com/section-c
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Does SEO traffic grow exponentially with authority?
Let's assume a standard website that has about 100 pages. Also, let us imagine that the website is earning references (backlinks) consistently but linearly. In such a case, what can one expect in ...
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Refresh website cache and indexing [duplicate]
I made changes to my website 2 weeks ago, ever since Google is not indexing and updating the cache. Last it is showing a cache of 16Jun on the landing page. All other search engines like DuckDuckGo, ...
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Google showing static title instead of dynamically set javascript title
Let's say I have set my title using HTML to "Something - Example" and with Javascript I change the title to "Apple - Example".
When I google my website (after waiting for it to ...
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Should I no index the scaled down images?
I have images on the main and the side. On the side, I use scaled-down versions of the main images. Should I remove the scaled-down images from google search results and no index them? If yes, should ...
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Why different title on the same website [duplicate]
I have recently changed the title of my website and whenever I search it I get the previous one only
but on search with the specific keywords change I have recently made I get the correct output which ...
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Google taking my logo as title and description some text on the page [duplicate]
I made a website using nuxt.js and added title and meta description on each page. I also made a sitemap.xml and robots.txt for the site and submitted in Google search console.The issue is Google and ...
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Google Jobs. Issue when clicking on the preview in Google Job Rich result test
Recently I have submitted a sitemap with about 30K URLs in it for jobs. Followed the documentation google is providing and now I can see that the sitemap is successfully submitted and in google search ...
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For local SEO, should all target queries include our location?
It's a local restaurant and I need it to narrow down to city-only search results.
So instead of targeting keywords like "best Asian restaurants" Do I need to use keyword + target city like &...
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sitemap in google search console showing "see index coverage" link disabled
In Google Search Console I observed that "See Index Coverage" is disabled.
also it is not indexing 2 post from last 20-30 days
what i have tried is
delete existing sitemap and added new with ...
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My Create-React-app blog website's post appeared in google search, why?
I was just searching my blog title in google and result blow my mind, How google can read title of my blog that render in client side.
As i know When googlebot go to any Create-React-app website, it ...
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Google Mobile not displaying thumbnail
Why Google Mobile Search does not display thumbnail for websites even if schema.org, meta tags and OpenGraph tags are all correct and follows SEO best-practice? As you can see from the following ...
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Is it ok to have similar content on my personal and business website?
I have a personal site that has a totally different blogging audience than my business website; however, some content (like my About page) is almost exactly the same on both websites. Would I incur ...
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Can I block some core code of my site for Google Speed Insight to improve the speed score?
I blocked some core jQuery files for the UA google lighthouse, I wonder if it actually works, or it just let me get a high score, essentially, google still thinks my score is low.
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Why has the number of EU privacy takedowns of Google search results increased much in the last weeks (spring of 2021)?
When the EU court ruling concerning the "right to be forgotten" was put into effect in May 2014, we (a local German news portal) received one or two notifications from Google that they had ...
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Multiple images on page, but google to only crawl certain ones [duplicate]
Say I have a page with a main image of a product at the top and several related product images at bottom. When I google the main product, the google search results also show up the main product image ...
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Will hosting same website in multiple domains (1 for testing and other for production) cause SEO/Adsense rejection issue?
I would like to host two copies of same website under different domains.
The idea is to setup one for testing and other for production.
So will it cause SEO or duplicate content issue?
As far I know ...
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Is it better for SEO to use generic meta data that is the same for multiple pages or to omit the meta data?
Our company has developed software to create and publish posts automatically on a WordPress site. Since the posts are published automatically and the images are also saved automatically, is it good ...
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Google Search is displaying French version of my website even though I'm in the U.S
I have a website that has dual language toggle to serve English Canadian and French Canadian. I am based in U.S.A. and when I google my website, the version with the French translation is the one that ...
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How to catch the search query when the user comes from a search engine to the web site?
Is it possible to transfer a search query to the url or to catch it somehow in order to show more relevant similar products on the landing page ?
For ex.
if the search query is "red tiles" ...