Questions tagged [google-search]
Google's Search Engine
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Why my website is crawled and indexed but doesn’t appear on serp at all? [duplicate]
I’m working on a project which started almost 2 months ago. When I check GSC (Google Search Console) everything looks good, url is on Google, and when i search my site this way: “site:mysite.com”, i ...
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What happens if I do not notify Google of the domain change?
If I do not announce the transfer of my site to Google and close the 301 redirect, will the site be introduced as a new site?
By site transfer I mean domain change.
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Why my webpage isn't showing up for a keyword in Google Search? [duplicate]
I have created a news aggregator site. It's a dynamic webpage, of course the content is changing every minute.
I'm using Server-side rendering / Dynamic rendering, and I can confirm, Google sees and ...
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Can we request google to crawl our website every single day to update its indexes and tags on our domain?
I m thinking of making a blog website and noticed that google search results appear as per Google's indexing upon the crawled website. And this web crawling by google happens like once in 2 weeks to a ...
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Should services detail be put in hasOfferCatalog within LocalBusiness schema or on service pages via Service schema?
Should services detail be put in hasOfferCatalog within LocalBusiness schema in home page, or should it be put on service pages via Service schema?
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Should I put my LocalBusiness schema on the home page or contact page?
As I understand Google don't need LocalBusiness or Organization schema on every page, and in fact need only on one page of the website. So my question is should it be put on home page or contact page? ...
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Google search result [duplicate]
I am trying to affect my google search results. Exploring best practices, I have encountered something new. When I explore the search results I saw that for these 4 search results ( Simulator, ...
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Should user-generated-content be noindexed when it appears on localized versions of the site that don't match its language?
I am working on a site with hundreds of thousands of pages in multiple languages. Most of the content is user generated, the problem is that this creates a lot of duplicates. For instance, a German ...
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Is it risky for SEO to change URLs with 301 redirects? [duplicate]
Our company has URLs that are well ranked which is vital for us.
But we need to change all the structure of thousands of URLs and I am afraid of a negative impact on our natural indexing and ranking ...
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What are the steps to ensure a JobPosting is in Google's index? [duplicate]
I am working on a Job Platform and to help improve our organic search traffic, we've added appropriate meta data per job following the json-ld spec (https://schema.org/JobPosting) and specifically ...
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Is having having two similar companies in a different suite numbers negatively impacting Google SEO?
I launched a new website a a few months ago, but I have not been able to get it to show up any higher than the 5th page on any searches that don't include the exact company name. There is clearly ...
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If I buy a domain based on my personal name and redirect it to a blog, will my domain appear when people search for my name?
I have a main webpage that ranks well in a specific city (myprofession+city.com). My problem is that I also want a personal domain (e.g., JohnDoe.com).
So I was thinking if it's possible to buy ...
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How much time Google takes to update new title of website on search engine result page? [duplicate]
I'm learning SEO and performing some basic stuff like creating a catchy title for the homepage. I changed the title of my homepage from (let's assume) 'I am an old title' to 'I am new.' However, when ...
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How to redirect without Google following it?
I originally asked this on StackOverflow, but got told to move it here, so here I am.
I'm running a host and want to redirect visitors to a page on my main site if the client hasn't set up any content ...
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URL is not on Google This page is not in the index, but not because of an error. See the details below to learn why it wasn't indexed. SOS [duplicate]
Fixed Sitemap Used Yoast Plugin, All in One SEO, Rank Math SEO But Google Search Console shows URL is not indexed.
And when requested for indexing it shows couldn't fetch error.
It shows: URL will be ...
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Internal linked pages count in Google Search Console (GSC) does not add up
I have an e-commerce site which has approx. 2500 pages most of which are e-commerce products page. There are approx. 50 pages which are static pages and rest of the pages are dynamic and all the ...
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Position tracking via Google Search console API
Is it possible to track the positions of a list of keywords in Google Search via Google Search console API?
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Google search preview shows unrelated thumbnail in search suggestions
Does anyone know where Google retrieves these preview/thumbnail images from in search suggestions? As shown below with the example of Apple.
Is there a hierarchy of locations that Google search to ...
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Does Google return search results based on words that are found only in the site's domain name?
I want to create a website called forname-lastname.com and publish various articles on this website. These articles should be indexed commonly by the keywords on the article pages.
However, when you ...
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How to get back referral traffic from googleapis.com?
My website is one year old. I was writing on my website for the last year but hardly got any traffic. But in the first week of this year, the website got huge traffic of 20k visits per day (while it ...
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How long does it take to change the page title on the Google results page from the title tag? [duplicate]
I changed the title tag, but unfortunately I still do not see a change in the title of the search results.
How long does it take to change the page title on the Google results page from the title tag?
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Ratio of real visitors to search engine views
I know it is highly website-dependent, but is there any statistics/study/report on the ratio of real visitors websites get and the visits made by the search engine crawler?
Services like Alexa reports ...
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Why my site has been deleted from all of Google (not penalty) [duplicate]
My site has been completely deleted from Google since yesterday
And there was no penalty.
The pages of the site are also indexed and not de-indexed
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My keyword is not ranking on google [duplicate]
On Jan 12 I start to post my blog on the website. And I checked SERP on the second week. All keywords are ranked on google. Then in 3 rd week, i checked SERP of my keyword it's not on the google ...
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Google search on mobile shows incorrect site icon [duplicate]
On desktop, searching for our company name on Google shows no site icon/favicon.
On mobile, doing the same search shows an incorrect site icon:
I've just resaved the correct favicon and submitted the ...
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How to use Google Programmable Search as an internal search engine when it doesn't index new pages quickly?
We've developed a Firebase Web App like Wikipedia for students, where each page is an essay that they write for their course assignments and link to one another.
Firebase offers multiple third-party ...
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Are pre-rendering or server-side rendering needed for SEO of a React application?
I am a java developer who is upskilling myself and learning React, so that I can develop frontend application completely using React. But I read couple of articles which states that it could cause SEO ...
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Do affiliate work with Parallel Tracking in Google ads or Bing ads [closed]
For affiliate offer to work, a user need to go through the affiliate link and it a mandatory. if user did not went through the affiliate link then the commission will not get generated for affiliaters....
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How to make my webSite indexed by Google Search [duplicate]
I have been trying to make my website indexed by google. I tried every solution on the internet, and passed more than 1 week and Google haven't indexed it yet. I don't know what I can do. What I did:
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Enable Crawl for Google Search on Public Documents with Metadata in Azure Blob Storage
I have an existing sharepoint site which contains both pages and documents under single domain name. Currently Google search console is setup to crawl this site and in sitemap.xml we are adding urls ...
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htaccess for redirects and gone 410
I am facing a problem. THE Problem is that in google search there some spam links that are of type HTTP and I would like to return 410 for those urls that actually do not exist. but for people who ...
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Why is my coverage empty google search / index console [duplicate]
I successfully added my site map .
I successfully inspected my homepage in the inspector.
But its been like 8 hours and still my "coverage" tab is empty and I can't google myself yet
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Can you indicate to Google Images which image it should index from srcset?
Related Github issue: https://github.com/browniebroke/gatsby-image-gallery/issues/844
So I'm using Gatsby and an image gallery. The gallery generates two images, a thumbnail and the gallery image. The ...
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Why does Google exclude pages with parameters that load content via JavaScript from the index?
I have a website where besides 5 pages the main content is retrieved from the database using an ID.
https://example.com/content/page.html?id=1
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https://example.com/content/page.html?id=100...
The ...
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Change Google search result text [duplicate]
I am new in SEO. I want to Change Google search result text. For ex: when I type the business name in Google. Google show the attached results. I want to change description and 5 links text, which I ...
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Rich Text under Google Search Results
I have few company profiles listed in a webpage. I want to make the webpages be listed in Google Search Results when a user searches for those profiles on Google. I also want to make the Google Search ...
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Why all URLs of my website has been excluded? [duplicate]
I've submitted my new site a week ago on google search console, but now I see that all of my URLs are excluded and the status is Crawled - Currently not indexed. Why this is happening and how to fix ...
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How can I let Google crawl my site for Programmable Search Engine (custom site search), but not have it show in public search results?
The answer for my question might be inherent in the question itself- that if I want Google to crawl my site for a custom site search, such as through Programmable Search Engine, that it is those same ...
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What's the difference between "meta name" and "meta property"? Does this affect Google displaying meta description?
We recently found that our website doesn't show the meta description as we want when googling the results. Instead, it shows the content from the web page itself.
Some people say it's because Google ...
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how to stop web pages from appearing in google search results [duplicate]
There are certain pages/routes of a node application I have which I do not want to be displayed in google search results - to do this I have added meta name=”robots” content=”noindex” in the head of ...
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Why is my page title appearing in lower case on Google?
My page title, in google search results is now in lower case, with the exception of our company name. The title tag is in title case:
<title>Free Mobile Home Value - Used Mobile Home Book
Values&...
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How Can I Debug a Redirect Error in Google Search Console?
I'm getting a pesky redirect error from my Google Search Console:
Sadly, the report above doesn't give me much information as a developer about what's causing the error. When I click on Inspect URL, ...
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How to force google to remove the outdated or removed pages from indexing
Although it appears a duplicate question, it is slightly different, application developed using html/javascript contains "html" extension for all the pages and when it is migrated using ...
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If Google fail to show updated titles from sites for a particular search, is it likely to be less competitive for me to rank?
So noticing I clicked a page and got redirected to a different URL from the Google search result, where the search term is what I'm currently trying to jump in to the ranking, I'm wondering that is ...
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Do search engines crawl the contents of the details tag?
I'm working with some pages that are only partially visible because most of the content is behind a paywall. In order to help the page be discoverable in organic searches, I am in the process of ...
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How to return multiple images in a single google search result
What should I enter in the website code so that google displays a listing of images as a result of searching for a specific phrase?
As in the screenshot below:
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Should I prevent search engines from indexing category pages when they are ranking instead of the full blog posts?
I have a blog on WordPress. When I search for some of the queries of my articles on Google, there is usually a category page that ranks on 1st page instead of the post. This causes big traffic drops. ...
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Are there any meta tags equivalent to title / description that are less common in link previews but still relevant?
Let's say you are making a page about yourself that you commonly share in communities where you are "anonymous", but you still want people who know you well to be able to find your page ...
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How to show phone numbers in Google knowledge panel?
I would like to show customer service numbers as shown in attached image in knowledge panel. Where from this information is coming, how to show these in another banking site.
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same websites on two domains without getting penalized by google? [duplicate]
somerandomwebsite.com
somerandomwebsite.london
Is it technically possible to host the same entire website on two domains so that google doesn't penalize me?