Questions tagged [google-search-console]
A Google web-based console that provides additional insight into a registered website's search performance and potential issues.
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Will setting a custom crawl rate in Google Webmaster Tools affects index or have other negative consequences?
My site was running well for the past three years. Recently Googlebot's request my server got increased. and at one time I got network unreachable error. When I contacted my hosting company they asked ...
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Which is more accurate? Google Webmaster or Google Analytics
I see differences between Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools. Why are they different and which is more accurate. How can i interpret data from both correctly?
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How to set crawl rate in Google Webmaster Tools for seven days or a month?
My web host is blocking IPs which make many requests. This includes Googlebot. I found this by checking my webmaster tools account. There it said "network unreachable" for all the URLs which are ...
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SEO - 2 websites in the same domain
I have my domain (http://www.foobar.com, for example) and my website talks about technology. I want to have another website (with other content, not about technology) inside of it (http://www.foobar....
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SEO - 2 websites in the same domain [duplicate]
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SEO - 2 websites in the same domain
I have my domain (http://www.foobar.com, for example) and my website talks about technology. I want to have another website (with other ...
thom
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Usefulness of the Backlinks shown in Webmaster Tools
Is the list of links for a site shown in Google Webmaster Tools a complete list or just a sample? I've noticed that the links in there appear to be all the ones I didn't think would have any real ...
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Resetting Google's data for the website
I own a domain which I was using for experimenting with different platforms and content management systems. I really did not care about seo while I was building the website so I guess my website has ...
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Information about links disappeared from Webmaster Tools
I discovered that all information about links to my site disappeared from Google Webmaster Tools.
Last time I checked the "Links to your site" page in GWT there was nice list of linking domains and ...
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Where is the query string pagewanted=all coming from?
On my site I use CodeIgniter, which does not allow any use of query strings. Any unacceptable characters in a URL result in a 400 error.
In Google Webmaster Tools I'm seeing several crawl errors ...
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Google webmaster Verification failed
I have a site created by Ruby on Rails. I had successfully verified the site with Google Webmaster Tools some months ago. However, recently Webmaster Tools has been asking me to verify my site. I ...
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What does the impression and ctr means in google webmaster
I am checking google webmaster tools. I entered the search queries section. There i found alot keywords and their impression and ctr etc. I clicked on one of the query keyword there it shows the ...
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Do I add both www and no-www for my Domain in Google webmaster tools?
When register my site to Google webmaster tools, which one should I register?
mydomain.com
www.mydomain.com
Both?
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How can I decrease relevancy of Creative Commons footer text? (In Google Webmaster Tools)
I know that I may just have to link the image to make this happen, but I figured it was worth asking, just in case there's some other semantic markup or tips I could use...
I have a site that uses ...
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What does "Impression Change" in Google webmaster->search mean?
I have been using Google Webmaster Tools. I checked out the search queries section. There I found a lot keywords and its report, but I could not understand what the data in those reports mean. Can ...
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when will google revert back page rank after i cleared network unrechable error
For the past one month i was getting network unreachable error.
I contacted my web hosting and they said that google bots were blocked if it were causing more traffic.
And then they witelisted google ...
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Google webmaster tools reports "Network Unreachable" for robots.txt, sitemap.xml, and all pages in the sitemap
webmaster tools for my site displays that
robots.txt unreachable
and for all links in sitemap it says
network unreachable.
sitemap.xml unreachable.
These appear in crawl stats page.
I discussed ...
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YAHOO and BING support for Index, Image and Mobile sitemaps
I know Google webmaster supports submitting Image, mobile, video and other types of sitemaps. YAHOO also mentions about mobile site map here. But does it support Image and video sitemaps.
I could not ...
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How to avoid duplicate META and TITLE tag warnings in Google Webmaster Tools for the same URL in lowercase and CamelCase?
looking through Google's Webmaster Tools today I saw a long list of supposedly duplicate <meta name=description> / <title> tag content with all of them showing a duplicate count of 2. A ...
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My Flex 3 Website Doesn't Have Any Keywords Listed in Google's Webmaster Tools
I've got a Flex 3 website. When I in Google's webmaster tools -> Your site on the web -> Keywords, none are listed.
Does anyone have an all-Flex site that has keywords listed for it the above? The ...
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Facebook Like javascript related to Time Spent Downloading a page Increase in GWT?
I installed the Facebook Like button Javascript version on my website on December 15th.
Take a look at this report from Google Webmaster Central.
Crawl stats
Googlebot activity in the last 90 ...
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Google Webmaster site performance - apparently website loads slow
I have a website which was hosted in Germany till last month. Then this month I moved it to a US based server. The new host is one of the best and top ranking dedicated hosting provider.
Ever since I ...
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Google Keyword Relevancy
I hope this is the correct place to ask this question. I've got a few websites going, so i'm ok with the usual terminology and have looked in SEO and tried to implement it as best i can on my sites. ...
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Is it safe to delete a site from Google Webmaster Tools?
We have a site registered with the Google Webmaster Tools, but recently due to some problems we have to shutdown the site temporary. As as a result, links indexed by the Google are becoming invalid.
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Why is Google not listing my site using its preferred domain?
Using Google Webmaster tools my site is set to 'Display URLs as www.mydomain.com' as opposed 'mydomain.com'. This is the setting for both of these sites in Webmaster tools and has been for several ...
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Subdomain as home page
I'm looking at how best to launch a project using subdomains to create around 10 'minisites' of sufficiently differing content using the subdomain as branding. There will never really be much content ...
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Webmaster tools with Google, Yahoo and Bing
I am currently using Google webmaster tools. I submitted my sitemap using their tool, etc.
I am aware of the fact that Yahoo and Bing offer theit own webmaster tools section.
Can I use all three ...
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What's the extent of the "damage" to having a broken URL found by the spiders (showing in Google Webmaster Tools)?
An error with our URL rewrite rules caused some pages to be not found (404 errors) when Google crawled our site.
I regularly watch for errors and fix database or coding issues when they arise. We ...
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Sitemap XML version vs simple text (urls list) version, do you know what are the pros?
I usualy submit simple text urls list as sitemap on Google webmaster tools. It's just a matter of simplicity, a simple text file is lightweight, easier to read also for humans (actually for me). :)
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How to get tens of millions of pages indexed by Google bot?
We are currently developing a site that currently has 8 million unique pages that will grow to about 20 million right away, and eventually to about 50 million or more.
Before you criticize... Yes, it ...
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Multiple webmaster tools accounts on website
I've got a google webmasters tool account with a website I help look after, they've employed the services of an SEO/SEM company* who have asked to add google/microsoft/yahoo webmasters tools accounts
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Weird entry for robots.txt on a Naked Domain in Google Webmaster Tools
We own a .co.uk address and use an Internet hosting company that has made mistakes around DNS in the past. Our main site is hosted on www. and their reluctance to allow editing of AAAA records on-line ...
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Different data for www and no-www in Google Webmasters Tools
My Webmasters Tools home page contains example.com and www.example.com in the sites section.
There is a rewrite rule (301 redirect) on my server that redirects all requests from www.example.com to ...
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The Sitemap Paradox
We use a sitemap on Stack Overflow, but I have mixed feelings about it.
Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow ...
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Google spam report, have they ever punished a bad site you reported?
You have reported a bad site on Google Webmaster Tools SPAM report.
Assuming you are sure it was a bad site, did you see Google punishing it or doing something after your report?
Thanks
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How can I clear the "crawl errors" of Google webmaster tools?
How can I clear the "crawl errors" of Google webmaster tools? On my webmaster tools page, there are some "Not found" crawl errors dating back two years which I cleared up a long time ago, but they are ...
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Adding pages to google webmaster tools by the bulk
Is there a method of adding websites in bulk to google webmaster tools?
My host username and password were hacked and all of my sites were injected with malicious scripts. I've cleaned everything up ...
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Google Webmaster Tools: Adding pages to Webmaster Tools by the bulk [duplicate]
Is there a method of adding websites in bulk to Google Webmaster Tools?
My host username and password were hacked and all of my sites were injected with malicious scripts. I've cleaned everything up ...
Cosmin
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Why is the number of pages on my website indexed by Googlebot decreasing?
I am monitoring the number of pages indexed by Googlebot for one of my websites .
I noticed that since last week, the number of pages has dropped by about 60 or so. Now to be fair, I have not added ...
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Adsense page impressions is showing zero
I have created a new AdSense account for my blog and integrated ads with my blog, but I am getting zero page impressions. Google Analytics is showing 300 to 400 visitor per day. AdSense, however, ...
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Why is there a difference between urls submitted to a sitemap and urls in the google index?
The crawl report shows this:
"HTTP (1) In Sitemaps (5) Not found (993) Restricted by robots.txt (487,544)"
So the discrepancy between 50,000 and 44,592 isn't coming from that. Are there any ...
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google page scan and backlinks
As i seen using google webmaster tools, google was cahing near about all links present on a webpage of my site.
I just want to be ensure, if there is an external link present on my webpage outside ...
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is it google webmaster crawler's fault or a virus?
Last day when i visited google webmaster tools, i found crawler errors for 42 not found pages. all the pages were having "luminous-solutions.net" at last in the URL. Like
http://article-stack.com/...
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Is there a googlebot equivalent for RSS feeds?
I have a lot of feeds generated on my pages - and it seems to let them go to waste (Googlebot does not seem to see them). The RSS feeds display correctly in the pages when viewed through a browser, so ...
morpheous
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Is it better to remove old URL from google via webmaster than 301 rewrite?
I have a site which changed from one shopping cart to another.
Previously there was an .htaccess file which redirected all the old URLs to the homepage.
I changed it to report a 404 for any URL not ...
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Googlebot crawler: URL restricted by robots.txt - how to fix the entries in robots.txt?
I noticed recently that Google is not caching all of the pages on my website. Upon using the Google webmaster diagnostic tool, I realized that some of my pages were being restricted by entries in my ...
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problem with google search in link:article-stack.com [duplicate]
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Why google is not showing links to my site in result?
If I google link:article-stack.com, it shows 4 interlinks in result.
If it shows interlinks it should show > 250 links. ...
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Google is giving a "Malware Warning" on my site, but why?
I've inherited the development of a site that I designed but did not build - actually two sites. http://kenbrook.org and http://kenbrookyouth.com (same site also via http://youth.kenbrook.org).
So ...
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Google webmaster tool is not updating my site related information
I am very thanks ful to google webbmaster since it suggested me many of the pages which were causing 404.
But i am surprised why were this information still being shown even after one week of ...
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Is it good to start a website with keyword very popular or not so popular?
I am planning to launch a website. However, it is still undecided as there are many keywords on google, to begin with.
My question is whether it is good to be a part of a well-established keyword ...
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Is it better to have an ErrorDocument 404 redirect back to the homepage or a standard 404 error page?
We run an ecommerce site that was setup by a third party ecommerce software provider, basic shop with product pages, basket and checkout.
The third party vendor set up the htaccess file so that if a ...
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