Questions tagged [search]
Search is used to look through a body of data, usually text, to find particular results that match some set of criteria.
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Google rank 1, but not ranked at all in Bing, Yahoo or DuckDuckGo
I'm using the Epic browser and a proxy (based in my country), to do searches for my website. I'm doing this so search engines can't estimate where I am based and suggest my own website
In Google, for ...
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Google Sites website showing favicon in tabs but not search results
On my google sites webpage, the favicon doesn't show up on search results (just shows the generic globe image) but it DOES show up on the tabs. I've made sure the image is a multiple of 48. I've ...
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Would Google penalize home.php and index.html on one root?
Would home.PHP and main.HTML at the same website be confused by Google crawlers as canonical? If a website has home.php and also index.html do you think Google will down rank it in its search? What if ...
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How to tell search engines not to check a checkbox?
How do I tell search engine crawlers not to check a checkbox when indexing my site? I want to do something like this:
<input type="checkbox" rel="nofollow" />
, but the rel ...
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Google search console fails to read robots, sitemap, index files or verify ownership
I am, as a volunteer, taking care of our local YMCA websites (thereof refered to as [sub].domain where sub refers to different websites). For some reason, a few months ago google stopped indexing our ...
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200 website code by Console [closed]
Can someone help me and let me know why google is not ranking quite some few of my sites from mine latest SEO project:
https://kroatien-ferienwohnungen.at/
I see that plenty of pages are crawled but ...
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Google sitelinks directing to old website
We have launched a new website last Dec but till now the sitelinks are still directing to some of the old site pages (subdomain) which have the same domain as the new site. We submitted a sitemap to ...
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When a user clicks on a Google Ad, hide the referrer from the landing page
I am doing Google Search Ads, after a customers click on my ads they will get forwarded to an affiliate page. Now, I don't want these affiliate networks to know from where my customer came (had bad ...
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Why is /wp-json issue coming up on Google indexing?
Google is currently trying to index our domain (example.com/wp-json) and coming up with a 5xx error.
In my perspective, wp-json is the root domain of our REST API
It looks like our REST API is running ...
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Website not showing in search results when searching with spaces [duplicate]
Website not showing in search results when searching with spaces
Example: mywebsite.com
(Without spaces) When i search "mywebsite" it shows #1
(With spaces) When i search "my website&...
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Google Search result: How to show the associated image against it
Google search results now show an image against some of the results, as shown below.
How can this be done? Is there some tag that needs to be added on the webpage so that when it gets indexed it shows ...
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Google search console says 2 redirect errors out of 15 pages using hreflang
My website on Github Pages has 15 different pages for different languages and locales. They all have the following in the head block.
<link rel="alternate" href="https://...
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New business website (.co.uk) not appearing in google search - up against an established .com website with the same name
A client has started a business in the UK that shares its name with a bigger established business based in Mexico. They operate in completely different market sectors. The name is a single word and ...
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Bing Site Scan; Redirecting to login page
My website apkeh.com is not getting indexed, it says violation of community guidelines. I don't know what guidelines, exactly I am violating. I tried a site scan and found that most of the links are ...
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How to use Subdomain for a custom CMS of the main domain website?
Should I use a subdomain for a custom CMS of the main domain website? Like cms.domain.com. As it will be a CMS, I will disallow a search crawler for indexing. Will this hurt SEO for the Main Domain?
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Should I exclude countries with poor page speed to prevent Google PageSpeed Insights using aggregate data?
Google has mentioned they use the aggregate data to rank a site. I have poor scores and flagged in search console. When viewing google analytics it shows countries like India increasing the overall ...
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Search Volume Impact on Avg ranking
Looking at last year's data, I see that searches were way higher, especially for retail ecommerce websites. This year as things are going back to normal, search volume is also down. I want ...
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How to hide a dodgy website as a referring page in Google Search Console?
I have a website that shows up in the google search console under URL inspection with a referring page that is another website entirely. I did a reindex a couple of days ago and it was last crawled on ...
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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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I made a new site, what should I do to inherit the SEO performance from the old one?
I have very limited knowledge about SEO. The problem I am facing is that after my new website built with wordpress went live, when I search for my website's name, my old website that was built with ...
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I made a new site, what should I do to remove the old site from Google search result and put the new one in? [duplicate]
I have very limited knowledge about SEO. The problem I am facing is that after my new website built with wordpress went live, when I search for my website's name, my old website that was built with ...
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How should I choose which URLs I want indexed to include in my sitemap?
I am working on a sitemap. I have read it should contain the URLs that you want indexed by Google. But which pages do I want indexed?
It seems to me that makes sense to index pages such as the root ...
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Google Search Console error: Alternate page with proper canonical tag
The content of my site is completely unique, but for a few days now, Google has been showing an error for some pages of the site that have good rankings:
Alternate page with proper canonical tag
The ...
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Google test results html is different from view source html
When I see page html in google test rich results I see SearchAction and WebSite attributes in Rendered Html and there is an error about it.
'SearchAction' object must be nested inside a 'WebSite' ...
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Does Googlebot crawl JS or JSON inside an HTML page?
My Google Search tool is complaining about certain URLs it found on my site. These are intentionally unusable URLs; I'm not using them in any links. Think of them as unused meta-data.
A) In one ...
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Why is my US Google rank so low in countries other than the UK?
My rank in Google in the UK is now 12. Which compared to the 18-20 it has been for years is much nicer.
However this is only for the UK - I asked a few people on Facebook who reside in the US to do ...
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Acquired domain name linked to bad reputation on search engines due to previous owner
If a example.com is purchased, but has a history of fraud or some other heinous crime by its previous owners, such that search engine results show 10 pages and more of complaints from defrauded ...
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I appear to be completely invisible on google despite their search console claiming that I am indexed [duplicate]
I recently put the site for my web design business up on google. It's been online for about two weeks and according to Google Search Console, has been indexed several times. Despite this, I can only ...
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Preserve rankings of moved page while reusing old URL for a different purpose
We are relaunching a large Website, mainly a redesign, but also changing the URL-Structure for SEO- and Structure-Reasons.
Now we have a strongly ranking page, say with the URL:
https://example.com/...
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Google Search Console reports error for 'noindex' tag on sitemap
My sitemap is dynamically generated by Yoast SEO WordPress plugin, and is returned with noindex. I submitted the sitemap URL to Google Search Console, but it reports an error:
Submitted URL marked ‘...
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Search Results Using Faceted Navigation
We sell specialized trucks and heavy equipment. Our website uses faceted navigation for users to narrow their search and find specific equipment.
We are trying to get google to show search results of ...
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Does The Name Of The Subdomain Affect SEO
I want to ask if the name of a subdomain can affect search engine optimization (SEO)
I am making a tech website like cnet.com and also adding a downloads page like download.cnet.com , which will have ...
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How do I identify and block a bot from my site?
In Google Analytics I can see that I started getting traffic to one page on my site, which is /search. It is as if a bot is visiting the site, entering "" in the search bar and pressing ...
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How can you determine organic search engine keywords that result in conversions?
When using paid search, Google reports the keywords searched in the query-string so a webmaster can identify the ROI for individual keyword.
For unpaid organic search is there any way to correlate the ...
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Google Search Console not showing proper other pages results (they are indexed)
i have a website and than i have a wordpress blog in /blog route of that site they are kind of independent for now since i havent done any internal linking on them so i created this new post n my blog ...
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Google is showing a short title in the mobile 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 "Rise above mundane ...
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How to track site search without query parameters in the URL?
I want to be able to track the site searches, but the site search on my site is not a dynamic search. Users can’t just type and enter the search button. They have to click on a pre-set result that ...
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Is there any effect if I canceled a site move in Google search console and reconfigured it again?
I have used the move tool in google console to move from site A to site B
But I didn't get any effect for 6 months!
Also, this notification does not appear at the top of the property!although it ...
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Unpublishing content from google index
How do I unpublish content from my old site from google index database to prevent it from duplicating on my new domain name.
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How can i submit our website in AOL search engine?
How can I submit our website in the AOL search engine?
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External links and effect on SEO: how can we link to relevant posts?
I have a website that wants to link to a 1000+ pages on my website (because they are all pages that extend the information on his website), but we are both afraid that this might have a negative ...
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Benefit of using pretty urls on search results with content Noindex?
Google doesn't want thin content like search results pages to be indexed. So I use noindex on all those search results on my website.
Then is there a benefit using pretty urls like below.
https://...
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Ramifications of Deleting an Owner on Google Search Console
Are there any ramifications to deleting an owner inside a property's search console account?
For example: would the property lose entries made by that owner?
If so, any guidance on how to remove ...
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Search Console Shows "Indexed, Not Submitted in Sitemap" while The URL is actually in Sitemap [duplicate]
I encountered this problem with search console. It is showing Indexed but not submitted in sitemap when the URL is actually present in the website. What is going on?
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Favicon is not showing for mobile Google search result when using Cloudflare
I already tried all instructions from Google regarding favicon. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9290858?hl=en
One of our sites is under Cloudflare and our favicon is not Showing in the ...
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Why would my Iranian website only appear in search results outside Iran?
I have a shopping site in Iran, but when I search in Google, it won't come up in the search results. The only way I can find the site at all in Google from inside Iran is after a long search in image ...
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How do i add custom fields in google search results?
I want to display custom fields like how search results pointing to wikipedia.
For example, try searching Tesla on Google and check the search results,
One of the search is like this,
See the ...
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Are anchor tags an option to index lazy loaded images?
I am using a gallery that has lazy loading implemented. Only the thumb images are indexed by Google, the large images are not.
Functionality, for context: Many thumbs are displayed, when a thumb is ...
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Not able to submit a sitemap in the Search Console
I run a few sites and one client mentioned that their web traffic has gone down and that their home page is no longer listed on Google.
The site has been running for 10 years with no issues.
I ...
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Ask Google to remove thousands of pages from its index after cleaning up from hacked site
I've had my website hacked. I have cleaned it and searched google site:example.com and made a list of all the results. Removed the actual links that are OK and made a list of the ones in the format of ...
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