Questions tagged [search-engines]
A search engine is program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found.
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Why Google or any other major search engines do not have a document-document model for searching just like the term-document model they already have? [closed]
In Google or any other major search engine, you can enter a search query and you get search results back. This is a term-document model. Why there is no document-document model where you enter a link ...
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Display only the Post title by avoiding site name?
I am using wordpress. How i can remove the site name from search result. I want to show just the title of my post. Below is an example.
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Can AMP pages use a redirecting URL in the canonical tag?
I recently changed the URLs of my articles and they are now 301 redirected to the new URL format. However, the AMP equivalent version of those articles rel="canonical" tag still links to the old ...
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Is it OK for SEO to remove 10 of 16 translations of our site in subdirectories?
Our website has 16 different languages, each in a subdirectory. hreflang is not implemented.
We are now trying to redesign the website and we want 6 languages to be active. The rest of the languages ...
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Will my SEO rankings be penalized for duplicate content on my subdomain?
I have a site called www.xyz.com and it has a bunch of WordPress Blog posts on it ranking pretty well in google. The only issue is they want to move the blogs over to news.xyz.com (also a WP site). My ...
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Why do Google search result webpage link and facebook shared webpage link of my website when clicked shows 403 forbidden error?
I have a website. It is working fine. But since yesterday, If I click on Google Search Result webpage link of my website, then it shows following error:
It appears you don't have permission to ...
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How can I submit my site to other search engines?
I just want to add my site to other search engines like aol, ask, duckduckgo etc.
My site is ready to be indexed but I am facing problems in order to index it in other search engines. How can I do ...
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How do I tell Google to ignore an entire fourth level wildcard subdomain with several sites?
I have multiple servers which host several sites, some of them being QA environments.
Unfortunately, Google has found its way to some of them, and it is displaying results which are in fact competing ...
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Google advance search for a specific domain doesnt find the page which is on website
I am trying to find information using Google advance search for a specific domain but its not picking up the link for keywords example (Markus Wischenbart, United Arab Emirates, Al Habtoor Group ) ...
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Which One has more chance to rank in google image post vs text post?
Which post will rank in Search Engines such as (Google, Yahoo, Bing)if I create two posts one is with the full-page image with alt tag and title tag and another one with full text-based.
I Know that ...
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Did everything to optimise SEO ranking of site but the site does not show up [duplicate]
I have created a business website for a client of mine. The client runs a business of providing therapeutic and behavioral services to youth and families experiencing developmental, emotional, and ...
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Dynamic page loading frpm php and search engines
My web site includes many topics and has multiple depth level menus with multiple pages attached to each menu.
To keep track of everything every link is sent to an index.php
It has 2 get arguments ...
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What are the seemingly obvious things to improve search engine rank? [duplicate]
One thing that seems like the most obvious thing I can think of, at least when it comes to businesses, is to register your business with Google My Business. I can't think of anything more obvious that ...
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Will having a sitemap ensure pages served by AJAX requests be crawled?
I have a website, where I publish articles, that I have started just 2 weeks ago. I want to keep the pages as clean as possible and load more content (links to more articles) by AJAX requests upon ...
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Duplicate Content Penalty - EBook Publication or PDF article on multile vendors's sites
After reading this,
How to solve duplicate contents over different domains?
we know that duplicate contents are heavily penalized.
What about the case that if someone pubilsh the same Ebook or the ...
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Isomorphic (Universal) web application and SEO
I am developing an isomorphic web application using React (SSR). However, I need to render some of my components on the client side. Therefore, the things that a Google bot sees may be different from ...
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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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Make JavaScript Generated content appear on Search Engines, where content differs on a Single Page
I have a PWA hosted on Firebase. On the main URL, like example.com, there's a lot of content that is generated by JavaScript.
At the same time, whenever someone accesses example.com/?key=value, where ...
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Licensing tag for allowing indexation of website
Is there a standard or something in the making that allows the inclusion of a license that will allow indexation and publishing of a website, citation and sharing of the links?
Some meta tag for ...
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Session per User (LTV) calculation?
I have one diagram in google analytics:
and others as:
My question is how Day 0 is calculated as 1.09?
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Dynamic data from database on google side [duplicate]
I am quite new in programming. I am here today to ask a question about dynamic data on the website. I want to create a website whose content will be managed by CMS which I will create. In the CMS ...
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Is an H1 tag that contains a style block with CSS as well as an image with alt text Google-friendly?
Here is how my website's H1 tag shows up in the Moz tool (or any other SEO tool I used so far):
The website is build through Shopify platform and Shopify says it's perfectly fine but I have my doubts,...
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Is RSS feed submission a search engine ranking factor now?
Is RSS submission worth doing now? Is it still considered as SEO ranking factor?
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Weight of geographical back links to other links
I know that back links are a big deal when it comes to ranking in the search engines, but do links originating from the same country (as to where you want your results to be displayed) have more ...
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Is bad for SEO if browser need to run synchronous JS to get content?
I'm developing a site using symfony + Vue. The problem is that this HTML with non-standard tags (components) gets into the browser.
All that contained in the <div id="app"> element must ...
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Reasons to use a custom 404 page that redirects with code vs a 301 redirect?
We are moving a website from Joomla to Mura and some of the pages are going to be located at different URLs.
I can set up 301 redirects in the rules section of the web.config file in order to ...
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SEO when forward domain in global rank vs local region?
I have one .ir domain and google map services not works on .ir domains, I want to get .org domain and set SSL EV for this .org domain then forward .ir to .org domain. one web app is installed on this ...
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Remove indexed IP address from Google
I developed my website under /var/www/html (for the development part) so I can consult the website when I enter the server's IP address into my web browser. On the same server I have the same products ...
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How to keep the rank in google search engine database when changing ip address [duplicate]
I am a newbie in the field of website making. I currently made a website using Django and host it using digital ocean, I learn all of it by myself and I am very interested. However, I would like to ...
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What if to load duplicated blocks e.g. header and footer by JS
If we use static site generators (SSG) and edit some block duplicated on many pages e.g. header or footer, we need to regenerate all the HTML pages using this block. Regardless of the speed of our SSG,...
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Remove site from search engines for specific keyword
I know normally people want the opposite but I would like to know if someone here knows how to remove a site from search results for a specific keyword.
Lately I'm getting a lot of visits from people ...
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Submitting sitemap to Baidu [duplicate]
I've created a Baidu account to submit my sitemap.xml file to Baidu Search Console. I've also verified my phone number & email address. But when I try to submit my sitemap, they want the name as ...
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Deleted posts don't seem to be completely removed
I asked a webmaster to remove some posts on his website where some pictures and content referring to me appeared.
He removed pictures and content but they still appear as results on google search, and ...
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Move a site to my own host [closed]
I have a Tech blog site with +350 articles that hosted on a free plan WordPress with enabled default WordAD and a paid domain.
Some people advise me to move my blog to my own host on Godaddy or any ...
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I changed my name on Google+ but in the search results still show my old name
I edited my name on Google+, by substituting my real name with a nickname.
If I enter my real name in the Google search bar (and on other search engines as well), I get links to my Google+ profile. ...
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Sitemap generation strategy for massive dynamic website
I need to put in place a system that will generate sitemap files (https://www.sitemaps.org) for a huge website with content changing dynamically. These are example figures, but I'm thinking of ...
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How to get a public Google map show up in Google search results?
I'm a runner and I've spent a lot of time using Google maps to compile a collection of drinking fountain locations in Boston where I often run. I've made it public so others can benefit from this ...
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How long will deleted content will be visible on search engines and why?
I posted a note on Facebook an then set the privacy mode to "visible to me only", and then deactivated my account, and then deleted the note, but the screen of it still appears on the indexed results ...
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Could a Backlink loss cause clicks drop on Google / Organic Search clicks?
Here is a specific example:
my website is pretty much new and I did not base my popularity on backlinks. Anyway, I did get 3 or 4 backlinks on very authoritative websites. One month later I got ...
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Why does Search Console count impressions where the searcher hasn't even scrolled far enough down the SERP to see my site?
Why does Search Console count impressions where the searcher hasn't even scrolled far enough down the SERP to see my site?
Google Search console lists the keywords people use in search to visit my ...
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Precautions while reorganizing sitemaps
I am reorganizing my sitemaps. I am breaking some large sitemaps into smaller ones, merging some and so on. More importantly I am renaming all the sitemaps (I am assigning meaningful suffixes ...
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Time lag between crawling and indexing [duplicate]
The new version of search console is reporting status 'Crawled currently not indexed' for several URLs. The urls are new and the sitemap was submitted only a couple of days back.
My question is how ...
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Search engine pessimisation: Can I tell search engines not to rank legacy pages above live ones?
I maintain a website for an organisation. It has undergone a couple of rebuilds, and each time the pages of the old site have been kept available for historical interest.
It has been brought to my ...
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Prevent Indexing of Images from my website but hosted on S3 / Cloudinary
I understand that as a website/domain owner (eg: example.com), we can prevent images from our website from being indexed by Google (GoogleBot / GoogleBot-Image).
We could add a meta tag to the whole ...
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Google Search Console: Continuous Decrease in Search Impressions While There is Almost No Change in Position
One of my clients has a website that is visited by tens of thousands of users per day. Google Search Console is showing continuous decrease in search impressions starting from 01-April-2018. The ...
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Do any search engines exist which disobey rel=“nofollow” or “Disallow”? [closed]
Moving beyond the big players - Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask, DDG (who all obey "nofollow"s), are there any search engines out there which deliberately disobey rel='nofollow' links and Disallow rules in ...
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How to make Google display only Country-specific search results based on user's location
My question goes like this:
I own a multinational company with the following websites
www.abc.com/us/
www.abc.com/uk/
www.abc.com/apac/
I advertise my product (let's name it "device") on each of my ...
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Can we use URL pattern in google remove URL webmaster?
I am working on a project which has some private information. They are indexed in google and is showing as a snippet. Now I want to remove those URL from google index.
I have gone through the google ...
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Newly verified property is not showing up in Webmaster Google Search Console
UPDATE: (2018-04-23) - While revising this post to add more detail I went through the steps to add a property again. However, this time I googled "Google Webmaster Tools" and then used the link in ...
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Is there a way to indicate that a web page may have “disturbing” content for OpenGraph/Google etc
I am working on a website that hosts medical imagery. Some of those images might be considered "explicit" or "disturbing", e.g. surgery or diseases.
We would like to add metadata to those web pages ...
