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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Google Search Indexing [duplicate]
From an SEO perspective, does Google treat these 2 URL formats equally, or is one better than the other?
https://example.com/country/state/district/place
https://example.com/country-state-district-...
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how do i host my own created website on google and any other search engines [closed]
I had created a website using HTML CSS and JAVASCRIPT. How do I host it on google and other browsers so that everyone can able to use my website. Please support.
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Prevent website completely from being indexed by any search engine or Crawlers for security reason?
I have a website that I wanna publish it... but for some security reason we want to make the website only accessible for those who has the link. which means prevent any kind of indexing or crawlers to ...
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Static pages with content only and dynamic header added by client JS
As we know, static html pages are best because of their high speed, security and low cost of maintenance. If we have already have a website with thousands of statically generated pages and edit for ...
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Google not indexing product pages of my website [duplicate]
After many months and many changes to sitemaps/pages trying to solve the problem, Google still is not indexing the product pages of this site (link removed).
Here's the sitemap i'm using (link removed)...
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How do I manually calculate average session duration?
can anyone help me tell the exact formula of the average session duration where to get from? I'm having trouble finding a manual calculation of the average session duration
For example, from the ...
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Generating URLs according to the search engine query
What is the name of following technique:
When you search a multi word keyword, for example "download physics book edition 218324", the search engine finds a page from a website with exactly ...
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Problems ranking in different countries for .com TLD
Certain page on my site shows up on the first page of 'google.com' but when I'm searching for the same phrase in google by changing the country in the Google's search settings, it doesn't show up on ...
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Remove or re-index content for DuckDuckGo?
Google has the "remove outdated content tool" to prompt it to rescan outdated content on a site you don't own. I have some content that I changed, and I would similarly like DuckDuckGo to re-index or ...
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Is it possible to notify search engines about non-official restaurant websites competing with the real site?
What can be done about fake websites popping up pretending to be the real one? It is specific to restaurants where there are services provided by food delivery services such as in the UK; Just-eat ...
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Is it true that Google does not like copying pages and changing the keywords?
I have created 3 web pages and optimized each for similar content (only change Keywords) but different keywords & Meta Description in all 3 pages.
Is the okay to have similar content on these ...
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Google SEO - Sports Website - Display live scores in search results
What would it take for Google to recognise live scores of a Sports League and display in search results?
Could not find any relevant documentation.
An example from here -
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indexing github account [duplicate]
Its been 7 months since i created my github account.
However Google still hasn't indexed my github page.
Does anyone know what to do ?
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Does a country code secondary domain (such as .com.nl) have lower ranking than a ccTLD (such as .nl) with content specific for that country?
I know that search engines like Google value more country code top level domains (ccTLD) on content that is specific to residents living in said countries, that is, the website hosted at voorbeeld.nl ...
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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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SEO impact of embedded blog content [duplicate]
If a webmaster was to write unique and original blog content on the Medium platform, and then embed the same content on their own website (using an api / rss or similar), does this have a negative ...
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will google index iframe content against the parent page? [duplicate]
We have a parent html page that loads within it iframe page using javascript.
Right now the iframe page has meta tag asking it to be indexed "index, nofollow" ... and we see the content of iframe ...
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When will search engines disregard rules in my robots.txt to NOT crawl my website and files?
I'm working with a marketer that wants to set up a website with a text field for people type in their guess of a url for another publicly accessible but secret website. Let's say that publicly ...
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Is there a way to find “similar advertisers” without a Google AdSense account?
I am trying to find ads that are similar to the ones suggested to me by Google Ads. Having done my research, I found that you can, as an advertiser, target "similar audiences" and that it is also ...
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How to correctly SEO positioning of articles that require authorization
I have website with lot of articles, but that require sign-in to view it. The titles of articles are public.
When user is not logged in but wants to see and read it, then will be redirected to login ...
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How to get search engines to index dynamically created DOM page
My website's main page has very little content on it until after a javascript function loads all the images to the page. The function is called on the window.onload event. My only problem is search ...
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Structured data: what are benefits and drawbacks in using Google Tag Manager vs dropping JSON-LD directly on the page?
I am setting up structured data for a website and am wondering about the benefits and drawbacks of using the Google Tag Manager vs putting script tags in the head.
I'm building the site with HUGO so ...
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Making HTML text dofollow link with JavaScript is effective for SEO?
I wanted to replace match text to html link in content area in each post on WordPress site.
I implemented that by JavaScript as follows.
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
var selector = `...
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Ahrefs reports that new blog posts are “orphan pages”
I have one custom PHP website and an integrated Wordpress blog with the website. When I publish any blog on the website, Ahrefs treats that blog as orphan pages. I have done interlinking all the blog ...
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How can search engine rankings be checked if search engines personalize search results?
I see this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble
So if I search for keywords related to my website to check the actual rank will the results be biased?
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SEO cloaking rules when deferring loading content only after user interacting
what are the rules with google (or any other search engine) in regards to cloaking (e.g. showing different content for bots vs real users)
The question is what if we want to load certain content only ...
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Will a robots noindex meta tag completely prevent search engines from indexing a page?
I am wondering if meta tag <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"> will completely prevent a website page from being indexed.
What if user has registered website from Google Webmaster ...
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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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Does an image post or a text post have a better chance of ranking in Google?
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, which post will rank in search engines such as (Google, Yahoo, Bing)?
I know ...
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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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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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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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Is an H1 tag that contains a style block with CSS as well as an image with alt text Google-friendly? [closed]
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 ...
