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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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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How do we stop Google Bot from crawling the paginated pages? [duplicate]
I just don't want to index paginated pages in the search result. I see there are already some pages like this one www.example.com/page/18/ being indexed. Maybe I can try setting a canonical Url but ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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. ...
