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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This address should never have been indexed, how can I properly remove it?
I have a couple of subdomains on my website that I use for various purposes and I don't want/need them to be indexed by search engines. From the very beginning, since I created them, I added a robots....
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SEO - Move around content with Javascript
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Can I move around content (text and links) with Javascript without affecting my rank in Google?
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Menu with links push down my content
I have a menu (with tabs) run with ...
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Site description not showing up in Google search [duplicate]
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Problem with description of my site and google search
Does Google use the Meta Description Tag for Description of Page?
When we search for our site on Google. What do I need ...
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Is there a Q&A for SEO (Search Engine Optimization)? [closed]
Is there a great free Q&A (like Stack Overflow) for SEO (Search Engine Optimization)?
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Should I make a search-engine only page for my domain (which re-directs visitors depending on geographic location)?
I manage a domain which is an umbrella domain - it is used in marketing/advertising a product around the world. When users visit the domain the site re-directs them to a sub-domain specifically for ...
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Does having same IP & some same content effect my SEO?
A client of mine came to me with a unique question that I wasn't sure of the answer to. He wanted to know that if he has a number of different websites (let's say 500 sites with their own domain name)...
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Domain Aliases and SEO
We have created a movie site & to optimize in search engines for other countries, we have created a alias of various domains, for example movie.co.uk, movie.de etc. How to get this optimized and ...
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Is there any way to find out how often a certain query is sent to a search engine?
For example, let's assume a string 'green apple'. Is there at least one SE (or, maybe 3rd-party site) which provides its statistics on how often do users search this concrete string?
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What's the best way to serve simple flowcharts
The websites in the government sector often provide Word files containing flowcharts. They are simple flowcharts with at most ten nodes in size, showing common workflows to people. There are several ...
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How long it takes for google to refresh the page information? How can I achieve to make it faster? [duplicate]
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How long before Google will update search terms matching my website?
I have a webpage, and I have updated it with meta descriptions and keywords. I would like this data to be ...
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What does it mean when google says "0 search results found"?
What does it means, when google says "0 search results found"? Did google try to get relevant search results from every website it knows about before displaying 0 results?
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Is 66,200 results in google good for a start up content based website [closed]
Is 66,200 results in google good for a start up QnA content based website.
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Search engine recognition methods
I am facing some problems making my site visible to all search engines. Google is recognizing my website and all pages well. Pages appear in search in 1st or second page. But when i use others like ...
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Best Way to "Launch" A Site That's Being Developed
I am currently developing a website that will be officially marketed for and "launched" months from now.
This site has minimal content at the moment but will soon start having more and more content ...
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Is website visited by search engines?
How can I find out that my website which is actually uploaded on webhosting for about two months is visited by search engines like google, yahoo and others? Which ranking sites should I regularly ...
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Is it possible to have a stop word list for distinct html pages?
Let's say I have a simple html page with some text and the text
foo is a single word whereas foo bar are two words
somewhere in it.
Is it possible to prevent search engines from finding the page ...
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SEO consequences from transfering tld's to sub domains
We have a client that has multiple top level domains for the products they offer. These products are different full fledged softwares. They also have a domain for their actual company that makes ...
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google search result : webpage ranking order
I want to know when I typed - cheapest mobile phone in india. I get this website title inside the red box first (The title is not relevant to my typed phrase), whereas which is relevant, inside the ...
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Does google index its search result page?
Does google index its search result page?
assuming, google as a website, search results text as a content.
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Stack overflow like SEO - How is it done? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
StackOverflow and Google search
this is a question purely for learning purpose.
I have noticed that this site has an incredible power of appearing in search engines.
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What is the Google link equivalent in Yahoo and Bing?
The link: directive in Google will find all pages which link to a given site. E.g. putting this in Google:
link:stackexchange.com
returns a bunch of sites linking to Stack Exchange.
Is there an ...
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using Accordion, Jquery ,will it affect SEO? [duplicate]
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How bad is it to use display: none in CSS?
I am planning to use Accrodion and Jquery in My website. previously to animate the contents in the website i used Flash but content (...
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How can I tell which pages of a site are indexed by Google or Bing?
Is there a tool that can list the specific pages of a site which are indexed by the search engines?
I know the webmaster tools have this stuff, but it just tells how many pages out of the sitemap, ...
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what css styles are analyzed by search engines?
I know that Google used to do things like look at font-size and font-weight (or the equivalents from when Google first started) from their initial paper. But that was in the 90's.
Does anybody know ...
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Does including the site name in a link help me to get more pages indexed?
I have my links set up like this:
<a href="http://abc.com/test/abc">
<a href="http://abc.com/test/def">
the abc.com is repeated many times. What I would like to know is if I need include ...
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When redirecting to a beta sub domain should I use 301 or 302?
I have a website with a domain of www.mysite.com for example and I wish to redirect some of it's content to a new version that is under development under a sub domain i.e everything under www.mysite....
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Same page in different "locations" on same site - duplicate content? [duplicate]
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What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
The same page, or rather the same content on a page is accessible from two very similar URLs, ...
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Changing links names and search engines
I was wondering If I change all my links names which is about 2000 links will it effect my seo score and search engine rankings? And how should I warn search engines?
I want to change my links from.
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What document types can be included in an XML sitemap?
AFAIK, Google accepts sitemaps which are about ordinary URLs (text/plain), images (image/png, image/gif, image/jpg, etc.), and videos (video/avi, video/mpeg, etc.).
My question is, how many Internet ...
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If my page titles are dynamically created with PHP will Google be able to read them?
My page titles are dynamically created with PHP: I set my page title in my PHP functions, and when the function is triggered the title is set.
Is Google able to read the page titles?
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Is Google a reliable document search engine?
I have a site with PDFs and Word documents that I know have been indexed by Google because they appear in search results with filetype:pdf (or doc), and if I search for some very specific terms with ...
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Indexing pages from own search engine
I would like to know what the best way is to have google index pages that visitors access through search on my website.
These pages are accessible through a direct link like mywebsite.com/CompanyId.
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What dodgy scams are there to get to the top of Google searches?
I was speaking to a relative and they mentioned that the designer/developer who produced their site had a way of getting them to the first page of google, I did advise him that this could be ...
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How is Googlebot finding URLs that are only visible to authenticated users?
Here is one of my customers, performing some action after having logged in to his account. The unique token is simply an encrypted user id + timestamp.
94.254.xxx.xxx - - [02/Jul/2011:22:25:46 +...
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Moving to a new domain - what to do to minimize visitor loss
I want to move my website to a new domain. Would be nice if you can share some experience or suggestion to minimize loss of visitors.
In google webmaster tools there is an option which allows to move ...
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SEO: targeted or generic URLs performance
I'm working on a website that sells DYI products. 2 of the products categories are save-paint and save-cabling. Since the products can help you save money they could also be part of a save-money ...
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Language Specific URLs for SEO
I'm currently building a website that is not targeted to an English speaking audience. So my thoughts are that if I were to make the URLs in the language of choice (in this case Spanish) then would ...
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How do I control how often search engines visit my site?
I've been using the following line in the <head> of my sites for years:
<meta name="revisit-after" content="3 days" />
I recently discovered that it's not one of the meta tags that ...
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Will this sitemap get me de indexed from Google?
My site's URL (web address) is: http://quantlabs.net/private/sitemap.xml
Description (including timeline of any changes made):
Will this sitemap get me de-indexed from Google?
My new site map just ...
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How does Google interpret negative statements, like "this site is *not* for X"?
Suppose I setup a games website, and put a disclaimer on it, such as "This site is not for gold-sales or RMT (real-money-transfers)".
How will Google (or other engines) interpret that? Will searches ...
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Google crawl on uncompleted site
I am preparing to have my web application in a private beta. The application when fully live will have a lot more content than in beta. Currently our plan is to release it to limited users with ...
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how the search engines interpret the exclamation mark in the url
I wonder how the search engines - Yahoo, bing, google ... - interpret the exclamation mark (!) in the url:
www.site.com/product!651031
www.site.com/category!651031
I could not find documentation on ...
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Find all the pages in a website that point to another site
I just updated a website, changing all the URLs. There is another website that has (maybe) some links to my old website. I want to generate a list of all the pages in this other website that point to ...
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HTTP: How to be deleted from search engines at a certain point in time in the future?
Is there a way to tell search engines, that a page they crawl should be included in the search results now, but have to be deleted at a certain time in the future?
I have a website where hundreds of ...
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Search engines that do _not_ respect robots.txt?
Are there any search engines that do not care about robots.txt?
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How to hide my website from search engines using robots.txt? [duplicate]
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Robots denied by domain is still listed in search results
I want to hide my website from all search engines for that i write robots.txt in that robots.txt i write code as
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How to make search engines display only the title of a web page on their search results?
I want to make search engines display only the title of my web page on their search results.
And I don't want to show any descriptions and any texts of my page on the search results.
For example, ...
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Dealing with broken links and dead pages on search engines
I recently had to reconstruct the way my website runs. Along with that I have to change the way my urls are formatted. My website is not terribly popular (hoping changes will fix that) but I do have ...
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Will changing SHTML files to PHP change effect how search engines index my site?
I have a lot of SHTML pages.
If I change these to PHP to add some more functionality (obviously changing stuff like includes to PHP where necessary) will this effect how search engines index my site? ...
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Return all links from a google search
We just relaunched our website and I need to remove all of old links from googles index. I did a site:ourdomain.com search but I don't really feel like copying and pasting all of the links that way.
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