Questions tagged [search-results]
Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) are pages generated by a user's input for a given search phrase or word.
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What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google Sitelinks?
My website used to have sitelinks and now it doesn't. It's very possible that it's due to changing the website to a sidebar design instead of having an "interstitial" type landing page which limited ...
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Title tag different from title appearing in Google?
I'm just wondering how it is possible that IGN.com has this in its title tag:
Video Games, Cheats, Walkthroughs, Game Trailers, Reviews, News, Previews & Videos at IGN
while on Google its ...
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Why would a website with keyword stuffing rank higher than one without in google search results?
Like some other websites, I try to maintain a balance in keywords in comparison to other words. I ran tests of my (optimized) website as well as a (keyword stuffed) competitor website via this SEO ...
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SEO preference: does a site with WWW rank better than without WWW?
After having read various articles on this site about WWW or Non-WWW website setup, here, here and here, and after having setup a correct redirection rule in .Htaccess to at least eliminate duplicate ...
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My title tag doesn't appear to be getting crawled by Google properly [duplicate]
My title is:
<title>School Management Software, College & University Management Software, Cloud ERP Software</title>
However it's showing up like this in Google:
Is there something ...
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How important is the domain name for SEO
Most people advice to buy a domain name that exactly matches your main business field. For example if you sell computers the best one will probably be computers.com but with millions(maybe billions) ...
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How do I get Google to show links to my site hierarchy in search results?
I have recently noticed that for some websites, Google is linking to different locations in the site hierarchy instead of just the destination page URL. For instance, searching for "Malibu Rum Drink ...
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How to change which image from website is shown in Google search result?
Can anyone tell me how Google decides which image to use when it shows an image with the search results (as is the case with mobile search, sometimes)?
If you look at these mobile search results …
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Shall I submit sitemap containing all the bad (now 404) URLs after the spam URL hack?
Earlier this month, one of my sites got hacked and an attacker created near 1 million spam URLs. The site has been fixed relatively fast, however, after one month Google search results still shows ...
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Site URL being displayed before TITLE on SERP
Apologies if the question is a repeated one but I couldn't find a solution for this.
I have following HTML code on the home page of my website.
<head>
<title>Sample title for ...
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Geographic location settings
I am building a website and it uses a Netherlands (.nl) domain. This domain is being found when using the Netherlands Google. I'd like the site to be found on all Google's not just country speific ...
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Rich Snippets not working (and working at the same time?)
We have an eCommerce site, and we have had rich snippets implemented (in JSON-LD) since January/February this year (2015). I have read multiple sources (including the Google documentation) and there ...
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Why is Google indexing pages with ?utm_campaign query string
Recently I have noticed that Google is indexing URLs containing utm_campaign, utm_source and utm_medium query string arguments. In the results, Google shows URLs with these query strings rather than ...
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Product Snippets with JSON-LD + Schema.org - Are there any live examples in Google index?
** EDIT Feb 2016 - Finally JSON-LD seems to be working now in SERPS, with extremely fast changes-to-index time, assuming you have everything with Google merchant center feeds syncd and linked. Make ...
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What contributes to expanded company details being displayed in Google search results?
For some results returned in Google Search, on the right side it displays the company details, logo, contact numbers, etc...
For example, see the following screenshot:
I'd like to know what ...
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Why are these sites cloning my content, and how do I stop them?
So I was searching for one of my own websites on Google: http://www.botlibre.com
and to my surprise found some clones of my website, like:
http://83waystowasteyourtime.adidas.com
and:
http:// ...
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How rel="next" and rel="prev" helps in SEO if used for pagination?
How rel="next" and rel="prev" helps in SEO, if used for pagination?
Is it really required ?
i.e. imagine you're on page 2:
<link rel="prev" href="http://www.example.com/article-part1.html">
&...
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Google search keeps indexing hacked URLs
I have a Wordpress website that is indexing some URLs on Google that seems like my website was hacked.
I've tried:
Search my host for infected files and folders, but didn't find anything. Both ...
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What should be the word count of an article for better ranking in 2014?
I know that SERPs depends on many factors like backlinks, page authority, keywords placement etc. But I noticed that Google also look for the word count of the article.
In 2010,2011 articles with ...
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Using disqus for a website (question on SERP and backlink)
I am building a website and am trying to decide between writing my own commenting system and using Disqus.
One of the main deciding factors is that (obviously), I want comments left on my page to be ...
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How to remove a fragment / hash URL from Google search results?
My old site used to write the URLs without !.
Eg: www.example.com/#/products
But it has been more than 6 months since I changed it to include ! in the URL like so:
www.example.com/#!/products
But ...
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What factors probably contributed for this appearance in Google Featured Snippet?
I understand there might be many factors, but I still find it quite odd that a search for "influencer marketing" shows this knowledge graph item. What are considering as relevant factors which are ...
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Exact Match Domain Extension Value
I'm looking forward to start a micro-niche blog. I have an exact match domain available in ".co" extension. If, for example, my keyword is "blue cone" so what would be a suitable domain name for me in ...
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Google no longer showing link to cached result in SERP result
I was looking today to see which version of a page Google had crawled and cached, but when I looked, I could no longer see the place where Google shows the cached content.
Is this a feature that ...
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SERP update frequency
Recently I changed my site improving the title and description metatags of many pages. Looking at Webmaster Tools I saw that Googlebot already crawled the new contents (and also found duplicate titles ...
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How to push google to update data about what I recently change in my page?
I change my page title and meta desc, and also change indexability status to index.
Should I wait till google crawl again or change by itself? or I can notify google that I change something and ...
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What causes Google to display a search result with a list of articles below
We have a web application on which users have profile pages that have a few details about the user, and then a list of blog posts that user has created. We're finding that in some circumstances Google ...
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How to tell Google to rank a child page of similar content higher than parent
I have created a fleet of location based sub-pages. These are sub-pages of a given category. The category pages rank really well and even out-rank the new location based pages for their given keywords....
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Google is indexing wrong page for search terms not on that page
I’m having a problem … the wrong page is indexing with Google, for search phrases “not on that page”.
Explained … On a website I developed, I have four products. For example sake, we’ll say these ...
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When does Google use article published date vs article modified date in SERP?
I have a website with a number of long form content articles that I keep updated. The page generates two date snippets from this:
<time itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2014-04-29T14:08:40+01:00"...
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How do I get a list of all indexed links?
I am looking for a way to take every link that I have indexed by Google and export them to a CSV file. Recently I have had way more pages indexed by Google then I actually have and I want to find ...
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How to stop Google indexing both www. and no-www versions of my website
When I do a search of my site in Google it shows both:
example.com
www.example.com
In my .htaccess file I added code to redirect the non-www version to the www version, but both versions are still ...
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Display of special characters in the page title in SERPs
I have noticed a few oddities recently with the titles of web pages in search engine results pages (SERPs). I started using some special characters in my page titles in order to make them look ...
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Semantic HTML5 tags for SEO
Are the new HTML5 tags like
<header>,<footer>,<hgroup>,<nav>,...
... really useful for SEO?
How do google and other search engines treat these tags in terms of SEO?
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Google position changing on different computers
Just put my new site live last Saturday and I have found it has completely different search rankings when I’m in two different locations (very similar distance apart).
I get position 3 for ‘Sound ...
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How long does Google take for the rating stars to show up in the SERP?
I have a rated page since 10 days ago, and the rating starts are still not showing in SERP.
Google Structured Data Testing Tool is not showing any errors.
Should I wait some more time? How long does ...
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Which special characters, if used in <title> tags, will be visible in Google SERPs?
Seems like Google doesn't display some special characters if they are used in <title></title>. What are the characters that will be visible in SERPs for site titles?
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Why is my domain name getting appended to the title in Google SERP? [duplicate]
Suppose my site is example.com.
Now all the results for my site are displayed like this in Google search:
How to make cookies - example.com
However, my title is only How to make cookies, and ...
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Why does Google Search Results differ when logged in and logged out?
I have noticed when I am logged into my Google account and type my domain into Google search the results differ from than when I'm not logged in. For example when I'm logged in my site is 1st and when ...
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Can I import or show reviews from a different site on my Google search results?
I've been tasked with building out our search results page and after including the basic things in the side bar:
Here is the current search (blacked out my logos/names to avoid self promotion claims)
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How to update the date on Google search results?
For a blog entry, I have this meta tags:
<meta property="article:published_time" content="2015-09-07T21:54:43+00:00" />
<meta property="article:modified_time" content="2015-11-13T13:28:21+00:...
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Two websites, two domains, for one brand, SEO issues?
I'm doing SEO for a new real estate company, yet the developer had surprised me with this:
The developer had created two websites with two domains for one brand:
The first domain/website:
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How to show an image beside a web page in Google search results?
How can I specify an image for Google to use alongside my web page in the search results? Please see the following screenshot which illustrates what I am referring to.
Can I control what image is ...
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Getting Google to index main section instead of nav in SERPs
I have a problem here where Google shows my <nav> instead of my main section in the SERPs. On top of that, because my nav is made up of inline elements, the result gets really messy:
example....
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Why are the same two web pages appearing on the first page of Google's SERP?
While searching in google.co.in for the keyword term "USA Boxing News", I found the same two web pages are showing on the first page of results. One result shows the IP address of the website, and the ...
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Why has Google removed authorship images from its SERPs?
Recently I noted that authorship images from SERPs were removed by Google. You might think that it only happened to you, but type rel="author" in Google's search box and you will find that no one's ...
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What value do comments and ratings have anymore?
I am developing a hit-and-run blog style posting mechanism for my already otherwise mind-bending HTML short-hand CMS schema that runs several of my sites. I am getting ready to start over on some ...
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Google is fetching body as title [duplicate]
I'm encountering a strange behaviour of Google.
Pages in my site has the form :
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<title>Title of Article - mysite</title>
</head>
<body>
<img alt='mysite logo'>
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Google shows "Widget tips" instead of "Widget" as title, but I don’t use this term anywhere
I have been working on one of the client's website from couple of months now. I have installed Yoast SEO plugin and titles was forced to put site name i.e "Widget" at the end of each post.
But from ...
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Structured data: Google Data Highlighter?
We're working on adding structured data for a richer snippet on search engine result pages. There are two type of structured data that I can't figure out how they're done. They seem to show up only on ...
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