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How to remove a deleted subdomain website from Google Search?
To simplify things, you'll want to start by making sure the DNS entry (A or CNAME) for your subdomain is deleted, which basically deletes the subdomain from your domain name. This will ensure that no ...
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SEO: Does redirect using Status 200 provide accurate Signals to Google?
You actually have two redirects in place, only one of which is a "real" redirect:
Firstly, the server is sending your request from /canine-chronicles (technically, a file without an ...
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How to fix the "Video is not the main content of the page" error for text contents
Google made an update last spring (2023) that made it so that video thumbnails would only show up next to search results when the main content of the page is the video.
In your situation, which is ...
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Is it possible to make your website to be searchable with specific keywords?
NO. Webmasters can't definitively do anything to force Googles search to behave a certain way. The best they can do is follow best practices for the moment and provide data optimized in a way that ...
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How will Google discover and remove all my new NoIndex pages?
Google has already discovered them. Once Google knows about a URL Googlebot will periodically come back to fetch it. It will do so forever. I have URLs that have been "410 Gone" for a ...
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SEO process for new wordpress site after upgrading from old HTML site
Did you modify your .htaccess file with redirects (preferably 301) to tell Google that your pages have moved? If not, that would be a good place to give search engines the hint that you have ...
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Combining TLD and SLD for SEO
We should not second-guess what search engines do. They can change what they do all the time.
What you should be aiming for is a good experience for your visitors. That means good content, something ...
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What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google Sitelinks?
When the website schema is used, it can help Google resolve the ambiguity of which links on a site are the main sub-site links.
{
"@context": "https://schema.org/",
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Should the meta description of the HTML page be started from "This page is about ..."?
Version 2 is by far the better description of the two. Meta descriptions should be written to:
Summarize the content in the most human way possible. Write for people, not crawlers.
Focus on targeted ...
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How do I go to the last Google Search result?
Immediately after you search, add &start=300 (or another somewhat large multiple of ten) to the URL. (For a fresh search, before you click on "More results", it shouldn't already been in ...
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SEO: Does redirect using Status 200 provide accurate Signals to Google?
I have had meta refresh redirects both work and not work. Ultimately you're going to have to test it. I understand your concern though, considering that even the Google documentation plays it safe ...
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Is it beneficial or detrimental to delete and re-add Search Console?
Your search console has nothing to do with the impact to your website's organic search traffic, it merely reports on it.
It would seem your site was hit by the November core update.
https://www....
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Site dropped from 1st to 30th after moving hosts and changing to PHP
It seems like you've realized this, but requesting that Google removes your URLs from search probably caused a major SEO hit. Effectively you were instructing Google to remove your site from their ...
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Is it possible to control the site title in Google search results?
Yes, you can influence the site title that appears in Google search results, but you can't fully control it. Google generates this title based on several factors, including the content of your tag, ...
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Google Appending Company name In Front Of Search Results Title
Google rewrites page titles it doesn't like. You won't be able to force it to give the exact one specified.
In this moz.com article, they reckon 58% of pages they looked at had been re-written.
I'd ...
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Incorrect Doctor's Image Thumbnail Showing in SERP
This can be an issue with a simple featured Image or Schema Code. It's necessary to test to find the right problem.
Featured Image Test
Go to your page and add the featured image you want to show, ...
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How to handle subtagline on landing page, above the fold, for mobile, without getting penalized by Google?
Minor point: don't say "visibility: hidden". This still allocates space for the text, and then makes that area blank. I'm really not sure what this is good for.
Another minor point: It's not ...
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To prevent a page from being indexed by search engines, should I add noindex and nofollow meta tags in addition to leaving it off our site map?
The sitemap is just to help Google find pages that it doesn't know about and sometimes give them a bit more detail about files, especially on larger sites. It doesn't prevent a page being indexed, ...
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Google Lighthouse flags issues that would be penalised for SEO. Can these be false positives?
The lack of description actually refers to the link on the mobile view. For some reason, the mobile version shows a different link. The text on the mobile button is just "Learn more".
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Google advertise my site as "For Sale" in search result's page titles
Google don't index every page that they crawl, but they are going to still keep any data which they have discovered about a domain in their database.
My assumption is that at some point Google have ...
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Does deleting domain and removing property from Google Search Console remove a website from search results?
Deleting a domain will quickly get a site removed from search results. Google will remove each page on the domain after crawling it and getting an error, usually with a 24 hour grace period unless it ...
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Site is Indexed by Google. But not listed in Google Search
When I do the search, the page appears 27th in the results.
Google load the results asynchronously, so inspecting the source will not show you all the results in their database.
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DeepL translated content: publish before or after having it proofread by a native?
Google seem to have shifted their position over the last few years so that you're now very unlikely to get into any trouble for indexing it in advance, unless the translations are particularly poor.
5 ...
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How to deal with Google Programmable Search Engine for *specific search* |
To make sure your Google Programmable Search Engine only searches specific websites, double-check that you’ve correctly added those site URLs in the "Sites to Search" section. If the search ...
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Meta description is not showing in Google search results
The page I looked at had invalid markup.
It should be meta name="description" and not meta property="description".
See - https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-author-20110809/the-...
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How do I go to the last Google Search result?
The only legitimate reason to skip to the last search results in a business/professional setting is for search engine optimization purposes. Before Google changed the search results page design/layout ...
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Combining TLD and SLD for SEO
Neither of them is going to to well in Google. Google treats almost all country code domains as local to that country. Google doesn't usually show sites under country code domains outside that ...
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Marketing company set all pages to noindex,nofollow on website
What you have here is two different things: organic search and paid search. The former is very much impacted by the noindex, nofollow directive. The latter is not.
Here's what the meta tag would look ...
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Ideal meta description length
The exact length isnt that critical. Because mono spaced font isnt used, the number of characters is an approximation.
Let Google index it and see your listing in search by using
Site:domain-name
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Effect of SEO on Mixed Language Content in a Single page
It probably will negatively affect your SEO.
Here is why:
Page titles and meta description have small character limits. This means the title and meta description can only conceivably have 1 language ...
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