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Ask Google to remove thousands of pages from its index after cleaning up from hacked site
Google will automatically remove pages that now return a 404 status. They will get removed 24 hours after Googlebot next tries to crawl them. If you want to speed up the process slightly, return "...
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The word 'behance' appears instead of my title in Google search results
I contacted John Mueller at Google about this issue. He had his team take a look at it and got back to me with the answer.
The word "behance" is coming from an SVG image on your page. The image ...
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How do I exclude PDF file from a Google site search?
Using the inurl operator for Google should do the trick. Assuming your PDF files all have the .pdf extension, adding -inurl:pdf to your search will exclude those URLs.
https://www.google.com/search?...
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How can Google find my company if my company name intentionally has a typo in it
While it may be seen as a different question the answer has largely been dealbt with here Google thinks my domain doesn't exist or is misspelled when users search for it
The fastest way to ...
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Do search engines treat the new themed top-level domains the same as historical gTLDs?
There are no TLDs that Google finds preferential to others; they are all treated equally in rankings. There are some geo-specific TLDs that Google will default to a specific country and use that as an ...
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Using URL without query parameter for Sitelinks Searchbox?
Of course it should be possible to use any kind of URL design. It wouldn’t make sense for Google to exclude many sites just because they don’t use the URL’s query component for the search function.
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Is there any way to restore a deleted Google Webmasters property?
Adding or removing a property from Search Console has no effect on ranking, besides some minor edge cases (e.g. if you had set custom crawl settings or URL parameters). So any ranking drop you've seen ...
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How do i add custom fields in google search results?
That happens automatically. Google extracts what it thinks are key bits of information from the page, without needing any special markup or configuration on the site owner's part.
It's likely an ...
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How should I choose which URLs I want indexed to include in my sitemap?
The pages you most want indexed are your post pages such as /blog/post-1. Those text-heavy pages with article-like content on them are the most attractive to search engines. Collectively, those ...
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Why does google.com search results show a newly published post as 2 days old?
To me this is probably due to http headers information coming from your servers response. Check the URL into any tool that will tell you the header information. Check Rex Swain's HTTP Viewer
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Why does google.com search results show a newly published post as 2 days old?
Google will read your posts' rich snippet and based on your defined parameters it will be then shown in the SERP. If you can send us the link of your website it can help to find out the reason.
You ...
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Google is displaying a URL in my site's index with the cache of that result being completely different
You have an error in your robots.txt file.
On line 11 you have Allow: /, a robots.txt file doesn't say what files and directories you can allow, only what you can disallow. The only supported ...
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YouTube Videos: Google returns non-existant meta description and different keywords
Google will occasionally rewrite titles and descriptions to give people a more varied search result. It is true that the video you mention does not mention 'domain' in the title or the description ...
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Any recommendation after Google site search got discontinued?
You can use CSE. It is a platform provided by Google that allows web developers to feature specialized information in web searches, refine and categorize queries and create customized search engines, ...
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Search Console Shows "Indexed, Not Submitted in Sitemap" while The URL is actually in Sitemap
It can be that Google "found" the URL in a different way other than looking at the sitemap (following a link, for example). Google uses many different strategies to find and crawl content, the ...
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Does Googlebot crawl JS or JSON inside an HTML page?
Googlebot is likely to discover and crawl URLs found either in JavaScript or JSON. Googlebot has been doing this for many years, well before it could execute JavaScript. It appears it uses ...
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Should I exclude countries with poor page speed to prevent Google PageSpeed Insights using aggregate data?
No, you should fix your page speeds. Even 4.9 seconds to the USA is slow - you should be aiming for less then 2 seconds. Maybe start by looking at Google Lighthouse (built into Chrome) for what's ...
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What value do comments and ratings have anymore?
Regarding Comment Sections:
Search terms used: comments section seo
There are several considerations that need to be made before comment sections and ratings are to be implemented.
General:
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How can I find out how many times a specific term has been searched on Google?
Step 1: Sign in to Google Ads
Step 2: Click on 'Tools & Settings'
Step 3: Click on 'Keyword Planner'
Step 4: Click on the box 'Discover New Keywords'
Step 5: Enter a term and click 'Get Results'...
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Do the internal searches need to be by GET for SEO purposes?
While all internal search result urls contain no unique information, they are for SEO purposes irrelevant and harmful.
Making internal search with GET you produce search result urls, which you later ...
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Do the internal searches need to be by GET for SEO purposes?
Internal search results shouldn't actually be indexed. Google's Webmaster Guidelines state:
Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don't add ...
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search from Domain name , results showing lower case Title
This is because your Google search includes the domain name, or keywords that do not exist currently in your page title. Google only rewrites titles when the search doesn't have a 'search match', in ...
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Why does Google Search Console think failed searches should return 404?
I have recently been getting a lot of errors in Google Search Console saying that my search page has a lot of soft 404s, because whenever it enters a search term into my site that returns no results, ...
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How can i submit our website in AOL search engine?
AOL is powered by Bing now. So if you've submitted to Bing, you're good to go as far as AOL.
Here's how to submit to Bing:
https://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/submit-urls-to-bing-62f2860a
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Unpublishing content from google index
If you are migrating domain names, do not remove your old domain's content from the Google index or you will see your rankings drop. Leave it be in Google's index, and implement proper 301 redirects. ...
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Preserve rankings of moved page while reusing old URL for a different purpose
Obviously, the first thing that comes to my mind is: do you really need to reuse the old high rank URL for a different page? If you can avoid it, it seems that you already know what to do.
But one ...
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Acquired domain name linked to bad reputation on search engines due to previous owner
You need positive SEO to displace those bad reviews and forums.
Ideally when someone Googles your business name, they get your website, your social media pages, and hopefully positive news about your ...
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Should I exclude countries with poor page speed to prevent Google PageSpeed Insights using aggregate data?
As others have said, the best solution is to work on your overall load-speed instead of targeting locations to exclude. 5-8 seconds is a really slow load time but also remember that the "score&...
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Google search console says 2 redirect errors out of 15 pages using hreflang
First,
<link rel="alternate" href="https://359north.com/index-fr.html" hreflang="fr" />
This is not a conventional way to specify a multi-regional/multilingual ...
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Is it bad to add "the" to domain name if the domain name is not avaliable? (Updated)
Of the two examples you provide, theproduct.com and productmagazine.com, only the second provides additional semantic value. For example, the word the has no semantic value for search whereas magazine ...
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