The process of recording where particular words occur. In the web context search engines crawl the web and make a list of which pages have particular words - this is the index.
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Google references subfolders
Last week I launched a website and created a robots.txt:
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Sitemap: http://mywebsite.tld/sitemap_robots.xml
Now I've checked the indexed pages (Google -> ...
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Google Webmaster Tools Index Status 0 for one year
I've read this topic with answers but they do not address why zero for one year? but other areas in Google Webmaster Tools report 400 URL indexed.
Google Webmaster Tools Index Status
Only 2 Indexed.
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Prohibit search engines before going live
I want to prohibit search engines to index my web site before going live with it.
If I simple do a robots.txt with:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Would that cause any issues later when I decide to ...
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www.*.us.com not being indexed, but *.us.com is on Google Webmasters
I've read the FAQs and searched the help center.
My URL is: http://www.etechsupport.us.com
I have also done 301 redirect of non-www to with-www
But with-www is not being indexed by google and ...
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What's the best way to handle multiple sites on a shared server?
I'm on a shared server (via LunarPages), and I also host a few low-impact sites for a few small businesses. I recently had a problem (blocked crawlers by messing with the internal settings) that made ...
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Google Webmaster Tools Index Status is 0 [duplicate]
Statistics show all entries of my wordpress blog have been tracked, but none have been indexed.
I thought it would be just a matter of indexing delay, but it has been 3 weeks already, and I can find ...
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How to make Google index files retrieved from database?
We use Joomla with Remository to store and manage publications (don't ask me why). Files (PDF) are stored in a database and can be accessed via dynamic, rewritten links of the form
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Addon domains and SEO
I have a shared hosting account with a main domain and many add-on domains. I don't actually use the main domain, it just has a landing page.
Can I tell bots not to index the main domain WITHOUT ...
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About Technology | Logic used in product discovering sites [closed]
Before posting this question i've verfied if this question/type of question/relatedquestion was posted previoously.
I really need this answer for my college project.
What technology or the logic is ...
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If my index page has no textual content, should it be present in sitemap?
My index page contains no textual content at all (except some footer links, copyright notice and some stuff in tag). It has, however, big Google's map with some pins attached which lead to articles. ...
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Can I force Bing to reindex our site?
Our website is ranking quite well (first page) on Google for quite a lot of keywords.
However, our website is not on the first 10 pages of Bing for most of these keywords.
I notice our Google ...
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google removed links from the index [duplicate]
I asked google to crawl a site through webmaster tool and include it to the index.
How actually it was done:
Firstly, i picked some urls manually. Approx. after half of a day those pages were ...
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Difference between canonical and base tag
I am a little bit confused regarding the usage of canonical tags and base tags.
I have placed canonical tag (rel="canonical") on my website because of my website opening with no-www. I have reviewed ...
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Index manager in cpanel. Do contents still get indexed with “No Indexing”?
Simple question.
A folder, lets say for example abc.com/images/
Is being displayed on google as "index of", which I don't like.
The contents of this folder are important, and it is important that ...
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Google's microdata for product images which aren't displayed in the page?
My internet shop displays thumbnails of products' images, and I see that these thumbnail are (slowly) being indexed by Google. I want also full images to be indexed. (I've seen some other questions on ...
