Search is used to look through a body of data, usually text, to find particular results that match some set of criteria.
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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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Is Google ok with multiple rel=“author” links? [duplicate]
I'm working on a site with multiple authors, and am trying to set up Google authorship via rel tags. Since it's a multi-author site, the links to the authors Google+ profiles will be on their profile ...
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Implementing OpenSearch, what is the benefits?
I have implemented opensearch in my website. But I don't know what is the benefits of it. Does it has any effects in search engines? For example, can I tell google about my implementation?
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Where can I find unfiltered search query statistics?
I would like to learn more about upcoming trends and I also need it for seo. I know Google Trends, but it displays only filtered statistics about what and how people search.
Can you recommend me any ...
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(Google) Title of page not updated, everything else did
My website changed significantly this month. Amongst the changes was the website's title. Two weeks ago, I finally used Webmaster Tools and submitted the page.
So far, Yahoo and Bing have updated ...
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Website stopped appearing on Google results [closed]
I have a website with a Page Rank 3. Yesterday it was listed in Google as the second link (under a specific Hebrew keyword). 12 hours later I checked it with my Google Monitor tool and it seems my ...
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making a site searchable via Chrome search bar
I use Google Chrome. When I want to search Wikipedia, I type www.wikipedia.org into the search bar and then press tab. The screen looks like this:
If I type some search words, it uses the actual ...
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Ajax mixed with Server Side results for SEO purposes
Here is the issue.
We are using a third party service to index our products and return results based on query parameters that we pass to the third party services server.
I'm using Magento's ...
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Making Search Queries Indexable
Looking around, most sites (eg. Amazon) encode the parameters of searches into query string. This means that search engines cannot index these queries.
Why don't such sites use URLs rather than query ...
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Post content to other sites for traffic. Black hat? Could you suggest more strategies? [closed]
We are developping an online carpooling service (http://www.sinboleto.com), and we are planning a good marketing approach to getting traffic.
We are considering a script that posts the trips to ...
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Loss of page rank by Google after 301 Redirect?
I have developed a stock discussion forum whereby I separate each forum by the ticker symbol. The issue is, recently, the makers of the Blackberry phone, Research in Motion (formerly ticker symbol ...
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Provide Search Across Multiple PDFs
I know there are probably many solutions, but what's the easiest and/or most user friendly way to provide search capabilities across PDF files? I'm thinking of a webpage that links to several PDFs and ...
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Why arent my site posts appearing on search results anymore?
So i have this website-www.listen2science.com, a few days back i installed a plugin called seo for wordpress and posts of my site appeared on the top pages of google, but now even if i copy the whole ...
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More preview lines in Google search results
Is there a way to come to enjoy more than 2 lines of results query preview per item on a google results page?
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Is it a bad idea to use Google Search on your website?
If you have a web application with lots of records, is it a bad idea to use Google Search on your website? Instead of writing a search function and dealing with performance issue, you 'outsource' the ...
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Redirects, seo and site internal search engine
For a CMS constraint I have to survive with, the search on my site works this way:
the user fills search values and submit
a page of results is then shown with a list of links
the user clicks on ...
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Does google use transliteration when crawling page URLs and indexing them?
In a generic search Google understands transliteration and if I wrote some words using Latin letters but in a non-English language ( for instance phrase "red cat" in Russian using transliteration will ...
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SEO - Meta Description Tags Not Updating Search Result
I updated my meta description tag for my comics website about two months back now, but the search engine is still picking up my footer "Acceptable User Policy" text for some reason.
I'm not even ...
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Hide a Subdomain from Google/Search Engine SEO Result?
I have a subomain which I do not want to be listed in any search engine result. Let say I have:
http://www.example.com
http://child.example.com
How can I hide all URLs of child.example.com domain ...
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document.referrer from google searches only showing “https://www.google.com”, no search terms
So I put this basic code on my website, and alert with document.referrer:
alert(document.referrer);
And when I do a search the link is:
...
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Blog is not indexing in google search [duplicate]
I have a blog with url http://webzpedia.blogspot.in which is about 2 years old. In early days there is 200+ pageviews coming from the google search itself. But from last 4-5 months, google stopped ...
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Help diagnose my site's problem? has anyone had this experience? [closed]
My site, www.kgstiles.com, lost a lot of traffic recently due to neglecting to 301 redirect all of the pages during a redesign. I put the redirects in and traffic steadily increased after resubmitting ...
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excluding URL query parameters and setting the site search query param in Google Analytics
I have a Google Analytics free account and would like to know if I strip "searchparam" out of your URLs as the site search query parameter, do I then need to specify "searchparam" in the Exclude URL ...
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“Google files”: Building a web interface to find/ack/grep [closed]
I am working on a project where we would like to have build a web interface that gives the user the ability to "Google" files in a directory in a remote machine.
For example, the user would type a ...
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URL blocked in robots.txt but still showing up on Google search [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why do Google search results include pages disallowed in robots.txt?
In my robots.txt I am disallowing a lot of URLs. Google webmaster tools says there're +750 URL ...
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Does text size and placement on page have an effect on SEO
As Google and other search engines keep trying to get more and more 'human' in terms of understanding what's good and what's spam, is it known if they take into account the size of a heading ie. an ...
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Which URL is SEO friendly?
I have to choose between two usernames, one comprises of just my first name i.e. http://example.com/john while the other comprises of full name i.e. http://example.com/johnsmith.
Which of the above ...
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Avg. Visit Duration 00:00:00 conclusion
What can I predict when I see in Google Analytics that total visits by search for some day are 93 visits while 70 visits of them have the value 00:00:00 for Avg. Visit Duration?
Did those visits made ...
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Does using a country domain (TLD) negatively effect a site's search ranking if the site content isn't country specific? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites?
I have a website in which the content is not country specific. The TLD is currently .it but the company is hosted and based in the ...
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Want Google to index redirect urls
I'm having issues with users who think that Google Search is the address bar.
Some of the sites that link to my site use user friendly addresses with 301 redirects to pages that have less friendly ...
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Google Webmasters tools search queries position
In my website account on Google Webmasters tools, some search queries show average position 1.0. This make me understand that it should be displayed as the first result. When I search for this query I ...
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PHP method for a fast live search from XML file [closed]
I have used this PHP method for a live search from XML file which uses the following functions:
DOMDocument();
getElementsByTagName('');
childNodes.
The XML file is done by me and consists ...
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Search Result Organization
I'm creating an AJAX live search on a website I'm working on. Users will select values from a few dropdowns and a list of products will be returned based on what they select. Some possible fields ...
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Google Traffic Decline
Below is a chart which shows traffic from Google for a new website. What could be the reason for those dynamics: fast growth and slow decline?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xmv3kd3q0l2iyaa/traffic.png
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Best practise for meta tags in various languages
We have a global site, all hosted on one .com domain (www.example.com/en www.example.com/es www.example.com/pt www.example.com/ru etc.)
Each language sub directory is identical to one another, apart ...
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Site Search Settings and Query Parameter
I'm setting up Google Analytics Site Search in my profile, and wondering if I need to add all the query parameters of the search (up to 5 of them) or just the parameter that contains the user's ...
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Can you search for code in google? [closed]
can you search for code in google ? not just git hub ect but i mean live code so instead of searching by site content, search by sites source code ? (obviously only client side code)
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What methods are effective/necessary to quickly remove URLs from the Google index? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to Remove URLs from Google Search Engine
In short, I have ~1000 URL's that need removing from the Google index ASAP, this is as of a week or so ago, and over that ...
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Allow only 5 countries to access my page may lead to get lost or removed from search engines?
Because my resource are limited, I need to cut off strangers (inc. USA) for visiting my page. People from the middle of Europe are allowed (Germany, France, Hungary, Poland etc) are allowed. If they ...
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Migrate content to new domain without 301 redirects
I have a domain name http://extreme-java.com purchased from one.com and pointing to my web hosting account at anhosting.com
I want to move the content of this website to http://somenewdomain.com ...
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Having internal website search as Google search result
Sorry if this has been asked before.
Let's assume there is a website as www.example.com and there is a private search engine with URLs simmilar to www.example.com/search/search+pattern
How do I have ...
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How does Google decide when to bold synonyms for query keywords
when you type keywords in the search, Google will bold the requested keywords as well as their synonyms.
For example if you type Japanese cars, the synonyms like vehicles will be bold as well. But not ...
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Where to find the most visited websites by state
Is there a service (free or paid) that can provide the following:
1. List of most visited websites by U.S. state.
2. Keyword search in google by U.S. state.
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Performance : Auto Complete Search for a large amount of data?
I have a table(mysql) containing around 20,000 records and I am trying to build a auto complete search box for my website. Someone told me that auto-complete search for such a large number of records ...
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How I can optimize my websites into the search engines? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?
How I can optimize my thesewebsites into the search engines?
http://capablerealestate.com
...
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3answers
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Strange description appearing in Google search results [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does Google use the Meta Description Tag for Description of Page?
I just noticed that when searching Google for the name of a website I'm working on, the search result ...
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How do I have Google not index any of my site, except my domain?
Disallow: /
I want Google to index the index page, but nothing else. Will this achieve it?
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How to make Google show my site in search result like the following image? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google Sitelinks?
Currently Google is displaying my site (http://layzend.info) like this in search result, ...
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How to be the first site in google search? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?
I searched the title of my website in google search, and although it is a very specific tile, I ...
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Create a search for my HTML and CSS site that runs without an internet connection or database?
I have a website that I have written out in plain old HTML and CSS, and want to integrate a search function into it. However, the site is meant to be run offline, from host machines in their local web ...
