A Google web-based console that provides additional insight into a registered website's search performance and potential issues.
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Test if Google+ is already with my Website
How can I verify or check if a website is already linked with Google plus?
I already added <link href="https://plus.google.com/{+PageIdGoesHere}" rel="publisher" /> this to my head tag of my ...
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Google Adwords have flagged my site as containing malware
However, there Webmaster Tools does not - and never has. And we have never had a message via Webmaster Tools or Analytics that we have malware.
To quote Google:
[The Malware Team] have looked at ...
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How long before Google counts my .htaccess 301 redirect links?
I have a friend who had around 2000 visitors per day to his website before webdesigner with no SEO knowledge changed all his urls. Ive used the wayback machine and google analytics to determine the ...
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Website not showing up on Google after removal of blocking robots metatags [duplicate]
A friend asked me to take a look at their website, which had been online for several months, but did not show up on Google. I noticed that they had a subdomain which did show up, so the query
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Googlebot craw rate is too slow for a huge site
I have a new website with 140k pages, according to my sitemaps.
After submission of my sitemap index to Google, the Googlebot has started crawling the site a couple of hours ago, and at a steady ...
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Soft 404 error on redirected outbound links
I have a redirect script on my site which sends visitors to an affiliate site. However in the last month I've noticed that Google webmaster tools is reporting my outbound links as a 404 error. Here is ...
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How to index dynamic content like Europages.com
is there a good way to index dynamic contetnt? e.g: When I search query "restaurants in norway" in Google, I see a link of www.europages.com/directory/pages/... (not relevant url), but it's content is ...
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google webmaster tools - I want to target by language, should I add location targeting?
I have a multilingual site, which I would like to target by language. Google Webmaster tools provides the option to add a subdomain per language sub-domain which can be geo targeted. If I'm more ...
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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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Solving “Googlebot encountered extremely large numbers of links on your site.”
I'm getting the following warning over and over again in google webmaster tools
Googlebot encountered extremely large numbers of links on your site.
The examples he's showing don't give me much ...
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how can I set parameters for google webmaster tools to index my dynamic content
I have read questions about URL parameters in Google Webmaster Tools in this site and the Google Webmaster Help Center but I have a problem.
My site searches in the database and show some ...
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Google doesn't list the links to my website
It is more than a month that there are 24+ links listed on my Google Webmasters account. However, when google link:m.a.sharpasand.com none of them appears. Also, my page rank is zero.
I have tried ...
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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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index pages that only can find with search [duplicate]
I have a website that have 5 static pages and more than 700 dynamic contents that only can access them by search.
I create sitemap.xml that include 5 static pages and whole of dynamic contents.
But ...
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Domain Migration and duplicate content/index issue
I have a website.net which I want to 301 redirect to website.com and I also want to change URL structure on some pages on the new .com site.
Problem is that .com is currently set as Website Alias of ...
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site appears in Google Webmaster Tools but no site: search results [duplicate]
My site is geocology.ca.
About a year ago I attempted to add geocology.ca to Google's search index by following the steps for 'Moving Your Site' in Google's Webmaster Tools, transferring from my old ...
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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 reliable is the number of hits provided by Google site: command?
A partner of my company (not sure whether i can tell their name here - i´ll use example.com instead) asked me yesterday, why there is such a big difference when they enter the site command at google ...
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How to overcome duplicate URLS
I am having a website which is 3 years old, now I wanted to do some SEO chages into it. so, changed the some urls.
From: /psd-layouts.html to /psd-web-layouts.html
Now my question is that, I had ...
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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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Request change of address for non-root level domain name [duplicate]
Old site: http://www.tahlequah.k12.ok.us
New site: http://TahlequahSchools.org
Our new site is located at the .org domain above; however, we have to keep our old domain/site up until we're sure none ...
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What happens when you suddenly get too many back links from a single domain?
I'm quite baffled by this issue and I have absolutely no idea who could be causing it. I have a normal php page and we are optimizing it for few keywords. We have been doing general SEO activities ...
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Google says my site has malware but nothing comes up in Webmaster Tools
A few days ago my site was infected with Malware. I've sinced removed it and all is well. However, logging into the back end of my CMS I get the malware warning again.
I've followed the instructions ...
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Why is my site still in a penlty? [closed]
Please help. I do not know what else to do?
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/webmasters/oAG43uKn5Pc/lKNmd4bxARsJ
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Google Webmaster Authorship Email Verification Issue
In the email verification section, I see a message as the image below:
I am not sure, why it is detecting my name as 'ali rana' instead of "Md Ali Ahsan Rana". Can you please suggest how to get rid ...
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Moving site from its own domain to sub directory - updating webmaster tools
We've got a site info-graphic-site.com which is on its own domain, what we want to do is move it to our-main-site.com/infographic
I know how to move them and setup 301's but what I was wondering is ...
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Will 301 redirection to a Google Indexed URL can remove the URL from Google index?
I need to remove some indexed URLs from Google SERP. The problem is I cannot use the 3 types of removal patterns Google suggests like robots.txt, meta name "noindex" and remove the page and make it as ...
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Google Indexing Pages with noindex meta tag
I got a message in Google Webmaster Tools about "Googlebot found an extremely high number of URLs on your site" with a long list of example URLs.
For some of the pages listed, there was nothing to ...
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Is it a bad idea to refresh sitemap once a day?
It takes a while for Google Webmaster Tools to update the amount of links sent by sitemap. I was wondering if updating it on a daily basis could delay it even longer or actually help. The slow ...
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Google Bot creating invalid GET Request
I have checked multiple times in page, and there are no recursive sort of links anywhere nor are there any links without base href but still I can see lot of links with 10+ level deep. like GET ...
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Google Webmasters Tools - Accidentally changed something and quickly switched back
In Google Webmasters Tools I accidently changed Geotargeting to from No Preference to United States. I realized that was a mistake and changed it back within 2 minutes. Will changes take effect or ...
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Changing GoDaddy Webmaster tools options [duplicate]
A client of mine (for school) has a website hosted on GoDaddy which we wants my team to help him increase his marketability on Google, because currently, when his company name is Google searched no ...
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Duplicate title tags error in webmaster tools
I have changed some URLs in my site then to prevent webmaster tools duplicate error I redirected (301) old URLs to new URLs also I tried to remove old URLs in "Optimization>Remove URLs" section of ...
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Regarding sitelinks in google search
I would like my site to display additional site links when preforming a Google Search..
How can this be achieved?
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Duplicated contents warning in Google Webmaster Tools even though I use canonical links
I have some duplicated pages that show the exact same content on different URLS on my website, and I use canonical links to point them all to one of the pages.
So if Page A, B, C, D and E have the ...
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Migration Joomla to Codeigniter - GWT reporting lots of 404's - How to fix
I recently created a whole new fitted system structure for a site previously running on Joomla 1.5 CMS. They wanted something more simple and elegant, and their back-end was a mess of modules and ...
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What search statistics are most reliable?
I'm doing some research into the SEO of one my websites and looking at different keywords and the search traffic they generate.
Let's say I have a search term I'm ranked number one for a keyword and ...
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Google's webmaster tools saying invalid URL in sitemap
I've recently made some big changes to my site and as a result, have had to change my sitemap. In doing so, I resubmitted my sitemap file only to see 3 errors reading invalid URL's. I'm not sure if ...
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Need I submit sitemap in Webmaster Tools?
I have uploaded my sitemap on server root folder. Do I need it submit it in Google Webmaster Tools?
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Webmaster tools show old URLs are crawled
We renewed our website last year (2012) in December. After that we have put 301 redirection in place for the required pages. We removed some pages in old site when we moved to new site.
For example ...
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Google not indexing/updating rel=“canonical” pages
I had same content with different links and I wanted to prioritize the indexing of different webpages.
For example /A/1232 and /A/1232/tum_bin_jiya_jay represent same content but I wanted to give ...
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“Cancel” is a relevant word in my page because of bootstrap popups
I am using bootstrap's modals. Each modal contains a button (register, login, etc) and a "Cancel" button.
When I first released the website, all popups were in the header (they are hidden, but you ...
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Panda-struck Diagnosis
I have been reading about the Panda Update going to be on a rollout launch in the year to come. As a webmaster, how do I know for sure that my website has been struck by the Panda update? Does a ...
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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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Duplicate meta descriptions after Permalink change
I recently changed my permalink structure on Wordpress to remove the year and month from the URL.
Old structure - ...
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90% sudden drop in search engine ranking with no changes made
This is a recurring topic, but I am very very panicking right now...
I noticed a 90% "impressions" drop (from 60k to 5k) from 2013-03-05 to 2013-03-06.
My keywords dropped, and for a few of them I ...
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How do I prevent duplicate indexing by Googlebot-Mobile?
I have only one version of my web-site, and it is optimised for both the desktop and the smartphone.
I've noticed that Google crawls each page exactly twice: once with Googlebot/2.1, and again with ...
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URL blocked by robots.txt in webmaster for blogger site
Remove: Disallow: /search
From where can i remove this line. I am using blogger and in webmaster it shows my many pages are blocked. From one of your answers i know that i need to remove this text ...
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Duplicate title tags link to the same unique url
In Google Webmaster Tools Im dealing with HTML Improvements > Duplicate title tags.
I have a Wordpress site and I use multiple categories for some posts. I have subsequently deleted one category (one ...
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seo optimization
I have submitted several pages to Google through Google Webmaster Tools by using a sitemap in XML format. Several pages are indexed by Google as well but the rank of those pages are in 400-500 as my ...
