A Google web-based console that provides additional insight into a registered website's search performance and potential issues.
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Manual “Fetch as Google” or better wait?
Fetch as Google is a great way to get your new pages indexed quickly. Is there a difference in terms of SEO?
Of course it's obvious that earlier indexing is good if you're dealing with bots or people ...
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Safer way to launch a new design [on hold]
We have re-designed our website along with significant design and side content changes. We have made sure that URLs, Titles, Meta Descriptions, Keywords, Headings and Main Content remains same. This ...
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Add all 301 redirected sites to Google Webmaster Tools?
I have one canonical web site, http://example.com. I also got the .net and .org, domains, so I have 301 redirected all the following to my canonical web site:
http://www.example.com
...
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Rich snippets not found on my website [on hold]
I come to you because I don't really understand why Google does not see anymore my rich snippets.
It used to work but I made a big update and they disappeared from Google Webmaster and I don't see ...
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SEO much better for domain that 301s to other
I'm the webmaster for a university club, with a convoluted (far from root-level) .ac.uk domain, and our own .co.uk domain.
We purchased the .co.uk domain for cleaner URLs, and I set the given .ac.uk ...
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Error while submiting disavow file to google
While trying to submit new disavow file to google got error:
Error in disavow links file at line 3347, column 1:
Domain line with invalid domain.
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Why does Google remove content from its index? [closed]
I am developing a site: http://www.portal724.ch.
There is a problem with this site. Google would not index some of the pages, specifically company detail pages from the section ...
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Why do sitemaps generated by different plugins look so different from each other?
This is my first time generating a sitemap. I used two plugins to compare sitemaps.
Yoast generated a normal looking sitemap. But the sitemap generated by Google XML Sitemaps plugin looks weird (see ...
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Can externally hosted sitemaps work with Google and Bing?
I am using a "cloud" hosting provider (Heroku) to host my webapp. Since I don't have access to a permanent file system, I am storing my sitemap.xml in Amazon S3.
I wanted to know the SEO implications ...
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Google Webmaster Tools [closed]
In GWT I get the following error for my sitemap
Sitemap contains urls which are blocked by robots.txt.
Example
Sitemap: http://www.virtualfestivals.com/sitemap-photo-5.xml
Value: ...
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Content keywords are incorrect in Google Webmaster Tools
I have recently opened a Shopify store however the content keywords are linking back to the 'opening soon' message on the storefront password page.
That page was there for about 2 months but I had ...
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Google Webmaster Highlight Data for paginated blog entries
I'm trying to get google to recognise my entries as articles using the "Start Highlighting" tool in the Webmasters Toolkit. Problem is that if I put a page set "...blog/*/*/" it says, "Pattern does ...
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“Temporarily unreachable” when using fetch as Googlebot from Webmasters Tools
The page I'm trying to fetch is public. The server logs show no request. Google reports that any page on my site is "Temporarily unreachable". It won't even fetch the verification file, a static ...
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How to enable webmaster tools in google analytics
Whenever I try to enable webmaster tools from within my Google analytics account, the following happens:
I click on SEO section from within analytics:
.
A screen appears notifying me I need ...
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Google Domain and Site title change - Strange results! HELP! [duplicate]
The name of the Previous website was "Game&Util Foundation"
Now, I changed the name to "Mobi:HQ - The Social Sharing Platform"
I set up both 301 redirection AND used to change of address tool in ...
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Google Detecting 404 Error when there is not one [duplicate]
I use a javscript slider called LayerSlider. In Google Webmaster tools it is telling me I have a 404 error with the following link: http://www.example.com/js/layerslider-5/skins/. It says that my home ...
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Google Webmaster Tools claiming my robots.txt blocking almost all of my site
I have submitted a sitemap which has many thousands of URLs, but when I look at the webmaster tools it claims that 9800 of my URLS are blocked by my robots.txt file.
What am I supposed to do to ...
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Submitting an Index Sitemap to Bing when the individual sitemaps are hosted on AWS
Been working on the site map recently and now I want to submit it on Bing Webmaster tools.
The main site map includes several others, each one for a different country. Like this:
sitemapindex ...
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What is driving the appearance of search queries in Google Webmaster Tools?
I could not find much hands-on information about this:
Are GWT search queries created even if the site has no or very little
backlinks?
If a page (or site) is in a very competitive niche ...
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Search engine results
I run this website www.chalopicnic.com and My development team recently changed the url structure to include hyphen which originally had underscore. This is resulting in NOT FOUND in search engines.
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Is there a way to bulk submit URLs to Fetch as Google?
Google is taking a while to re-index changes I have made to thousands of pages, so I want to use Fetch as Google to give it a prompt. However, you can only enter 1 URL at a time as standard.
Is there ...
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Drop in traffic but increase in pages crawled per day
I saw a drop in traffic of my website in early September 2014.
But, if I check the "Crawl Stats" in Google Webmaster Tools, I see an increase in "Pages Crawled per day" and "Kilobytes downloaded ...
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How to get Google PageRank (from the toolbar) to increase from 0?
I have an issue with the Google PageRank of my site, the PR of this site is 0. I've tried many ways to increase the PR:
I submitted the site in webmasters
created sitemap.xml
filled all meta ...
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What to do about crawler errors after removing non-essential parts of my website?
So, recently I was re-building my website, putting on another CMS, optimizing and so on. Now I visited Google Webmaster tools and it tells I have a lot of Web crawler 404 not found errors.
I am ...
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Why doesn't Google Webmaster Tools show the search queries that led to clicks?
As you can see in the screenshot below, there has been >400 impressions and 97 clicks, but at the bottom of the table it shows only two queries that led to the clicks.
The question is: where is the ...
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What does “Average Position” mean in Google Webmaster Tools under Top pages?
What does "Average Position" mean in Google Webmaster Tools under Top pages?
I can only find the definition for "Average Position" under Search Queries.
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Structured Data for dynamic pages and Webmaster Tools
I have a catalogue with more than 150000 (150k) unique single item pages, each with schema.org set up for titles, descriptions, images, prices etc. These pages are dynamically built through a unique ...
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Google pulls keywords from only two pages [duplicate]
When I sign into Google Webmaster and view Google Index > Content Keywords, it only shows keywords off of a single page, and from my site map. It's a small site with five pages, but it's only getting ...
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Most important keyword search in Google without result
I have read some similar questions but could not find an appropriate answer.
The first two keywords (finca, Barbosa) for my site in Google Webmaster Tools keywords list are exactly what I expected. ...
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Google Authorship is not showing on the blog
I have a blog and it's called "sharing the learning..". The site URL is www.mananpatel.in. I was trying to display Google Authorship on my blog since last 2 months but unfortunately it's not working.
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How come a site is indexed but not indexed? [closed]
An example URL: islamqa.info/ar
The site is indexed in Google Webmaster Tools as per this image
But When I use google site: operator, I get
Your search - site:islamqa.info/ar - did not match any ...
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Google Webmaster Tools shows backlinks which are not active anymore - how do I remove them?
In Google Webmaster Tools -> Search Traffic-> Links to your site, I have a lot of backlinks which are not there anymore.
For example, Google Webamaster Tools shows that there is a link coming from ...
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Porting some of the contents to new site. Should I delete the old sitemap.xml?
I had a site with multiple blogs for eg www.mysite.com/gre, www.mysite.com/gmat
What I have done is that ported the blogs to new site mynessite.com and set up a 301 redirect. The old content becomes ...
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Google Webmaster Tools no longer reports search queries now site has gone full HTTPS
After the recent announcement by Google that was speculated for a while in the SEO community, that sites that load over https (ssl) will be weighted slightly higher in the search algorithms, I quickly ...
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How to improve image indexing [duplicate]
I have a curious problem:
In Google Webmaster Tools, it shows that from my sitemap 330 images submitted and only 6 are indexed.
I try to put alt tags, descriptive names, everything by the book, but ...
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Spam links injected into GWT's Structured Data Testing Tool?
When I examine one of my self-hosted WordPress sites using the Structured Data Testing Tool of Google Webmaster Tools, I was shocked to see links to 2 spam sites inside the "HTML" tab!
However, when ...
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Webmaster tools give 404 error on good crawlable pages
I have seen that Webmaster tools is giving back a 404 error for the urls which are perfectly fine, like these ones:
http://www.peliculas21.com/adam-sandler/
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Reset Connection causing multiple errors after hack
We use webmaster tools to monitor our websites, and in the past couple of months some of our sites have been compromised and had various pages inserted. These pages created URLs that Google would ...
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Google Structured Data Testing Tool scrapes different schema type than on webpage
I'm currently working on a website for my student group, a performing team. The website will have upcoming performance information, so I thought I would use microdata to setup upcoming performances as ...
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Google Webmaster tools, hide domain url without hiding its childs
I have a domain foo.imap.cc and i created a website under foo.imap.cc/website/.
I would like to hide foo.imap.cc from google indexing with out removing foo.imap.cc/website/
I tried stuff like google ...
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Moving from http to https - Google webmaster tools | Bing webmaster tools
I'm moving from HTTP to HTTPS for my entire site. The site is currently added to Google Webmaster Tools as www.example.com and all the pages are indexed without using SSL.
How do I go about moving to ...
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When Google gives up recrawling 301 that led to 404?
I've transferred a domain and made a mistake in the redirects (the URL structure is identical). Even though they went to the new domain, the error caused a 404 when crawled by Google bot. 10 days ...
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Move old website with bad SEO to other domain: redirect or start from scratch?
I have an old website with very bad SEO and PR, but still with some visitors per-day. Lately I've rebuilt the app and the concept of it and I'm going to deploy everything in a new domain.
I would ...
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HTTP to only HTTPS Google wmtools [duplicate]
I recently changed one of my sites to HTTPS only and redirecting traffic to HTTPS from HTTP. This is all working fine however Google webmaster tools is complaining that it cannot access the http ...
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Add site to search engines, even though not ready yet
I'm building a website, and until it's done, visitors will see a "This site will launch on new year's day 2015", and a description of what the site is all about
The domain is new, and nobody knows ...
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Multi Regional Webmaster Tools Targeting
We have a multi regional website which uses a two character string after the main domain to define which region's content to show e.g. http://www.example.com/uk/ is the domain with English content ...
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What is the empirical way to tell that Google has removed a URL from the index?
After merging two sites, one with ~40 URLs and one with ~700 URLs (due to a forum) the result was that overall traffic decreased by ~50%. I want to get the traffic back, as it was organic and a ...
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Google Webmaster Tools Data Highlighter says “Failed to load data, please try again later”
I seem to be unable to access the data highlighter in Google Webmaster Tools since I attempted to start a new highlight on a page.
Clicking the red Start Highlighting button to open the tagger did ...
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How do I notify Google of a change of address from http to https? [duplicate]
I've just switched a site from http only to https only (on the same domain name), and have 301 redirects from old to new in place on a page by page basis. How do I now inform Google, using Webmaster ...
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When to tell Google Webmaster Tools that domain has moved
I have moved a site to a different domain name and did a complete overhaul. Link structure has changed because the old one was very bad. That being said, I am doing 301's manually on about 1800 pages. ...
