Something is seriously wrong after I updated my site with new templates, moved to a new server and started writing on English rather than Norwegian.    I know from Google Analytics, that most of my readers comes from Google.  I do a quick test by googling (google.no) Oslo Fashion Fair 2009. This is the name of the article and is the title of my page. (   )  The page that I trying to find is this:   This used to be one of the first pages in Google. Now you don't see my site until Page 4, and that is a link to something completely different.  On page 4 in the google search, you see this:     Designere - Norwegian Fashion   Norske designere Når man tenker fashion,tenker de fleste på designere som Yves   Saint ...   Fashion Week Guide 16-22 august 2010 · Oslo Fashion Fair 2009 ...   www.norwegianfashion.no/blog/designere   There are a few problems with this:   The headline says Designere - Norwegian Fashion. I no longer have a page called Designere. It's now called . The link points to www.norwegianfashion.no/blog/designere. But I've never had that a URL with that name. The page does not exist. When you click the link, a completely different page opens.   I also noticed that I ahve lost Page Rank. My Page-RAnk add-on in Firefox will no longer rate my site, and Googles own Page Rank checker can't check my site for page ranking.  So what kind of SEO have I done?     I've put the &lt;title&gt; tag at the top, followed by the meta tags &lt;description&gt; and Keywords For new pages, I use my intro texst in the description field. I've made sure to use appropriate H1 - H3 tags I've got relative content in headline vs intro and main body text, as well as appropriate keywords. I've added my site to Google I've used Google Webmaster Tools to optimize my site I've added a sitemap.xml    I don't know why I'm suddenly not being indexed by any search engines. What have I done wrong?  UPDATE  Using Google Webmaster tool, I can see issues Google encountered when crawling my site. Thre are a lot of 404 Page not found errors.  Example of 404 errors:  nyhetsarkiv is now called news   I have deleted marianne ase user in Wordpress. This author do not exists any more   Not sure what this is. I'v enever used this permalink structure.
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This is a general, community wiki  question and answer pair intended to address any questions   concerning the reasons a site or specific site contents do not appear   in search engine results.      If your question was closed as a duplicate of this question and you   feel that the information provided here does not provide a sufficient   answer, please open a discussion on .   My site (or specific pages on my site) is not appearing in search engine results.  Why isn't my content indexed and what can I do about it?
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I was trying to add author information for search. I followed  link and did everything in option 2. Added ?rel=author and added my blog in my Google+ account. But even after re submitting for index from Google webmasters author info doesnt come up. I have tested this through the Rich snippet testing tool in Webmasters account and everything seems fine and I do see a dummy result showing full info. And it also says rel=author markup has successfully established   So what am I missing out here ?  EDIT: Ok after long time it did come up in search results last week, but now its not coming up ? Is it related to traffic to site(which is not too bad) ?
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I read somewhere that web designers' habit of placing a default "follow" link in the footer of their client websites is bad for SEO.  Is this true?  If so, should we use rel="nofollow" instead.  I have seen rel="designer" in some free WordPress themes.
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I am using a keyword to display a website page on google search. After entering the keyword, on the first page of google, I am redirected to a page, whose domain is exactly similar to the website whose page I want to display, but it is showing a page which doesn't even exist on the domain. Also, as similar domain with spam characteristics is also getting displayed.   To practically demonstrate this issue, do follow the below steps.   Go to  Type dolce streichquartett and click on search. The 4th/5th URL has this link http://www.dolce-streichquartett.de/?high_ry=/casinos/de/spielautomaten-casino-bregenz.php, which is no where on the website and looks like spam The 7th/8th link you see is http://deonlinecasino.org/doc/kostenlos-roulette-spielen-spielgeld-ausdrucken.php, which is exactly similar to the above with the title as the keyword but a different domain.   What is this issue and why is this happening?
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I'm trying to find the link to my site's meta site on the new top bar and I can't find it. In fact I can't find it anywhere on the page.  For example: electronics.meta.stackexchange.com.  Perhaps I'm just not very perceptive, or possibly this is an opportunity to improve the new design.
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I have a Wordpress site that I have set up with Google Fetch and I have been getting a bunch of crawl errors and it has started significantly hurting my Google ranking and site traffic even though it clearly says it shouldn't. The thing that doesn't make sense to me is that the 404 pages are not actually pages that exist. They are Tags and categories on my blog mixed with a site address from one of my other websites that is not actually associated with this blog at all. They are different domains/databases and everything so they shouldn't be connected.   The site was actually giving me the same problem a few weeks ago and I actually switched to a new theme because I noticed the one I had was out of date and thought maybe it was throwing a random error. But now, I have no idea why this would even happen or where Google would come up with this URL.   Here are a few examples:   www.whenlovegrows.com/tag/lactose-free-food/www.deannemroz.com www.whenlovegrows.com/tag/crescent-dogs/www.deannemroz.com www.whenlovegrows.com/tag/turkey-dogs/www.deannemroz.com   Basically any time I add a new tag it seems that Google is crawling it and then adding my other site's web address to the end and claiming it is a 404 page. Has anyone ever experienced anything like this? Is there some way I can help it?  Any insight would be much appreciated. I am at a loss as to how to fix this and it is becoming extremely frustrating since it is affecting my ranking.
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I was checking on Google webmaster tools for my blog site to see if there's any indication on why my blog traffic decreased to half in one day and i saw 43 Not Found crawl errors and 5 in Sitemap Not Found errors.   The 5 Not Found errors in Sitemap were the links to categories. I guess I renamed categories that's why Google can't find the links.   As for the 43 other Not Found errors, I see blog post titles that contain ' or . For example "McDonald's" or "O.N.E."  They weren't found by Google crawler.   There is also a blog post with /CachedYou at the end and a blog post with /www.example.com attached at the end.  They weren't found by Google crawlers either.   How do I correct those Not Found Errors?
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There has been a significant drop (90%) in traffic from Google to one of my well-established sites (6+ years) in the last week. Searches show that the top 3 wide keywords all dropped 4 spots. Searches for other keywords do not show ANY results in the first 10 to 25 pages of results, while previously one 1st or 2nd page at most.  Since there are , the question really is:  What steps are necessary to figure out what caused such a drop?  There have been no major changes during this period or the last month on the site and certainly not in the homepage which has dropped in rank. Over all the years of running this site and plenty of others, I have never experienced this. There are is duplicate content on my site and I have rigorously used canonical links for the last few years to ensure it is not misinterpreted as such.
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I have unique meta descriptions on each of my pages, and when I search my site in google it will come up with no description.  Any idea what I might have done wrong?
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I need to change a URL of an interior page that has a Google PageRank of 4. It was recommended by a coworker that I create the new URL but have it redirect to the old one, thus allowing a buildup of PR for the new URL, and the existing page continues to maintain a PR of 4.  Does anyone have any insight as to whether this will actually work?
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I am working on a website for a client, and even though the site ranks extremely well for various different keywords (which is good), if I search for the site's name the homepage does not appear even on the second page on Google. I have to add the .com so it will appear.  But, for big brands like Best Buy, Nike and millions of others it is enough to just search for the brand itself and the first or second suggestion on Google is the brand's homepage.  How can I raise my brand's authority in Google so it will appear in Google on the first page when some searches for it?  I have tried changing the breadcrumbs so instead of "HOME" it is now the brandname, linked to the homepage. I thought that it will help with internal linking if the anchor text is the brand's name instead of the word "HOME".  Any ideas please?
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I recently submitted a sitemap.xml in Google's Webmaster Tools and some of the pages already got indexed. The problem now is, that I cleaned my URLs with MOD_REWRITE in the .htaccess file afterwards and I would like the new ones to be indexed. The old ones should be removed from the Google Index.  Indexed Page:  www.example.com/article.php?=article=this%is%an%example   New URL:  www.example.com/article-this-is-an-example   Do I even have to remove them manually from the index in any way or do they refresh if Google crawls my new sitemap? I really wan't to prevent duplicate content.  Thanks in advance.
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After rolling it out to the International Stack Overflow sites last week, we're rolling out the new ask page to the whole network today. The new page was designed with the goal of helping new askers by more readily presenting them with tips on how to improve their question. This is a combination of the &quot;Ask a question wizard&quot; (that was tested on Stack Overflow) and the current standard &quot;ask a question&quot; page. You can read more about it . The /questions/ask/advice page has been replaced by a new modal for first-time askers, and the flow is now broken down into two steps: drafting the question, and reviewing the question — so no more random warnings triggering when you switch from the tag to the title field, while others only show up if you actually try to post. And as the blog post notes, there's also an informational modal at the end, so new askers know what to expect once they've asked their question. Enough words, here's what it looks like... (click on the images to see the larger versions) Welcome modal for new askers:  Drafting a question:   Reviewing a question, with errors (shown inline) and warnings (shown on the right side):   Reviewing a question, without errors:  What's per-site customizable, and what's the procedure to get it live? As you can see, any existing custom guidance on &quot;How to ask,&quot; &quot;How to tag,&quot; or any custom error or warning messages your site may already have in place will still be there, and will still be customizable with the same restraints (basic HTML, using paragraphs, lists, links) as before:  The &quot;welcome modal&quot; for new askers (seen with the default text in screenshot 1), everything between the title and &quot;Before you post...&quot; (this is only custom on 4 sites at the moment, ). The full contents of the &quot;Draft your question&quot; sidebar (seen with the default text in screenshot 2, and with custom text in screenshot 3). The text in the tag popover, between &quot;Tags help the right people...&quot; and the bullet points (seen with custom text in screenshot 2, and with the default text on screenshot 3). The above three have no character limits, aside from &quot;within reason.&quot; The placeholder text in the title field (text only; seen with the default text in screenshot 2, and with custom text on screenshot 3). The warning text shown in the &quot;Review your question&quot; sidebar, regex-based (seen with the default text in screenshot 4, and with custom text on screenshot 5). Tag-related error messages and warnings, regex-based (seen with custom error text in screenshot 4, with the default text on screenshot 5,  and with a tag warning ). The warning and error messages described in the two bullet points above have a limit of 1000 characters.  These can only be edited by staff, so the process to get them live is as described :  Create a Meta post on the appropriate Meta site, and discuss it with your community. Once a consensus is reached, a mod should escalate it to the CM team. Generally speaking, the &quot;contact us&quot; form is the best way to go, though a ping in chat can sometimes work too (the most that could happen is we ask you to use the form). Unless there are any outstanding issues, the CMs should be able to get to it Soon™.   This has been live on Stack Overflow for a while now, and like I mentioned at the beginning of the post, we're rolling this out to the rest of the network now. If you have any questions or see anything that has broken on your site, please let us know — we'll be actively monitoring and responding to this post until March 10th. After that, if you have a bug or specific request, start a new post and tag it with  and  or  :)
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I changed the title and meta description of a web page.  It got re-indexed but still it shows in search results with the old title.  Why would this happen and how would we resolve it?
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I'm running into duplicate content warnings on my site. I have product overview pages which can be sorted on price, popularity and more. I end up with URLs like these:  www.example.com/products?sort=popular%20asc www.example.com/products?sort=popular%20desc www.example.com/products?sort=price%20desc www.example.com/products?sort=price%20asc    and with paging I get URLs like:  www.example.com/products?sort=popular%20asc&amp;page=3&amp;rows=10 www.example.com/products?page=6&amp;rows=20    Now, the displayed products are obviously different, but these products can all be accessed via www.example.com/products too and then by paging through them.  Would any of these URL's be considered duplicate content by Google?  And If so, how would I prevent this from being marked as such? I've read about the canonical tag but am not sure if it's applicable here and if so, how it should be applied.
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I have a website with a unique name, already indexed and with a perfect SEO. Although there are no websites with the same unique name, when I'm searching on Google I found my homepage listed on the 6th page.  Why something like this happens, and what can I do to improve?
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Currently look after 3 websites. I changed one of them to be HTTPS as it's ecommerce, however have seen a huge drop in organic traffic since this was implemented. Went from around 800 impressions to 400.   Any ideas as to why?   Very concerning as I expected it to improve if anything!  I set up 301 redirects to carry through to old pages to http://www.example.com/product1 would go to https://www.example.com/product1  I also set up a separate webmaster account for the HTTPs version as our integration wasn't working well with Google Merchant Centre, and data is flowing correctly but unsure why/if this would cause conflict.  Very confused!