My company's website ranks highly for many relevant queries, and it ranks #1 for an exact domain match.  So, that's going well.  But for some reason, I can't seem to get Google sitelinks in the SERP.  My competitors seem to get sitelinks for EDM, and often times they get sitelinks (and I don't) even when they rank below me in the SERP.  The injustice!  What am I doing wrong?  I have a theory that it might be because my site blog (which has globally relevant content) uses a different navigational structure, is written in Wordpress (the rest of the site isn't), and is only loosely coupled to the rest of my site.  On top of that, according to GA impressions and clicks for my blog posts exceed the hits on my local content by several orders of magnitude.    So, my theory is this:   Google considers my blog to be the meat and potatoes of my site. My blog follows a completely different navigational structure from the content that I want to drive (local) traffic to. The local content is deemed not relevant for sitelinks, because it isn't linked to in the nav menu of the blog. Sad puppies   But if this is the case, why don't I even get a sitelink for my blog?  TL;DR: I can get it up (in the SERP), but I can't deliver (sitelinks).
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My website used to have sitelinks and now it doesn't. It's very possible that it's due to changing the website to a sidebar design instead of having an "interstitial" type landing page which limited the number of choices, but I'm not sure.  Here is how sitelinks might look for a site:    What are some things that I can do to improve my chances of getting sitelinks?
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My urls do not seem to have my main keywords in them. Is this bad for SEO? Should I include them?   Of course I do not mean actually writing one keyword after each other, but have an organically / naturally readably URL which makes sense to the user and to SEO, if at all, hence my question.
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How do I best approach common SEO techniques for a website with images as the main content?  The problem here is the content is all image based, so other than Friendly URLS, H1/H2 tags, Sitemap, RSS Feed, Alt Img, what else can be done to gain search rankings?  I realise most search engines (if not all) are text based and text is how they better understand the business and "usefulness" of a site and therefore compare it with other sites, but other than social media and driving constant traffic what is the best thing to do or focus on?
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I've heard Google's algorithm is based on PageRank, and that it has something to do with the links to your site. Can someone explain it, and more importantly, how I can increase my site's PageRank?
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We use a  on Stack Overflow, but I have mixed feelings about it.  Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and learn about those URLs using the associated metadata. Using the Sitemap  does not guarantee that web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints for web crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site.  Based on our two years' experience with sitemaps, there's something fundamentally paradoxical about the sitemap:  Sitemaps are intended for sites that are hard to crawl properly. If Google can't successfully crawl your site to find a link, but is able to find it in the sitemap it gives the sitemap link no weight and will not index it!  That's the sitemap paradox -- if your site isn't being properly crawled (for whatever reason), using a sitemap will not help you! Google goes out of their way to make :  &quot;We cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if your URLs will be crawled or added to our index&quot;  &quot;We don't guarantee that we'll crawl or index all of your URLs. For example, we won't crawl or index image URLs contained in your Sitemap.&quot;  &quot;submitting a Sitemap doesn't guarantee that all pages of your site will be crawled or included in our search results&quot;   Given that links found in sitemaps are merely recommendations, whereas links found on your own website proper are considered canonical ... it seems the only logical thing to do is avoid having a sitemap and make damn sure that Google and any other search engine can properly spider your site using the plain old standard web pages everyone else sees. By the time you have done that, and are getting spidered nice and thoroughly so Google can see that your own site links to these pages, and would be willing to crawl the links -- uh, why do we need a sitemap, again? The sitemap can be actively harmful, because it distracts you from ensuring that search engine spiders are able to successfully crawl your whole site. &quot;Oh, it doesn't matter if the crawler can see it, we'll just slap those links in the sitemap!&quot; Reality is quite the opposite in our experience. That seems more than a little ironic considering sitemaps were intended for sites that have a very deep collection of links or complex UI that may be hard to spider. In our experience, the sitemap does not help, because if Google can't find the link on your site proper, it won't index it from the sitemap anyway. We've seen this proven time and time again with Stack Overflow questions. Am I wrong? Do sitemaps make sense, and we're somehow just using them incorrectly?
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I have two pages on the site that are 100% identical:  MyDomain.com MyDomain.com/Keyword  MyDomain.com/Keyword exists solely because I had to give the page I created in the CMS a url, and that page is then also displayed as the home page.  Recently Google started displaying MyDomain.com/Keyword in the serps for "Keyword" searches instead of the homepage. That (I believe) caused the site to drop several places in the serps since the March 2019 update.   both pages contain a canonical tag informing google that the home page is to be treated as the source, but for some reason Google has decided (after many years) to ignore this.  Has anyone experienced such behavior from Google? What did you do?  Should I do a 301 from MyDomain.com/Keyword to MyDomain.com?
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We've been out of private beta for only two days, and stackoverflow.com is already ranking high in .  Are there any specific techniques applied in the site? I've been researching the subject for some time and haven't found it to be so easy.   even returns site-links.  ()
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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 live in the UK, and whenever I visit google.com I am redirected to google.co.uk, but I want to see my website's rankings on the US version (I presume the results are different). Is there a way to do this?
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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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Our website is new and the name is similar (only one letter different than another website) completely different type and company though.  searching for xxxxxA works OK in Google and we find relatively good results.  However searching xxxxxA.com finds results for the other website and gives us the following options:  Showing results for xxxxxE.com Search instead for xxxxxA.com (hyperlink when clicked then it is correctly searching for our site)   Questions:   Do we need to contact Google to correct this and if yes how ? if not will it be corrected automatically when the site becomes more popular and what is the process?  How do we make the process quicker?
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A search for domains like mysite.com provides thousands of results on  and hundreds on . I sampled some. Each and every one I checked was a post by someone ignorant about ,  and , as defined in . Other "natural examples" domains are abused pretty much too.  My request is - disallow these:   mysite.TLD site.TLD abc.TLD xyz.TLD [one letter repeated].TLD   When they are detected, propose  or . With old questions, use robot or find other way to edit them.    Even if SEO is not a problem, professional sites about Internet and associated technologies should not ignore RFC on such a large scale. Not to mention linking porn like about thousand links to xxx.com - I was already detected as one who visits "sites related to content forbidden here" by a firewall or two thanks to that.  I can assure you: you don't want to explain to your boss why are you searching for "adult content" in working hours, or agrotourism farm owner why that happens under his roof. Even WSODs are not nice. Now I think I have SE whitelisted, but anyway... Sadly, firewall was right, I did have xxx.com mentioned in my search results here and on Drupal Answers.
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Please consider a list of items (forum comments, articles, shoes, doesn't matter) which are spread over multiple pages. Different sort orders are supported (by date, by popularity, by price, etc).  So, an URL might look like this (I use the query style here to simplify things):  /items?id=1234&amp;page=42&amp;sort=popularity  /items?id=1234&amp;page=5&amp;sort=date  Now, in terms of SEO, I think I should be worried about duplicate content. After all, each item appears at least as many times as there are sort orders.  I've seen Matt Cutts talking about the rel=canonical link tag, but he also said that the canonical page should have very similar content. But this is not the case here because page #1 in a non-canonical sort order might have completely different items than page #1 in the canonical sort order. For a given non-canonical page, there is no clear canonical page listing all the same items, so I think rel=canonical won't help here.  Then I thought about using the noindex meta tag on all pages with non-canonical sort order, and not using it on all pages with canonical sort order.  However, if I use that method, what will happen with backlinks that are going to non-canonical pages -- will they still spread their page rank juice, even though the first page googlebot (or any other crawler) is going to encounter is marked as "noindex"?  Can you please comment on my problem and what you think is the best solution?  If you think you have a better solution, please consider that 1) I do not want to use Javascript for this, 2) I do not want all the items to be on one page.  Thank you.
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We have recently discovered a host of spammy links pointing to our website been put up in last 1 month through webmaster tool We have not engaged any seo agency/link building and have never created these links  Worst, these are spammy forum sites and almost some-one seems making an attack to our site as the link and keyword is same in all these sites Till not Have not received any warning, however as it has come to our notice - before any SERP getting down - we want to action this out  One thing we have observed is that - All these spammy links points to a single inner page of website  Pl suggest as have   a) Will Google disvow tool will work by stating to disvow these links  or  b) Is it a good way if we make this specific page 'nofollow' and even 'noindex' The reasoning behind this is like if the page is not followed and not indexed - the negative links pointing to the page of the site is already no follow and may be out from google serp  or what's the best alternate way to tackle this. Pl suggest in urgent help and advise required
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I'm a web developer from Myanmar (Burma). Google delivers a ccTLD  to the people searching from our country.   I have a website which is a single language site (English) and it targets the global audience. I have also Facebook page and Twitter page related to my website. When I search my website using some related keywords in  (without ), my site including Facebook and Twitter pages are listed in the first SERP. However, when I search it with the same keywords in , I could not entirely find the site.  So far I have learned about Google SEO, there is an option  which can be enabled/flagged from Google Webmasters Tool. And I know that it is only for geographic data and it is not suitable for my case.     This setting is only for geographic data. If you're targeting users in   different locations—for example, if you have a site in French that you   want users in France, Canada, and Mali to read—don't use this tool to   set France as a geographic target. A good example of where it would be   useful is for a restaurant website: if the restaurant is in Canada,   it's probably not of interest to folks in France. But if your content   is in French and is of interest to people in multiple   countries/regions, it's probably better not to restrict it.   What are the best possible ways to solve this issue to list my site in google.com.mm as well?
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Simple question  What is better:  http://www.example.com/product/123/subpage/456.html   or  http://www.example.com/product?123/subpage/456   As far as I know they would rank the same SEO wise, but my SEO knowledge might be a little off. Also the last one seems to be easier and cleaner to implement on my end.  Please explain to me which is better and for what reasons.
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I am creating a new website for a client, and I think a single page website / layout will be pretty neat. There is not that much detailed content, it is a company that imports a lot of products from different companies. So it will be a bit of a showcase of the different types of products / equipment you can order. Of the whole catalog only maybe 10 products are actually shown.  Now I have the basic structure with sections and links like:      #home / #products / #equipment / #services / #contact.    Now from what I understand is that Google does not index links containing #, so there will be no problem of duplicate content, everything will be indexed as the frontpage.  Now what I want to optimize is searching. This company is agent of some product in the country, meaning only they have the permission to import and sell that product. This means  that when somebody searches for product x, this website pops up as the first hit.  Now can I make it that they will be automatically brought to the #products part of the website directly from google.  I was thinking of something like having google index the different sections as different pages. Is something like that possible?