My 10 years old web site is about niche content(cinema) news gallery. (its a news site; but %90 of pageviews are from galleries)  and i'm getting photographs from news agencies and public relation offices.  i have imagesitemap on my webmastertools page; and has no error.  but, %2-3% of images are indexed by google.   think that, i making news about OSCAR Awards Ceremony. i write 3 paragraph article about it; and add gallery, which i get photos from agency.  my photos cant be unique or first.. of course someone used before me.. but its uniqe or first with turkish content. why am i not in search result in google.com.tr?  and what do you suggest the gallery-intensive web sites as like mine? (adding watermark, or some text detail is not working)
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Let's say we have an image exhibition website that has got a lot of images but next to nothing content. The focus keyword for this website is "Artistic wallpapers". What would be the best approach w.r.t SEO for such a website.  Here are a few things I can imagine:   Submitting sitemaps ( image and web ) Having a good pagespeed score. Nice navigation Breadcrumbs sharing the website content on Social media. Having appropriate titles.   Having worked on all these things, what can be done if Search engines are picking wrong keywords ( For example views, votes, ratings) Can anything be done so that Search engines don't track these specific items? Also, is it a good practice to have all the pages submitted to Search engines at once?
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My website's google cache copy looks broken.   Below is link to cache.  http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://paintcollar.com  Can this affect the SERPs and crawling by google?  What can I do to rectify it?  PS. Few pages are being cached properly though.Below is URL to one such page. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://paintcollar.com/aneel
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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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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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New domain names like .photos .gallery .repair etc are being released every month. I tried running a generic search for some things, and I could not find any of those in the results.   Any idea if they will ever integrate them into the search results? Will they be ranked higher than the .com domains? For example, if someone had stackphotos.com and now they got stack.photos - will the second domain be ranked higher than the first?
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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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So I was searching for one of my own websites on Google: http://www.botlibre.com  and to my surprise found some clones of my website, like:  http://83waystowasteyourtime.adidas.com  and:  http:// mediaiq.astral.comm  My question are:   Why are they creating clones of my website?  Some kind of SEO scheme or what? What gain could they be getting? How do they have a URL at adidas.com and astral.comm?  I assume it's not Adidas steeling my content. How do I shutdown these sites and stop people from stealing my content? (on Tomcat)
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I'm working with a client who manages real-estate agents. All of these agents have their own individual sites, and they all want the same layout and functionality. So, I have a "master" site designed which is dynamically changed to fit the agent/area/whatever through a MySQL database. We have relatively static content in the DB about the agent and the area, then the rest is very dynamic content from a listing service, which is updated daily.  My question is how to set this up so that we can keep on using all the different domains and identical programming (i.e. all the files are identical, except pictures) and have decent SEO as well.  They had some trouble in the past with Google blacklisting their sites because they were considered "mirrored sites". Which...they pretty much are, but the difference between mirrored sites is that we're searching very different areas of the listings DB.  Ideally, all the listings are relatively unique to each site, but sometimes there aren't any listings for the area, or the listings for two sites overlap...that's when they get busted for the mirrorring.  Does anyone have any suggestions on how to both have decent SEO for the individual sites, and keep it easy to manage? There are currently over 100 sites (20 agents, about 5 sites each--one agent site, and a few "area" sites), so not mirroring things is just a ton of work.
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Brand new install of 17.10, love it so far.  I especially love the new Firefox browser but I can't seem to get my videos to play on photos.google.com.  All I get is a static screen with "This video format is not supported".    I did install Chrome and they do play through that browser, so I know I'm just missing something on my Firefox install.  I tested Flash and that seems to work on the Adobe flash test site after I allow it, but I never get a prompt to allow Flash on the Google photos page, I assume they're using something else anyway.  Any ideas?
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I need to add Google Map with about 400 markers into WordPress site (into one page). Every marker needs to have info window with photo, description and link. It is really high number of markers, so I'm not sure what is the best way to implement that kind of map.   What do you suggest?
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We are currently developing a site that currently has 8 million unique pages that will grow to about 20 million right away, and eventually to about 50 million or more.  Before you criticize... Yes, it provides unique, useful content. We continually process raw data from public records and by doing some data scrubbing, entity rollups, and relationship mapping, we've been able to generate quality content, developing a site that's quite useful and also unique, in part due to the breadth of the data.  It's PR is 0 (new domain, no links), and we're getting spidered at a rate of about 500 pages per day, putting us at about 30,000 pages indexed thus far. At this rate, it would take over 400 years to index all of our data.  I have two questions:   Is the rate of the indexing directly correlated to PR, and by that I mean is it correlated enough that by purchasing an old domain with good PR will get us to a workable indexing rate (in the neighborhood of 100,000 pages per day). Are there any SEO consultants who specialize in aiding the indexing process itself. We're otherwise doing very well with SEO, on-page especially, besides, the competition for our "long-tail" keyword phrases is pretty low, so our success hinges mostly on the number of pages indexed.   Our main competitor has achieved approx 20MM pages indexed in just over one year's time, along with an Alexa 2000-ish ranking.  Noteworthy qualities we have in place:   page download speed is pretty good (250-500 ms) no errors (no 404 or 500 errors when getting spidered) we use Google webmaster tools and login daily friendly URLs in place I'm afraid to submit sitemaps. Some SEO community postings suggest a new site with millions of pages and no PR is suspicious. There is a , too, in order to avoid increased scrutiny (at approx 2:30 in the video).      Clickable site links deliver all pages, no more than four pages deep and typically no more than 250(-ish) internal links on a page. Anchor text for internal links is logical and adds relevance hierarchically to the data on the detail pages. We had previously set the crawl rate to the highest on webmaster tools (only about a page every two seconds, max). I recently turned it back to "let Google decide" which is what is advised.
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What approach should I take to make the website Google-friendly, .  The problem is that when a specific content is being requested (eg. ) user is taken to the page using scrollbar, though the surrounding content is still being loaded. How to tell Google that for this URL  only the #36 entry should be crawled.  Is there a tag or other way to select the surrounding content as irrelevant for the URL?
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How does Stack Overflow work so well with search engines? It's really amazing; if I post a question, it'll show up in Google's search results within 15-30 minutes!  What are the tricks? sitemap.xml? Or, any other good methods?  Help me, and others too, if anyone knows a good technique/method.
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I have just viewed my Google Photos account and already have a couple of pictures in my account – it seem to have fetched it from Google+, Picasa or whatsoever. Now I have a bunch of pictures that always appear on top of all the other photos because they – erroneously – are dated in 2075.  Is there a way to modify the date online?  Update  First of all, in Picasa, instead of being dated 2075, photos and albums are dated 1970. And following  does not wholisticly help: I can redate the albums, but not the photos themselves. And on Google Photos, the default view are the pictures, not the albums, which is still very annoying.  Any other hints? I want to avoid having to download, delete, redate and reupdate all misdated photos.  Update 2
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On my WP site (which sells retail products), I have large images (up to 4000x4000 px) so people can zoom in. Unfortunately, when adding images to a page and using the Media Library, the images all load up at full quality (though resized down). This makes the Media Library page load up really slowly, and make my browser slow to a crawl. Why is it doing this? Why isn't the ML page using thumbnails? If I click on "Media" on the left admin menu, that list of images are proper thumbnails, but when adding media to a page, the list that comes up is using full quality images.  Is this a bug in WP?
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I don't know much more about SEO, but it's interesting to learn about it. When I tried to search my website with an associated keyword or you can say with the exact name of the domain, I got some suggestions by Google. Here's .  First of all, I don't want to spamming here, I just want prove my question and want to give a hint about what I am talking here. The above link display the Did You Mean, I know the specific reason why Google shows this, but I want to know the Google's guidelines and some guidance by you experts so that if someone search for the particular keyword then Google hide that Did You Mean and display the result.
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We have a website dedicated to our ActiveX and .NET components that has been working for more than 12 years. The site consists of 2 parts: the static part (product descriptions and articles) and the dynamic part (forum dedicated to our tools).  Google indexes the static part without any problems - all the pages are found due to a good textual hyperlink menu system. These pages also have good positions in SERPs.  However, many SEO pro's insist that we need to have a sitemap.xml file to enhance the positions of our website in the "eyes" of Google or other search engines like Bing. My 2 questions related to this are the followings:  1) Do we really need sitemap.xml for our website?  2) If so, how to code the dynamic forum pages in it?