On my clients website I have the www and the non-www setup on GWM the website uses the non-www version but I have both set up anyway.   This is a new client that I've only been working with for a month but I've never seen Google Webmasters have data delayed for an entire month.  GWM has the website listed with 0 pages index (yes, I checked the www and the non-www GWM sites). The website is built on WP so the first thing I did was check pagespeed to see if there was a lot of render blocking causing the 0 index result. There were 2 pages (this website is about 30 pages in total) with render blocking issues.   My next step was to do a Site:website.com search and I found that Google displayed 26 webpages as being indexed for the non-www (0 index for www).   Personally, I've never seen this before. Google Webmaster's is telling me that there are 0 indexed pages but a Site: search on Google shows 26 webpages indexed. I've only seen GWM display a 0 index for websites with a ton of render blocking code (Usually ones that hire sub-par web developers who use default WP templates), but in this case only 2 webpages have error messages from pagespeed about render blocking block.   Does anyone have an idea as to what is causing the disconnect in data? Could those 2 webpages be effecting the data that gets passed to GWM by not showing any indexing but not effect Google actually indexing the website on the search engine?  I did read some past questions (such as  and ) but I found my situation to be different than all of the Google index count questions I've read.
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In Google webmaster tools it shows that I have 309 pages indexed, but when I search using "site:site.com" appear about 180 only (On the first page appears "about 608 results," something near the total number of posts).  I have also noticed that some pages that were indexed before have simply disappeared from Google. In Google webmaster tools there is no error message or anything to indicate any punishment by Google.  According to Google webmaster tools, daily new pages are indexed, but for some reason they are not displayed in the search.  Am I really affected by some punishment by Google or this is some kind of bug?  How can I solve this problem and have all pages indexed normally?
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I updated some entries in the  at C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\etc.  As a test, I decided to make Google point to 127.0.0.1.  # Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual # lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol. # # For example: # #      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server #       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host  127.0.0.1       localhost ::1             localhost 127.0.0.1       google.com   This works fine on Windows Vista, but not on Widows 7. When I type google.com into my browser, it goes directly to Google's website.  I am not using a proxy server, and I think there might be some temporary DNS settings that need to be flushed, but I'm not sure.  Does anyone know how to fix this?
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I am monitoring the number of pages indexed by Googlebot for one of my websites .  I noticed that since last week, the number of pages has dropped by about 60 or so. Now to be fair, I have not added that much over the last week. (Actually I don't think I added any new content.) But at the very least, I would have thought that the number of indexed pages would be static (if I was not adding anything new.)  I don't understand why the numbers have dropped.  Does anyone have an official explanation for this?. I have checked the Google Webmaster Tools, and have not come across anything that addresses this issue directly.
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Some SEO analysts says that fixing W3C validation errors of a website is an important On Page Optimization if so why www.google.com has 23 W3C validation errors, 4 warning(s)? Does Google consider those errors?
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I look today on a few fresh question, and the view count was 0. Even after I refreshed the page a few time. This is definitely a bug, since the question isn't mine.  Also I don't think the all page was cached, since that the DateTime mark was change every reload.  But maybe the SQL result is cached.
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We're launching new website with new url structure and new content. Domain is the same. Many old pages are indexed by google. Should I use 404 or 301 and redirect to '/' for these old resources? I also want to remove these pages from google index.
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I submitted a new version of the sitemap index for my site in Google Search Console two days ago. Soon after submission, GSC started saying that the index was "processed successfully", and yet has continued to display zero as the number of discovered URLs.  Note that my sitemap index points to about 11000 sitemaps, which provide actual links to pages.  I'm pretty sure the format of both the sitemap index and the individual sitemaps is correct.  Screenshot:    Should I worry about this? What does it mean?  Edit on 2020-02-03:  Google finally started displaying the right number in Total discovered URLs. It must have happened sometime in January. Why so late - I have no idea...
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My website is more than a year old and Google Webmaster Tools reports that I have over 1500 links to the site, yet my Google PageRank is still zero.  Is my website being penalised and why is my PageRank not updating?
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In my Google Webmaster Tools account, there are warnings about my site.     Some URLs listed in this sitemap have a high response time. This may indicate a problem with your server or with the content of the page.   What is the solution?
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Take a look at the following screenshot I took from Google Webmaster Tools "Remove URLs" page:   None of these were performed by me or others who have access to GWT.  How do these removal requests happen without us doing any requests?  Why is that happening?  How to stop that or is there any point in stopping that?
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I have a friend who had around 2000 visitors per day to his website before a web designer with no SEO knowledge changed all his URLs. I've used the Wayback Machine and Google Analytics to determine the old URLs and I've done a 301 redirect and checked that it redirects properly.  My question is how long does it take before Google notices the redirects and passes link juice? And will those long-lost backlinks which where pointing to 404 pages count in Google Webmaster Tools - will I see a higher number of backlinks?   And last question, will I get a higher PageRank?
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I am building a new site, but creating the content using a subdirectory on an existing site. I have never posted a link to this subdirectory anywhere, yet searching Google reveals that Google has found these pages on my site and indexed them.  Further, I updated the site with a robots.txt file that WMT reports as being read, and testing the blocked pages using the WMT test tool indicates that the pages will not be indexed. Apparently this does not remove the pages from existing results, though I submitted a request to do so.  How did Google find these pages to begin with? Is it because I used a common subdirectory name and Google guesses at common subdirectories?
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I'm hosting a low-traffic ASP.NET MVC 5 application on a VPS with Windows Server 2012 R2 / IIS 8.5, with 1 GB of RAM.  My problem is that the first request after some time without any requests always gets a slow response - around 1.5 seconds according to Chrome Dev Tools. Subsequent refresh requests/responses only take about 45 ms.  I already did set Start Mode to AlwaysRunning on the application pool, and Preload Enabled to True on the website level, but it had absolutely no effect. Even if there are no changes/uploads whatsoever, after some time passes, with the next request it takes 1.5 s to get a response.
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This is probably easier to show than tell...   On the recent question , I see the following:    As you can see, the first five links render properly, but after that, they stop converting.  Unfortunately, this isn't obvious to the person writing the post, which I discovered when I went to edit the post to fix the "broken" links. In the edit window, it renders all of the links just fine:    I understand that this behavior is expected based on balpha's answer :        Links to questions on the same site are unlimited.   Links to other sites are limited to             a) 5 linked-to sites and     b) N questions per target site, where N is 200 on meta sites and 10 on non-metas (this is about the site that the post containing the link is posted on, not the site that is being linked to)         So if this rule is still going to stay in effect, please fix the edit view to also not automatically convert more than five linked-to sites to help people writing posts know that they need to manually title the links to the other questions.  That said, I'd prefer that (at least on MSE) this limitation be removed or raised. Even in the answer, balpha says:     The restrictions are currently as follows, but note that they do look a bit contrived, resulting from the fact that they have grown over time (from single site to cross-site, from "there are no subsites" to "facebook.SO", etc.), so it's not unlikely that we'll revisit them.   So, if it's not hurting performance, can we please increase the limit or remove it?
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On my site I have a pagination of variable length and random result order. Every page is defined by index, that is order of the page and seed, that is the random seed (it's necessary to generate consistent random results for one user).  Search engines keep indexing these pages and they also randomly try to access pages that don't exist.  Should I prevent them to index all pages except the main page?  If so, where exactly should I put the directives (NOINDEX, FOLLOW)? Can the be put in HTML link tags?
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I am a member of a writing website called HubPages. We are each given a subdomain on which to write articles and are also given access to Google Webmaster Tools for our subdomain.  Upon checking out my stats in Webmaster Tools, I see that Google is running into some 404 errors for two reasons:   I took down an article Google (or someone) got the url totally wrong.   I am essentially getting view-only access for webmaster tools (HubPages must have set it up to allow view only so that a user doesn't mess things up) so I can't submit a url removal request to Google.  Could this be hurting the SEO for my subdomain? If not, are there other problems that could occur for me or for HubPages by leaving these URLs as is and not submitting a removal request? Should HubPages be submitting url removal requests to Google for dead or incorrect urls?
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My Google Webmaster Tools account, shows that I have crawling errors that are caused by links to pages that do not exist (404 not found).   But when I look at the source pages that are accused of having these broken links, there are no such links in them.  As of now, I have 6 404 errors in sitemaps and 28 in the rest of my site.  E.g. the address  does not exist, yet Google indicates that I have 3 pages that link to this address:  http://www.webdesk.co.il/sitemapgen.php http://www.webdesk.co.il/articles.php?t=css http://www.webdesk.co.il/articles.php?id=17 //this address dont even exist   If you open each of these pages, you'll see that they don't have these links in them.  I thought this may be a result of an old crawling that was not yet updated, but those pages haven't existed for over than 6 months and Google indicates that all the crawling results are up to date (Dec 22 2012).  Why do I keep getting these 404 errors by Google?