One of my websites is listed in the Google index (1st page 4th position till yesterday) for the keyword "Mobile app development company".  Today I can't see my website in the first three pages of results (30 results) for the same keyword.  What may have happened? What is the reason behind it?
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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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What I am referring to is say you search for . You can see on the sidebar of the results page all of the company's wiki information.  My current website does not show my company's wiki page. I am trying to figure out if there is a certain time limit for Google to show the wiki page or if some other validation is required for it to show that is documented?
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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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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?
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So I have just built a site and all is well... but I want to control what appears on google search results.  Lets say I google for "thefwa", first what comes is the link to www.thefwa.com, then underneath is a list of pages on that site with preview and  a link "More results from thefwa.com". How can I tell google to display my chosen content/pages? Do I use robots.txt or sitemap.xml? Because now the pages that are associated with my site are displayed kind of random.  Is it possible to tell google what to display?
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I often use Stack Exchange sites on my smartphone. The mobile version works great, but when I end up on a page which is not found (like a deleted question), it redirects me to the full version of site.  Can you please re-design that page to adjust on a small screen?
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For only my index pages, I am receiving this warning in Google Search Console:     Duplicate, submitted URL not selected as canonical   I know that this occurs because Google is attempting to track both the default landing "page" (i.e. www.domain.example/) and the page to which to which DirectoryIndex points (i.e. www.domain.example/index.html). They are, in fact, the same page, and so the warning is the result of a false positive.  Two questions for our community:   Why does Google not conflate these and count them as a single page? Alternately, is there something wrong with my set up if this has happened? I can easily force both pages to point to a single canonical URL. But which is preferable, "/" or "index.html"?
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I read that sites have good reputation in google search index if it is fresh content.  what does fresh content means from google's point of view?  I have many pages. I have created articles and tutorials.  These page dosent change except the comments which are at the bottom.  I have made this page as static (.html) and never edit cause that is the information i wanted to be ever. cause the concept is not going to change?  with these parameters how to judge whether my page is fresh or not?
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Recently Google has been complaining about certain pages saying:  Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt   I am confounded by this error.  Yes the page, is blocked by robots.txt and it has always been.  Nothing new has happened and I don't want it crawled or indexed.  Why is google indexing the page when I explicitly telling it not to?  I realize I can add a meta tag like &lt;meta name="robots" content="noindex"&gt; but why should this be necessary?
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I've included my page title in the title tag in this format: " blah blah blah | sitename ". But for some reason it's showing up on Google search results as " sitename: blah blah blah ".  It shows up right on the actual tab itself, and even right on both Bing and Yahoo search, but different on Google search. Can't figure out why.  EDIT: Let me clarify: I really doubt that this is due to Google having not crawled my website yet. The title it previously had was very different from this (several different words), and the title that currently shows up on the search is not even remotely similar to my old one. Hence the confusion. And I've already submitted it and a sitemap to the Google webmasters tool.
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I have a website on which users can ask a question and also answer it. So, when a user asks a question, it creates a new webpage on website and below that question lies its answers.  I don't want search engines to index those pages or questions which don't have an answer, so I added an if condition stating if the question doesn't have answer show the noindex meta tag, if it does, then don't show it.  I was wondering if it is the right way to do so?  I mean, first when the question is asked and Google will crawl it, it will see the noindex tag. But after some time when it will have an answer, Google will see that it can be indexed.  Will it affect the ranking and overall performance in Google search results?
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I have a real estate site that we require the user to login after viewing 3 properties.  Is it possible for Google to index these property listings while still keeping that functionality in place?  What is the best way to handle this on the up and up with Google?  Thanks!
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Search for ,        ,                        and you will see that "results found containing __" is just a little too close to the header. It's not like there isn't  to have it be a little lower, closer to "Search":          The UI has been updated since I took the above screenshots, and the text you search for is  (which fixes another design issue but not the one in this question):
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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 several days ago somewhere read that category and tag pages should be noindexed. But later on somewhere else, I read that, they only increase rank for search term, but overall traffic decreases- said one from his experience.  So, if I just concern about traffic, not about individual search term that much, should I make those category and tag pages as indexed to google? I am confused which is the best to do.  Thanks in advance.  Regards Rana
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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 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?