A few weeks back I create backlinks for my project and they get indexed and showing in SERP properly. But today I again checked 50% of them are not showing in SERP. Backlinks are live and working properly but not showing in google search. Why, Please help me out. Even the SEOquake extension also showing the date when the link gets indexed. And its not about 1-2 nearly 25+ backlinks are not showing.
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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 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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About a week ago I made the switch to https on one of my sites. I'm positive I did everything right. Properly setup 301 redirects from http to https versions. Added and verified https version in Webmaster Tools. Updated all internal links. Submitted new sitemap.  Despite that, many of my pages (about 40%) lost their rankings almost immediately. Those that dropped went from page 1 to nowhere. I can still see them indexed if I search for the URL, but otherwise it's like Google doesn't know they exist.  SSL Labs shows an "A" when I run their test and I have no manual actions showing in Webmaster Tools.  This is really frustrating. I don't actually need SSL, but Google finally scared me into it. Now I'm regretting the switch and contemplating going back to non-secured URLs.  Anything else I could have missed?
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I have this website which is relatively new and I am trying to rank it in Google. But, I have this enemy who keeps building bad/spam links to my site. So, every time I see some rank improvement in my site, he builds spam links to my site and my ranking slides down in SERP's. I am disavowing those links as soon as I see them but, for how much time I am gonna do that! Is there any tool or trick using which I can disavow such links automatically?
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My domain : CreditCardPaymentGateways dot in  even after 6 months is not ranking well. Could it be due to length of it?  Also I've blocked backlinks to some directories( without nofollow) using robots.txt.  I suspect either is playing spoilsport in good rankings of my site, which I've optimized well and has least competition.
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We're a web design company that have created several websites for clients, all of which have a back link to our own website. I was just wondering the best strategy for this:   Should the keywords be in the title, alt and link text? E.g &lt;a href="domain.com" title="keyword"&gt;Keyword&lt;/a&gt;? Should we make the keyword the same on all the client web sites? Should we incorporate our company name as the link text?   Are there any other general things I should follow?  UPDATE: Currently we have "designed &amp; built by ". Are we better off having something like ""?
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I used webmaster's Fetch as Google tool to see how my website looks on Google. The snapshot of rendered page returned by Google is exactly same as my website so I submitted it for indexing.  Logically Google's cached copy of this URL should have been updated by Google but it didn't change and now it's been almost 6 months since the last change. Here is URL for cached copy of this above Page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://paintcollar.com  It is not happening with all pages. A few pages are being cached properly. Just to give you an idea, this URL is cached properly: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:paintcollar.com/aneel  What is the cause of the problem and how to solve it?
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How do I prevent links to a particular website from showing in search results on chrome, on my mobile?  For example I want to see a video of maybe cows dancing  But I don't want to see any links related to dailymotion.com.  Is there any way I can filter those results out?  (If this doesn't belong here, please leave a comment as to where I can ask this. I feel this could be helpful for others too so I asked it here)
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Will Google's SERP show the ampersand (&amp;) or the ampersand HTML entity &amp;amp; in its snippet? Here is my description meta tag:  &lt;meta content="Questions &amp;amp; Answers" name="description"/&gt;
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I would like my site's categories to appear in the Google results. For example the , etc.  Is there any module for this? Has this to do with RDF, microformats, or rich snippnets?
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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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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 favourite canonical question for PDO problems,   It's been used many dozens of times, as the "linked" column on that question shows. In fact, there are so many entries that a "see more linked questions..." link appears.  However, the  page shows only three links, because the url: search pattern is ignoring links in comments.  This doesn't make sense. Can this be fixed?  Also, I notice the links in the comments are all in the   https://stackoverflow.com/q/3726505/   format, while the URL search filter on the "see more..." page, by default, looks for  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3726505/*   if comments were included here, they would be ignored anyway. Shouldn't the pattern rather be  https://stackoverflow.com/q*/3726505/*    ?
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A few months ago our website got hacked, similar to what seems to be described in the following -   We fixed the original part of it, by clearing the website itself so we no longer display Japanese hoodie sale pages. I have also run a Wordfence scan which has come up saying the website is clean.  Currently, the issue we are having is that multiple 3rd party domains are still continuously generating links to our domain on their site and Google is indexing them e.g.   justaccounts.com/bumper23075 justaccounts.com/miraculously_G7nOG7nrnO. justaccounts.com/iterate_JeIEbNG0.   (I got these links by going to site:justaccounts.com)  All of these generated links are throwing 404 errors because the path now does not exist. This is causing us to have an extremely high bounce rate as most of our traffic now comes from Japan and surrounding countries to these dead links, and are immediately leaving because the page doesn't exist. This is, in turn, causing us to drop in search rankings massively.  Do you have any suggestions on how I can properly tackle this issue and have it sorted once and for all? Stopping these 3rd party link generations and having our domain show as clean and only displaying URL's submitted in our sitemap?  The steps have been followed to remove the 'This site may be hacked' message and I have also run a 'Wordfence' scan which is showing that the site itself is clean and secured, so the main issue is the 3rd party generated links.  Any help on this subject would be greatly appreciated as it is becoming a serious issue in terms of us utilizing our website properly.
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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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Is there any information available on whether search engines (Google) count external Javascript or CSS files as backlinks?  Example: Does loading FontAwesome from their CDN count as a backlink for that CDN? Does loading the Bootstrap Javascript files count as backlink for Bootstrap?