I have linked my blogger site hindilyricsonline.in to yandexwebmaster tools and everything was just working fine. But after when I customized it's url hindilyricsonline.into Indexing, Crowling, Sitemap all are still working fine except Search Queries. There is not any data showing in Search Queries on Webmaster tools. If I'm setting webmaster tools again for new url there may be problem of duplicate contents. Also I don't want to remove already indexed pages.
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that might seems like an easy question but I'm struggling on this problem since monday.
There's a wordpress website that I need to be hidden when searching for the keywords contained in it, but I can't work it out.
I already tryied to:
Add a robots.txt, on the main root, on the httdocs folder, and on the folder containing the website.
Use the in-built function of wordpress.
Protect the website with a password
None of them seems to be working, so I deleted the website (that was a staging website btw) but it keeps being indexed on search engines.
What shall I do?
Robots.txt is the solution. However you need to realize it can take weeks for google remove the site from index.
For other options see "Make removal permanent" part - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663419?hl=en
I have created some pages in wordpress using Visual Composer Plugin. When I try to share those pages on social media sites it shows the visual composer tags as well. Is there any way to get rid of these tags ?
The tags come like
MY PAGE TITLE
[vc_row type=
my page text
The Visual Composer tags are simply arbitrary bits of text that the VS framework picks up and via JavaScript converts into the visual layout that you see.
To demonstrate this edit a page and click the 'Classic Mode' button and this will show you the 'real' content / markup of your page. As a result when sharing the page via social media that network looks for key info to grab for your page to then display.
All the major networks have some form of metadata that they look for first. They use these special tags to see what content you want them to use for your site. If these tags aren't present on your site, they will simply grab content from the page markup. Hence, the Visual Composer tags get picked up.
So, what you need to do is make your site use the necessary metadata / tags for each of the networks, and then populate these fields without these Vis Composer tags.
The easiest way to do this is to use an existing plugin which takes care of this for you. You typically find this in any decent SEO software. You'll in 99.9% of cases want an SEO plugin for WordPress anyway.
By far the most popular and in my experience the best SEO plugin is Yoast SEO. It's a free plugin which not only gives great easy to use SEO tools, it also allows you to set custom description fields for pages/ posts. This means that you can remove the VC tags, and so they will no longer show up on Search Engines and Social Networks. Plus depending on which version you use, you can also customise things on a per social network basis.
Facebook and Twitter etc all use heavy caching against shared content. So, if a page is shared and then edited, the same content will still be shared for a period of time. They don't actually grab live copies every time a page is shared. This can make it a little difficult when developing this side of your site.
Luckily, there is a tool to help with Facebook and here's the one for Twitter.
I'm using a custom Genesis child theme and lately I've been noticing that many false articles have been showing up on webmaster tools. They look something like this:
I haven't written these nor are they topics my site focuses on so I have no clue why they are showing up. So far, I've had to delete about a hundred of these. I read on a forum that this can be due to my theme generating bad urls but I'm not sure what that means nor do I know how to fix it. What can be causing this?
I believe that this problem is due to your website being hacked or Google is trying to Crawl or follow a link within your content that is not really a link.
This is what webmaster tool tells you about the problem:
In Crawl Errors, you might occasionally see 404 errors for URLs you don't believe exist on your own site or on the web. These unexpected URLs might be generated by Googlebot trying to follow links found in JavaScript, Flash files, or other embedded content.
To find out if your website has been hacked. First get this total = WordPress number of pages + number of post + number of categories + number of PDF or files + Images. Then do a google search using the following query (without the quotes) "site:yourdomain.com" if the result number is exaggerated greater than the calculated total then your website is definitely hacked.
If you believe that your website is not hacked try to find from where these links are being generated. Here is the trick: Go to the Web Master Tool report and click on one of those links, check the "Linked from" tab. There should be one or many possible pages listed from where these unexpected links are coming from.
Two possible Outcomes:
The page from where the link is found is from your own website: Go
to that page and open the source code, do a Ctrl+F search for that
link, if found check what section or content is generating this
problem.
The page from where the link is found is NOT from your own website:
In this case try to contact the owner of the other site and ask the
link to be removed, if not possible I highly recommend you to create
a 404 page within your WordPress installation with some useful
links. Google how to do this, there are plenty of resources.
Hope this helps
Hi I tried searching for information regarding this but get bombarded with other search results, might not be putting in the right question not sure….
Anyways hopefully someone here can help, what I’m having an issue with is my site which has a mobile version that’s separate from the main site, the mobile version can be used by anyone and has a link from the main one but anyone with a mobile device gets redirected to the mobile one. The mobile site is blind to search engines using the nofollow tag on any links that lead to it and hasn’t been cached which is what I want because it would be considered duplicate content, anyone with mobile devices gets redirected to equivalent page on mobile site.
I previously forgot to remove the analytics line from one of these pages and noticed it got cached in the search results so I removed it, which is the issue, how do I know how many people were visiting here (mobile) now etc…. Is there a way to get analytics information without having it go to the search results for duplicate content?
This seems to be a problem that can be fixed with Google Webmaster Tools, or tagging the content with a rel="canonical", please take a look at:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66359?hl=en
I inherited a Drupal 5 site recently and have a series of enhancements to make. Several of then revolve around search results.
Unpublished pages showing up in
search engine results. Some of these
are old pages, others are recently
unpublished. All are correctly
marked as unpublished in the CMS and
are still showing up.
Outdated pages are showing up from the search engine. The URL path structure changed and those items are old results in the DB.
From what I can tell the site uses Google Search Appliance(GSA) for the search rather than the default Drupal search. Is there a way I can be certain that it's using GSA other than seeing the module enabled?
If it is GSA it seems that I could get someone with access to the GSA to rebuild the search results on the site. Is this correct?
If rebuilding the search results is the right way to go about it, it seems whenever a fair amount of content is removed from the site I'll need to get someone to rebuild the search. Is there a better/automatic way?
Sounds like it's drupal that is handling the search. Google would need db access to show unpublished nodes. It could be you are using views to do search but forgot to only take published nodes.
If Drupal is handling the searchyou just need to flush and rebuild the search index. This can be done without too much trouble if you don't have too much content.
The GSA could still be showing deleted content depending on what your data source is.
If the content is coming from a database feed and is then dropped from the query it would be dropped. If the content was coming from a natural crawl or through a custom connector feed it would not be removed from the index on delete. Instead it needs to naturally cycle out of the index which can take a while.
One way to block deleted url's from being displayed is to do it through the front end. In the GSA Admin interface go to Serving > Front Ends then choose your front end and click the Remove URL tab. You can either list your url's or block a group of url's through regular expressions.
I have posted an answer to your more general question concerning node access. The problem with your search results might well be related to that.
In order to keep the Google Appliance more up to date, you might try out XmlSiteMap, a module that publishes a proper xml sitemap for all your content.
For an online website, publishing a sitemap is a good way to keep the search engines up to date, as they can use it to know about new pages and to purge old pages. I'm assuming that the Google Appliance would use this too,.