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Make Google index the entire post if it is separated into several pages

While this is a question, it is as well a serious warning to publishers that separate their posts using <!--nextpage-->. Bare with me. I run a highly trafficked multiple author platform that ...
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Hiding Custom Post Type from Google?

I have a plugin that uses custom post type for holding content that I pull via a shortcode elsewhere. However on a new site I noticed one of the posts in the CPT started showing up in the google ...
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How to publish page that can't be detected by search engines?

I like to publish drafts in my 'Uncategorized' category. This category is not linked anywhere on my site. It's great for allowing contributors to an article to read the draft before it is made ...
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Display title for search engine visitors

I read somewhere*) that there's some q part inside the wp_query object, that identifies search engine visitors and shows the keywords they searched for. I'm currently developing local, so i can't ...
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Duplicate Australian E-Commerce site

I have a WordPress ECommerce site targetted for US customers. I am planning to launch a different site for Customers in Australia. As I will be selling the same products the website/information will ...
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Searching in shortcode contents

Can WP search be extended to search in shortcode generated contents? If it is not a possibility please guide if replacing default WP search with Google Custom Search will solve the problem of ...
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Strange Search Queries in Apache Status

I am running a wordpress website with high traffic, my server load gets very high and while checking apache status i found flood of wordpress searches like this /?s=\"khabarnaak\"&id=39790 HTTP/1....
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How to redirect a Custom Google Search to a wordpress page/template?

I'm using the Google Custom Search plugin by edwinkwan (the first that appears in the wordpress plugin repository). I added the search box: <?php display_search_box(DISPLAY_RESULTS_CUSTOM); ?> ...
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Best way to Integrate Google Search?

I would like to use Google Search as opposed to the built-in search provided by the WordPress engine. What would be the best way to integrate Google Search?
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Google Search Console: Index Coverage Error for /wp-includes/ php files

Recently, without changing anything on my website, Google search console started flagging 80 index coverage errors, shown as "Server error (5xx)". When I go look into it, what it's flagging are php ...
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How can I find out exactly what Google is finding 'Deceptive' about my WordPress site?

I recently stood up a WordPress site in a Docker container and enabled https with Let's Encrypt. Everything seems ok from an https standpoint. Then I registered the site with Google Search Console, ...
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Wordpress Schema.org Markup. What value does it add?

I've been adding all the "recommended" schema.org markup to my sites for awhile now. Most of the schema markup adds value to google searches. There's other markup though that I've been using and I'm ...
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Worried I have a funky .htaccess for WP site in light of strange search engine behavior

My friend started a new (non-commercial) blog 5+ months ago, but Google + Bing are acting like we're telling it to not be indexed. I don't mean it ranks poorly. I mean it doesn't rank at all. I ...
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SEO images in Nextgen Galleries

I have a couple blogs / wordpress sites that I post pictures on. I have noticed that most of the pictures I post with the nextgen gallery plug in never show up in google images search. Is there a ...
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How to password protect media library files (PDF)?

My company has an internal sales site and they use the OneLogin SAML SSO plugin for authentication. The site is not supposed to be viewable to the general public. Apparently they only checked the WP '...
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How do I host Wordpress on a hidden domain through a reverse proxy?

I have a reverse proxy for http://www.xxxx.com/guides/ pointing to Wordpress on another domain. I want to edit and administer it via the other domain, but I don't want the contents to be publicly ...
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Unexpanded shortcodes in search engine results

I have some shortcodes on pages e.g. [fb_like] [twg_gpo_button] [ratings]. If I visit page they expand correctly but on search engine results page, they do not expand on some pages. I have installed ...
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How to make wordpress URLS google friendly for ajax driven sites?

Our wordpress site utilizes the wordpress cms to serve up json data that we ingest via ajax requests and serve up with javascript. I would like to create URLs for my regular wordpress pages/posts that ...
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Why does Google Image Search still display my images?

I am having trouble with a few image files that I would like to block for Google Image search. I am using Yoast SEO Plugin, which allows me to directly edit the robots.txt file. A few people with ...
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AMP Sitemap Error in Google Search Console

After I upload the sitemap to Google Search Console, it shows there is an error about AMP, but I don't know how to fix it. Anyone can advise me on how to fix the problem? Thank you so much!
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How to Change The Title in WordPress For SEO

My concern is when I search for that company I see what is shown in the image. Instead of Home, I require it to show a custom title that is good for SEO. What is the best way to fix this? Please ...
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What's the most efficient solution when augmenting google custom search results with taxonomies?

This is more of a conceptual/best-practices question: I'm integrating google custom search into a site that has about 15,000 articles. I will be using their XML/JSON feature which is a REST call with ...
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Home page shows recent post, serps rank post within homepage

When I search for the title of one of my post in Google I see: Site Name- Tag Line www.mydomain.com Gibberish gibberish gibberish Hereis the the title of my post I have to go DEEP into the serps to ...
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Canonicalization issue regarding academic URL vs. blog URL

I'm sorry if what I am about to write is long-winded. I only wish to be clear. I am an academic in the scientific community. I maintain a web site for my research, teaching, and other professional ...
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What makes WP so SEO friendly? [closed]

I keep hearing that Wordpress is the best SEO solution, better than most static websites because of multiple reasons. I then go on to hear contradicting information elsewhere. So: Is Wordpress ...
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Redirecting to new URL structure and 301

I had links like example.com/?location=boston on my site. These were indexed by Google. Due to obvious SEO reasons, I had to change the URL structure to example.com/deals/boston. The old URLs are ...
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I have two problems ( SEO )

how are you ? In my website I want to make the author's page and category(slug of it is country) to be in google reslut .. like this : http://rehlat-world.com/profile/saqaf , but when I search in ...
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Wordpress 404 errors for old plugin files via Google Bot

I get a lot of 404 errors on my WordPress site and I have controlled a lot of those using the Redirection plugin. Now there is a particular type of 404s that originate from Googlebot requests. These ...
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Homepage meta title and description not showing in search engines?

I have just launched a new website and have been having trouble locating it anywhere on search engines, so I decided to do a google search for "site:mysitename.com" to show all of the results from my ...
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Search Engine Visibility checkbox after indexed

I have a client whose dev team set up a wordpress site for development (dev server on a subdomain), but didn't check the "Search Engine Visibility" checkbox when creating the site and now the site is ...
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how to show Author information in search results

Google search result does not show author information or thumbnail images. the source code look like this <link rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/115911773396772351667/posts"/> ...
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How to give a website (Wordpress) a custom title and description in Google search

it's about the website www.kindheitsorte.de. When you do a Google search for "kindheitsorte.de" you get to see "kindheitsorte.de/" as the result - no custom site title or description at all. When you ...
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XML Sitemap Generator can't notify google and bing

I am using wordpress Version 2.9.2 and XML Sitemap Generator 3.2.3 I have registered with Google Webmaster Tools. But I get an error while notifying to Google and I really don't know what it means. ...
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Add Google custom search to wordpress.com [closed]

I would like to add Google custom search to my wordpress.com site. I have pasted HTML code from custom search to text widget in a sidebar, but instead of search box, I got text: Loading google.load('...
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whole website redirected to another page

whole my website is redirected to another url and also i lost my rank in google search. after installing a plugin i think this problem is happened and after that i see unrelated result in google ...
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how to secure wordpress website from google dorking

can anyone explain how can we secure any wordpress based website from google dorking? the wordpress website enables REST api like any other websites and it shows a JSON file always now the point is ...
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WPML and Yoast SEO setup on a wordpress site is not working properly

I'm stuck with WPML+Yoast SEO on a website everything is translated in 2 languages even in page source the description and title is translated but in google searches google is messing up like for a ...
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How to stop showing my under development site on Google Search [closed]

Someone please help me to stop showing my under development website on Google search.
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Change meta data of pdf file

I've noticed recently that pdf files provided by client have got indexed with weird and random title tags when searched for in google (site:mysite.com/path-to-file.pdf). Now I've tried to change it ...
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Why last blog post excerpt is shown instead of meta description? [closed]

Instead of meta description of my main page Google shows excerpt from my last blog post. How do I fix that?
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Sitelinks Search box schema confusion

Trying to implement Sitelinks Search box schema in order to help Google show a search-box above my sitelinks I realized there is some confusion (for a newbie) in the current documentation I could find....
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Google isn't able to search my website

I have recently started a new website namely webivorous.tk(WordPress CMS) and google is not able to search/index my website.I searched google for my website many times but it doesn't come up with ...
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Trying to update robots.txt [closed]

I have installed and activaded the WP Robots txt plugin. Then I have gone to wp-admin/options-reading.php I have pasted a new robotst.txt content and Save it. But I can not see the new content at ...
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Googlebot adding /feed at the end of my URLs

I have seen on Google Webmaster that the crawler is searching for URLs by adding /feedat their end. e.g. 4 holiday-fashion-from-daisy-darche/feed/ 404 8/4/14 This obviously leads ...
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Connecting Google Site Search with Wordpress Taxonomies/Categories/Tags

A client is pushing to have Google Site Search set up. Currently, their search is filterable (using dropdown) by category, tag, other taxonomies. How can I implement this filtering with paid Google ...
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When clicking on submit from my searchform it takes me to home.php

I'm trying to setup the search feature for my website but when I try to search something it keeps taking me to my home page. I have created searchpage.php and I've added it to my theme, I've taken ...
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How can I remove image taxonomy pages from my theme and from Google?

A lot of my theme's image pages are ranking on Google. I'd like to remove these pages entirely from my theme so they no longer rank. When a user hits these image pages the content is taken out of ...
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Self-Hosted Blog on Google Search

I have a self-hosted blog, (Code Repo - Code Snippets) but for some reason when I search for it on google, it doesn't come up in the results. I posted an entry about 4 days ago, and by now I would ...
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How do I use Google Custom Search to find and show words based on input characters on the same page in WordPress?

I want to use Google Custom Search to find and show words based on input characters on the same page. I see some WordPress websites use Google Custom Search like this: they place a search form inside ...
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Favicon not showing in Google search results

My website's favicon is not showing up in Google's search results. I have tried several things without success, but I think I understand what goes wrong now. On the Wordpress dashboard, I clicked into ...
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