Questions tagged [google-search]
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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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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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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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a page of my site not indexing by search console
i have a top rank product that from today i noticed that the page is missing from google search result . then i have tried to request manually index the page. after some days there is no chance.
i ...
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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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Wrong site title and description in google search
as i said in the topic, i can't change the title and the description of the google search of my website (new website btw). I tried to change the title by Theme description, by wordpress settings and ...
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website not indexed
I have a problem with my site that after several months of publication is not indexed.
when it was under development the box was checked to not allow indexing by search engines but once completed and ...
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I had removed my phone number from my website footer, but months later it still appears once I look it up on google, how to remove it?
I had added my phone number for customer support assistance, but I have changed the phone number from the website, now whenever I type my phone on google search, my website appears and the phone ...
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I want to lists posts in wordpress to nearest location entered by the user
I have created a custom post type of (e.g:) doctor, have search input on the front-end and integrated the Google Map API.
I want the search to look for the nearest location under the given search ...
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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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How to stop google from indexing spammed internal search results?
Google is indexing all kinds of spammed internal search results from my wordpress site, and I can't figure out how to put a stop to it. I added Disallow: /search/ to my robots.txt file, but that didn'...
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How to stop the custom post type URL from the google search?
I don't have any issue with custom post type in the admin panel. It's working perfectly.
I have a small issue with search on google, I search my domain on google and I found the below output.
Note: ...
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Can I replace the search bar with Programmable Search by Google?
I have the Savia theme which is no longer being supported by the developer. The search bar shows up on the top right-hand corner of the page, so I was thinking of adding the script Google provides ...
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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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Google indexing duplicate page content with Page #### in post title and /page-2 in permalink instead of the ones I set
I'm hoping someone familiar with this problem can help me. I have a WordPress site with thousands of posts, and Google is indexing pages that look like this:
mysite.com/page/1
mysite.com/page/2
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Should I set a page as "No-index" if I include it's content within the front-Page.php via this method?
So I set my home page to "Your latest posts", and included this bit of code to get the info from a pre-defined page so that I can edit my home page, and get access to a "recent posts" grid with ...
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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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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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SEO Site Title appearing in google search despite not being added
I am using Yoast SEO plugin for my WordPress website. I have not added Site Title to SEO Title in Yoast Content-Type Post settings or the post itself but it is still showing Site Title when the post ...
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How to block access to Crawlers to any Image on a Private page
We found out that a reverse image search on google images was able to link to a set of images that are on Private Pages.
Is there a plugin that can fully protect these images?
if not what coding ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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2 Domains, Same Content, Different Titles?
Hi just wondering if this is at all possible for example:
You can access through A.com or B.com but the titles of the page change accordingly, so if you were on home on A.com the title and google ...
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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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Why is one of my posts prefixed with "Next Post" on Google search
I run a website on WordPress.org and at the bottom of each post are two links that point to the previous and next post. I was doing a Google search on one of my website's posts and it showed two ...
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How to block search engines indexing certain AJAX actions
I have a shopping cart which uses AJAX to add/remove items to the cart from an <a> styled as a button which links to an action like /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=shopping_cart&id=16&...
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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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Deprecating Wordpress URL from Google, promoting custom domain [closed]
I'm hosting a simple set of information pages at mysite.wordpress.com (anonymized for simplicity). I've purchased a domain -- www.mysite.com -- and have made it my primary domain for mysite.wordpress....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Google indexed pages for one page site
I have created a one page site with wordpress. The basic idea used was to combine pages and their templates into index.php.
The problem is that when crawlers work on the site, they get the links for ...
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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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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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Not Being Indexed by Search Engines [closed]
Is there a specific criteria based on which search engines index/not index your site/blog?
If my whole blog (2/3 pages-10-20 posts) is not indexed(WordPress), what can I do?
My blog has is not ...
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