I have to block all bots (except google bot) to my site.
I was recommended both Cloudflare .js challenge and Google Invisible ReCaptcha.
I use them both at the same time and stopped the bots, but now it takes too long to reach the site. I will now choose only one of them.
Which one is better in your opinion? Cloudflare or Google?
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Could you help me? Recently my websites on the server were updated to HTTPS - vectorization-eu and pixsector-com. The problem is that google bots for some strange reason indexing pages from pixsector under vectorization-eu domain. Vectorization-eu doesn't have .htaccess file. Could be this an issue.
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Request removal of the URLs that do not exist on Google Search Console.
Upload a site maps to Google Search Console for each domain.
I'm building a website for a company, I build this website offline so google won't index it, with the reason that google don't see the codes yet and thinks at the official launch that we copied the text/codes from an other website.
Sadly I encounterd a problem. I need to implant the facebook social plugin, sadly does this plugin only work when the site is online. But as I said putting it online can be dangerous for future Google SEO.
Is there an other option where I can see the facebook plugin but it is not online yet or is it okay for me to just place it online already on (for example) www.example.com and later put the released product on (for example) www.released.com.
Any toughts on this problem?
Why don't you place the website online in a folder that is blocked for Googlebot via robots.txt?
That way you can test all the online elements work and not have to worry about users and search engines finding it and listing it.
An alternative could be to use the .htaccess file to limit access only to your IP address - that way, you'd be the only one to see the site live.
How to check how Google robot sees my local website?
Is there an official Google tool? I've heard of one that check online websites, but what about locally site not avaible on network?
I don't think Google Webmasters Tools allow crawling or fetching local site.
Also, in addition to crawling local site, you'll have to make sure your local site or URLs don't get crawled in Google search as it will devalue your live site in future.
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You can use fetch as googlebot in webmaster tools to see how google views your site.
A big chunk of my traffic is mobile. My server identifies this traffic by regex on the user agent and redirects (301) from www.mydomain.com to m.mydomain.com
My site has different sources I want to get insights on (ads, Facebook, referrer sites etc)
In the traffic sources report in Google Analytics I see a big chunk of visits originate from mydomain.com. That chunk size is similar to my mobile traffic, though a little lower.
Does it make sense that the traffic source issue is related to mobile?
If so:
Is there a way to overcome this and have Google Analytics report the true traffic origin?
One option I saw was faking a Google campaign by having the server add fake parameters to the query. This way I can use Google Analytics advertising-related reports to track origin.
I'm looking for something more straightforward if possible.
Will HTTP 302 work better?
Why would the traffic source chunk be smaller than the mobile chunk?
Take a look at this:
http://www.lanevance.com/web/web-development/tracking-301-redirects-with-google-analytics/
This works for google but should work for other trackers too.
I'm working on redesigning an older site and I'm upgrading it to HTML5. The site currently has both Google and Yahoo site verification META tags.
I'm using HTML5 Reset as a starting template and it only has an area for Google site verification, not Yahoo. Also, the W3C Validator validates Google site verification in HTML5, but not Yahoo.
Does anyone have an opinion as to whether or not Yahoo site verification is important or useful? And does it hold any weight with SEO these days?
No.
Yahoo search is now powered by Bing.
You can remove both (Google and Bing) verification references and authenticate using other methods (DNS is best). Bing only offers meta tag and XML methods.