For example when you Google "stackoverflow" the first result links to http://stackoverflow.com with a description, "A language-independent collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers."
How is Stack Overflow or any other site working to set that description? I am about to put a website online and would like to get a good description of my site indexed. What steps do I need to take to accomplish this?
One way of achieving this is by using the <meta name="Description"> tag as such:
<head>
<meta name="Description"
content="A language-independent collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers.">
</head>
On SO, that tag seems to appear only when you are using a user agent related to a crawler.
It's a bit hit and miss as to whether Google displays it but these are set using the 'description' meta tag on each page. If Google doesn't think your entire page is relevant to the search query, it will show a 'snippet' instead. Keep your meta description short and relevant (and non-spammy) and it should show within a day or so of being crawled by Google.
Hope that helps
Google has a help page on the subject of site descriptions.
For your own site, you may also want to add a site map for google and others to use.
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Let's say I have this link in my website:
Big Cake
Now, I gave it the description of "Big Cake",
but actually facebook.com has a different metadata description:
<meta name="description" content="Create an account or log into Facebook">
So, what will google use to describe that link's name in its search engine; Big Cake, or the meta name?
thank you!
Google will index that link as a link from your site to Facebook, ie from Facebook's perspective a 'backlink' to Facebook using the words 'Big Cake' as the link text. Google may or may not use the link text in its ranking algorithm but it's unlikely.
The description in the meta tag is used only in relation to the site itself. So if you Googled for 'facebook.com' Google may use the description content in its preview text.
I am working on one website, I have set all the required this for seo and looks all things are fine.
â–ºBut from long time, I have seen that deep product links are not going to index in Google as well some of the catagory pages.
Here is the site https://www.tradohub.com
What should I do for Google to index my web site? if someone can help.
Thanks
You have a canonical tag issue with your internal pages.
Let's take this page as an example...
https://www.tradohub.com/product-detail/raw-cashew-nuts
Reading the source code you have a canonical of...
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.tradohub.com/" />
This tells search engines the page is a copy of the home page URL so will most likely not get indexed.
The canonical should be...
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.tradohub.com/product-detail/raw-cashew-nuts" />
The canonical tags are the issue here so best fix them up.
Here's Google's info on the subject. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en
Hope this helps.
William
I have this HTML:
<body>
<object id="post" data="post/Requirement Process Narative.html" type="text/html"> </object>
</body>
I want Google to index the keywords from the file Requirement Process Narative.html also.
That is if Requirement Process Narative.html contains "Domain Knowledge Acquiring" and someone searches for "Domain Knowledge Acquiring", Google will display the current page in its search list.
How to do it?
Google gets and indexed object tags, if they are matching Schema.org standards.
So your content has the potential to be interpreted and included in the SERP if useful for the end user.
You can read more about Schema here:
http://blog.schema.org/2011/07/on-june-2-nd-we-announced-collaboration.html
Consider also to use Google Web Master, Fetch as Google Bot feature to see what actually Google see of your page and for optimize your code.
I am new to SEO, I had done a research and read several guids, but I am still confused.
A google guid said
Avoid creating complex webs of navigation links, e.g. linking every
page on your site to every other page.
I have an e-commerce website. We intend to create a page for each issue of a magazine. issue pages will have Next and Previous link buttons which will move from one issue to another.
Is that a bad idea, Am I violating this rule? or Google is talking about another scenario?
Is that will cause indexing all the 1000 issues? Given that the links are dynamic and I will use URL rewriting.
Thanks
This won't be a problem with Google. They clearly explain why it is a good thing to do and how to do it properly.
If you want to fully control your linkjuice transmition and the landing page from Google with a little website, using this method is not recommanded.
But, if it's for website with more than 1k of unique pages (you can't fully control and influence the webcrawler comportment) you can use this to ease the crawler indexing work and the landing page for users.
Pagination can be a fairly complicated aspect of SEO, especially for ecommerce sites.
Here are a few general tips:
If you have a "view all" page, you probably should rel="canonical" all your paginated pages to that page. This is acceptable because the content is identical
If you don't have a "view all" page, but you want Google to treat the first page as the "canonical" or you want to drive all users to the first page, then use the rel=next/prev attributes to "group" together your like pages
For ecommerce faceted navigation, you should probably use a combination of rel=next/prev and query parameter controls through Google Webmaster Tools
In the June 2012 SMX Advanced conference, there were a few good presentations and live blogging posts that highlights a number of these aspects. More notably, Googler Maile Ohye spoke during that conference ... she's sort of the Queen of Pagination ;)
http://www.slideshare.net/audette/seo-for-pagination-faceted-navigation-canonicalization-hits-and-misses
http://outspokenmedia.com/internet-marketing-conferences/pagination-canonicalization-for-the-pros-smx-advanced-2012/
http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/2012/06/pagination-canonicalization-for-the-pros-smx-advanced/
You might also want to watch this Google video with Maile talking about Pagination http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/03/video-about-pagination-with-relnext-and.html
Last thing to note ... Bing doesn't support rel=next/prev at this time: http://searchengineland.com/no-bing-doesnt-support-pagination-attributes-to-consolidate-pages-in-a-series-118694
If I understand you correctly YES Google is talking about another scenario.
The Next and Previous links on the issue pages, used for navigation from one issue to another are different from <link rel="next" ... > and <link rel="previous" ... > which appear in the <head> ... </head> section of html source.
Google will treat webpages with <link rel="next" ... > and or <link rel="previous" ... > as a series of pages.
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I'm working on optimizing my site for Google's search engine, and lately I've noticed that when doing a "site:www.joemajewski.com" query, I get results for pages that shouldn't be indexed at all.
Let's take a look at this page, for example: http://www.joemajewski.com/wow/profile.php?id=3
I created my own CMS, and this is simply a breakdown of user id #3's statistics, which I noticed is indexed by Google, although it shouldn't be. I understand that it takes some time before Google's results reflect accurately on my site's content, but this has been improperly indexed for nearly six months now.
Here are the precautions that I have taken:
My robots.txt file has a line like this:
Disallow: /wow/profile.php*
When running the url through Google Webmaster Tools, it indicates that I did, indeed, correctly create the disallow command. It did state, however, that a page that doesn't get crawled may still get displayed in the search results if it's being linked to. Thus, I took one more precaution.
In the source code I included the following meta data:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />
I am assuming that follow means to use the page when calculating PageRank, etc, and the noindex tells Google to not display the page in the search results.
This page, profile.php, is used to take the $_GET['id'] and find the corresponding registered user. It displays a bit of information about that user, but is in no way relevant enough to warrant a display in the search results, so that is why I am trying to stop Google from indexing it.
This is not the only page Google is indexing that I would like removed. I also have a WordPress blog, and there are many category pages, tag pages, and archive pages that I would like removed, and am doing the same procedures to attempt to remove them.
Can someone explain how to get pages removed from Google's search results, and possibly some criteria that should help determine what types of pages that I don't want indexed. In terms of my WordPress blog, the only pages that I truly want indexed are my articles. Everything else I have tried to block, with little luck from Google.
Can someone also explain why it's bad to have pages indexed that don't provide any new or relevant content, such as pages for WordPress tags or categories, which are clearly never going to receive traffic from Google.
Thanks!
It would be a better idea to revise your meta robots directives to:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,noarchive,nosnippet,follow" />
My robots file was blocking access to the page where the meta tag was included. Thus, even though the meta tag told Google to not index my pages, Google never got that far.
Case closed. :P
If you have blocked and tested URL in robots.txt, it must work. Here you don't need to add additional meta tag into particular page.
I am sure, give some time to Google for crawling your website. It should work !
For removing URLs, you can use Google webmaster tool. (i am sure you know that)