I made a Website for a client.
Now when I search for him the result looks like this:
You can see the fourth entry is somewhat of a special entry and I don't understand where this entry is coming from?
Is this an automated google+ page? I've just created a google places entry but never a google+ page.
How di I get rid of this search result?
Google Places entries show up in Google+ Local. They do not have a Google+ Page associated with them by default, but you can convert your entry to a place to enable more functionality and to hook the entry up with your site by using the badge code or the more minimal direct connect metadata link to verify your website on the Google+ Local page.
Associating your site with the Google+ Local page, should help with search too and provide people with a method to get directly to your site until the website starts showing up in the search index from being crawled.
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I have a website that has been replaced by another website with a different domain name.
In Google search, I am able to find links to the pages on the old site, and I hope they will not show up in future Google search.
Here is what I did, but I am not sure whether it is correct or enough.
Access to any page on the old website will be immediately redirected to the homepage of the new website. There is no one-to-one page mapping between the two sites. Here is the code for the redirect on the old website:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://example.com" >
I went to Google Webmasters site. For the old website, I went to Fetch as Google, clicked "Fetch and Render" and "Reindex".
Really appreciate any input.
A few things you'll want to do here:
You need to use permanent server redirects, not meta refresh. Also I suggest you do provide one-to-one page mapping. It's a better user experience, and large numbers of redirects to root are often interpreted as soft 404s. Consult Google's guide to site migrations for more details.
Rather than Fetch & Render, use Google Search Console's (Webmaster Tools) Change of Address tool. Bing have a similar tool.
A common mistake is blocking crawler access to an retired site. That has the opposite of the intended effect: old URLs need to be accessible to search engines for the redirects to be "seen".
i changed the CMS i use for my website so all links are new . i don’t want any of old URLs in google index , the problem is this old links are pointed from another sites
Send message to external site owners and ask to change the links;
Open Google Search Console and go to "Google Index / Remove URLs"; you can temporarily block old URLs (https://support.google.com/webmasters/topic/4598466?visit_id=1-636513744496718362-859155776&rd=1);
Anyway removed old URL will automatically disapear from Google Index but it takes a long time (months or even year).
I have a range of Google docs that are publicly viewable, but I would like to get some information about how often they are being viewed. I understand that there used to be a way of doing this with Google Analytics, but now that has been removed.
It seems to me that I have two main options, one of which is to make all my doc links point to a page which redirects according to a query string parameter, e.g.:
http://myurl.net?page=1 # Sends you to one page and logs the visit
http://myurl.net?page=2 # Sends you to another page and logs the visit
Or alternatively, I could try to embed some code in each doc that makes a call back to the server with its page number. But I don't know if this is possible.
The first option looks like it should be fairly easy, but I don't see how to redirect the client.
Could anyone give me some ideas about how to do this? It seems it would be useful for quite a lot of people.
Many thanks.
Justin.
I am new to Ruby on Rails and need to know how I would get Google Maps map to show inside of my website as if a user was using Google similar to when sites use Google Search.
I want the scenario to play out like this:
Users create products and on the form is a partial which displays the Google Maps so they can look for the address, confirm it and then save it (by link or screenshot) with a specific Product. How can i make this happen?
You need the Google Maps Javascript API, plus some Javascript know how.
How can i get private pages of my web site being crawled and indexed by google ?
maybe it's not very "conventionnal", but i want my private page "links" displayed in google index, but next require a registration to display the page.
EDIT: Based on the addition of "maybe it's not very "conventionnal", but i want my private page "links" displayed in google index, but next require a registration to display the page." To the question:
You can check the User Agent in your php code to basically allow google to see pages if it was a registered user (google's user agent is "Googlebot/1.0" and you can search to find user agents for other common engines).
However, this behavior is specifically against google's rules and they can and will remove your site from the index if they catch you doing it. Their policy is you should not treat googlebot any differently than you treat any random person who visits your site.
(Original Answer) One way is to use a sitemap to show google how to find all of your pages.
In general, and even in the case of sitemaps, if the content you want indexed is not linked to from a page that can be found through the "root" (/) (i.e. there is no way for the public to find it), then it probably won't get indexed. The only way to get it indexed is to link it in someplace.
The question is though, why do you want your private pages in google anyway?
They'll get crawled if and only if they're publicly accessible and your robots.txt file allows it. That's pretty much all you need to do.
Are you asking how to get Google to index your pages?
There are a couple of ways. You need to ensure that you have SEO'd, or Search Engine Optimisation, the pages properly with title text and description key words in your meta data.
You can also submit your site to Google, it's a free service, and it'll be placed in a queue of things that Google will index. May take some time though.
By far the best way to get your pages indexed is using the meta data in the pages themselves.
Google will only index what is
linked from somewhere already in Google's index
accessible to its crawler via normal (unauthenticated) HTTP
It will also
make the contents available in search results to anyone.
This may conflict with your idea of a "private" page.
I'm going to assume that all the other previous answerers are misunderstanding you. As I read it, you aren't asking how to get Google to index your pages, but rather how to get a list of all the pages that Google currently has already indexed on your site? If that is true, you should have a look at the Google Webmaster Tools.