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Google Change of Address Tool Still Broken After 3 Months

Bill Hartzer

Granted, in many cases where the site’s webmaster has set up a redirect from the site’s real home page to an internal URL on the site, they don’t know how to change the default home page on the server. All sites that use MediaWiki will have these same issues if they choose to move to a.WIKI domain.

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Search Engine Submission Now Officially a Scam

Bill Hartzer

In a recent Google Webmaster Forum thread , a Google representative officially stated: these services are not needed and can even be counter-productive. Furthermore, I have actually proven that within minutes of registering a new domain name, Google will visit your web site, in an attempt to crawl its pages and index the content.

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A Step by Step Guide to Fixing Any Google Penalty

Kikolani

Once you enter the domain name select ‘Historic Index’ followed by backlinks tab, scroll to the bottom of the page and click ‘download data’ 2. For every separate spreadsheet the client must fill up the required information which consists of: Contact name. Social networking website URL if any.

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My Last Blog Post of 2013

Bill Hartzer

It blew up in a private forum so to speak, a place where the general public (and the search engine crawlers) didn’t have access to: Facebook. But it was in a private venue, a private forum, where only a select few (a few hundred?) we will see a lot of SEO-related domain names suddenly become available. Or maybe not.

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Google Index: 6 Ways to Get Your New Website Added Fast

Kikolani

In general, we cannot make predictions or guarantees about when or if your URLs will be crawled or indexed.”. Google states that they will crawl the URL using this method usually within a day, however, I’ve seen web pages and blog posts show up in the SERPs in less than 5 minutes of using this tool.”. Go to Google Webmaster Tools.

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Google Index: 6 Ways to Get Your New Website Added Fast

Kikolani

In general, we cannot make predictions or guarantees about when or if your URLs will be crawled or indexed.”. Google states that they will crawl the URL using this method usually within a day, however, I’ve seen web pages and blog posts show up in the SERPs in less than 5 minutes of using this tool.”. Go to Google Webmaster Tools.

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Search Engine Optimization: Search Engine Ranking Problem Solved for a Reader

Bill Hartzer

There are a lot of blog comments pointing to my URL. I have never purchased links nor have done any automated link building such as xrumer… The domain is 11 years old and I have devoted the past few years of my life to it. Google penalizing your site and not telling you the reason/never responding. Thanks a lot, James Shaffer.