When editing a Google Docs document, you will sometimes be asked if you want to replace external links with the target page's title. This, however, does only seem to happen for some sites and pages. What is required for Google Docs to pick up external pages' titles?
Does it need some specific meta tags? Or are there constraints on e.g. the title length?
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When my website is Googled, I want a search bar for the site to appear in the results, like this:
To be clear, I'm referring to the search bar with the placeholder text "Results from stackoverflow.com", right above the "Careers" and "Java" links.
The results for my website have an identical layout, except that there is no search bar.
How can I achieve a search bar in the results?
**I'm not sure this can be accomplished through altering my source code, so this question may not even belong on StackOverflow. If that is the case, feel free to migrate the question to whichever SE site in which it belongs.
I don't have enough rep to put this in a comment, but i would just like to post this.
Quoting the blog post from google:
How can I mark up my site?
You need to have a working site-specific search engine for your site. If you already have one, you can let us know by marking up your homepage as a schema.org/WebSite entity with the potentialAction property of the schema.org/SearchAction markup. You can use JSON-LD, microdata, or RDFa to do this; check out the full implementation details on our developer site.
If you implement the markup on your site, users will have the ability to jump directly from the sitelinks search box to your site’s search results page. If we don’t find any markup, we’ll show them a Google search results page for the corresponding site: query, as we’ve done until now.
As always, if you have questions, feel free to ask in our Webmaster Help forum.
Currently Google displays elements in the result excerpts that belongs to the functional part of the site. Is there a way to exclude these elements to get crawled/displayed in google?
Like eEdit, eDelete, etc in the example above.
To exclude the pages from Google's index, block them using the Robots.txt file or if it is just the content then use the "rel="nofollow" tag.
Hope this helps.
Update on my particular situation here: I just found out that the frontend code has been generated in a way where the title and the description meta was identical.
Google is smart enough to expect that if a copy is already displayed in the title of the search result there's no reason to add in to the excerpt as well, instead looks for content - believed to be valuable - from the actual page.
Lessons learned:
there's no way to hide elements from google but keep it visible for your users
if you'd like to have control over the content displayed in google searches, avoid using the same copy in your title and description
I want my website to have indentation in google result search.
After taking reference of many websites, I found this one website "www.traveloka.com"
Inside the website, I can't find any meta keywords stuffs.
But the website is well indented.
My question is :
- does meta keywords really needed to have google indent my search result ?
- if yes, why the website www.traveloka.com is well indented without meta keywords ?
- if no, what matters then ? Beside having the page have href linking to each other ?
UPDATE :
While doing SEO, I found this website :
chlooe.com
It reports SEO advises, which ones to be changed, etc.
I'll follow the instructions there. any thoughts ?
If by indentation you mean ... it's called sublinks.
Meta tags are no longer important for most search engines. They now rank the pages according to content so in your site's content, use strong keywords to get better ranking.
Having a specific page title helps a lot too.
As for the meta tags, personally, I like to leave it in but they are no longer mandatory.
The Google site links are generated automatically by Google depending on your content.
Here are a few tips:
1) Have a sitemap.xml in your website. This will tell the crawlers which pages are available on your site. To generate a sitemap.xml, I use http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
2) Submit that sitemap to google webmaster tools.
3) Use clean urls. For example www.mydomain.com/contact, .../about-us, .../portfolio, ... etc. These help search engines seperate the content and create sub links depending on the most important content.
4) Most important of all, get traffic on your website... no traffic = poor ranking.
This is not a full tutorial but just some tips. Search for "google sub links" to learn more.
Hope this helps
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334?hl=en
I have developed this website
thereelthing.com.sg/
how ever after 3 week which i have updated the meta tags in my website, this meta tag is does not appear the same on google search!!
( http://thereelthing.com.sg/ )
Search Reasult:
Clients | The reel Thing
http://thereelthing.com.sg/clients/The Reel Thing, Video Company, thereelthing.com.sg , mandanemedia.com.
Search link (on page 3)!
https://www.google.com/
search for : the reel thing sg
Do u know is there any way i could update the Google search result more faster?
Your site has a page rank of 0, google won't be indexing that very often. Have you set up google webmaster tools for it and do you have a xml site map?
Your title tags don't explain much about each page and your meta descriptions are all identical and full of content that is not relevant (repeated domain names?).
I would not be surprised if Google decided to ignore them in most cases and make up their own text. They do that.
When you update your meta tags, you need to re-index your web page. Try with social bookmarking and blogs to cache again by search engine robots.
Make backlinks with new meta keywords to get fast and accurate results. New meta tags will be affected whenever your web page is re-indexed.
Would like to garner opinions. We've created a website for a gay members club and they wanted the default landing page to mysterious with little information on it.
As such the Default.aspx only contains a form asking for some personal details. Users can click a button to skip this content and go to an AboutUs page.
The problem is, because we cannot control what information Google uses for the site description in search results, it is picking up the forms fields - which obviously do not makes sense as a description.
I think there are two options to counter this:
Use Robots.txt to block access to Default.aspx and only allow access to AboutUs.aspx
Write a description and title in a H1 tag but make the text colour the same as the background colour
Could I get opinions which method people will think is best for search results?
Thanks.
I would not block or try and deceive Google.
Make sure the title tag for the page is good and descriptive. Around 70 characters to explain what the website is about.
Same goes for your meta description. About two sentences to continue on from the title information.