Google Programmable Search Engine changes url to / - search

I'm using Google Programmable Search Engine on my site and the actual url is something like /search. That page has the Google code embedded into it. When that page is accessed with the querystring params for the search, Google's javascript changes the URL to / with the search parameters appended.
If anyone tries to share that URL, they get the home page, not the search page. Any ideas on how to prevent Google from changing the URL path?

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Sharepoint search dynamic redirect url

I have run into an issue. I have created a custom search site where I want the user to be redirected to when searching.
I'm standing on one site and search using the search box in the suite bar.
I want to be able to see from which site I was on when I did the search. I'm hoping it's possible to send the site title in the URL, and read it from the search site.
EX. /sites/Search?q=testing&scope=Economy

AngularJs Routing without hashtag in link?

I've recently began learning AngularJs for web development and am loving it so far. However, I'm not so sure about having hashtags withing the link when routing between views. My main concern is how Google will cache the pages on the site and whether the links will work both ways, i.e. whether users can just click www.sampledomain.com/#/orders/450 and be directed straight to the order page. Is this an okay method or is there a way to route views without the hashtag?
When I remove the hashtag, the reload the page and gets 404 error. Can anyone give me a decent explanation of what is going on. Thanks
When I remove the hashtag, the reload the page and gets 404 error
That's because in your server side code you are probably not handling a request like "www.sampledomain.com/orders/450"
You can have your server-side code handle this request by either returning a redirect to the new URL ("www.sampledomain.com/#/orders/450") or just return the correct HTML directly. The "right" solution will depend on your needs.
User can just click link with a hashtag and it will be directed straight to the order page.
Google treats links with hashtags as different URL's when the content is different. It's more about SEO then angular.js, but here is an article about that: The First Link Counts Rule and the Hash Sign - Does it Change PR Sculpting?
You might want to set Angular's $locationProvider to use html5Mode.
FTA:
$location service has two configuration modes which control the format of the URL in the browser address bar: Hashbang mode (the default) and the HTML5 mode which is based on using the HTML5 History API. Applications use the same API in both modes and the $location service will work with appropriate URL segments and browser APIs to facilitate the browser URL change and history management.
html5Mode will give you "normal" urls in modern browsers while falling back to hash bangs on older browsers.
An html5Mode url:
http://foo.com/bar?baz=23#baz
a hashbang url:
http://foo.com/#!/bar?baz=23#baz

SEO-Setting website to search dynamic data

I want to set my website . It has many user profile which is kind of dynamic.
e.g. http://test.com?profile=2,http://test.com?profile=3.
Whats steps I need to make so that its show all profiles on search engine dynamically.
1) I have an Google webmaster tool
2) Added a sitemap and robot.txt for the site.
After 1 months or so(Indexing is done , as I can on Webmaster tool account)
If I search the profile(say by name) I don't see the user profile in search.
I have added the url parameters as well e.g. here profile.
Am i Missing anything?
Can you get to a profile from the home page by basic links alone?
Search engines like to be able to find your pages on their own.
Do a more specific search first. e.g. add site:test.com to your search so only your site is competing.
Check you have not blocked the pages in the robots.txt file or via the robots meta tag on the page.

404 handler and dynamic pages that really don't exists... bad for SEO?

We have an IIS 404 asp.net handler that renders pages when an html page is not found. It uses the page's URL to query our Databases and builds rich relevant content on the fly. From what I can tell in the IIS logs and anaylyzing the pages from web browser tools there is NO indication the page does not actually exist and was dynamically generated.
In these cases is IIS actually sending a 404 to the client? Is there a redirect of any kind actually happening? Will Search engines punish me for this?
It's been 2 months and Google has indexed everything, but Bing and Yahoo have not indexed anything dynamic dispite my submitting various Directory pages, Sitemaps and Feeds with all my links. My home page is indexed on all search engines and has all my links. When I search very unique keywords in those links, I can see that bing and yahoo do see them on my Home Page links - but only there.
Is there anything I can run or check to make sure my dynamic pages are not somehow viewed as bad by Search engines? Any way to check if a 404 (whatever a 404 actually is to a client besides just another page) is returned to crawlers?
Many Thanks.
Is there anything I can run or check to make sure my dynamic pages are
not somehow viewed as bad by Search engines?
Dynamic pages are just fine. Most of the content on the Internet is dynamically produced. The search engines don't care if content is dynamic and, in fact, they usually do not know content is dynamic as all they see if the URL and the HTML that is produced by that URL.
Any way to check if a 404 (whatever a 404 actually is to a client
besides just another page) is returned to crawlers?
Use a tool like Firebug or the built in developer tools in Chrome to view your HTTP headers. Crawlers see the same headers a browser would see so that is an easy way to tell what headers your pages are sending out.

Google Custom Search Engine not giving the expected search result

I have been trying to create a new google custom search engine, but when I try some query,the search engine it is not giving me the expected search
result.On some queries it is working fine, but on other queries, it says"no result".
I tried adding the URL of the website that I wanted to search for, but there are certain pages and keywords that are not coming up in the search result when I try to search for the keyword of that page.
I tired adding both the main page URL and the URL of the sub page that I want to search for, but nothing is working.
There are some sub pages to the main URL that are coming in the search result.
this happened to me too. It is because the url you specify to google has to match the server address where your site is stored. For example, I made a site with google custom search (mainstreetbd.com) and when I tested it on my server, the google search returned no results. But when I did it on the specified url, it works fine.
Some webpages instruct search engines how to index their webpage in a file called robots.txt.
For example:
https://stackoverflow.com/robots.txt
(If a site has one it should be under http://URL/robots.txt directly after the domain name)
If the robots.txt for the site you are trying to search excludes some parts of its site from being indexed, it could be the source of your problem.

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