I am creating a website which is not completed yet. Somebody suggested me to put up some dummy pages on the site so that google confides in it and the page rank could improve if the site is there for a while.
But if i do not change the contents and keep the website stagnant, will then google negatively rank the website?
Thanks in advance!
No, it's not advised to create empty dummy pages. If you have a little content that is actually related to what's going to be in the page that's ok, but pages with 'under construction' or 'coming soon' really don't help anything.
Matt Cutts from Google had something interesting to say about this, looking for it but I haven't found it yet.
Absolutely no! Better do have a little content which will be relevant actual subject of the website in future. But putting up 'under construction' pages will not be considered by Google.
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Greetings fellow developers,
I would like to ask for help regarding the following problem: Is there a way to request removal of stored website data from search engines? Most of the links that show up when searching my domain are old and non-existent.
What I've found from personal research regarding this question/problem:
From my personal research I have found that removal requests can be made individually to the well-known search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing, but this is not what I am looking for, since I am well-aware that it would take a lot of time for the requests to be processed and the removal of the data to be done. Also, I wasn't able to find this "removal-request" webpage for the other search engines.
To be more precise/clear...
... I want to request this website-data-removal to all (most) search engines at once, so that when I upload my new website (to the same domain), working and functional links (URLs) would be displayed. Can this be anyhow achieved and, if so, how? Also, how much time would it take for this removal to be finished?
Hope my question is clear enough, and any answer/help would be very much appreciated.
No, there is not a way to do this for all search engines at once. You will have to request it from each site individually. As for the smaller search engines you can try and find any contact information or customer support however their is a chance they will ignore your request (heck, some sites ignore the robot.txt file and just search your site anyways... it's just a part of being on the web).
Our company website transitioned to be hosted by google two months ago. It used to be at the top of the search results but now is not listed at all.
initially there was some problems with the website not showing at all when you type in the address which have been resolved.
Search results show links on other websites to our page.
I apologise i have no tech knowledge. I am not sure where to begin to trouble shoot this problem.
Thank you in advance.
Glenn
SEO is a complex topic - I would recommend searching for Getting started with SEO and reading some of articles that come up
Some basics you will need are meta and title tags, adding your site index to Google and a decent amount of original content.
I have a simple HTML site with 100+ pages or so. I want to add a search bar at the top so the user can search the site. I know about Google Custom Search, but it shows ads unless you pay at least $100. Obviously I'd like ad-less search on my site for free if at all possible!
I've also heard about Lucene/Solr, but they do not actually crawl the site. For that I would apparently need Nutch.
Anyway, the site I have runs on a Microsoft IIS6 server, but I have basically no knowledge as to how Solr, Nutch, etc. gets "installed" on the server.
Also: I'd like to point out that I do have a local copy of the site. Perhaps I can do one big initial nutch "crawl" locally that will create an .xml for Solr?? That would help me get "up and running", but probably wouldn't be a good long-term solution.
..so should I just use Google Custom Search? or is there a not-extremely-painful-to-implement alternative? The brain hurts folks.
You did not mention how many search requests you want to handle but if you use the json-rest-api of google's custom search you have 100 searchqueries a day for free and you can display them without any ads on your page.
An simple example request can be found here.
Here is an easy way that works pretty well, although you may be looking for something more than this.
http://sitecomber.com/getsitecomber/
You can create code to paste into your site in about 2 minutes. It doesn't get easier than that. Search is powered by Google, but results are isolated to your website.
EDIT: This no longer works.
Say If I keep more number of web links of other sites on my web site then is it going to help my website in any way?
No it will help the other sites as you will be basically providing backlinks to theirs. Unless they have links going back to your site then you won't see any benefit at your end.
Maybe you are not quite clear about in-bound link and out-bound link.
What you are talking about now is out-bound link, which, according Google's PR, is a vote to other site(The linked site), not yours.
What you need, though, is in-bound link. In plain English, links of your sites on other sites.
Be warned, only putting our links on other sites that share the same themes can be counted as valid links. On top of it, do not tempted into Black Hat SEO!
The search feature on the site seems pretty awful.
Are there any external sites that do a better job of categorizing projects with tags, etc?
Or maybe I'm just not using GitHub correctly?
Have you tried a Google search with site:github.com included in the query?
I haven't tried this, but I understand that very often Google does a better job of searching a website than the site's own search tools. Have you tried that?
Go to their advanced search page and fill out github.com in the "Only return results from this site or domain" slot.
GitHub indexes a tremendous amount of data (50+ million projects). Taking a moment to understand their search syntax should help you narrow your search.
hubscovery.com is much better.
GitHub's search functionality is terrible. I'm all for everyone having their own opinion, but for such a well-done site in nearly every other way, there is no excuse for lacking a basic sort option. It is to their service.
EDIT: Hubscovery is dead! Long live GitHub search!