We have many ways to remove URLs from SERP but there is no specific procudure to follow. Its depends on the circumstances and we should ask following questions to understand the need of removal.
In the last Google Search Console training video series of the year, Daniel Waisberg of Google brought in a special guest, the Engineering lead for Search Console - Hillel Maoz. In this video they discuss a bit of what happens behind the scenes.
The two of them explain how the team is structured and how the team structures its development. Here is a bit of an outline of what they spoke about:
On the Search Console Development time:
Name | Rule type | Description |
Missing or empty page title | Title | Your page does not have any content in the page title. Search engines look for the title tag to better understand the main topic of the page. |
Page title too short or too long | Title | Short titles may not accurately describe your page and may result in fewer visitors to your page. Titles longer than 70 characters may be trimmed in search engine results. |
Duplicate page title | Title | The page has the same page title as another page on your domain. Search engines may consider pages with the same title tags to be duplicate content. |
Missing or empty H1 tags | Header Tags | Your page does not have any Heading 1 tags or your Heading 1 tags are empty. Search engines may use heading tags to determine the main topic of your page. |
Maximum number of H1 tags | Header Tags | Your page exceeds the maximum threshold for number of Heading 1 tags. Too many Heading 1 tags may dilute the importance of all Heading 1 tags on your page. |
Maximum number of H2 tags | Header Tags | Your page exceeds the maximum threshold for number of Heading 2 tags. Too many Heading 2 tags may dilute the importance of all Heading 2 tags on your page. |
Missing or empty H2 tags | Header Tags | Your page does not have any Heading 2 tags or your Heading 2 tags are empty. Search engines may use heading tags to determine the main topic of your page. |
Missing or empty meta description tag | Meta Description Tags | Your page does not have a meta description tag or the tag is empty. Meta descriptions provide a concise explanation of the contents of a webpage. Search engines use meta descriptions to display preview snippets for a given page to users. |
Duplicate meta description tag | Meta Description Tags | The page has the same meta description tag as another page on your domain. Search engines may consider pages with the same description tags to be duplicate content. |
Image tags without alt attribute | Image Tags | Images on the page do not have any alternate text. Search engine crawlers use alternate text to understand what images on your page are about. Search engines understanding your images can help your page rank in universal results and on image searches. |
Image tags without height & width attributes | Image Tags | Images on the page do not have height and width attributes specified in the image tag. Search engines consider performance when ranking pages, and height and width attributes can improve page speed. |
Missing meta keyword tag | Secondary Content Elements | Your page does not have a keyword meta tag. Some search engines may use this tag to help determine what your page is about. |
Page URL is too long | Page URL | The URL pointing to the page is too long. Page URLs that are too long may be confusing to users and not accurately describe the page. |
Poor text to code ratio | Secondary Content Elements | You have too little or too much text compared to the code on your page. A poor text-to-code ratio can affect the readability of your site by search engine crawlers. |
Page size too large | Secondary Content Elements | The content on your page (text, images, videos, etc.) is too large. Large page sizes may affect the ability of search engine crawlers to index your site. |
Duplicate page content | Secondary Content Elements | The content on this page matches the content on another page. Duplicate content can make it difficult for search engines to know which version of the page to include in their indices, to direct authority and link juice to, and to rank on a SERP. |
Invalid Canonical URL | Secondary Content Elements | The Canonical URL set for the page is formatted incorrectly. Canonical URLs help search engines apply page authority and link juice to the proper pages within your domain. |
No Html4 or Xhtml1 validation | Secondary Content Elements | Notifies whether or not your page has HTML or XHTML validation. This rule serves as a notification and does not affect your SEO. |
Canonical URL not in sitemap | Secondary Content Elements | Notifies you whether or not your Canonical URL is in your sitemap. This rule serves as a notification and does not affect your SEO. |
Noindex | Indexation Directives | Notifies you whether or not the page has a noindex tag. Pages with a noindex tag will be ignored by search engine crawlers. This rule serves as a notification. |
Nofollow | Indexation Directives | Notifies you whether or not the page has links with nofollow tags. This rule serves as a notification and does not directly affect your page's SEO, but rather affects the SEO of pages that are being linked to from the page. Links with nofollow tags do not provide authority or "link juice" to the linked page. |
Noarchive | Indexation Directives | Notifies you whether or not the page has a noarchive tag. This rule serves as a notification and does not affect your SEO. |
Nosnippet | Indexation Directives | Notifies you whether or not the page has a nosnippet tag. Pages with a nosnippet tag will not show a description under the link in a SERP. This rule serves as a notification. |
Noodp | Indexation Directives | Notifies you whether or not the page has a noodp tag. This rule serves as a notification. |
Notranslate | Indexation Directives | Notifies you whether or not the page has a notranslate tag. This rule serves as a notification and does not affect your SEO. |
Noimageindex | Indexation Directives | Notifies you whether or not the page has a noimageindex tag. This rule serves as a notification. |
Unavailable after date in the past | Indexation Directives | Notifies you whether or not the page has a unavailable_after:[date] tag. This specifies a time and date that search engine crawlers should no longer index the page. This rule serves as a notification. |
Disallowed by robots.txt | Indexation Directives | Notifies you whether the page is disallowed on the robots.txt page. This rule serves as a notification. |
4xx Errors | Page Errors | The page has a 4xx error. These errors may limit a search engine's ability to crawl all pages on your site and may indicate a low-quality domain. |
5xx Errors | Page Errors | The page has a 5xx error. Search engines use frequency of page errors to help determine the quality of a site. |
3xx Redirects | Page Errors | The page has a 3xx redirect. The type of redirect, either 301 or 302, have different affects on "link juice" from the page. |
Slow Response Time | Page Speed | The page has a load time longer than the maximum specified threshold. Search engines use response time to help determine the quality of a page. |
Too Many Redirects | Page Speed | The page has more redirects than the maximum specified threshold. Unnecessary redirects may increase response time of a page. Search engines use response time to help determine the quality of a page. |
Broken internal links | Internal Links | Links within the page do not lead to valid pages. Broken links can affect a search engine's ability to properly index pages on your domain. |
Too few inbound internal links | Internal Links | The page has less than 5 links pointing to the page. |
Too many outbound internal links | Internal Links | The number of outbound links on the page exceeds the maximum specified threshold. Too many outbound links can overwhelm a visitor and lead to a bad user experience. |
Missing open graph title tag | Object Tags | The page is missing the title attribute in the open graph tag. Open graph tags influence the way the page appears on social media. Improved performance on social media may drive increased traffic. |
Missing open graph type tag | Object Tags | The page is missing the type attribute in the open graph tag, which indicates the type of the object (such as video). Open graph tags influence the way the page appears and performs on social media. Improved performance on social media may drive increased traffic. |
Missing open graph URL tag | Object Tags | The page is missing the URL attribute in the open graph tag. Open graph tags influence the way the page appears and performs on social media. Improved performance on social media may drive increased traffic. |
Missing open graph image tag | Object Tags | The page is missing the image attribute in the open graph tag. Open graph tags influence the way the page appears on social media. Improved performance on social media may drive increased traffic. |
Missing open graph description tag | Object Tags | The page is missing the description attribute in the open graph tag. Open graph tags influence the way the page appears on social media. Improved performance on social media may drive increased traffic. |
Missing open graph site name tag | Site and Admin Tags | The page is missing the site name attribute in the open graph tag, which lists the parent domain for the page. Open graph tags influence the way the page appears on social media. Improved performance on social media may drive increased traffic. |
Missing Facebook admin and App ID tag | Site and Admin Tags | The page is missing the admin attribute and App ID attribute in the open graph tag. These attributes influence how your page is accessed on social media. Improved performance on social media may drive increased traffic. |
robots.txt file helps to pass message to search engine bots whether to allow or disallow a webpage or a directory for index
robots.txt file look like,
User-agent: * Disallow: /abc/
In Detail: User-agent: * Means this section applies to all robots
Disallow: Means that the robot should not visit any pages in the mentioned folder.
If you have a single or multiple XML sitemap then add in robots.txt file.
Below is an example of how multiple xml sitemap can be added to robots.txt
User-agent: *
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /scripts/
Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap1.xml
Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap2.xml
Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap3.xml
Now I want to share how to redirect the page via 301 redirects using Apache's htaccess. As we know 301 redirect is Search Engine Friendly method for web page redirection. And this is not much difficult to implement and will conserve your search engine rankings as well.If anyone want to re-direct the old page to new page or website You should have a redirect in place if your old link structure varies from the new one. This will help you maintain you search engine rankings and decrease the possibility if someone reaching a 404 page.
For example:
When someone tries to access your website without the (www); It will redirect the URL to your website with the www. So, we should stick with one pattern because accessing your website both ways is not good in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) of view. Google will treat as duplication. To avoid the errors and make the process SEO friendly, we have to implement 301 redirect for your website,
Follow these instructions:
1. Open up notepad or any other text editor and copy and paste the commands below.
2. Change (yourdomain) to your domain name.
3. Save the file with this name: (.htaccess).
4. Upload it to the root directory of your website.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
you want to use the tracking feature of Google Analytics to track all clicks on outbound links from your site, however, you also want those outbound links to open a new window...
If you simply follow the instructions to track outbound links you will discover that your links will no longer open in a new window (regardless of whether you are using Javascript or target="_BLANK" to open the window.
And here's the solution:
Apply the javascript to you hyperlink as usual...
your link text
...but modify the tracking code as follows...
function recordOutboundLink(link, category, action) {
try {
var pageTracker=_gat._getTracker("XX-XXXXXXX-XX");
pageTracker._trackEvent(category, action);
setTimeout('document.location = "' + link.href + '"', 100;window.open(this.href))
}catch(err){}
}
(Don't forget to replace XX-XXXXXXX-XX with your tracking code)
...and that's all — Outbound links with Google Analytics tracking and opening in a new window
From few months we are hearing about panda ---- Google panda update – Panda has made fabulous change in search engine results. The main reason beside Google panda update is to get rid of duplicate content, content farm and scrapper sites.
Still Google is working on latest techniques to get rid of content farm and scrapper sites. I have found few things which I want to share with you. Below are the Google Panda Check List:
1). Do you have a low search performance page?
Status - Yes / No
Note: You need to work on the quality of the page or you may delete the page. One non-quality page should not disturb other n number of quality pages.
2). Does your site loads slow?
Status - Yes / No
Note: The site load time should not be high. You need to optimize your images and code to reflect site load speed.
3). Do you have well researched keywords that related your web page content?
Status - Yes / No
Note: Without enough quality content, do not optimize your page titles for search keywords. The site page will be repeatedly listed for the user’s keywords only when the page is useful for the search user’s .Do not get into the personalized search users signed in site block list. At one point the search algorithm will be informed about the blocked sites.
4). Do you have high bounce rate?
Status - Yes / No
Note: The site need to have well structured related links within the content or around the content. The navigational structure of the site should be clear with quality content. If the content is clear and interesting then the bounce rate will gets decreased because users will be interested to visits other relevant links.
5). Do you see users spending minimum time in your page(s)?
Status - Yes / NO
Note: For a good site the users average time spent on the page should be high. This is based on the size of the quality content and other relevant content pages. You need to work on your content to hold users on the page(s) for long period.
6). Do you have related images for the content and do you own the copyright?
Status - Yes / No
Note: If you are having images for your content then it should be relevant to the content. The image should speak about the content. Use your own image content or make sure to get the copyright of the image.
7). Do you have a clean design?
Status - Yes / No
Note: Users experience is one of the main factors for panda update. Make sure the content is readable and website structure is user friendly with right combination of colours for a proper look and feel. Balance users experience with search engines experience. Also make sure that you include unique title, Meta tags, H tags, P tag, blog font, alt attribute and anchor texts.
8). Do you have a Meta description that briefs your page content?
Status - Yes / No
Note: Make sure that the Meta description is not stuffed with keywords and it includes a brief of the page content.
9). Have you done a grammatical check on your web page content?
Status - Yes / No
Note: Try to avoid grammatical mistakes in your content. Try to proofread before the content goes live. Clear content has high chance to list top.
10). Do you have more backlinks from same c class IP sites?
Status - Yes / No
Note: Natural links are always better that artificial backlinks. Natural links are risk free. Update you site often with quality content so that your readers will like to give link from their site(s). Artificial backlinks from directories submission site has high chance to be from the same c class ip unless it is well researched. Bunch of links from same c class IP are not valid and can also be considered as spam.
This post will help you. Google panda SEO checklist helps. Main factor for panda recovery is to avoid duplicate content and to remove or update poor quality content. Feel free to share your experience and factors if any.
Latest and new 60 seo tips and tricks which helps you website to make them rank higher in search engines and visibility. List of 60 SEO tips and tricks, best 60 SEO tips and tricks, New SEO SEO tips and tricks.
• Write great content
• Write unique content
• Add new content all the time
• Create a great keyword phrase
• Choose a phrase that is popular
• Write an accessible site for search engine spiders and screen readers
• Use the keyword phrase in your title tag
• Get a domain with your keyword phrase
• Use the keyword phrase in your URL
• Use your keyword phrase a lot, but not too much
• Use your keyword phrase in headlines
• Use your keyword phrase in anchor text of links
• Ask other people for links to your page
• keyword phrase inside incoming links
• Try to get links from reputable sites
• get links from similar sites
• Create as much content as you can
• Keep your site content inside one theme
• Keep your site live as long as possible
• Create a sitemap
• Create an XML sitemap
• Use 301 redirects for permanent redirects
• Use 302 redirects only for long or ugly URLs
• Get as many inbound links as you can
• Put your keyword phrase in the first paragraph
• Put your keyword phrase at the top of the HTML
• Put your keyword phrase in alternative text
• Increase the font size of your keyword phrase
• Format your keyword phrases to stand out
• Write a descriptive meta description
• Link to your page from within your site
• Put up links that flow within the text
• Keep asking for inbound links
• Get linked in DMOZ and Yahoo!
• Periodically check your outbound links for pagerank
• Link all major images
• Keep your pages up-to-date
• Use frames, always use the noframes tag
• Flash, always include alternative text
• Use Flash for non-critical pieces of a page
• Keep your pages close to the root directory
• Use the meta keywords tag and include your keyword phrase
• Keep your kewords together
• Use your keyword phrase in your meta description
• Set your language meta keyword
• Optimize for a few secondary keywords
• Use your keyword phrase in named anchors
• Use synonyms for your keywords
• Don't link a lot to external sites
• Register a separate domain instead of a sub-domain
• Register a .com domain over a .biz or .us domain
• Use hyphens to separate words in domains
• Use hyphens or underscores to separate words in URLs
• Don't write your content with JavaScript
• Don't have more than 10 words in your URL
• Don't use dynamic URLs
• Don't use session IDs
• Don't link to link farms
• Don't have broken links on your site
• Don't use the meta refresh tag to redirect users
You use the following URL when logged into Google Webmaster Tools:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals-request?hl=en&siteUrl=http://{YOUR_URL}/&urlt={URL_TO_BLOCK}
Then replace {YOUR_URL} with a URL you control within Webmaster Tools, and replace {URL_TO_BLOCK} with the URL of the site you want to block.
You could block a whole site, section or single page this way, based on how you entered the URL. To block a site, use the top level domain (E.g. http://www.someurl.com/), to block a section (subfolder) use a subfolder URL (E.g. http://www.someurl.com/somefolder/) and to block a page use the specific page URL (E.g. http://www.someurl.com/somefolder/somepage.html).
I am waiting an update from Google on why this happened, if site’s were impacted and how long this was an issue
SEO Flowchart, SEO Process for Beginners, SEO Guide, SEO Work Setup
The below SEO flowchart is very helpful and communicate about SEO process. This SEO chart will help you to start SEO work for beginners. In my experience, this is very useful to everyone who wants to step a SEO.
How to Read and Fallow SEO FlowChart:
You can start read from left hand side and see the steps starting from map out keyword strategy. In last row we can see technical details you need to fallow and only applies to few numbers of websites. And fallow the each step from left to bottom that completes the SEO process.
Below is the Tips to Find Directories, Websites to List/Add Your Website. That I use when I'm trying to find links or a place related to my keyword(s).
These are the searches I do:
Replace "your keywords" with words that your site is targeting.
"Suggest link" +"your keyword(s)"
"Suggest a link" +"your keyword(s)"
"Suggest site" + "your keyword(s)"
"Suggest a site" + "your keyword(s)"
"Suggest URL" +"your keyword(s)"
"Suggest a URL" +"your keyword(s)"
"Suggest an URL" +"your keyword(s)"
"Add link" +"your keyword(s)"
"Add a link" +"your keyword(s)"
"Add site" +"your keyword(s)"
"Add a site" +"your keyword(s)"
"Add URL" +"your keyword(s)"
"Add a URL" +"your keyword(s)"
"Add an URL" +"your keyword(s)"
"Submit link" +"your keyword(s)"
"Submit a link" +"your keyword(s)"
"Submit site" +"your keyword(s)"
"Submit a site" +"your keyword(s)"
"Submit URL" +"your keyword(s)"
"Submit a URL" +"your keyword(s)"
"Submit an URL" +"your keyword(s)"
"favorite links" +"your keyword(s)"
"recommended links" +"your keyword(s)"
"cool sites" +"your keyword(s)"
"cool places" +"your keyword(s)"
reciprocal +"your keyword(s)"
directory +"your keyword(s)"
directorys +"your keyword(s)"
directories +"your keyword(s)"
exchange +"your keyword(s)"
resources +"your keyword(s)"
links +"your keyword(s)"
"your location" +"add url"
"your location" +"suggest a site"
"your location" +"submit site"
"your location" +links
"your location" +"reciprocal links"
"your location" +directory
Today I want to share about sitemap submission. How to submit sitemap without login to webmaster tool?
Below the simple way to submit sitemap to Search Engines
You can ping Bing, Google, Yahoo and ASK each time you update the sitemap at these urls:
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml
http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml 
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A//www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml
Google has once again simplified their Tool Bar PageRank (TBPR) about an hour ago, at 8 p.m. on December 30, 2009. I had observed the changes immediately when I was doing a searching and saw in the SERPs that we'd jumped from a PR5 to a robust PR6. Few changes are exactly took place before my eyes. One minute we were PR5, then next search PR6. But few browsers like Firefox Toolbar have yet to update though. It's still reading PR5, but I'm sure that will change. I have noticed lot of changes in my websites, all for the better, which is a nice.
This is the sixth and final update for this year end 2009, and the last PageRank update occurred on October 29, 2009. So this means that Google updating PR more frequently and every 3 months.
For reference, Google PageRank is a link analysis algorithm (named after Larry Page, co-founder of Google), which Google uses to allocate a statistical weighting to measure the authority, value or importance of a webpage. Nobody exterior of Google knows the actual PageRank of a document.
Now, all the rumors signifying that Google will soon offer real-time search capabilities, indexing Tweets and other real-time web data, now is a great time to take a closer look at your Twitter presence.
As an example:
Google is already indexing tweets so Twitter pages and even individual tweets have already in progress appearing within Google search results.
Before starting a twitter is sure to pick an user name that’s relevant to your brand or campaign and easy to remember. The selected username, becomes apart of your customized Twitter URL such as twitter.com/yoursite or twitter.com/yourtopic.
Doing this creates a static address for future search indexing, which also helps usability for other cross-channel promotions.
Optimize the Twitter account name to best reflect your brand or campaign. Which can be different than your handle/URL? You obviously want an account name that promotes yourself, your company or your brand. You should also consider which variation of you brand name has the most search frequency every month.
Optimize your Twitter page’s “Bio” line because this includes the most important, mission-critical phrases for your brand. Use target keyword in description to take advantage of all 160 characters. Your bio is indexed so its contents are what provide your Twitter page with its core relevance.
Link reputation of this newfound social web address. You can incorporate your Twitter URL into your website by placing a call to action on the site for your customers to follow you on Twitter. You could also incorporate your Twitter URL within your site’s Global Footer, which appears at the bottom of every page of your site. Both of these options offer usability to your site visitors and help drive your Twitter URL up in the search engines.
In Twitter account settings, add your website’s URL or perhaps use it to promote your presence on another social platform, for example, yoursite.com. This is a great way to drive traffic. Link does not provide any offsite reputation due to a “Nofollow” attribute that Twitter has in place.
Each tweet appears to be significant for SEO as it will conclude what appears in the tweet’s title tag when it shows up as a search result on Google. Tweet title contain Approximately 42 characters. Keep in mind that your full tweet and all its characters are still being indexed by major engines, though.
Everywhere, start your tweet with a primary keyword phrase to theme each message. Take advantage of any “active lingo” or words as this will enable you to capitalize on timely searches on those terms.
Write your tweets in such a way that they are very simple to other people to resend. In order to allow other users to retweet your message, do not use the maximum number of characters. You should strive to tweet high quality content using keywords and in such a way which makes it easy for others to retweet.
Tinny Urls play a key role in SEO. With the short links users back to your content. Shorten URL links have significant SEO value since SEO is partially about building high quality links. Twitter can also help your Alexa ratings if you are successful in sending users back to your website.
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