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This is a part of our Question and Answer series. If you have any questions related to Blogging, SEO, and/or WordPress, feel free to drop your queries via our contact form. Selected questions will be answered via a blog post. You can also check out previous questions answered here at ShoutMeLoud: This is a question by Irfan Siddiqui from realtimetricks.com. Today’s Question: “I am facing issues with site indexing. I own a WordPress blog and despite having ‘noindex’ tags on all of my tags and categories pages, Google has indexed WordPress tags and categories pages anyway. How can I deindex these tags and category pages?” Google Indexing Issue with WordPress Attachments, Tags & Categories This is one of the common indexing issues where Google indexes a few pages from your blog despite you adding a noindex tag. This is normal, and as soon as Google recrawls your site, it will respect the noindex tag and will deindex these parts of your blog. This may take … [Read more...] about How To Remove WordPress Tags & Categories From Google Index

Many of them do this out of ignorance, but ultimately it’s you who has to pay the price. You will lose traffic and ranking. Google is getting smarter in finding pages which are duplicating your content, but not every time. Sometimes, when others copy stuff from your blog, their copied web page is ranking higher than your original content. While I was working on my website to recover from Google Panda, I realized that post duplication was a major reason for my site’s penalty. If your content is also being copied by others, this tutorial will educate you on how you can report such pages to Google. Once you report these copied pages, Google will remove it from its web-index and your original ranking will be restored. If you are reporting content that’s on the BlogSpot/Blogger platform, Google will flat out delete this duplicate content. In my experience, they take around 2-10 days to process your request. (Note: While Google has the power to delete BlogSpot/Blogger … [Read more...] about How To Remove All Copied Content From Google Search

One of the most common questions asked after my article on recover from Google panda is how we can remove the date from Google Search results. Before, I share the solution to this, let me explain what conditions you should, and why it’s important to remove the date from blog posts. June 2016 update: Here is a free WordPress plugin to hide date from theme. If you know, in last two years Google added lots of new features in Google search, like Knowledge graph, Star rating and many more. Overall, now your search engine position is not the only criteria to get traffic, but other factors also contribute to getting more clicks from search results. I have already explained in detailed about this earlier, and if you have missed it, you can read how to increase CTR from Google search. After Google Panda updates, one thing which is most common about blogs penalised by Panda is, they are showing dates in SERP description. And, this is mostly happened to old blogs, who are publishing from … [Read more...] about How to Remove Date From Google Search Results in a WordPress Site

I used to think that the more pages I have on Google index, the more traffic I am going to get. But it’s not true. I realized that when I was checking Google indexed pages of RTB for the first time. What I found was embarrassing. A lot of useless pages got indexed by Google, even some of them had no content. This is may be one of the reasons why I got hit by Panda 4.0. Having these low-quality pages can harm your SEO too. Besides, there is no reason to have these useless pages on Google index. In this post, I will be sharing how to block URLs from crawling and how to remove URLs from Google index. Before going further, I’d like to share when to remove indexed pages and when not to remove. When to Remove Indexed Pages? There could a lot of reasons to remove URLs, but here are some of the most common. When Not to Remove Indexed Pages? Though you have the power to remove any URLs from Google Search results, there can be some situations when you … [Read more...] about Remove URLs from Google Index Using Webmaster Tools

I hate Google Chrome’s “New Tab” page simply because its annoying. The primary reason is that the “Most visited” websites which Google Chrome shows are not necessarily my favorite websites or I already have a link to those websites in my “Bookmarks bar” which is always visible. Then why do I need an annoying “New Tab” page that’s good for nothing? That’s not all! There’s an “Apps” page too which is I don’t require. I rarely visit the “Apps” page but I rely on Google Chrome Extensions a lot. Again there’s a shortcut to access all the extensions in the browser itself so why would I visit the “Apps” page? The Apps page would have been better if that irritating “Chrome Web Store” icon was not there. And there’s no option to remove the Chrome Web Store icon even when there’s already a link to the Web Store at the bottom of all “New Tab” … [Read more...] about How To Remove Chrome Web Store Icon From The “New Tab” Page