Hey guys. In google webmaster tools the preview image of one of my sites has a little grey square in the upper left hand side and I don't know what it means. I have searched google but I can't find anything about it. Here is a picture of it.
What is this?
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- webmasterx
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Re: What is this?
only a possibility, could be the result of some of the JS on your page. would not worry about it if i were you.
Re: What is this?
JW/Flash player? That's normal.
Re: What is this?
Ok I was just wondering because I cant seem to get any search engine traffic to that site and I wanted to make sure that wasn't some kind of notification
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Re: What is this?
<link rel="canonical" href="http://twerkflix.com/" /> is probly not helping you out, i see no reason to use a canonical url on your site, also google does not like ads above the fold so your sidebars are not helping you either, also try using rel="nofollow" on your aff links.
go here and have a read up on canonical urls http://support.google.com/webmasters/bi ... wer=139394
hope this helps u out
go here and have a read up on canonical urls http://support.google.com/webmasters/bi ... wer=139394
hope this helps u out
Re: What is this?
I didnt even know that canonical thing was set. Thanks for the help.webmasterx wrote:<link rel="canonical" href="http://twerkflix.com/" /> is probly not helping you out, i see no reason to use a canonical url on your site, also google does not like ads above the fold so your sidebars are not helping you either, also try using rel="nofollow" on your aff links.
go here and have a read up on canonical urls http://support.google.com/webmasters/bi ... wer=139394
hope this helps u out
Re: What is this?
Hey thanks again for the help. I moved my sidebars to the right so that text would be scanned first by the google bots and that has made a improvement on the blogs that I tried it with. I always ask for help with this stuff because I know it has to be just some dumb crap that im doing so that I don't get trafficwebmasterx wrote:<link rel="canonical" href="http://twerkflix.com/" /> is probly not helping you out, i see no reason to use a canonical url on your site, also google does not like ads above the fold so your sidebars are not helping you either, also try using rel="nofollow" on your aff links.
go here and have a read up on canonical urls http://support.google.com/webmasters/bi ... wer=139394
hope this helps u out