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How do I include my site in alternative search engine’s index?

I would like to include my site in the yahoo and bing index as well. It does not seem to be happening automatically. Is there something I need to do? Is it going to be happen over …
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Google still hasn’t indexed my site, and its Webmasters Tools says SE’s robots.txt is BORKED!

I'm trying to figure out how to get Google to index my site www.basicallymoney.com. It still isn't searchable by Google — annoying. Anyway, I signed up for Google's Webmaste …
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Bing and Yahoo traffic is still non-existent

I thought it'd be fixed by now...but it's not Google is the only site that sends me any sort of traffic. 95.2% Google 1.85% AOL 1.33% "Search" .51% ASK.com .44% Bing .30% Yahoo( …
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How can I get google to index new questions faster?

A good example post is: What's the easiest way to get Lovely Charms. This post is based on a seasonal event that only lasts for a few days. We would probably be getting a good a …
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Are StackExchange sites pretty SEOable?

I want to start a StackExchange site, but I'm wondering: is it going to be a lot harder to search engine optimize the site and get a high ranking on Google than with other sites? …
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Is anyone’s site indexed by Bing or Yahoo?

Yes, I know this was supposed to be fixed in beta 6. I'm wondering: Is anyone using a "webmasters tools" and verified the site is indexed? Can you find your site on Yahoo/Bing?
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Why is the Stack Exchange doing so bad for Bing and Yahoo?

Is anyone else getting really bad numbers for Bing and Yahoo? My Google traffic makes up 93.7% of all my search traffic. My entire Yahoo traffic(1.9%), is for one of my static …
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StackExchange Sitemaps

In Jeff and Joel's podcast #66, Jeff seems a bit confused about how Google uses the sitemaps for indexing the sites (that the sitemap on SO only includes the 50,000 most recently c …
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Is there a way to prevent search engine indexing of a SE site?

While we're setting up our community I want to prevent Google and other search bots from indexing our site. Naturally, we'd normally accomplish this with a root level robots.txt fi …
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Alternate ways of building pagerank while the feed/sitemap still show stackexchange url

I'm an SEO newb, but I do know that Google will not index our sitemaps or feeds if we use a domain name because the links in the sitemap/feeds point to <yoursite>.stackexchan …
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Can a stack exchange site use another full text search engine?

It's always been a problem on StackOverflow, so maybe Joel or Jeff have a strong opinion against it for some reason. But the current search engine just doesn't cut it: I search f …
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Slight problem with Feeds + Sitemap (Possibly)

I think I may have discovered a bug with what may be occurring with the sitemap.xml and the feeds. I've been playing with the Google Webmaster tools for epicadvice.com for a whil …
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Does StackExchange prevent beta Sites from begin Indexed by Google?

Submitted a beta site to Google. But google won't index it. Wanted to confirm whether or not StackExchange is preventing the indexing of the site via robots file.
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How much time are search visitors staying on your site?

I'm only just starting, and the seven visitors that came to my site from search engines spent an average on 42 seconds on the site. (You can get this information from Google Analy …
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Are StackExchange Beta sites submitted to search engines?

We've just launched a StackExchange beta site and was wondering whether or not beta sites are submitted to search engines by StackExchange or is that something the beta site needs …

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