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Play around with Open Site Explorer's Advanced Reports - you can get exactly what you want with some filters.

Hi Martijn, 
This sitemap doesn't contain images at all

I can't put the URL here in plain text, please see attached image.

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Hi Jason and thank you for your answer. 
The sitemap was just rebuilt a week ago, with the same idea in mind, maybe this will fix the problem. But it didn't...

Hi,
I have a problem with a client's website. I searched many related questions here about the same problem but couldn't figure out a solution.

Their website is in 2 languages and they submitted 2 sitemaps to Webmaster Tools. One got 100% indexed. From the second one, from over 800 URLs only 32 are indexed.

I checked the following hypothesis why the second sitemap may not get indexed:

• sitemap is wrongly formatted - False
• sitemap contains URLs that don't return 200 status - False, there are no URLs that return 404, 301 or 302 status codes
• sitemap contains URLs that are blocked by robots.txt - False
• internal duplicate content problems - False
• issues with meta canonical tags - False

For clarification, URLs from the sitemap that is not indexed completely also don't show up in Google index.

Can someone tell me what can I also check to fix this issue?

I'm not sure if this is really what you need, but you can try with siteliner.com (free service from Copyscape). Their reports show page averages - size in Kb and number of words - and also details for each of the pages checked.

Unfortunately this service is limited to 500 pages per site and I found no way to export reports.
But if no one comes up with a better suggestion maybe this can help.

As I previously said, since this content is not on your website I don't think it will cause you problems. But since I assume you are using this strategy to get backlinks, I don't think is really effective. I repeat: You may get some boost for a week or two when these links are indexed, but later, when they are flagged as coming from pages with duplicate content they will be worthless.

For websites that have their content not publicly available there is a solution from Google to index it, is called "First Click Free" and consists on providing to the visitors that arrived to your site via Google search the entire piece of content ranked in the search  results for free.

In Google Support they explain it better and in more detail, so you should read this: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=74536 and also the technical requirements.

Google shows the translate option because on your page you probably have several words that are in English.

A simple way to check if your homepage is also considered in German is to use the advanced search options in Google, select the in German language and do a site:-query for your site.

Since you are saying the internal pages of your website don't show this problem - think of this: do you have backlinks to your home from websites in English and not to your internal pages?

Yes, if your page is relevant for that keyword it is considered best practice to use the keyword in the URL.

And not only for search engines, but also for the people who find your page listing in search engines result pages. If they search for "design furniture" and they see the URLs as www.yourdomain.nl/Furniture they will probably wonder if your page is about furniture in general. But if you have "design furniture" in your url also they will have no doubt.

As a sidenote, I recommend you to use dashes in your URLs, not underscores. 
So your url should be something like www.yourdomain.nl/design-furniture
For more details on why watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQcSFsQyct8

Irving,

I personally saw this happen on a website - it was hacked, but no malware was placed on it. So the browser message  "this website may harm your computer" was not showing up, and no massage was displayed in WMT under Malware.

These are some blackhat SEO hacks, where they alter the content of a website and place links to porn/gambling without the intention to get the website flagged for malware. The hackers just want to get good links to their shallow websites, not to knock these websites out of Google.

From what I saw Google makes efforts in identifying sneaky domain redirection techniques, so I believe when you do a legit one like you described above there are no risks.

As for domain redirects/301 redirects - these aren't different redirect types, just different way of saying it. What a consider a "domain redirect" must be a 301 redirect in order to pass link juice. If you have doubts about how these work, contact your hosting provider to make sure what they call "domain redirect" is actually a 301 http responce status code that the server sends out for that domain.

In some cases Google rewrites the title of web pages in its search results pages. Here is the exact answer from a Google Employee about this issue:

In general, when we run across titles that appear to be sub-optimal, we may choose to rewrite them in the search results. This could happen when the titles are particularly short, shared across large parts of your site or appear to be mostly a collection of keywords. One thing you can do to help prevent this is to make sure that your titles and descriptions are relevant, unique and compelling, without being "stuffed" with too much boilerplate text across your site.

(source: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/webmasters/GxPvar_uSwE/ARAsgZ5Rt0kJ)

In your case I believe Google decided that your page is also relevant for the keyword "CCTV Cameras" and added that to the page title.

Are you sure it is negative SEO or is your site actually containing these keywords? 
Your website may contain that keywords if you were hacked.

Go to Google Webmaster Tools and check if there, under Optimization -> Content Keywords these strange keywords appear. If they do, check your website'c source code, someone may have injected strange text/links in your code.

As for Negative SEO use opensiteexplorer.org to find those bad links and use the Disavowal Tool to block them.

I understand what you want, but if you present the situation like this you will provide incorrect Information.

It is not a domain that ranks for a keyword, it is a page (URL) that ranks. 
Take a look here at the Ranking Factors and you will see there are page level factors and domain level factors. Both combined result in rankings. If you provide to your clients a list with only the domain names that information is incomplete.

Normaly I would not remove it, I would just un-hide it. But if Google already penalized you for that maybe is best to remove it for a while, wait for the page to be indexed without and after add some new original text ,(not hidden) to the page because without this the homepage is rather thin in content.

Hi William,

From what I see this in not really a SEO problem, is a CMS problem. Have you tried contacting SiteFinity support or related forums?

As for duplicate content issues, you need to find a way to use rel=canonical on the site, take a look here to see if this helps: http://www.sitefinitywatch.com/blog/09-03-11/Specifying_a_Preferred_URL_the_Google_way.aspx

You risk getting penalized for duplicate content with this strategy.

You publish on PRWeb and that article is indexed. Then you publish on your site - when the content is crawled it will be seen as copied from the PRWeb, no matter if it is crawled the same day you publish it on your site or a week later.

You should use different content if you publish on multiple sites other way it is useless. You may get some boost for a week or two when these links are indexed, but later, when they are flagged as coming from pages with duplicate content they will be worthless.

As for your own website - don't do this mistake, you will attract a Panda penalty on it and it is a nightmare recovering from it.

I looked at the html code and saw the big amount of text content that was not visible on the page.

Hi,

From what I saw websites that don't recover that easy are the ones hit by Panda, not by Penguin. Check if the text content of the website is unique.

There is a strange thing I see on your homepage - most of the text content is in the footer of your page, hidden by CSS - maybe you got penalized for that.

Using CSS rules to hide/show some content is not a technique penalized by default, but in your case the amount of text you hide is very large...

And when you look at the final URLs in the address bar of your browser, do these URLs that return 404 errors correspond to the URLs you set up with the Redirect rule?

Usually when your redirects are messed up you get 500 Internal Server errors, not 404 errors.

Maybe the problem is not in how you defined the redirects in the .htaccess file, but you are choosing the incorrect URLs to redirect to.