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Does disavow solve the problem of removing unnatural links in google search?
I have created the site and it got hacked by spammer. now there many unnatural links in it if I disavow it the whole domain will it solve my problem what.
Also I have two version of domain https://...
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English content on International page templates: how to mark it up with lang="" attributes?
So, I have translated page templates to various languages so it's easier for users to pick their language for easier navigating and understanding the site.
The pages have similar markup to this ...
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Issue in webmaster tool
I have created a site with domain name
https://www.example.com
but the site had many problems so I created a new fresh site and removed the previous one. This time I chose the domain name as https:...
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Best way to delete high number of pages without negative impact on SEO
I'm working on a travel site. Since the season change and winter is coming, I have to remove old offers from summer. Right now there are about 500 offers that should be removed (better term would be ...
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magento local store deactivated, still getting GET requests from web crawlers
Many months ago I deactivated one store (localised to a language) within a Magento site, leaving the english store the only store live.
Looking in my Apache access logs, and also summarised in ...
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Pleasing google with their adsense format for doubleclick
I take a look here: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/2594855?hl=en
and to maximize advertisements on my site, I want to fix rejected adsense requests. One thing google mentions is to create ...
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Getting Google to index main section instead of nav in SERPs
I have a problem here where Google shows my <nav> instead of my main section in the SERPs. On top of that, because my nav is made up of inline elements, the result gets really messy:
example....
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Avoid caching by creating photo names that contain unique identifiers?
If you are building a website that will display photos to users of the site, is it important to always give each photo a unique name?
For example, instead of naming a photo file using an index number ...
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Rich Snippets for Reviews and Ratings showing in Google (but not showing in Bing)
We just built structured content (review) by following the specification from Schema.org. We like our client website stand out with the rating (5 stars) on the search result.
So far this is working ...
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Can being a Google 'Trusted Store' increase organic search engine rank? Or, not being one decrease rank?
For an e-commerce website, I'm wondering if being a Google Trusted Store or not affects search engine ranking. From this article
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Should I translate URL for better SEO?
I have a website about TV shows, that for default (EN) pages, it's like this:
example.com/en/show/actors
example.com/en/show/episodes
The site is localized in different languages, and I was ...
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Rankings keep dropping from #4 - #36 then back up again?
For the last few weeks every 3 - 4 days my clients site goes from #4 on google right down to #36. Then after a few days it shoots back up to number #3 but today its back down to #36.
There isn't ...
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Why is my adsense RPM zero?
I've signed up for adsense, and I got approved. Google is serving ads on my website, so far I only have a few page visits, I don't think anyone clicked on my ads. Why is the RPM still zero? When will ...
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Bandwidth saturation due to Googlebot search for spam pages
I recently had to update the hosting plan of a WordPress site I run due to bandwidth excess, which was already quite high.
I've installed a security plugin that keeps log of 404 errors. From here I ...
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Temporarily use different URL
Client asked me to temporarily replace homepage for product list, until he decides what should be on the homepage (that's not my business :))
I would like to know, how big impact it will have on the ...
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Scrape Intranet Website
I have a personal weather station connected to my LAN that provides its info (e.g. temperature, rainfall, humidity) via a web UI. I would like to scrape this info so I can make a better webpage of my ...
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Facebook Share thumbnail image cached indefinitely?
We have a few images which we plan to remove as it is no longer used. However these were used earlier as Facebook url sharing thumbnails. From what I can see, these images are cached in CDNs, but I am ...
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What are the residual consequences of having an adsense account application denied?
I am about to apply for an adsense account so I can display ads for a new website/web app I have built. It is My first experience with adsense and I have heard that quite often adsense applications ...
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SEO for short-life pages
I have website where I post offers. Those offers have short life. For example 2 days, sometimes less. I am using <expires> tag in my sitemap.xml.
Is there a way, how can I programatically post ...
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SEO - link closer to TLD vs. folder structure with keyword [duplicate]
Let's say I want to build just another voucher code website (don't worry, I don't) and also I'd like to categorize my listed shops. What would be the best URL structure?
My ideas are as follows:
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Outbound links in footer. Impact on SEO?
On one of my websites, the terms of conditions, rules and all the other standard notifications are stored on a "parent comany" website.
So basically they are outbound links. Because they are in the ...
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SEO. Redirecting a website to my own website
I manage a website www.example.com. I have found another website called www.2.example. I want to talk and merge it with my own completely, so when people enter www.2.example they will end up on the ...
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Image alt tags for many images of same thing
I have website with boats rentals. Each boat has at least 15 images.
Example 1 boat has large bedroom and 5 images are of bedroom from different angles.
I set up alt tags like this but I am not ...
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Schema.org Product: Same product, different sizes and prices?
I would like to add Schema.org Product information on my website (using Mirodata), but I would like to offer different sizes of the same product and provide different prices for each of them. I have ...
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Google search rankings hijacked by com.cutestat.com [duplicate]
hopefully somebody can help with this query I have a domain name and if I do a Google search for "maine valley properties" one of the top results is this domain cutestat.com. Cutestat is some crappy ...
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how to connect GoDaddy host to a domain?
Having a domain and a host server, the server is GoDaddy but the domain isn't. how to connect those two together?
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Browser Cache Control
First: I'm a Designer that knows some HTML and CSS, not a programmer, so I'm so in advance for my limited knowledge and understanding :)
My website skeleton is based on a single HTML and a few CSS &...
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Google fonts Hebrew works only in Chrome
I want to use a Hebrew font from Google font. So I included the font:
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Alef:400,700">
An styled my elements:
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Posting old content on a new website. Which date to use?
I have been writing a sort of diary for quite some time (5 years) that I store locally on my computer. Now I have decided to make some if this content publicly available in the shape of a WordPress ...
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Redirect a set of dir to single page
Suppose I have example.com and removed 5 directories.They consist a lot of URL.Because I give penalty from google search engine, I decide to create a page and redirect (permanent 301) those to my page....
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Google Analytics: (not set) showing up in SEO > Queries
I have linked my GA account to my Webmaster Tools account, so I'm getting access to the Search Engine Optmization -> Queries report. But the top query listed in that report is (not set).
Note: ...
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Uploading a website when FTP ports are banned
I'm a student living in a dormitory. My dormitory banned all FTP related ports. I'm designing websites but I don't know how to upload them without a FTP client or SSH. Is there anyway to upload it? ...
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OVH & CloudFlare: email redirect doesn't work
I have one domain on OVH.
I use with this domain CloudFlare.
On my domain I need only one email, that I use only for forward.
On OVH the MX record for only forward email is: redirect.ovh.net
I put ...
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Is DNS service provider allowed to make changes to my domain without my request?
Let's say that I own an example.com domain and my domain name registrar provides me the DNS service and also the hosting service(IPv4 address for my web-server is 192.0.2.35). For example they have an ...
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Old phpBB posts use different [quote] BBCode markup that doesn't work anymore
I restored a ten-year-old phpBB forum, and after upgrading it to 3.1.x, I noticed that the quote BBCode is not working correctly (but I don’t know if it worked in the old version).
If no username/URL ...
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Google Analytics Goal with Radio Selection and Onclick Event
I'm trying to create a goal in Google Analytics that tracks the type of account being created in our system. Unfortunately, the URLs aren't definitive to the type of account creation, and the only ...
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Is changing the post date regularly (around every month) going to be bad for SEO?
I am using a theme which does not allow me to change the front end order of custom posts (I have tried every plugin and none work). Basically I have 2 filter options and those are date and title. ...
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Google displaying wrong site title and snippet [duplicate]
I am having an issue where a website that displays the incorrect site title and snippet in Google Search.
From the content it is clear that some spammer has infected the site, but I cannot figure out ...
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Webmaster Showing Desktop Pages in Mobile Usability errors
I have same URL for both desktop and mobile content, but changes their format according to User-agent.
Google search console is showing error as "Touch elements too close" for some pages which are ...
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How to change document root of main domain in cPanel shared host?
I am in a shared host that I have basic cli access.
Inside public_html/ I host several addon domains, each in its own dir. Is it possible to make my main domain's document root inside another folder ...
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Securing images from browsers and humans
Particular parts of a website I'm working on will have pictures not intended for the general public. It is already behind a password protection and the page has no-index no-follow rules. I'm concerned ...
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Google Analytics exclude filter not recognizing multiple patterns
I'm trying to exclude my top-level page and certain section pages from a custom report using the exclude filter. It works for a single pattern (i.e. \news), but when I try multiple patterns separated ...
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How to identify if IP address is really google's IP
From what I learned in my server logs, IP addresses starting with 64.249 belong to google. When I do a host lookup on my computer for google I receive 11 different IP addresses all starting with 74....
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Who is the real owner of a gTLD domain with Privacy Proxy?
I recently registered a .email domain planning to make it my primary personal email for the time being, with my registrar I accepted a privacy service, my thought was they were going to mask my ...
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Pages with tweet-sized ideas: use title tags or div/span/li for list items?
We are working on a website (https://mindool.com/p/583727136028889088/should-vaccines-be-required-for-children) that does not display information in a conventional way in form of text paragraphs but ...
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How to run a PHP script on a shared hosting server from cPanel?
I'm trying to install Tinyboard (http://tinyboard.net/) on a shared hosting, I uploaded all of the files in a single folder, now I should run install.php, but I have no clue where that can be ...
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Changing links on homepage - SEO
I have a website whose ranking is constantly fluctuating on Google. On a search for my site name I could be the ranked 1st at one moment, then 20th or so a matter of hours later!
I have been tearing ...
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Redirection rule not working in .htacces [duplicate]
I have added the following rule to .htaccess
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,NC,L]
I suppose ...
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Google Webmaster Tool says I have malware, but it doesn't show the urls
So, I have a website hosting various freeware software for Windows (all clean): GWT says I have malware but it doesn't report any records:
I have already tried to submit a "request a review" but each ...
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XSRF Error when link is opened via an <a> tag with target attribute set to "_blank"
I've run into a peculiar bug that I have not faced before. I can provide any details that are needed but I'll try to be as generic as possible.
We have a intranet portal that links off to other ...
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