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How can I add my movie rank to google
Google has added two of my rivals to the search result, I'm jealous
How did they do that?
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Timezone setting while integration between Google adwords and Salesforce sales cloud
We've integrated Google AdWords accounts with Salesforce sales cloud account to track lead creation & conversion data based on the GCLID values.
Currently, the date format in salesforce is GMT+0:...
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Nginx reverse proxy 404 multiple apps [closed]
I'm configuring nginx reverse proxy functionality. It's not working for apps as written below. I'll give you an example of /hbase/. When I enter url /hbase/ in browser, I get 404 it redirects to /...
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Is there a problem in adding Adsense verification code via JavaScript?
I work with a certain CMS (MediaWiki) in which there is no direct control over HTML (as there is in Drupal Twig files for example);
Hence, in this case, I have to load my Adsense verification code via ...
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Impersonation in web contact forms [closed]
Many websites have contact us form usually requiring sender's name and email address. Now assume someone uses the contact form but fills in an email address (a valid address) which does not belong to ...
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How can I get wavs to play in the browser?
I'm trying to share my music on my website, but I can't seem to get wavs to play in the browser. They're correctly served with audio/x-wav and I thought that was enough to get it to work. I tried ...
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"mod_fcgid: process graceful kill" and 500 error each time a large SQL file is uploaded to phpMyAdmin [closed]
This is what I'm getting when I tried to upload 19MB SQL file to phpMyAdmin.
This is part of my php.ini most important config:
php_value session.gc_maxlifetime 10800
php_value max_input_time ...
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Google builds incorrect sitelinks for menu anchors with the description — how to prevent that?
We currently have the following structure of the menu anchor:
<a href="/">Page<span>A description for the page in mega menu</span></a>
The problem that Google than build ...
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How can I measure the impact of using Math Sans Bold font to get bold titles in Google Search results?
While browsing around, realized that you can use bold or some other font for the title to be presented as a search result on Google.
Have anyone tried this yet? Do you know what is the right way to ...
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How can I implement multiple lists in Schema.org using JSON-LD?
I am implementing Schema.org structured data into my magazine-style website and have a couple of concerns regarding the use of multiple lists.
I have two sections on my home page: 'Most Recent' and '...
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Hosting multiple websites using MAMP without exposing sensitive files?
So here's the thing, I've created 3 projects which I would like to somehow host simultaneously so that each of them can be viewed at any time. Currently, I am hosting them myself using MAMP, however, ...
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Tool to test geographical functions [closed]
I am currently working on a private web project using HTML, CSS and JS. One of the main functions in my app is to display the current time, date and weather conditions.
I am using navigator....
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Crawl anomaly caused by googlebot crawling secure_link mp4 files with md5 and expires parameters
Googlebot continues to crawl mp4 files in the format www.example.com/video/12345.mp4?md5=2029zanlkdain312on&expires=1523327783 which has obviously expired (only valid timestamp+30minutes, after ...
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What's the impact of HREFLANG pointing to a redirected URL for EN-US?
I'm doing some international SEO work on a Drupal site. I noticed this on the EN-US home page:
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.example.com/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-us"...
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Can you set the title and meta description via Dreamweaver's news.json?
For some reason or another, a website I started managing is running on Dreamweaver and to update the posts and feed, I have to edit a news.json file.
The problem is that these are only set fields in ...
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Is there a difference between server issue or control panel issue?
Is there a way to check if the issue is a server issue, or just a control panel issue? I ask this question to know when one can be accepted to ask on Server Fault, as required in their page What ...
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Which canonical URL for language subdirectories with gTLD?
If I have pages with same content and different languages, for example:
https://www.example.com/en/page/
https://www.example.com/de/page/
https://www.example.com/fr/page/
What will be the canonical ...
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Does Google consider deep URLs with and without a trailing slash to be the same? [duplicate]
Will it hit my ranking if I have the same URLs where / on the end is the only difference?
Those URLs return the same content and one redirects to another or they both redirects to some 3rd URL.
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Crawled currently not indexed sustain indexed pages decrease! What could be causing this? [duplicate]
Crawled currently not indexed sustain indexed pages decrease! What could be causing this?
These pages are getting deindexed slowly. I lose a few hundred pages a week. These pages go from submitted ...
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Huge differences between webmaster tools' crawl stats and apache logs
We noticed huge difference in the metrics. For example, last saturday :
According to Webmaster Tools :
6,082 pages crawled
76,119 kilobytes downloaded
1,550 ms in average to download a page
Now ...
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Is Google Adsense the best way to monetize?
I run a website and have some traffic.
Since around late 2017, many other publishers started to contact me. They said that they can optimize my revenue and no need to do any extra work, just replace ...
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"Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available.." only in Google Search Results [duplicate]
Why am I getting this search description in Google search (on any browser):
"Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats
available. Click here to visit our frequently ...
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Considering changing URL structure from example.com/page?id=1 to example.com/1/keywords but wondering what SEO impact is
Currently our website has a variety of community generated content that is under the URL structure of example.com/page?id=1. Some of these pages rank quite well on Google due to a combination of ...
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How to use User Ids in Firebase analytics?
We have been using firebase for months now. But we started putting user_id via setUserId() in android application as follow:
firebaseAnalytics.setUserId(viewModel.userInfo.id)
I can see these user-...
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invoke a URL Perl script silently, without changing URL visible to client
I've been fighting the Google canonical page algorithm bug for 2+ months. Following various forum advice and suggestions haven't solved it yet, although for sure they've made our website better. One ...
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Subdomain for a different server
I have two servers running on different machines(say A and B), there is a middleware which i cannot access, which routes the traffic for website say xyz.com to machine A ip, now I want to route the ...
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Adding "areaServed" to LocalBusiness without diminishing Google Local Pack status
Google Local Pack is extremely important to our service locations. Having said that, we would like to take advantage of areaServed schema. Example 4 suggests this: https://schema.org/LocalBusiness
If ...
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Disallow URLs with an ID from being crawled
I have a website with around 100K URLs. I want to disallow crawling for all URLs that have an ID with this pattern:
www.example.com/node/sport/category/id
but not those without the ID:
www.example....
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Google Analytics dashboard won't show "search query" data even when linked to Search Console
My website's Google Analytics account is linked with Google Search Console. I see all search console data in the "Acquisition" report.
When I create a custom dashboard and make widgets for getting "...
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Editing Nginx FastCGI Buffer Sizes Caused PHP Files to Download Via Browser
This question is sort of a post-mortem for an issue we had with a dv hosted by Media Temple. We had been experiencing random issues with our webserver (nginx running as reverse proxy on top of apache) ...
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De-indexing microsites in Google
I need to de-index some content from Google.
We have a main domain main.example.com which has listing of E-commerce products. Also, we give this for internal use to companies on their subdomain. ...
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Is there a tech meaning behind the io extension for domains?
I didn't see this asked on the site but from my research I know that .io originally belonged to the British Indian Ocean Territory which would go to the United Kingdom but I've noticed more tech blogs ...
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After redirecting to canonical domain and HTTPS, Google Search Console reports most of my pages are now excluded
In Google Search Console - Coverage for one of my sites it says :
Error 0
Valid with warnings 22
Valid 10
Excluded 11.1k
Expanding Excluded, it's 6,000 for pages with redirect and 3,400 with a soft ...
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Video thumbnails Issue in SERP just for Unicode URLs
I tested many times and I made sure that Google not interested to show my thumbnails of video when I have URLs with non-English characters.
When I rollback canonical and internal links to English ...
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GA Real-Time > content > Page showing same url with different page title
in realtime >content report
Some pages showing the different title of the same page, e.g. /logos page actual title is
Free Logo Maker ...
but its also showing contactus page title for logo
similarly ...
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HTTP Impressions increasing in Search Console since move to HTTPS
In August last year I moved a site to HTTPS. I have recently noticed that I am still getting impressions for HTTP pages in Search Console. In fact the number of clicks and impressions seems to be ...
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Does it matter for SEO which keyword is first in the URL path? [duplicate]
Does it really matter in SEO if my URL is:
https://example.com/test/18-apr-2019/author
https://example.com/18-apr-2019/test/author
https://example.com/author/test/18-apr-2019
Does it really matters ...
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How to deal with /fix massive exluded pages in google search console? [duplicate]
Recently I noticed a sharp decline in users to my website. When I investigated this, I noticed this was caused by my google traffic. it has declined about 90%!
I opened up my Google Search Console and ...
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"/for_domain/" is getting prepended to all URLs in Google Analytics reports
I have several GA accounts tracking various domains. For some unknown reason, /for_domain/ is being added to front of some of my page URLs. I have tried to exclude them from being reported in the ...
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Allowing access to protected area for multiple users from one organisation
I have a website which has a password protected area of content. This content can by accessed by a number of employees of a subscribing company. For example, The Acme Widget Co. has 100 employees, ...
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Will allowing users to customize the number of ads they see entice them to disable ad blockers?
I totally understand with users getting pis*ed of by ads, especially if there are to many, or irrelevant. I also totally understand that many sites depend on displaying them. Mine is one of them. I ...
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Do Content-Security-Policy errors affect SEO rankings?
There is a website that allows users to post content and embed images from external links. This website has a Content-Security-Policy that allows only a small list of other websites in img-src.
If a ...
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How to fix html sitemap error on Google search console
I have a problem with my sitemap, all my submitted URLs does not contain a "noindex" Tag, but google keeps saying that we are in 2019 the last crawl for my sitemap was in 2018! how to fix that and re-...
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MediaWiki: Remove debug query strings (/load.php?debug=" )
When I run a Google PageSpeed insights test I get problem reports for various long URLs with query strings for /load.php?debug=.
These problem reports appear for the loading of any webpage whatsoever....
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Let's Encrypt certificate renewal failure: "too many failed authorizations recently"
I am running a website on my Raspberry Pi with 2 different domain names.
Installing the certificate for https:// when it became necessary was no problem. But renewing it seems impossible.
I have ...
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How to 'noindex' a specific image on a specific page on my website?
I'm generally aware how the noindex HTML tag works and how to use it. However, I haven't managed to find a way to not index specific images on specific pages on my website.
I'm looking for a ...
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How to rewrite specific pages using mod rewrite?
Assuming that my website homepage is https://example.com/test-website/.
What I want to do is to add a query string at the end of the homepage URL and on all pages that start with https://example.com/...
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IIS 10 and PHP 7.3 cant upload 4M file in one POST request
I have changed the maxfile size in the php.ini settings, but i do not know how to change it in the IIS 10 config.
My hphinfo:
I am getting the error 1 in the $_FILE array (which as I understand ...
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What happens if my domain expires - will the web hosting also be canceled?
I currently have a website created with WordPress.
Domain name registered with namecheap.com and host plan with hostgator.com.
Both created on the 25th April last year (one year plan) and set to ...
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How can I make Xenu Link Sleuth check relative URLs?
I'm using an old free web crawler called Xenu Link Sleuth to find broken links on my site.
Normally it works well enough for my needs, but the site that I'm testing it on right now seems to ...
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