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Can't Remove Page from Google [duplicate]
High. My name is Festus.
I'm creating a web site for a customer and would prefer not to have Google index the site while it's still being developed. The customer, on the other hand, must be able to ...
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Google Webmaster Tools Not Reporting a Logo from JSON-LD Schema.org [Organization] Markup
I have been waiting for 6+ months for Google Webmaster Tools to report that is has found the logo which is nested our Organization markup. I see no syntax error and the testing tool reports is Good to ...
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How to correctly change a page URL without losing SEO rankings? [duplicate]
I've searched this site and plenty other sites, but nobody seems to be able to answer my question entirely (not even Google), so here goes...
What would be the proper procedure to change the url of ...
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Can I use OpenCart in Weebly?
I need the iDeal payment method in Weebly. Since they don't offer it, I need to use a third party shopping cart - OpenCart 2.0. Can OpenCart be added to Weebly? I asked at Weebly and OpenCart before ...
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Image/Gallery hosting? [duplicate]
I am looking for an image hosting solution where:
I provide a user with a dedicated link
That user clicks it and lands on a gallery management page where they can upload and remove images
In ...
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How to create a Goolge Play Music URI?
For a service I'm building I need to link to google play music. Any idea how to create a URI? Or is there an other way to open google play music?
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Google analytics reports filtered to show mobile users only
There is a deadline this april (2015) where Google are going to start seeing if you site is mobile accessible and penalise any pages in mobile search that are not.
A site Im working on isnt mobile ...
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Redirect query string URL via .htaccess
I am trying to redirect all query strings to a new URL.
Search query example www.example.com/?s=cars to resolve to www.example.com/?search_gcse/?q=cars ("cars" is just an example).
What is the ...
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Why is googlebot trying to fetch click.php? [duplicate]
I see the following in my access log:
access.log.1:66.249.69.81 - - [02/Apr/2015:23:03:13 -0400] "GET /click.php?c%3Ec4C%7B%5BHG%7BbD6kc31%3E'dmjdl(..more such snipped..) HTTP/1.1" 404 19 "-" "...
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How to 301 redirect old domain to new domain on same host with SSL and avoid Privacy Error
Here's the environment:
Apache, mod_rewrite.c exists
WordPress
Two domains that point to the same webhost, we'll call them
www.olddomain.com
www.newdomain.com
We have an SSL Certificate for www....
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Site speed when using ddos protection by cloudflare
I've recently noticed an increase of sites using ddos protection by cloudflare and wondering the effects on both user experience and SEO. I've notice these redirect messages last from anywhere from 2 ...
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Remove dynamically generated sitemap from google search result [duplicate]
I use Yii PHP framework to generate sitemaps of user profiles. The sitemap url is something like this
http://mywebsite.com/site/sitemap33449
This URL returns xml of the sitemap. (with correct header ...
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Getting mobile site warnings from Google despite having a separate mobile site
We have a mobile version of website for our company and even Google mobile site test passes our main website as mobile friendly but Google guidelines says to use responsive layout which we are not ...
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How to create Google Rich Snippets?
As the title says how to create link like this
I see many companies doing this, and ThemeForest also sells WordPress themes that allow you to create Rich Snippets.
I wanna know how to create it? ...
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How to make Google index millions of user profile pages?
I have a website with a lot of user profiles (like LinkedIn or the like). I need Google to index each public user profile page. I have a few things on my mind:
1- There is no user listing on my page,...
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What algorithms are used by search engines to rank videos for a search query?
I want to know about video SEO. How does a search engine determine the relevance of a video to a search query? Do they look at individual frames of the video, or does it determine the popularity of ...
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Are the new gTLDs considered less stable?
I'm looking at creating some links using a .link gTLD but I'm unsure about whether I can trust new gTLDs for pages that I need to last 2-4 years minimum. As of the start of 2015, how stable are the ...
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Does Google parse SVG images as value of the Schema.org 'image' property in JSON-LD?
Structured data markup is a standard way to annotate your content so Google can understand it. However, I am not sure, if Google will accept and parse svg+xml images as a value for the Schema.org ...
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Malicious copy of site
After seeing an increase of shady organic keyword results appearing in Google Analytics we identified the referring Hostname. After adding the exit page to hostname we discovered someone cloned our ...
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How to create a sitemap for a forum
How would you create a sitemap for a forum where pages are created every hour, because on daily basis approximately 5-10 new pages are created.
Should you be adding all of them to the sitemap and ...
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What is the correlation between Drop Off, Exits, and Bounces?
I am running through my analytics and noticed that my drop off in the behavior chart is always 100%. Which does not necessarily surprise me except neither bounce rate, or % Exits are 100%.
I ...
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Redirect for subdomain not working in GoDaddy. CNAME in place, but getting 404
After reading:
CNAME for subdomain does not work - 404 Error
Redirecting an entire domain to another in one CNAME record [duplicate]
I am facing some problems when trying to redirect a subdomain to ...
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How to filter traffic from Google Maps/local searches in Google Analytics
Can you filter in Google Analytics the traffic that originates from the local searches as seen in the image below?
EDIT: Added an image of the search results that I want to track separately.
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Search url pretty slug affects on SEO
Right now the website has search results like the following url.
example.com/?s=ajax
I am planning to change this to
example.com/search/ajax
How does Google or any other search engine treat the ...
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Huge drop [50%] in traffic after HTTPS move
Currently look after 3 websites. I changed one of them to be HTTPS as it's ecommerce, however have seen a huge drop in organic traffic since this was implemented. Went from around 800 impressions to ...
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URL appearance in Google results
Why do some Google results show the http prefix in the green URL and some don’t?
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Why is px often prefered over pt even though both depend on an "unknown" device parameter?
I always heard that in web design one should not prefer pt as a size unit, because the browser/OS does not neccessarily know the correct dpi. Result: final font sizes are not equal on different ...
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Trademark ® Symbol Required in Product Description?
When I am talking about third party trademarks on my website:
Am I supposed to use the appropriate registered ® symbols or is this not required?
I am not talking about our own trademarks but ...
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Making google prefer "event detail" page to listing (index) page?
I have an event calendar site which on the homepage ("/") contains a list (table) of all events. When you click on one of them, you go to event detail page, which contains much more information about ...
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Httpd not rewriting !hostname to hostname [duplicate]
Simple:
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:443/80 --> https://login.example.com
One site, one hostname, one server.
So I've done this in the main httpd.conf to avoid virtualhost manips:
<Location />
#...
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Dedicated server issues with SSL and IPs, content showing on wrong site
We have a number of sites on this dedicated server. Pages from one site are showing up on another site. Example:
clientsite1.com (right site, no SSL installed)
clientsite2.com (forwards to SSL, shows ...
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htaccess issue with URL masking
I am attempting to mask an URL using an htaccess file to only show the root URL.
This is a Drupal 7 website, so I want the URLs to look like the following:
Main page:
http://www.site1.com
Drupal ...
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What is the use case for Fax links in a webpage?
I've used tel: and mailto: to link to a phone number or email but how and why would I use fax: linking in a webpage?
We currently take orders via fax. What would be the flow for a customer who clicks ...
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Change address tool in google webmaster after implemented 301
I've moved my website, but I've already added htaccess with 301 redirect. Now if I go to webmaster tools it says that site is not verified. How can I "tell" google that we've changed domain name?
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How come com.google is a valid domain name?
https://com.google appears to be a Google upside-down-rightside-left.
But how come .google is a valid domain name? Or wait, .com is and it is just somehow reversed using some hidden technique? Oh, ...
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Pointing domain name to sub directory of an ip address
I need to point my domain.com to x.x.x.x/directory
How should I do this?
this doesn't seem to work correctly, if you are familiar with enjin, then I'm using enjin name servers to do this.
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Google WMT and other tools report no backlinks to my website (even though there are), why?
I've read quite a bit and spent countless hours last month trying to improve SEO for a website I've built. I understand there's no way to see 100% of the backlinks and various tools give only part of ...
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Migrating just hosting (not e-mail or domain registration) from GoDaddy to DreamHost
I am attempting to migrate my domain hosting from GoDaddy to another service, as GoDaddy's servers seem to be painfully slow when handling interactive forms, PHP applications, WordPress, etc, even ...
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hreflang and no return tags with canonicals
my question is in direct response to the following question...
Canonical vs HREFLANG
I am in a similar situation. However we are using canonicals in each country to handle duplicated content caused ...
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How do I create a Wordpress author alias?
I manage the blog for my company and essentially act as the editor for the posts that come in. Once they have been reviewed and approved, I load them up into WordPress and publish them.
The problem ...
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Missing CA certificates on OpenShift WordPress cartridge
I am trying to use a WordPress theme named "X" on an OpenShift WordPress cartridge.
While installing an "Extension" through the "X" theme configuration page I get the following error:
Downloading ...
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is form with post method containing one button with action equal to url to page with ad a bad idea?
I'm trying to figure out why on one section of my site I'm earning only one cent RPM.
Here's an example of how the web page is setup:
It consists of an adsense advertisement, a large image with an ...
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Random Google Analytics Code
Can anyone help me recognize how this code is implementing GA? This isn't the classic GA code you'd apply to a page, nor is it something you'd implement via Google Tag Manager. I'm considering if I ...
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displaying number of search results on google results page [duplicate]
How can I make google display the number of search results from my website on google search results page.
The highlight yellow shows the number of search results. How can I make it happen for my ...
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How to make US websites faster in China?
We've been troubleshooting our site's performance in China. We've removed a lot of the scripts that were slowing pages down.
Two critical things we can't simply remove are Google Analytics and Google ...
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Chinese traffic redirection
Our company website currently has 13 languages, of which Chinese is one. We have seen significant bounce rates from visitors in China (largely due to site speed there) and so we will be launching a ...
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How do I handle the URL of an article that sits in more than one category
In our knowledge base (hosted in Wordpress) we have one article that is relevant to 2 categories. I do not want to duplicate the article and have it sitting separately in each category for fear of ...
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How to add category in URL for Wordpress theme
We are having trouble getting the category name into the URL.
We want to use the following structure:
example.com/knowledge-base/category-name/article-name
For some reason our wordpress theme (...
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When & Where to buy .APP domain?
It seems like Google have paid $25 million for the .app domain. So, when & where can I start buying .APP domain name?
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Content length VS document size for mobile
This strikes my curiosity.
I have two versions of my website. A desktop version and a mobile version. The objective of both websites is to allow users to view whatever full size photos they like to ...