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Canonical or noindex for almost(80-90%) duplicate content?
I have a site where I provide solutions to problems/questions.
In my CMS, the 'Question' and 'Solution' are two different content types. The solutions are embedded within the Question pages.
For ...
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How to best create URLs for google and other search engines, using query parameters, or as hyphenated/nested URL paths?
I am torn on what is best here, I have read tons of blogs on the topic but haven't found a really clear solution/answer.
Basically I am wondering one thing which has two implications:
Does Google (or ...
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fixing Search Console index problems after submitting no subdomain or extension in canonical URLs and sitemap
I prefer clean URLs... so my internal links lack the .html or .php extension, and I'm omitting the www. subdomain. The links are resolved by .htaccess rules, and the browser shows example.com/my-page. ...
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Adding Parent Categories and keep current URLs without affecting SEO
I have a website that contains 200 categories with thousands of words in on every category page. Most of these category pages is where my traffic comes from, and have the following URL structure: ...
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Https non www version of URL not indexed
My website's https://example.org version of link is not being indexed by google. My canonical address is set to https://example.org but when inspecting google search console Coverage, it shows that
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How to modify google selected canonical URL when the URL is not valid anymore
I am the owner of two domains, domain1.com and domain2.com,
A canonical URL : domain2.com is selected by google for domain1.com while the url does not exist anymore, how to make Google re-select ...
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Can Google show a simple list of URLs visited?
Is there a way for Google Analytics (v4) to show me a simple detail log of URLs visited?
I don't want any aggregate data, just a simple HTTP log like the kind you'd get from NGINX or something like ...
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How to correct company website classification at the database level from companies like Sophos
A Corporate client using web blocker such as Sophos cannot access our company website. Blocker comes back and indicates our site is "Sex Education" however it is mental health education. I ...
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Ahrefs Orphan Page Error - SEO Friendly Pagination using JavaScript
One of my clients is a Cybersecurity startup company. We are using a custom built theme on Drupal. We have a well-designed internal link building architecture.
We have about 600 blog articles. We are ...
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Should canonical links for pagination include the page number, or are they not needed at all when using rel=next and rel=prev?
I have set pagination on index page of my website so URLs are like https://www.example.com and https://www.example.com?page=2 and https://www.example.com?page=3 so on.
I am little confused how should ...
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What is best for an URL: upper case or only lower case
At this time we have URLs formed with upper cases like this:
mywebsite.com/us/Fine-Art/
And we want to add artist names like Van Gogh, so is the best for SEO to continue with a mixed of upper case ...
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Is it risky for SEO to change URLs with 301 redirects? [duplicate]
Our company has URLs that are well ranked which is vital for us.
But we need to change all the structure of thousands of URLs and I am afraid of a negative impact on our natural indexing and ranking ...
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Does it matter for SEO whether URLs are human-readable?
In terms of a site's SEO, is the following format best:
https://www.example.com/query/who-is-the-hippo-in-Moon-Knight
Or can a website do just as well SEO-wise if it has URLs like this?
https://www....
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Bing randomly adds MSCLKID parameter to links in SERPs
When searching Bing recently, I noticed, that links to my websites get automatically appended MSCLKID parameter whichs turned out to be some id for analytics or ads-tracking. This resulted in 400 (Bad ...
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Google is indexing the root domain rather than the language subdirectory where it redirects
I have a multi language website for my company.
my language routing goes like example.com/[language]. I have 2 languages, and my URLs are example.com/tr,example.com/en, and example.com/ redirects to ...
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Can canonical tags on filter pages direct search engines to the main categories?
I'm working on a job board. The filters on the job board spawn around a million different category pages. I'm wondering if the best solution for potentially thin and/or duplicated pages is to use the ...
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What's wrong with Bing bot Index?
I'm facing serious issues with Bing since last year. To start, most organic traffic of my website came from Bing when compared to others search engines. I wouldn't make a fuss if the situation was ...
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[] vs %5B%5D in URLs
A question. Is there any difference that any of you know of in using %5B%5D vs [] in a URL for params?
Current: https://www.example.se?location_ids%5B%5D=123&location_ids%5B%5D=234
Vs.
Other: ...
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What characters should be escaped in canonical url's?
Should I url-encode non-ascii characters in canonical url's?
That is, should i use
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.example.com/öland">
...or
<link rel="...
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Creating a fixed Canonical URL with dynamic periodical content
I'm making a nextjs website that has multiple magazines with periodical issues using the following dynamic route structure:
~/magazines/[magazine-title]/[issue-no]
so the URL ~/magazines/social-...
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Which url structure is recommended SEO practice, or that does not matter much nowdays? [duplicate]
Which is recommended approach to categorize and form URL structure nowadays?
Should we do it by template type, or skip that part, and go directly for slugs, or split URLs in to deep structure?
Here ...
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Why are two completely different pages considered Duplicate without user-selected canonical?
I am working for an online casino, and the blog page is deemed Duplicate without user-selected canonical to the main casino page? The two pages are completely different and have nothing to do with ...
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Import Canonical URL for YOAST SEO using Database
Is there anyway to upload (import) a Canonical URL for YOAST SEO using Database (inject bulk method)? I'm quite confused as which table and field it used for the data in the database that use for ...
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Semrush says sitemap.xml contains an incorrect page due to non-canonical URL
I am having an issue with my home page or index.php page. When I set canonical to
<link rel="canonical" href="https://example.com/" />
I get an SEO error from Semrush for ...
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Which url structure should I choose for seo? [duplicate]
I am preparing a site that offers a variety of information in a particular area, i've searched here and on many seo sites, but I've always gotten different answers.
I'm undecided about the url.
For ...
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After changing URLs, how do I clear the old URLs out of Google Search Console?
I've recently changed the url structure of my site for SEO purposes from...
example.com/this_is_the_page
...to...
example.com/this-is-the-page
The sitemap.xml is up to date and Google Search Console ...
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Change URL in pagination without refresh but detectable by Google
We have a pagination. Right now we use buttons for the next, previous and page numbers in the pagination. But since we change the page number in in an onclick of a button and the Google bot doesn't ...
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Will updating the page title without changing the URL hurt SEO?
I have a website and I want to update some titles of its pages, e.g.
"White wine" i want to change to "French White Wine", but I do not want to change URL, i.e. I would prefer to ...
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Does Google care about query string case sensitivity, and also does it care about correctness of casing?
Consider these two query string parameters:
?category=healthAndBeauty
?category=healthandbeauty
Does Google differentiate them? What is Google's behavior if it finds both of them in my website for a ...
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Do crawlers/bots treat the normal url and the uri encoded uri as the same for page ranking?
We want to start uri encoding using encodeURI() our URLs during 301 redirect handling on our server. We have to handle special characters in other languages.
We want to make sure that we don't ...
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Why is my page title appearing in lower case on Google?
My page title, in google search results is now in lower case, with the exception of our company name. The title tag is in title case:
<title>Free Mobile Home Value - Used Mobile Home Book
Values&...
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Question regarding Sitemap value in a robots.txt file, and the lines of a txt sitemap
I have two related questions.
To start, in a robots.txt file can you just put the following for sitemap:
Sitemap: www.example.com
Or do you have to have:
Sitemap: http://www.example.com
or
Sitemap: ...
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CDN Relative Path Appearing as Canonical URL (Rank Math SEO)
I have 1300+ pages that have 'non-canonical pages in sitemap' issue based on Ahrefs. All of the canonical URLs are DNS URL like this.
I would like to set the canonical URL to be the same as the URL's ...
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Browser appends a '?' to links on page, but the '?' does not appear in the source [closed]
I'm a little puzzled with the following problem:
When I hover over a link a WordPress site I'm looking after, I can see that the URL is https://xxxxxxx.com/apply-now/?
All the links on the page have ...
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Multiple Domains for 1 Website/Folder & CNAME
I have 2 domains which I would like to point to 1 website/location. The website is a brand created DAM with filecamp.com. So we have created testdam.filecamp.com (for example purposes). This will be ...
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An entire language subdirectory is "duplicate, submitted URL not selected as canonical" in Google Search Console
I am currently facing a major issues as the German content of our website at /de/ is not being indexed.
Here is the error from Google Search Console:
Duplicate, submitted URL not selected as ...
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Why is Google seeing a redirected URL as canonical?
My client's site 301 redirects example.com to www.example.com
However, Google Search Console is saying that example.com is the canonical version of the homepage.
The homepage is performing terribly (...
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How to prevent URL variations from being indexed by Google
I have one login page but on google I see it duplicated. My website has login link in every post and the link is always followed by post id (it is to save the post so the user can get back to the post ...
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Canonical and Duplicate without user-selected canonical
I manage a website made up of HTML pages (as oppose to PHP). There is a .htaccess file that:
adds www
adds https
hides the .html extension
All of the current HTML pages have a line of code telling ...
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Canonicals and hreflang for regionalized pages
I have a website that offers different languages as well as pages suited for users in different regions.
Imagine the following 4 pages:
https://www.example.com/international/en/our-products/
https://...
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Google didn't update the search results after changing a URL with a permanent redirect
I have a simple personal webpage which I use to list my publications and link the corresponding PDFs (I work in academia). Until now, this webpage was hosted by my university:
http(s)://...
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Updating all website url to contain a slash at the end
For some technical reasons, one of the websites I am currently working with have to change it's url pattern from www.example.com/about to www.example.com/about/
This website is already indexed by ...
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Should the URL in the "SeekToAction" Video Schema point to your own site or can it point to Vimeo, Youtube, or another video host?
Google recently launched "SeektoAction" as an addition to the Video Schema, however, what URL you add is not clear.
Here is their example:
"@type": "SeekToAction",
"...
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sitemap and canonical url for website that has only one page: "index.html" hosted using GitHub Pages
I have the almost same question as this:
How do I correctly add index page to xml sitemap - do I need a canonical expression?
But I am confused with the accepted answer, as for my case, the website ...
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Is translating an URI completely a good idea?
Today I received a request to translate the URIs of the site I was developing. I am not convinced about the suggested approach because it seems to me error prone. Is translating URI paths a common ...
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When changing domains and renaming pages are redirects really necessary? How long do they need to be in place?
Recently I moved a medium sized site from a domain to another. During the migration the structure of the site (page name/page dependency) changes but site data does not change. I was advised to ...
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Google Analytics: the impact of "Website's URL" in View settings when using a filter to combine path and hostname
I have a Google Analytics view that combines traffic to multiple subdomains. It has an advanced filter set up to view full page URL in reports.
As expected when using this filter, when I go to ...
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Best form for URLs: file-name.html or /file-name/
Running a Nibbler analysis on a static website I just built, I got the following feedback:
Avoid use of file extensions wherever possible. File extensions appear at the end of web addresses, and have ...
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How to deal with data-sheet and product PDFs which are repeated over the web?
What is the proper way to deal with a situation where a company (acme.com) is selling and implementing certain kinds of gadgets?
Each product has its own dedicated HTML product page, with only general ...
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Using hreflang and canonical in multilingual pages with untranslated content
Problem
I've been looking through questions on this forum (mostly old) but found conflicting information.
I have a bilingual website (Thai and English) with some pages having untranslated content (let'...
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