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Can't access the website which is on and working with only one device (PC) [closed]
Around 2 weeks ago I suddenly became unable to use my university's classroom website from my PC. My PC is the only device having problem, I can freely access it from my phone or laptop. Website url is,...
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Keyword in URLs vs. short URLs
My website is all about long holidays. This brings me to the following dilemma: is it better to have "long-holidays" in nearly all URLs of the website or not, given that it will make the ...
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How to avoid robots from indexing pages of my app through alternate URLs?
I have this web app that is accessible through those different URLs.
URL_1: www.mycustomdomain.com // THIS IS MY CUSTOM DOMAIN (PUBLIC TO THE USERS)
URL_2: www.my-project.firebaseapp.com ...
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Is it OK for SEO to use a number for the URL path rather than a slug of ugly percent encode international characters that don't redirect properly?
I’m using WordPress with RTL|UTF8|Persian content. When I use the example.com/post-name permalink structure, I have two problems:
When I change the post URLs, it creates redirect problems. (I don't ...
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Is inconsistent URL structure bad for SEO?
I work for a site and I don't know why the content team did this, but here is an example:
example.com/food/italian is a page that contains links to Italian recipes, such as:
example.com/italian-food/...
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SEO-friendly way to pass multiple values in a URL parameter
What is the correct/recommended way from a SEO point of view to pass multiple parameter values for a single key in a URL.
e.g. my online store sells the watches that I'd like filtering using facets ...
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nginx https ip address to domain redirect
My website is pretty messed up: it shows up as an IP address in the google search results (https). I want to redirect this to my domain, but when I couldn't figure out how to redirect https to my ...
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My website doesn't provide 404 errors
My website doesn't provide 404 errors.
If you were to type in: clientsforcounsellors.com/dlkforiereg or pretty much any gibberish page that doesn't exist, you'd be redirected to my home page.
Why ...
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Google Analytics showing named URL for every page except the home page which only shows a forward slash
My main homepage URL in analytics does not have a name and is just showing as a '/':
Every other page on the site is has a name following the '/' for example '/sign-gallery. I am worried that my site ...
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Two subages on one website with almost identical content
I'm creating a website that is comparing stuff, let's say it compares programming languages for the sake of explaining my question.
I'm building a structure where the url/slug will contain the two ...
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Forward domain to a specific port and IP while using the forwarded domain in the URL
I have 2 domains. One is hosted with google domains and the other with Namecheap. I don't really care which one I use as the primary or if I even end up using 2 for my purposes.
I would like to be ...
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Best practice for new content, but identical topic? [duplicate]
I write a new blog post each year regarding the previous year's market trends. I still see users accessing some of these posts even though they are a couple of years old and outdated.
Redirecting ...
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Hreflang conflicts with canonical in source code
A report in SEMRush has flagged an issue with hreflang conflicting with rel=canonical but I'm not sure how to resolve the issue or get to the bottom of it. Has anyone else experienced this and can ...
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Redirecting bare domain to www doesn't when specifying http/https scheme
I've recently uploaded a website on a domain via Firebase hosting. Using the domain registrar (NameCheap) I've also applied a 301 redirect rule (via NameCheap. It's called "URL redirect record&...
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Is a URL with querystring SEO friendly? [duplicate]
I have developed a CMS that works with ID in urls.
http://example.com/content/?id=10
My customers asked me to add keywords in URLs to be seo firendly. I am not sure if there is a certain definition ...
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How crawler decides which one is original if use the canonical tag (self reference) on each version of the duplicate content or page?
To understand the query, let's take two sites
https://www.abc.example/a
https://www.xyz.example/a
https://www.abc.example/a is an already existing site (it is already self canonicalize <link href=...
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How to fix duplicate title tags canonical for / vs index.html
I am confused, after scanning by an online SEO tool, it says:
error duplicate title tags canonical; https://cleanmypc.co.uk and https://cleanmypc.co.uk/index.html
I have in my .htaccess file
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Which special characters are safe and unreserved to use in the complete URL?
After reading these answers and some Googling I couldn't find a precise answer. RFC states that these characters are unreserved
"-" | "_" | "." | "!" | "~&...
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Google picks wrong canonical url in search results
When I do a search in google I receive results as expected. When I hover over the search result I can see the correct url. But when I click on it I'm redirected to the homepage. In the search console ...
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Google does not index pages and defines wrong canonical
Contex
I have a domain, andrasnovoszath.com which previously I redirected to another one bcdataanalytics.com. About a month ago I stopped the redirect and started to write posts on it as on a separate ...
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Can we implement hreflang on root domain for one country and on sub-folder for another country?
Is it possible for 2 countries, we can implement hreflang tags on root domain and a sub-folder, for example for US hreflang on www.example.com and for Italy www.example.com/IT can we do it like this?
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External domains links allowed in canonical tag?
I have two websites A and B and i want to right now add A website link in B website as a canonical URL. It's allowed in SEO? It's is best for SEO?
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URLs is indexed but doesn't show up in the search results
Some of the URLs marked as indexed in Google search console are not shown in search results when related keywords are searched.
The URLs in question include query strings and their canonical URL is ...
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Can a webpage differ in content if 'http' is changed to 'https' or if 'www.' is added after 'http://' (or 'https://')?
When I use the Python package newspaper3k package and run the code
import newspaper
paper = newspaper.build('http://abcnews.com', memoize_articles=False)
for url in paper.article_urls():
print(url)...
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Can't add tags to the page head for my content at another publisher, can the canonical be embedded in the body?
I have published some good articles to a technical community.
Actually, these articles have been ranked as the first result in google and I would like to add my original article as canonical but I don'...
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Adding Canonical Tags Using Openelement
It appears that this format is generally found when adding canonical tags to a webpage <link rel="canonical" href="https://example.com" /> However, using Open element the ...
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Blogspot Duplicate URL - How to remove ?m=1, ?m=0
Is there any way to avoid getting the mobile suffix while visiting the blogger site on the mobile device?
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Can it be beneficial to use a canonical tag from your homepage to another website page if you want to rank that page?
I want to rank for keyword 'python cursus' with webpage https://pythoncursus.nl/python-cursus/.
Given the fact that it's an exact match domain, I think Google is confused about which page to rank. And ...
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index vs a-specific-url [duplicate]
As we all know, the URL has some importance in SEO.
Should I try to rewrite (or redirect) the index page to a specific-name?
For example:
index.php to white-cats-are-cute.php
(This is regardless of ...
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SEO: How to handle common content to multiple countries (subfolder strucuture) that has "local links" depending on the country
Goal: SEO-friendly muti-country mono-language web with common contents across countries that need local links
I have to build a SEO-optimized website with:
MULTI-country (multiple Spanish-speaking ...
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Should I change the AMP url? (when updating the url for the page itself?)
Let's say I have a page under www.example.com/some/path, and its AMP version is under www.example.com/some/path/amp.
If I change the path of the page, let's say to www.example.com/other/path, should I ...
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Encoding spaces in urls for SEO when hyphens are already present in text
From my research it seems that hyphen - chars are the preferred word breakers in urls in respect to SEO.
I'd like to use text in my urls for both SEO purposes and for functionality, consuming the text ...
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Does crawler index duplicate page which has canonical URL?
Suppose I have two pages with the same content:
example.com/a
example.com/b
so I put a canonical tag <link rel="canonical" href="example.com/a"/> at page example.com/b. I ...
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Unique Canonicals for related product Webpages [duplicate]
For a site that carries "lists" of products, what is the best approach to using canonicals?
example.com/green-watches.php - this is the MAIN page (by main, it means that this should be ...
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Showing more text with JavaScript - Google and SEO aspects
I have a page with several lists. Each list has "Read more" button or link. When clicking the "Read more", additional elements are added to the list (sometimes by just changing the ...
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Applying hreflang and canonical to a website with multiple domains and subfolders with different languages
Currently I have a website with multiple domains, each domain for a specific language. However, I also have sub folders with each language. For example:
www.en_site.example/en
www.en_site.example/fr ...
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How are these URLs highlighting text?
I've noticed some web URLs link to a web page with highlighted text. This appears to be controlled by an escape sequence in the URL of the form #:~:text=StartText,EndText, where StartText indicates ...
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Can I have separate url in internal navigation of website and Sitemap?
I have not so SEO friendly url structure in my internal navigation of website(some technical challenges) but marked each of the page with SEO friendly canonical(through CMS) and these canonicals are ...
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Responding '404' for subdirectories is bad practice?
I had URLs like this: example.com/post/dkKE_wd3jJ
For SEO reasons I decided to add some text:
example.com/post/dkKE_wd3jJ/best_funny_videos
But I noticed that the alphanumeric ID looks weird in front,...
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Google, old site pages indexed. How i can remove old pages gracefully?
I have create a new version of a site: new HTML structure, new styles, images, etc.
The content of the site is the same (text are changed but the "concepts" are the same).
This is the actual server ...
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SEO URL Behind Login That May/May Not Require Payment Structure
I have the following parent URL:
example.com/courses/course_name/
Currently, that parent URL can be accessed without a login.
When a user is logged in, and they try to access a video child URL, 2 ...
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URL structure for specific years in blog
I have an URL like this one for an article with a good traffic.
example.com/best-x-for-2019
Now I want to update the content to 2020. I have made the mistake of having the year in slug for the first ...
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When syndicating an article to a third party site which is then the canonical, how should I update the json-ld Article schema URLs?
If I have a duplicate content because my article is syndicated to a third party site. which URLs should I use in json-ld Article schema? To be precise, let's say I want to publish an article from my ...
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Repetition Keyword URL Subfolder + Slug?
here's the question. In this sense, it is not keyword stuffing in the URL if it is mentioned once as slug and category.
It would be more user friendly to have a short URL but it is questionable which ...
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On Netlify, how do I redirect a URL wildcard to that parent directory?
I have URLs I want to redirect to their parent folder/directory:
/hats-category/hats1
/hats-category/hats2
/hats-category/cool-hats
Rule looks like this: /hats-category/* /hats-category
So I can ...
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With WordPress multi-language site in English and Spanish, Google doesn't index the URLs with the /es/
I have launched a website with English and Spanish languages. I've done it using WordPress multi-language (WPML), but I'm having a lot of problems indexing and ranking the Spanish URLs, which appear ...
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Can I create a keyword subdirectory for my home page to help SEO?
My website consists of an English-language Homepage (my index.html file), and a German and Russian translation of this page (de.html + ru.html), which are accessible through a button on the top-right.
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Will /blog/ at the start of the URL path for my WordPress articles help SEO?
I have a WordPress website for a business. And they have many pages, Custom Posts, etc. And they do have a Blog also.
At present their blog urls are like this:
Main page for blog: example.com/blog
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Cannot index URL with parameter, appended to prevent redirect on first access. "Duplicate, submitted URL not selected as canonical" message
I have a language learning website.
The main app page (https://www.example.com/vocab/learn) is accessed via https://www.example.com/vocab/app, where the user can either login, register, or preview as ...
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Duplicate content after moving from http to https
I move my wordpress blog from "http" to "https".
I generate a sitemap that contains canonical urls with "https" and
submit it to GSC.
I used "rel=canonical" tag in all blog post urls.
I also implement ...
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