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How can I tell if a redirect is still externally linked?
I renamed some of my pages (for consistency), and put this into my .htaccess file:
Redirect permanent /old/name https://mysite/new/name
It's been a while now, and I'd like to delete that ...
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Weird /'http URL pattern leading to many 404s
I got very weird 404s from the Google Search Console. It shows me some kind of URL mix up and I cannot pinpoint where this pattern comes from. It is a WordPress installation.
https://example.com/...
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Making the contents of a Sub Directory appear more prominent
Lets assume that you own a number of zines or small blogs that are all different in theme, and all rest on seperate domains:
http://example-one.com . http://example-two.com . http://example-three.com
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URL Character Counting - Where to start counting?
I'm rewriting URLs for a website, I know it could affect SEO, but I've no choice but to rewrite them, and 301 redirect the old ones to their new URLs. I want to try to keep the new URLs short and to ...
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Redirected to www, but Google is indexing no-www without snippets, should I use noindex instead?
I started my blog a month ago and was using non www version for my website.
Then, I recently decided to stick to www.example.com version. So I changed it and Google has indexed the www version ...
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Redirecting URL with & without query string?
If I setup a 301 redirect for the first URL path below will that also redirect all the paths below that contain a query string?
For example:
/6-light-oval-chandelier-espresso?pp=0&epik=...
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Which second separator to use in URL?
I'm already using - as a separator in my URLs, for some reasons I need to add a second one.
According to RFC 3986 I can use ., _ and ~. I also have seen some sites using + as a separator. I'm ...
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"NOINDEX, FOLLOW" turns into NOFOLLOW eventually. Solution is Canonical?
I have recently discovered that Google treats "noindex,follow" pages as "noindex,nofollow" eventually -> https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/115879
I have a website with hotel listings. I provide ...
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Finding URLs that redirect to a given website [closed]
Is there any way to find all URLs that (permanently) redirect to a given website?
E.g. example.redirect redirects to www.example.com. So I'd want a way to determine that example.redirect redirects ...
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prevent google from picking redirecting page as canonical
If have to urls A = https://a.example/foo and B = https://b.example/bar where I consider A as preferred URL and not B. In fact, all B does is send a 302 redirect to A (and it is rather something like ...
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How to choose canonical when one desktop URL is broken up into several mobile URLs?
I have an adaptive website, and in the mobile version, we put the same data as the desktop version, but in special tabs which are accessible via route URL change.
For example, we have the profile ...
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Change the product URL to a directory and drop the PHP to put articles about the product within its URL structure?
I have a product with url http://example.com/category/product.php.
In short will come some blog articles, having urls like
http://example.com/category/product/article1/,
http://example.com/...
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How to declare canonical tag for home page
My website Homepage can be accessed with
HTTPS www.example.com and example.com
HTTP www.example.com and example.com
Also, other URL with Https version redirect to same content.
My question is ...
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How do I modify WordPress such that the Facebook crawler can't see my canonical tags?
I get content from an external sources via RSS.
I've set "canonical" so google knows the content is not original.
However when I post the link of my articles on Facebook, I get the original URL post ...
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Duplicate without user selected canonical, even though pages are different. Why?
I am using the Search Console and I encountered this problem with my Angular 7 app for a webshop. At first, I thought it was a Javascript rendering problem, but made sure all server resources were ...
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Can canonical tags be used to make a single page rank for multiple keywords?
I have a website about 'Virtualization' and I want to rank for 'Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization and Network virtualization' keywords. I wrote a long article about these ...
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Should canonical tags point to the guest post on an external site, or the copy on my own site?
I'm guest posting on a blog related to my niche. The end result would be fresh new content for the blog, and I get a back link to my blog.
I'm also planning on posting the same article on my own ...
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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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If i cancel my AdSense account will it also affect my youtube videos for monetizing
I moved to Netherland from Norway i want to change my bank account and all my adres from Norway to Netherland. So, my question is that if I cancel my AdSense account and if I make a new account is ...
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I can't run 2 or more url rewriting rules at once
I was trying to shorten the URL more, but I was removing .php file extension from the URLs using URL rewriting too. I can't run both at the same time.
Removing the extensions and trying to shorten ...
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How to point my domain to a my server's IP address and configure it to show my website? [duplicate]
I'm doing website on the Linux server (still learning) And I have on 1 IP address to host many web sites. I will have them separately. For example 104.000.0.000:203 for one website and 104.000.0.000:...
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Should I use Canonical Tag ? I have replaced underscore by hyphen in url
I have created a website in codeigniter. Some urls have underscore eg:demo.com/heritagehome_cochin . so I replaced underscore with hyphen for seo friendy URL by changing routes.php file.
My doubt is ...
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Can I configure Google Analytics to use the canonical URL?
The website includes pages like
example.com/category1/product1 and
example.com/category2/product1 and
example.com/category3/product1
Here, the example.com/category1/product1 is the canonical page;...
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Is it problematic to include both decoded and encoded versions of the same directives in robots.txt?
This question is a follow up to this one:
Should one hide RTL encoded URLs in robots.txt or not?
Is it problematic to include both decoded and encoded versions of the same directives in robots.txt, ...
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Using IIS URL Rewrite module instead of Global.asax for complex redirect rules
We have a legacy ASP.NET website in which complex redirect rules are coded in Global.asax. Actually this logic processes requests with several optional or variable parts like
{http|https}://[www.]...
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How to change the structure of my URLs along with the Sitemap for a live website?
I am changing my website's URL to improve the SEO. The current sitemap contains URLs like this:
mysite/browse/1 /* 1 is the ID for fashion */
mysite/browse/2 /* 2 is the ID for real estate */
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Does DNS works for 2 URLs which are pointed to 2 different ports
I do have a Qlik Nprinting application in Azure VM which has 2 web portals running on different ports. In our project, we have configured port numbers for web portals to 443 and 8443. URLs to access ...
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How to mark canonical tags for multiple versions of the same product?
We have an automobile research website where we have product pages. Also, few products have some different variants with subtle differences. The case is similar to amazon iphone
If you click on ...
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How to stop google from indexing old URLs of a website which redirects to new URLs
My old WordPress configuration added index.php to the permalinks of all my pages.
e.g: https://example.com/index.php/contact etc.,
It was indexed already by google crawler. Now I reconfigured ...
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just to set it straight, understanding canonical URL [duplicate]
I have a question regarding canonical URLs.
My problem is that I think I understand canonical URLs but I am also not entirely sure.
I have a website that is starting to score really well in Google.
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How I can removie html extensions [duplicate]
I'm new at web development, I have a question, Thank you all for your answers.
I made a website with HTML5 and CSS, I Published my website on my website host using FTP (FileZilla Client), But when I ...
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301 Redirect vs Canonical Link - which is preferred?
Let's say I have the following three URLS.
Url1: Domain/Home
Url2: www.domain/home
Url3: domain/home <-- Canonical
With respect to SEO, is it preferred to add a canonical link to Url1 &...
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Do I have to include the file extensions in the canonical links?
I submitted a page to Google Search Console and got an error message "Duplicate without user-selected canonical".
The full URL is https://example.com/french-english-translator-iphone-ipad.html but I ...
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With respect to SEO, is it preferred to use hyphen instead of period in the URL?
I have a complex class on my server side, for example class Car has Properties Make and Model.
There is a form that user can fill (Make and Model are input textboxes), then I pass all these inputs as ...
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Optimizing for Same Keyword in 2 Different Regions (US & Canada) - Yes or No?
Background: The same company is operating in 2 regions (US & CANADA). The language is fairly similar except for slight content differences, however, the primary keyword is the same, after ...
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Pagination without pagination URLs - is it bad for SEO?
I've read a few articles about pagination pitfalls but none really describe my situation. I have a products page rendered with ReactJS with about 300 products and pagination (I am also using server-...
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SEO: example.com/keyword1/keyword2 or example.com/keyword1-keyword2 [duplicate]
For search engines, mostly Google, which is better:
example.com/keyword1/keyword2
or:
example.com/keyword1-keyword2
This specific page has to rank high for keyword 2, and possibly keyword 1 too.
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If a link to my site is sent by a visitor to their friend via email, is this counted as email traffic source in Google Analytics?
Let's say I have tracking set up on my website to capture traffic sources in GA.
If someone emails my site to a friend and they click on it, is this counted as an email source?
I know an email ...
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PWA keeps being delisted as "Soft 404"
Our main root domain for our PWA is here:
https://editor.construct.net
There are many versions of the product, all accessible in sub folders, EG:
https://editor.construct.net/r150/
https://editor....
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How to change the URL of a wordpress website?
By default, my URL was set to example.com/wp/wp-admin instead of the example.com/wp-admin that I used to remember. Also my website's contents show on example.com/wp rather than example.com. How do I ...
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Google selecting wrong canonical
This page addresses the question of duplicate content, but does not describe what I'm facing. After first encountering the Google "canonical algorithm bug" 2 months ago, I've made only a little ...
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How to resolve Google Suggested Canonical tag Issue?
I don't know how to fix this issue. Why does Google suggest another page as canonical, as opposed to the one selected by us?
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URL Parameters in GSC contains strange values for recently crawled URLs
I've been fighting the Google canonical page algorithm bug for quite some time. One advice I received is to set GSC URL Parameters to "Every URL", since we use a page generation script with a "page" ...
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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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Google selects one unrelated page as Canonical for many other pages, blocking our pages from indexing
Since start of April, we have many pages such as:
https://www.example.com/index.pl?page=directcore
for which Google continues to select this page as canonical:
https://www.example.com/index.pl?page=...
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Ajax Request with Push State to Current URL SEO Friendly?
After reading up on getting content indexed in Google that is pulled into a page from an AJAX request, I have found that you can use pushState to change the URL and this will allow Google to find it.
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Why would Google canonize between hreflang pages?
So as far as I know, one of the most important use cases, and basically the whole point of hreflang is to be able to control which domain should rank where when it is not obvious.
I notice that from ...
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Download a File from a URL [closed]
I am trying to download a file from its URL using Windows Powershell as follows
invoke-webrequest -uri "http://www.ead.eurocontrol.int/pamslight/pdf/4e415453/EG/C/EN/AIP/AD/EG_AD_2_EGFF_en" -outfile "...
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How to ignore/redirect all URLs matching a certain string
I am using the WordPress plugin, Timely All-in-One events calendar. Unfortunately it is creating a plethora of duplicate URLs which end in strings like
https://www.example.com/events/action~agenda/...
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Compare two different URL directories in Google Analytics [closed]
I want to pull out 2 directories only in Google Analytics to compare them. Can we do that? What is the proper code?
| Source / Medium | Matching RegEx | ^(bing / cpc | adcenter / cpc)$
This does ...
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