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Set rel="canonical" for query strings and redirects?
I have a fedora40 system with apache-2.4.62 and GSC is reporting many of our URLs that are images, redirects or contain query strings are "duplicate without user-selected canonical."
I've ...
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Rank high for rich snippets for similar events
I'm trying to figure out the best way to approach this with my website.
I have an event page which talks about the venue then sub pages which represent the dates the event runs to which I should use ...
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Is the value href in the base tag for reference only or points to a URL that must exist?
I once had a webpage where I set the href value of the base tag to the path where most links start with that path, but the href value isn't supposed to point to an actual page.
Here's an example of ...
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Same product in multiple categories affects seo?
For example, a product called a thermostat is used in different categories like air conditioner, refrigerators, ice machine parts, oven parts. By categorizing thermostat to different categories, will ...
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How to manage canonical URLs for multiple domains with identical content to avoid SEO penalties?
I am managing a website that has several country-specific domains (e.g., .com, .be, .nl, .fr), but all of these domains load the exact same content. The primary version of the website is the .com ...
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Forcing google to clear its cache of bad pages without specifying each one manually for temporary removal
I have several outdated links on my website that are not used anymore. I give an HTTP error 410 (Gone) and have X-robots-tag: noarchive in the HTTP header to try to make google stop crawling the page, ...
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Best URL structure for a "Product reviews by rating" feature
I run a board game media website (WordPress) which publishes product reviews, each of which include a numeric rating.
https://www.meeplemountain.com/
Currently my URL structure is as follows:
https://...
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Shopify SEO- GSC Help
I am facing some issues about Shopify Product Links. First, i am throwing some example that might be help to understand the problem.
Case-1: https://mywebsite.com/products/someproduct
Case-2: https://...
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Why are my WordPress website's pages getting redirected to the main page?
I am creating a WordPress website on the topic of computers. Now, the sub-pages are getting redirected to the main page. The slugs are in place. Below, is the URL of the website.
https://...
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Google search engine indexes ?m=1 page instead of canonical page
So i have my site, and it is working fine, except for one thing, google indexing, I just uploaded some posts and it seems likes google doesn't like links that does not end with a ?m=1. Let me explain, ...
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Getting thousands of 404 pages for my website with a common URL and a .htm extension [duplicate]
I am seeing many 404 pages ending with the .htm extension in Google Search Console:
Sometimes they aren't appearing, but other times there are more than 1,000 pages in a day.
What can I do about these?...
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What is the best place to add the language folder in url from an SEO perspective?
I have a website with multiple languages so we added the language folder after the root domain directly, and then each folder after that is localized to the same language. For example:
XYZ.com/en/blog/...
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Is there any reason to not provide redirect code while still redirecting it?
When I fetch this URL, which doesn't have the trailing slash:
const url = "https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first";
const fetchResult = await fetch(url);
console.log("Status:", ...
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HTTP as a protocol and an URI has standard metadata names. Is there any equivalence for other protocols or URIs?
For webpages, like https://example.com, you have standard metadata names like author, description. Is there any equivalence for other URI, like mailto:[email protected]? I know that for an email you ...
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How solving the problem with three slashes in WordPress URLs
I'm writing because I have a problem that I can't find a solution to.
Google Search Console tells me that my site has over 30 pages in the "Page crawled, but not currently indexed" section. ...
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My website auto generate hundreds of URLs with the same pattern, and it affects my SEO, how can i stop that and delete them?
i bought an expired domain, and i noticed in google search console that their is +2500 craweled URLs that has the same pattern (ex : www.website.com/?3567hyvz7582zmo1041590_html)
and most of them lead ...
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How to choose a SEO friendly URL structure for user generated content? [duplicate]
I am currently designing the URL structure for a web application serving user generated content.
For SEO purposes, I want the user generated name in the URL, e.g. example.com/collection/user-generated-...
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Best way to protect a directory outside of root directory?
My document root path is the following:
/Users/myname/Sites/
I've created 2 virtual host, like so:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot "/Users/myname/...
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Self-referring canonicals not being picked up by Google but can be seen in crawlers, and inspect tool
My client previously had issues with their self-referring canonicals not set up correctly. After they implemented the corrections, I verified the changes through a combination of methods. I conducted ...
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Search Console reports successful Page fetch on pages that do not exist
Here's a grammatically corrected version of your text:
Hi,
Almost 2 years ago, we migrated from Joomla CMS to Wordpress. On our old Joomla website, we used to have URLs such as:
mywebsite.com/cat1/...
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Mass ?query= dumped in to server requests
At some point in the past few months almost all of the URLs in the logs starting containing this:
?query=
I tried using all of the major search engines (Bing, Google, Yahoo and Yandex) however even ...
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How to link an unchanging Wix URL to a PDF that will be replaced with updated versions
As an example, the URL https://nationalmtb.org/nica-handbook always links to the most updated version of the organization's handbook (currently a file named NICA-Handbook.12.1.23.v2.pdf).
How do I do ...
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Canonical setup for duplicate content with service areas
I'm relatively new to SEO and would like to make sure I understand canonicals and website layouts correctly. I'm working on a site for "Bob's Pest Control, Plumbing, and Pizza Delivery" that ...
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Display a Single location that have two words in a URL
I have to show locations in a URL. The mentioned location has two words. Salvage fort
What is the ideal URL structure?
//test. com/search/aza/salvage%20fort-to-missipi
//test. com/search/aca/...
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properly formatting an information-friendly URL [duplicate]
I have a problem with formatting a URL to make SEO tools happy with it.
I currently have a URL similar to this:
https://www.example.com/Toronto_The-Flatiron_M5E-1C9/February-16-2024_600pm_ages36-49/
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Singular vs plural forms for entities in CMS website
Let's say I have a (frontend) website where users can register and post, just like StackExchange, which makes use of a REST API to fetch the data. So the website is located at https://www.example.com ...
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not set page title
I am seeing on GA4 a lot of traffic on a "not set" page title.
I'll explain the whole situation to you:
In my company, the marketing team wants to track how many people apply to our ...
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Google Search Console displays message "Page is not indexed: Page with redirect" but the URL it is showing is not completely mine
Google Search Console is showing me the URL: https://example.com/unique-ways-to-hang-your-curtains//1000 there is an addition of /1000.
My actual URL is: https://example.com/unique-ways-to-hang-your-...
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Are dates in URLs going to cause SEO problems? If so, how can users share URLs with dates without hurting SEO?
I am developing a train schedule website. In their I am using following URL pattern
https://example.com/search/61-205/2023-12-28/stationA-to-stationC
so 61-205 will be from station ID and To Station ...
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indexation and Canonical URL Issue with Personal GitHub-hosted Site on Google Search
I encountered an issue with my personal site hosted on GitHub, as it does not appear in Google search results. Upon investigating Google Search Console, I received the message: "The page is not ...
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Google flags url parameter search pages as duplicate and unindexable despite unique content
My dynamic search pages are marked as duplicate content by Google (Alternate page with proper canonical tag) even though the content on the pages is different. Each page is on a single URL with ...
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Impact of URL structure on SEO
I'm working on a major update on one of my website after a slow but continued lowering in google search rankings. I went from 1/2 on my major pages to being at 3 or 4th position.
Currently my website ...
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.htaccess redirect from HTTP to HTTPS and add canonical
I am having a few problems with Google search console not validating any of my self hosted WordPress blog pages and I have tracked it down to (I think!) a redirect from HTTP to HTTPS.
This is my ....
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hreflang unique situation
i have a unique situation for my international site.
I have pricing visable on the EU,UK,CA,US stores and no pricing on the rest of world store. so my plan is to make the international store the main ...
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Canonicalize products to category?
There is an ecommerce site, a category and products. Some few products are top, most other products are so-so.
Is it a good idea to canonicalize so-so products to category?
Like this
Category: https:/...
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SEO management in Google Search Console for a non-english version of a website
I have a website example.com made with docusaurus. Initially, the website was in English. Several months ago, I added the Chinese version with i18n. All the chinese pages are under zh-CN; so a page ...
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Two GH Pages site on the same domain
I have one GH Pages website at the URL username.github.io/project-name, which has a dedicated purpose. This has been around for some time, so I don't want to change its URL.
I then setup a second ...
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Client's Website Was Hacked and 316K Fake URLs Submitted to GSC
First, I wish you all a pleasant weekend.
I have a unique situation. My client's website was hacked before working with me, and now I'm trying to fix it to the best of my abilities.
We started working ...
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Duplicate, Google chose different canonical than user after redirecting to HTTPS and Non-WWW via HTACCESS
I have redirected the www version and http version to non-www and https so the URL will be like https://website.com using the following .htaccess code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
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Is it okay to have <canonical> outside the <head> tag?
Is it completely fine to add rel=canonical tag outside the head section?
I ran a website audit and the crawler highlighted the issue to have rel=canonical tag inside the head tag.
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Building a webcomic: How to redirect URL to latest slug using htaccess?
I'm inexperienced with coding.
I have a comic that creates new pages as /?pg=pagenumber
I want visitors to be redirected to the latest page. So when they type: https://example.com they get redirected ...
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Clicks into site dropped precipitously after internationalizing canonical URL
I went from 3k clicks/day to close to only a few hundred. I have 2 sites using the same canonical link generation code, only 1 has this problem (the other has a sitemap, any relevance?).
I examined my ...
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Apache URL rewrite does not mask subdirectories
The admin setup a subdirectory /sites/default/files/resources and updated the docroot .htaccess to point to this subdirectory so that the domain www.example.com points to it.
I do not have access to ...
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Confused about " Duplicate without user-selected canonical"
I'm confused about this error in Google console. It's telling me 2 pages are not indexed because of Duplicate without user-selected canonical.
Both are the same page though. It's the main page of the ...
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What does it mean, 404 page with noindex and non-self-referencing canonical?
I am confronted with a strange setup I never seen before - and I don't know, how to deal with it.
Details:
There is a bunch of no longer existing pages. All of them have
Status code 404,
Their ...
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Google forcing HTTP as canonical, despite rel tag linking to HTTPS and despite HSTS enforced for entire TLD
I have a small personal website with a .dev TLD, which has HSTS enforced across the entire TLD. So my site is entirely HTTPS with Let's Encrypt certs and all that fun stuff. This year I've been ...
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page not indexed - duplicate without user selected canonical
I have submitted sitemap to google and it keeps identifying unique product pages as duplicates. Can someone please explain why its happening and how to resolve them please.
All the product pages are ...
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How to Solve Pages with Duplicate Meta Duplicate Tags & Content Error due to multilingual pages?
I am using one of popular SEO tool and it showing me error of duplicate meta tags and content for below type of URL structures (I am taking as example) and I am working for agency.
www.example.com/abc/...
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Google is not choosing the canonical URL I chose
My website already has a canonical URL defined however in the
Google Search Console it says that the canonical URL is the English page. How can I change this?
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How to hide my username from the URL? [closed]
At my WordPress site, on every post (and comment) my DISPLAY NAME (author's name) appears, and it is fine. If a reader clicks that name then it shows the author page (blog page) with all the posts by ...
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