Questions tagged [homepage]
The main page in a website, which can usually be accessed by going to domainnamehere.com
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Trailing Slash for home page redirect? [duplicate]
While redirecting a page to the homepage, is there any problem if I add a slash to the homepage in my .htaccess file? Currently the homepage doesn't have a slash in the URL.
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Would Google penalize home.php and index.html on one root?
Would home.PHP and main.HTML at the same website be confused by Google crawlers as canonical? If a website has home.php and also index.html do you think Google will down rank it in its search? What if ...
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How can I get Google to index my home page without `en/index.php` even though I redirect to add that?
I have the following situation:
I have a new website like this: https://www.example.com
When you access to my website, it automatically redirects (302 redirection) to its English language page ...
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Where is WordPress on HostGator?
I installed WordPress in my domain's directory on HostGator, but when I go to this domain, it goes to a page for Plesk. Can someone tell me how to direct my homepage to point to my WordPress ...
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Does linking articles from the homepage help their SEO?
Does linking articles from the homepage help article positioning in Google?
Are there any studies that tell what is the optimal time to keep such a link to an article on the homepage?
Will a button ...
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Should I make the homepage the parent page of each category on a WordPress site for SEO?
I want to implement good structuring practices for my website to optimize it for search engines.
My site is WordPress based. If I have some category pages - should I make the homepage the parent page ...
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Is a homepage with little or no text OK for SEO?
We've got a homepage without text – just two links that point to the two main sections of the site. Here's the URL: https://wandelzeit.webflow.io
Each of the two sections that the homepage links to ...
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Do sub-URLs redirected to root URL pass link juice from external links to those deep pages?
I have a domain that has external links to its sub-URLs like example.com/a or example.com/b
Now I want to use this domain and redirect all those sub-URLs to root URLs (example.com) because my website ...
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Do links to the home page need to be consistent about the trailing slash?
If some pages on my website link to example.com and others link to example.com/, should I make sure that all internal links point to one version, or it doesn't matter?
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How to block access to all but homepage unless that access comes from the homepage?
Given a homepage at domain.com (e.g., https://example.com/), I want:
outside requests to only be able to visit the homepage and no subpages
that homepage to successfully redirect visitors to a ...
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Replacing the public home page with member specific content for logged in users
Context: I am designing a web application that's geared toward members-only features. There's no site features that would be useful to non-members, so most of the website will only be available to ...
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Will setting your homepage to "your latest posts" in WordPress hurt Google SEO?
I am struggling with a SEO project because the keywords of this SEO project have no ranking since I finished onsite optimization of 3 months.
I found the website that is using "your latest posts&...
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If my blog on the side has no traffic is it still contributing to my home page rank?
In other words, does my blog confer some domain authority to my website, despite the fact that it receives no traffic?
Note that my rank is very good, so I'm just trying to determine why.
My home page ...
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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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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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How can I bulk redirect old URLs to my home page using .htaccess?
I want to redirect many URLs in my shop. Here is the example:
/pl/index/12
/pl/index/16
/pl/index/18
and so on.
What would be the rule for .htaccess to rewrite all of trash URLs from the previous ...
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Lost rankings after redirecting keyword page to home page, can I optimize my home page for that keyword?
I had been ranked for a desirable phrase in the past, but I redirected that page to the homepage. This was a bad mistake. Now my homepage isn't ranking in the search results nearly as well for that ...
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How can I find page views for root of web site in Google Analytics?
Most of our traffic doesn't come to the root of our web site.
But I would like to know just how much does? It seems like an easy thing to do, and an easy thing to search for, but so far I haven't ...
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How do you create a home page without a file name or .HTML extension?
When we make HTML pages, we generally save it with a .htm or .html extension. But most webpages on the internet have extensions like .com or .org, for example, https://example.com. How do these pages ...
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Redirect to homepage based on server error code with htaccess
I just took over management of a small HTML website. I discovered the security on the website was almost non-existent because full directory browsing was possible.
I have since disabled directory ...
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Can I have both 'Organization' as well as 'LocalBusiness' schema on the homepage?
Can I have both Organization schema as well as LocalBusiness schema on the homepage?
In the Organization schema, I haven't put much information, but in the LocalBusiness I have put all the ...
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Blogger displays 8 posts rather than 10 on the home page
I have a blog on the blogger platform. On my homepage, there are 8 posts while I have it configured to show 10. This is how I have it set up.
I tried putting "input jump" into the last post at ...
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Is redirecting homepage to a page with keyword it's targeting helps in SEO?
My site is fairly new, e.g. example.com. I need to optimize the home page(example.com) for a keyword, e.g. healthy-food.
Does redirecting home page to example.com/healthy-food, would help in terms ...
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The home page is not the first Google site search result, other pages from the site come first
For a few months, when I check my site on Google Search with command site: example.com I'm seeing that the main page of the site is below other pages, here is an example:
I have tried to re-render ...
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Structure homepage path
What is the best practice for a homepage path? I see two options:
No path at all: http://www.example.com/
OR a path based on the homepage <title>: http://www.example.com/hello-and-welcome/
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Homepage of my e-commerce store is always displayed first, then the appropriate categories
I have an e-commerce store, which sells wedding dresses, suits, costumes etc. I have the title of my homepage set like this:
The store name | [name of the 4 main categories delimited with coma]
Then,...
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Root index.html file of a multi-language website [duplicate]
I have a multi-language website and according to the Google guidelines for multi-language sites, I should keep the two or more versions of my website in two different subfolders, like:
www.example....
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Is there a benefit of specifying the canonical URL for the homepage, or can search engines figure out common index, www, and https variants?
Currently I am considering adding a canonical tag onto the homepage of my website as there appear to be a few other URLs that Google and other search engines are picking up on. Realistically the ...
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Is it bad for SEO to 301 redirect the homepage URL to a deeper URL?
For some reason we need to 301 redirect homepage URL to another URL for a while. Eg:
we would use a 301 redirect from www.example.com to www.example.com/a-catgory/b-catgory
we would add a canonical &...
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404 to 301 Permanent Redirect a good idea?
I have a domain which I bought in 2013 and stopped working on it in 2015. I recently started to work on it again. The website had around 150 articles which I deleted a long time ago.
While none of ...
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Should my homepage's url contain the "home" keyword?
I'm thinking about making an SEO improvement. Which URL is better for my homepage?
http://example.com/home
http://example.com/
Since both URLs provide the same content, should I redirect /home to /,...
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Do I need JSON-LD on all pages or just the home page?
Below is an example of the JSON-LD I've added to my home page (company name removed).
My question, is it generally recommended that this be added to all pages of a site, or just the home page?
<...
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Will a separate JSON-LD snippet help in enhancing latest NewsArticle on homepage?
Although I mark-up all my NewsArticle items using JSON-LD, but I want to know that if for the homepage till the time the latest articles remain on the homepage (usually 24hrs), will it be good (Google ...
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What canonical URL should be used for sub-pages? The sub-page itself, the home page,or something else?
I was wondering what canonical url to use for my site's pages other than the home page.
For example, if I have https://example.com/page-1, which should I use:
https://example.com/page-1
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Will posting on a powerful site with keyword rich links to our homepage help or hurt SEO?
We post content three times a week on a powerful site related to our site and link in all content with a fixed phrase to the home page of our site. Will SEO be beneficial or harmful?
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Should JSON-LD contact markup be placed on a homepage or Contact Us page?
I am wondering if JSON-LD contact markup should be placed on a homepage or Contact Us information page, or if both is fine.
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my homepage is completely deindexed by google [duplicate]
homepage of my site is completely de indexed by google.when we search cache of our site,it shows 404 error.Please help me out.
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Showing the home page first in Google search results for searches for the domain name
I have example.com built in WordPress, SEO done using YOAST, if you search "website.com" for it on Bing or Yahoo or DuckDuckGo, then it will appear on top, followed by example.com/page … and that's ...
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Is there any SEO benefit to having blog post links on home page?
Should blog posts be linked on the home page or is it sufficient to have a /blog page with all the links on it?
I know the home page generally has the largest page authority so I was wondering ...
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H1 tag solutions for the main page
I know that the question has beed asked a lot but I'm asking for your advice and "best practices" on the real example. I know what H1 tag is but I'm always in trouble when it comes to the main / home ...
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When using WordPress how do you tell how many read a post when the post is also shown on often visited home page?
I've recently published my first post with Wordpress, however figured out that the blog posts will all be read on the home page - as I'm presuming you can't write different posts on different 'menu' ...
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When the root URL of a domain doesn't have a specific site, how should visitors be directed to language folders?
My question is not technical (how to do it using X technology), it's about choosing proper approach that is good for SEO.
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Let's say I have a website example.com. It's a multilingual site,...
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Will a home page with minimum text hurt SEO?
I'm in the process of setting up a new website for my web and graphic design business.
I'm planning a home page that uses a very minimalist design: It will feature a large H1 title, a simple "...
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Google initially ranks new pages for a keyword, but then reverts to ranking our home page
I have a WordPress site and every page we build under a specific keyword keeps getting exchanged for the homepage.
We manually add every page to Google Search Console and a couple of minutes later it'...
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404 page on a static decommissioned webpage
We have decommissioned an old website and replaced the homepage with a similar static page stating that the offer is no longer available.
We are returning the homepage with a 200 header if navigated ...
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Google's Featured Rich snippets ratings for organisation not being showed on Google Search [duplicate]
I have added Schema Code (Json Ld) for organisation with ratings, there's no error in the Structured data testing tool + it shows correctly in the preview result. But even then the Ratings are not ...
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Homepage redirection after making vistors choose between B2B or B2C client type
We have a site where a business is running since a while, and quite well known by Google. Let's call it example.com . This site is dedicated to one type of client (B2B)
We now want to start the ...
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Google not enlisting our root page
The structure of our angularjs site is like
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/main
/page1
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/page9
where / is redirecting to /main. So we have 10 pages and Google lists 10 pages like
www.ourpage
ourpage/page1
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ourpage/page9
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Include the homepage or not in breadcrumbs?
According to the Google guidelines for breadcrumbs using Schema.org markup the first breadcrumbs trail should NOT be the homepage.
I tried using this markup and using the first trail as the homepage ...
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Is there a disadvantage in implementing schema.org on a home page?
I see a lot of websites, including news sites like bbc.com, amazon.com, imdb.com all of them who publish rich content and implementing schema.org on their leaf pages, leaving out their home page from ...
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