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Canonical URL for a home page and trailing slashes
My home page could be potentially linked as:
http://example.com
http://example.com/
http://example.com/?ref=1
http://example.com/index.html
http://example.com/index.html?ref=2
(the same page is ...
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How to handle canonical url changes like Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow sites all have pretty urls which include the question title. In the HTML it also have canonical url for that page.
I just found out that when I change the question title, the url is ...
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Should URL paths be case sensitive?
My website's URLs are currently case-insensitive. For example, both of the following links show the exact same page:
http://example.com/about
http://example.com/About
However, taking a look at the ...
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Why treat these as URLs with different path capitalization and trailing slash as different?
These are all strictly different urls:
http://www.example.com/page
http://www.example.com/pAge
http://www.example.com/page/
http://www.example.com/paGE/
I get that it conforms to the strict ISO ...
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When the canonical page itself changes URL
This is a continuation of the question: How to handle canonical URL changes like Stack Overflow.
Say I have the canon URL:
questions/11/car <---canonically-linked-from--- questions/11/
What will ...
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How to handle different images size and URL with SEO
I'm creating my own CMS, and I have to handle images with differentes sizes.
I store all my image's information in a database. For every image, I have:
a filename (with extension)
a title
an alt ...
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Should an ID go at the beginning or end of the URL for SEO? [duplicate]
Says I have a link, which contains the ID = 19963307
Type 1 :
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19963307/how-to-install-asp-net-mvc-5-on-a-server
Type 2 :
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/how-...
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Does URL encoding create duplicate content?
An SEO expert was testing my site, and noticed that my URLs contained the special character :. He said that would create duplicate content, because google would interpret any url containing : as two ...
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Should a canonical URL be search engine friendly?
I'm using Drupal with search engine friendly URLs. The way Drupal works is that there's two ways to reference a node with SEF URLS switched on:
The SEF way, eg. http://example.com/blog/the-answer-to-...
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Using subdomains or directories for main categories?
I have a website which references places to travel to in the world. Those places are (of course) grouped by countries.
Here is an example of an actual URL of my website:
http://awespot.org/country/...
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Do query string case differences affect whether a URL is Canonical?
If I have two URL's where the only difference is the case of the query string:
http://example.com?param=TEST
http://example.com?param=test
Are they both considered equal by search engines? I know ...
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Is it OK to have a case insensitive URI?
If I have a URL like /writes/about/star-wars, and it is also accessible to users by /wRitEs/ABOUT/star-WARS, is that considered another page? Is a page allowed to have any combo of upper/lower-case ...
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URLs with "space", "%20", "+" are canonicals?
If I have a URL encoded and another does not, e.g.
<a href="http://example.com/images/foo abc.jpg">Image</a>
<a href="http://example.com/images/foo+abc.jpg">Image</a>
<a ...
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Google ranking - difference between example.com and example.com/?ref=id
Does it impact a site's Google ranking if I link to the site with a "referrer" query-string? e.g: example.com/?ref=mysite instead of example.com ?
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Support same URL in different forms
I have seen many websites supporting multiple forms of the same URL. For example consider
www.example.com/question1/ OR
www.example.com/Question1/ OR
www.example.com/QUESTION1/ etc.
all lead to one ...
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Same page in different "locations" on same site - duplicate content? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
The same page, or rather the same content on a page is accessible from two very similar URLs, ...
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How to correctly remove MULTIPLE parameters from the Google index using htaccess and canonical / noindex?
I found a similar question with a great answer for removing a single URL parameter. However, what if I have 20+ URL parameters that I don't want indexed?
Also, in the example solution below, it is ...
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Is it possible to check the case on Apache redirects or aliases?
I have a big website (15,000 pages) with a log list of redirects (about 800) that have been used in marketing pieces for years. My Apache server has been running mod_rewrite for the past 10 years or ...
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Change web folders names with uppercase to lowercase or not?
I have web directories with upper case letters and site is on Apache server.
Example: www.example.com/ServiceTools/page.htm
I have read that using upper case letters in folder name is bad practice ...
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Would the following URLs result in duplicate content if I only used one canonical link?
In your experience, have you ever had problems with duplicate content being caused by the following URLs:
www.mysite.net
www.mysite.net/
www.mysite.net/index.html
Do you think that this could result ...
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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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Should extended Latin characters in urls (ü, ö, etc.) be percent-encoded as standard?
I'm putting together an English language site which contains its own German translation (don't worry, I've lived in Germany and I have a degree in Germanic and Slavonic Studies, it's proper German...)....
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How to construct the URL for search with multiple input?
I am having a home page where I can search on multiple tags. How should I construct the URL?
Suppose I search for tag = test_1 and tag = test_2
Should I construct the url like
http://www.example....
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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 my canonical URL contain the language parameter?
As I understand correct a canonical URL should point to the original URL of the website. Our website provides different languages that can be switched with an URL parameter, instantly.
Our website is ...
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Which URL(s) do I choose for one product with different colours?
I read that it is best practices that if you have a product that comes in 3 colours to have one URL for the product, and then to have a dropdown with all the colours that it comes in?
For example if ...
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Does a link to your site with a URL parameter pass link juice?
If I link to http://example.com/?id=344, will that still provide link juice to example.com? Or will it provide link juice only to http://example.com/?id=344, which might have a link to example.com ...
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How to optimize keywords in URLs for SEO?
Can I write slightly different URLs for the same page and rank "equally" for both?
For example, I have a post URL like this:
http://example.com/rio-de-janeiro/onetitle-...
But I also would like to ...
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Clarify "canonical" word: Can someone please list the various uses of this word in SEO context, and point out correct or incorrect uses of it?
I think the authoritative use of the word "canonical" in the SEO discipline dates back to this 2006 blog post by Matt Cuts on cononicalization:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-...
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Changing canonical URL impact on SEO
I have a website with multiple URLs to the same content:
/dog/black/labrador
/dog/brown/labrador
... whereas the /black/ or /brown/ hierarchy can be anything and will always show the same page and ...
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Using an alias on my domain. How do I tell Google that I want it to only index the alias to avoid duplicate content?
I am starting a music blog at www.domain1.com. That URL is an alias shared with www.domain2.com which is just a domain I happen to have hosting with but is unused. In the future I may want to develop ...
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URL query variables and rel=canonical
I have 14 pages of products on my site. Each page has 10 products. The product pages are powered by Ajax, and I have a filter results feature which lets them only show products with higher ratings, ...
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Multilingual website URL & SEO
For example, I see most of the Google's properties is using the hl query string, e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/?hl=zh-TW
and compare the above URL with
http://www.youtube.com/zh-TW/..
From the SEO ...
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2 URLs pointing to one website with a unique canonical URL
I have 2 domains submitted to Google that both point to my WordPress site. I am using Yoast SEO plugin to take care of the basic SEO metadata for the website.
When I view the source for each URL I ...
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Implementing Canonical URLs
I have a confusion in implementing canonical URLs;
Client has shared a set of URLs like;
http://example.com/eg/
http://example.com/eg/index?32312323
http://example.com/eg/index?54545545
http://...
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Canonical after updating to pretty urls
I just updated my site to use pretty URL structures.
Old URL: https://digimoncard.io/deck/?deckid=1241
New URL: https://digimoncard.io/deck/green-otk-1241
I've set up my SEO like so:
<meta ...
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Redirecting /page/*/ to the home page in .htaccess
My problem is that my homepage exists on https://www.example.com/page/2/, /3/, /4/ and so on, it still exists on /1000/. Same duplicate page versions exists on /about and and /contact page of my site.
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Schemaless URLs in canonical tags
Is it a problem to put a schemaless URL in a canonical tag?
Example: page URL is http://example.com while canonical tag is <link rel="canonical" href="//example.com" />.
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Google Webmaster Tools is showing duplicate URLs based on page title differences
I have 700+ title tag duplicates showing in WMT.
Every first link in that picture is as duplicate link of second one. I don't know from where the first link got indexed by Google when that link ...
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UUID or SLUG first in the url for better ranking? Does it change with canonicals?
I'm faced with a decision with creating my paths and not sure which would have the best ranking approach.
example.com/product/[slug]-[uuid]
example.com/product/[uuid]-[slug]
example.com/product/[slug]...
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AWstats reports URLs appended to other canonical URLs, why?
I've been running a site for a while now and my AWstats page is starting to present pages with... some sort of endless stream of references to pages. It's a bit bizarre, I'm not sure what's happened.
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Is it correct to redirect the old site to the new domain and the further redirect for new URL capitalization?
I am wondering whether this setup is correct.
I have a website running HTTP domain1.example and I redirect links to domain2.example using a 301 redirect. domain2 works fine but I decided to ...
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How to prevent duplicate pages with different URL slugs on my Cold Fusion site?
My programer has made my website in Cold Fusion and the URLs are like
http://www.example.com/article.cfm/articleid/12345/seo-keyword-title
but the problem is the page opens even if the (seo-keyword-...
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Does rel=canonical and rel=alternate make sense on pictures?
I have a desktop and a mobile site and I use rel=canonical and rel=alternate as recommended by google to link the corresponding html based pages of each site together.
I'm just wondering, because on ...
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How duplicate must two pages be in order for one to require rel=canonical?
I've been reading up on:
<link rel="canonical" href="(original url)">
And one thing that I'm trying to figure out is the lowest percent of duplication must any two pages need to be in order ...
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How use a canonical link tag in a dynamic page?
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/category/subcategory/example-product/product-id" />
I have a whole bunch of query string URLs (company products) that I have rewritten to ...
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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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Should I use a 301 redirect for inbound discount offer links?
We have discount links like example.com/alex10 that set a discount in the session and show the homepage as normal (with a tiny adjustment to say "£10 credit applied").
When we initially set this up ...
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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
https://...
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SEO: adding an unecessary description key in dynamic url is it good or not?
in the typical DB driven cms/ecommerce site you will have items pages at urls in some form similar to:
http://www.domain.com/item.php?id=36
1) Is it good for SEO purpose to add a sort of description ...
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