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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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URL Rewrite with spaces or with -?
Which URL is more SEO?
mydomain.com/category-name/article-name.html
OR
mydomain.com/category name/article name.html
I have read some articles about URL Rewriting but there I can't find any ...
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Should I use a canonical URL?
I'm currently in the process of building a charts website with music from Soundcloud.
The charts will be 'cleared' every week.
My base URL will be: http://example.com/
Which will contain the charts ...
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How to add trailing slashes to links in my pages from .htaccess in addition to the redirects I've implemented?
I've recently appended the trailing slash at the end of the URL by using this .htaccess code:
#add trailing slashes
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^...
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Are facets and categories the same thing? [duplicate]
I am currently working on an eCommerce website, which typically have the following URL structural examples:
1. www.example.com/paintings/flowers/roses/
2. www.example.com/paintings/flowers/roses/...
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AMP Content and Domains
apologies if this is known science around the web mastering community, I haven't had to worry about content in a number of years and don't know where to start :)
I'm considering implementing Google's ...
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Does using IDs in the URL make Google view the URLs as duplicate?
In my site, I use query string for navigate between products.
Example:
/ProductView.aspx?ProductID=1
/ProductView.aspx?ProductID=2
/ProductView.aspx?ProductID=3
Am I faced with link duplicates ...
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How to use Canonical and Original-Source Correctly, on multilingual website?
was wondering wether searchengines index this correctly in a multilingual website:
Currently, the htaccess eats nice urls on pages like
/de/somepage and rewrites them invisibly to /somepage?ln=de
so ...
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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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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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How to validate canonicals on a website
I've validated canonicals on my website but, the pro webmaster have recommended me that the canonicals that I've implemented is wrong. Can you guys tell me how to validate canonicals on my website.
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Redirect URL to the same page with parameter
I have this url in my blog:
http://www.myweb.com/
and would like to change into:
http://www.myweb.com/?lang=en
all the URl, of course, in the same page = index.php
I need to use param lang=en to ...
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URLs with trailing questionmark (?)
I understand that URLs with or without trailing slash are considered two different resources and therefore we should use redirects to tell Google which one is the canonical one.
But what about ...
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Avoiding duplicate content when users choose the number of items per page
I have a website hosting thousands of photos that we taken in real life. My problem comes down to advanced pagination.
Currently, I have the site divided into photo albums then galleries in each ...
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My Domain Name Appears Twice in Most of My URLs
I've recently been adding some backlinks to other articles within my site. I don't know if it's this that is now causing me a problem.
I now notice that Google has indexed my sites pages again but ...
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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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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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Place language slug in URL or not?
I see that https://developers.google.com/ offers articles in different language. They get the language from browser setting and don't place any language slug in the URL. Is this really a good practise?...
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Why does http://example.com equal http://example.com/? [duplicate]
When I access http://example.com in a web browser, the browser adds a slash to the end of the URL and loads the page.
The part that scares me is that duplicate content exists when one uses the ...
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How should cross site canonical meta links be placed? Should they be different per page and should they go on the canonical domain itself?
I have a website available via www.mydomain.com that is also available via svr7464z.vps.hostingcompanycom. The content is 100% identical, it's a mirror.
I don't want search engines to know about ...
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Optimizing URL Parameters for Google Search
My website isn't ranking great on Google, so I've been going through pages to see what I can optimize. I've come across one section of the website where there are 5 pages, but the url is dynamically ...
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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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URLs with parameters & canonical tags. Block them via robots.txt vs GSC URL parameters?
I have some URLs with parameters, the parameters aren't of the filtering kind, they don't create millions of duplicates. The parameters are simple being used for tracking purpose, content doesn't ...
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What link structure should i use for subdomains with same page names and similar content?
I'm taking over a website of a construction company that has multiple franchise locations. Their site is currently setup as the city name of the franchise as the subdomain.
example:
seattle.domain....
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Proper way to handle URLs in the form of http://example.com/
On an apache server with a standard setup, when I request a URL in the form of:
http://127.0.0.1/..
I receive this error in my log:
[Sun Aug 30 22:52:44 2015] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Invalid URI ...
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Is it good to have / after website URL for SEO? [duplicate]
Which one of the following links is the correct and SEO friendly URL?
http://example.com/software/view/35531716?download=WhatsApp-2.12.258.apk/ (with / at the end) or
http://example.com/software/view/...
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