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What is the purpose of leading slash in HTML URLs?
I have noticed that some blogs posts have links using a value starting with / in the href.
For example:
<a href="/somedir/somepage.html">My Page</a>
Does the leading / mean the path is ...
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Can I use asterisks in URLs?
Are there any reasons I shouldn't use an asterisk (*) in a URL?
Background:
With asterisks, I could provide these nice and user friendly (or what do you think??) URLs:
example.com/some/folder/...
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Adding links: can I use //domain (double slash) for both https:// and http://
We are moving to https soon. I understand that it is smart to use //domain.com links and images src references.
Does the browser then first try https? and if not found http?
Is this supported by ...
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Are spaces in "href" valid?
Is <a href=" #id "> (note spaces) correct (X)HTML?
Does it mean the same as <a href="#id">?
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Should query string parameter values in a URI have single quotes around them?
I'm passing variables through the URI string, like this:
example.com?a=first&b=second
Everything works as intended, but when I pass the source code through the W3 validator, it's flagging them ...
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SEO impact of using non-Latin characters in URL
Is there a negative SEO impact if I use non-Latin characters in my URL?
For example, suppose I want to have a page about sweets. I am targeting the keyword お菓子 which is in Japanese. Should I go for ...
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Do I really need to remove special characters in a URL?
I have an FTP account shared with friends where we upload underground music albums and then we use the links to share the downloads in a music forum. The problem is that the album names are in french ...
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Should URLs with UTF8 characters be encoded in HTML?
I'm thinking of names and stuff containing accented characters.
E.g.is there a difference between:
<a href="http://example.com/thing?name=forêt">link</a>
and
<a href="http://example....
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Free link checker for large website?
Can anyone recommend a free, thorough online link checker for a fairly large website?
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URL for website with multiple currencies
It seems that most of the websites which handle currencies keep track of the current currency throughout the user browser session and not through the URL itself. This way, when sharing the URL with ...
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Indexable anchor links
I have seen that anchor links can not be indexed since the crawlers read www.example.com/page#someanchor as www.example.com/page.
It is the web browser that then interprets the anchors to jump in the ...
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What effect does a URL length have on search engine indexing?
Once again, I tested some URL's of my site via powermapper tools, and now I receive the following issue:
W3C Best Practices - Some pages violate these guidelines.
Keep URLs shorter than 78 ...
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Correct way(s) of separating URLs of static pages from main content
Let's say I have a dictionary-like website where I have canonical URLs like example.com/egregious which displays the definition of the word "egregious".
However, I have a couple of "static pages" ...
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Replacing an existing website – SEO considerations for broken links?
I have built a new website to replace a client's existing company website on the same URL. The content is entirely different, and none of the page links are the same.
Do I have any issues to worry ...
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What is an uncategorized URL
What is an uncategorized URL and is this something to worry about for a standard niche website?
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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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Should I aim for Shorter links or Categorically accurate links?
I'm currently in the process of migrating a site. I have some example links like this:
example.com/pricing/
example.com/contact/
example.com/about/
example.com/about/person-a/
example.com/about/...
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Chrome ignores link to external protocol
When I click on a button, the href is for the external protocol mayApp://. Chrome ignores this. I want it to show it somehow (address bar is preferable).
I use web automation to verify this link.
I ...
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How can I make Xenu Link Sleuth check relative URLs?
I'm using an old free web crawler called Xenu Link Sleuth to find broken links on my site.
Normally it works well enough for my needs, but the site that I'm testing it on right now seems to ...
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Is an anchor link registered as duplicate content by Google?
I have a store where fairly important content is now viewed by all visitors (only 66% according to mouseflow) as users have to scroll a bit to see it, which not all do.
I don't wish to move the ...
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Link form correct, or, punishable by search engines?
I have the following dilemma with the links of a WordPress blog that I work with, I don't know if the way it creates the link to the images is ok or not so good.
For example:
Article URL: http://...
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Change URL in pagination without refresh but detectable by Google
We have a pagination. Right now we use buttons for the next, previous and page numbers in the pagination. But since we change the page number in in an onclick of a button and the Google bot doesn't ...
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How remove a duplicate permanent link in WordPress?
I have two links that show a single post. I need to remove one of them, because I get "Duplicate title tag" warnings in Google Webmaster Tools.
How can I remove a permanent URL from WordPress?
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Trying to improve code-text ratio without a catch-22
My website has several subdomains with it that represent each major section of the website and I have that to allow search engines to understand what each section is about.
My problem lies with the ...
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Why is it that in folder structure used for Websites generally Web Pages are on same level of hierarchy as additional content related to them?
As someone getting started with web development seeing that web pages themselves and content related to them is on same hierarchy level in folder(directory) structure used for website development is ...
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URL stays at root when using my domain, but with ip the URL changes to the paths of the links
I am using GoDaddy to host my domain, but when I use my domain to go to my contact page (or any other page, including outside pages), it stays at http://www.example.com, instead of the correct url e.g....
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Adding tracking to a link without rewriting the link
I use goo.gl as my url shortener when posting to social media and I really like the analytics it gives me:
I'd like to get similar tracking information for who turns up to my homepage via social ...
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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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How do I link to a "bitcoin:" URL from my WordPress.com site? Can I use a redirect?
I'm having a slight problem, Wordpress.com doesn't play nice with bitcoin: URLs (it mangles them into http://{current page url}/{wallet address} ), so I need to do a redirect of some sort.
I found ...
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Help to remove spam links leading to 404 page
One day my site was hacked. Someone inserted spam pages to my site. I resolved the issue, cleaned database, protected login area etc. But these links are still present in all search engines including ...
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How important are SEO Friendly URLs [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is a URL with a query string better or worse for SEO then one without one?
Currently, my URLs look something like http://mydomain.ext/question/5 where question is the ...
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Why can I access a file from my web server even though viewing the directory URL is a broken link?
I'm trying to understand how I'm able to access a PDF file from my website: /Documents/Publications/2015/file.pdf when /Documents comes up as a broken link. It appears to be non-existant.
Why can I ...
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Finding the Google+ post that links to my site
This question is pretty similar to this: Finding the Facebook post or page that links to my site. Obviously this time I'm talking about Google+.
My website has some traffic coming from a Goolge+ URL, ...
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How to solve this problem with my subdomain?
I have my site hosted at http://blog.rgksugan.in.
I have set a subdomain in it for my blog.
But after landing on my blog whatever other links I click i get the link as
http://rgksugan.in/blog/...
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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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How to manage external links for SEO?
On my Drupal 8 site, I created pages with a Leaflet card that uses open street map data.
When I go to google search console, it tells me that the following links are blocked "Pages with blocked ...
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Adding Keywords in URL - Stuffing or Good Technique [duplicate]
I have about 25 pages on my website and after seeing Matt Cutts talk about how keywords in a URL is a good SEO technique, I decided to rename my files a more SEO friendly name.
However, I now have ...
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Depth of URLs and SEO [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL?
Does the depth of an URL affect SEO/Pagerank? Is there any max or optimal level for URL depth?
If you have, lets say, a website ...
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