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Does Google care about query string case sensitivity, and also does it care about correctness of casing?
Consider these two query string parameters:
?category=healthAndBeauty
?category=healthandbeauty
Does Google differentiate them? What is Google's behavior if it finds both of them in my website for a ...
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Do crawlers/bots treat the normal url and the uri encoded uri as the same for page ranking?
We want to start uri encoding using encodeURI() our URLs during 301 redirect handling on our server. We have to handle special characters in other languages.
We want to make sure that we don't ...
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Is crawl budget and link juice being wasted to URLs with hashes?
On my site I have internal links to URLs with hashes in them, like this one:
https://example.com/page.html#music
https://example.com/page.html#music has canonical tag with URL pointing to https://...
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URLs: Should I use hyphens, underscores or plus symbols?
Which is better for search engines?
example.com/my_cool_page.html
example.com/my-cool-page.html
example.com/my+cool+page.html
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Should the URL in the "SeekToAction" Video Schema point to your own site or can it point to Vimeo, Youtube, or another video host?
Google recently launched "SeektoAction" as an addition to the Video Schema, however, what URL you add is not clear.
Here is their example:
"@type": "SeekToAction",
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When changing domains and renaming pages are redirects really necessary? How long do they need to be in place?
Recently I moved a medium sized site from a domain to another. During the migration the structure of the site (page name/page dependency) changes but site data does not change. I was advised to ...
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For language URLs, should the default language gets its own subdirectory or take the document root?
I'm new in the i18n world, searching online the best structure to deploy my i18n website, I've found two solutions with the subdirectory model:
Every language in /locale_code
Default language in / ...
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Should I use redirects or create multiple URLs?
I have the scenario where two links should redirect to the same page, similar to the case of Wikipedia where https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ both point to ...
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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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Does using relative base url href="./second-page" instead of hard coding URL href="https://www.example.com/second-page" affect SEO?
I have created a website recently and was checking if google has indexed my website on google console. My home page is indexed but my other leaf pages connected to my home page are not indexed yet.
&...
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Does a site's URL structure need to match its breadcrumb structure?
I'm working on a site where currently almost all pages have URLs like:
http://example.com/page
regardless of the underlying directory structure of the site.
For example in that page the breadcrumb is
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Should I redirect "ugly" URL to friendly URL?
I use mod_rewrite to rewrite https://example.com/?page=some-page&tab=2 to https://example.com/articles/some-page/2. But people can still access both URLs.
I want to know: should I redirect the "...
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Which pages get their own canonical URLs?
I am currently working to improve my site's SEO and I need to use canonical URLs. My doubt is related to which pages need to be canonical.
I know for sure that my root home page needs its own ...
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Should I use a file extension or not?
I've always wondered about this and never found a good solution.
But this question reminded me of it.
When I have a URL on my website it can be displayed and accessed any of the following ways:
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Infinite Scroll with changing URL, Good or Bad for SEO?
I have a website, image gallery, with 10s of thousands of images. When a user makes a request to the website www.example.com he is returned with a paginated results, lets say 20 images. When the user ...
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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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Is it ok to have a Child Category appear in multiple Parent Categories?
I am currrently looking at creating the following URL:
www.example.com/floral-canvas-prints/daffodils
This is pretty self explanatory. A user would expect the above URL to take them to a product ...
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Changing internal URL path for SEO
I have a site where Google has already indexed about 1 million pages, and I want to change all the URL paths for SEO purposes, ensuring that we always have our keywords in the path.
Technically I ...
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Is UUID-based URL bad?
I'm developing a Q&A site.
I'm using uuid for the id of questions, and will use that for the url as well.
Question data
{
"id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
&...
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How can we troubleshoot why a 404 page doesn't retain its url rather changes to another 404 page of its own?
I am working on a client website for a technical SEO audit for the first time. They have a 404 page where the URL of the missing page is not retained, instead, it goes to a separate 404 page. For ...
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Switching from single to multi language website - indexing problem and lost rank
I have a website which used to be to available in a single language website: French. We wanted to purpose our product in other language (English, Portuguese, Spanish, etc.)
First, we have changed the ...
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Is placing the folder after the page in the URL better for SEO?
I read on https://moz.com/learn/seo/url that google prioritizes the folder over the path/page. Which wold mean that a url such as:
coffeeshop.example/*home-brew-coffee*/**types**
would perform better ...
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SEO - Google select a another domain at canonical url
I have a problem with my domain for selected canonical url by google.
I have a vps for my website with apache. I created a redirect for website ip, but some domains have my ip in DNS and redirect to ...
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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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How to redirect urls without cpanel access
My client is a CPA firm that had a website built with a CPA site builder company. They no longer want that site, but I have earned them good rank with many of their local keywords. We have designed a ...
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Is a category based directory recommended in URLs?
From an SEO point of view, which of the two options are recommended?
www.example.com/cell-phones-reviews/samsung-galaxy/
or
www.example.com/samsung-galaxy-review/
I guess the keyword string in this ...
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SEO: best way to deal with short lifetime URLs?
I am currently in the process of redesigning a job advert site and am trying to put a lot more effort into my SEO.
My question is how should I deal with the URLs that point to job adverts when the ...
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SEO friendly best practice for putting id and title in different language
I know there are very similar questions like this, but I didn't find the best answerer.
I have url like site.com/:id1/:id2/:id3
For having best result in SEO, someone told its better to put titles in ...
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Is it OK for SEO to keep same URLs on new site without redirecting even though the site was down for a while?
Is it OK to keep the exact URL from my old site into my brand new site without redirecting? Those pages had a 404 while the site was under construction.
I really not sure what's the best way. I only ...
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Keyword in URLs vs. short URLs
My website is all about long holidays. This brings me to the following dilemma: is it better to have "long-holidays" in nearly all URLs of the website or not, given that it will make the ...
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Recovery from URL structure change?
in July this year, we have changed the URL structure of the website from:
Post: example.com/blog/post/986/dance/heart-beats-dance-video-by-chinatsu/
Category: example.com/blog/index/cosplay/
to
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SEO-friendly way to pass multiple values in a URL parameter
What is the correct/recommended way from a SEO point of view to pass multiple parameter values for a single key in a URL.
e.g. my online store sells the watches that I'd like filtering using facets ...
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Is inconsistent URL structure bad for SEO?
I work for a site and I don't know why the content team did this, but here is an example:
example.com/food/italian is a page that contains links to Italian recipes, such as:
example.com/italian-food/...
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My website doesn't provide 404 errors
My website doesn't provide 404 errors.
If you were to type in: clientsforcounsellors.com/dlkforiereg or pretty much any gibberish page that doesn't exist, you'd be redirected to my home page.
Why ...
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Two subages on one website with almost identical content
I'm creating a website that is comparing stuff, let's say it compares programming languages for the sake of explaining my question.
I'm building a structure where the url/slug will contain the two ...
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Is a URL with querystring SEO friendly? [duplicate]
I have developed a CMS that works with ID in urls.
http://example.com/content/?id=10
My customers asked me to add keywords in URLs to be seo firendly. I am not sure if there is a certain definition ...
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Separate URLs on tabbed content - good or bad for SEO?
I am building a site that lists shops. Each shop page has two tabs: shop info and reviews. It's one page, with jQuery hiding/showing the right portion of the content. From a purely SEO point of view, ...
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index vs a-specific-url [duplicate]
As we all know, the URL has some importance in SEO.
Should I try to rewrite (or redirect) the index page to a specific-name?
For example:
index.php to white-cats-are-cute.php
(This is regardless of ...
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unique page URLs for FAQ page content and SEO goodness
I'm looking for guidance, options and ideas for an e-commerce site that is currently in production and is selling well. We sell primarily one product, but the business has three general categories of ...
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Encoding spaces in urls for SEO when hyphens are already present in text
From my research it seems that hyphen - chars are the preferred word breakers in urls in respect to SEO.
I'd like to use text in my urls for both SEO purposes and for functionality, consuming the text ...
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Showing more text with JavaScript - Google and SEO aspects
I have a page with several lists. Each list has "Read more" button or link. When clicking the "Read more", additional elements are added to the list (sometimes by just changing the ...
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URL structure for specific years in blog
I have an URL like this one for an article with a good traffic.
example.com/best-x-for-2019
Now I want to update the content to 2020. I have made the mistake of having the year in slug for the first ...
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Responding '404' for subdirectories is bad practice?
I had URLs like this: example.com/post/dkKE_wd3jJ
For SEO reasons I decided to add some text:
example.com/post/dkKE_wd3jJ/best_funny_videos
But I noticed that the alphanumeric ID looks weird in front,...
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SEO URL Behind Login That May/May Not Require Payment Structure
I have the following parent URL:
example.com/courses/course_name/
Currently, that parent URL can be accessed without a login.
When a user is logged in, and they try to access a video child URL, 2 ...
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Will /blog/ at the start of the URL path for my WordPress articles help SEO?
I have a WordPress website for a business. And they have many pages, Custom Posts, etc. And they do have a Blog also.
At present their blog urls are like this:
Main page for blog: example.com/blog
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What to do to recover after deploying a new shopping cart / site and Google smacks you?
I recently deployed a reworked online store that was previously built with a system that suddenly went out of business. It was a rush and I ended up with new URLs for all products with even some ...
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SEO advantages of having content in a WordPress subpage?
I'm creating a WordPress-Website for a massage parlor. The website is in German (I'm from Switzerland).
I decided to not have a hub page for "services" but have the two main service "categories" ...
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URL structure with 3 subcategories
I have 1 main category and 1 subcategory and 1 additional "topic" or "area":
main categories: news, interview, tutorial
subcategories e.g. for news: shopping, entertainment, politics, sport
...
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SEO tips on changing blog pagination
Three years ago we launched a self-made blog area on our e-commerce website. Call it an experimental feature, if you know what I mean.
We had, and still have, a very minimalistic URL schema:
/blog/...
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How to use the same base url prefix for category and product pages in Woocommerce?
I checked out this article https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/removing-product-product-category-or-shop-from-the-urls/ which explains that it is not good to remove the product and category bases ...
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