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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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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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Will adding parameters to URLs with JavaScript to pass information to Google Analytics affect SEO?
I have written some simple js/php that adds WordPress taxonomies and categories of posts to the urls of blog posts so that we can search in google analytics which posts with matching taxonomies are ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is it a good or a bad SEO practice to create a same URL with different directory?
We have a website with many different modules. Currently we are trying to implement the "Related Questions" SERP Feature for our FAQs page.
Eg: There are two pages example.com/xyzservice.htm & ...
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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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Do subdirectory URLs need to work for SEO if there are other URLs within that subdirectory? Does time of indexing subdirectory matter in search result
I have a website where I built a sub-folder structure on my links, like this: /category/city/postname
Does it matter if /category/city doesn't have a page, even if there is no link to it on the ...
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Is it worth handling SEO friendly URLs that might change over time? Or should I use generic ones that will not change?
I will use SEO friendly URL slugs for my website pages.
But I would like to know how far should I go down this road.
My specific question is about whether I should be choosing SEO friendly URL's ...
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Which of these URL is better for SEO? [duplicate]
I am trying to restructure our website that is focus on Healthcare and could you please help me which of these two decisions for URL is better for SEO ?
we present best providers for any healthcare ...
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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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Adding IDs to urls to open up namespace - SEO considerations?
I'm working with a site that has millions of pages along the lines of:
domain.com/entity/John_Smith
domain.com/entity/Google
domain.com/entity/HTML
One of the problems is that particularly for ...
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Please I want to Restructure this php URL to SEO friendly URL [duplicate]
I have this is the listing page: <div class="group"><a href="/category?id=<?php echo $data->slug;?>"><?php echo $data->title; ?></a></div>
I have this https:/...
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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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When translating a site into multiple languages, can we redirect our original language URLs to include the language identifier and maintain SEO?
We're in the process of localising our website into FR, DE and ES. As part of the current design, all URLs in the website will include the locale e.g. example.com/fr or example.com/es.
Our developer ...
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Does adding a canonical URL affect underlying (subdirectory) URLs?
I am uncertain about a certain change. We have the following structure.
Domain: ranks for keyword X
/main-category (has strong relation to domain name itself and possibly cannibalizes the man domain ...
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URL Character Counting - Where to start counting?
I'm rewriting URLs for a website, I know it could affect SEO, but I've no choice but to rewrite them, and 301 redirect the old ones to their new URLs. I want to try to keep the new URLs short and to ...
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Redirecting URL with & without query string?
If I setup a 301 redirect for the first URL path below will that also redirect all the paths below that contain a query string?
For example:
/6-light-oval-chandelier-espresso?pp=0&epik=...
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Which second separator to use in URL?
I'm already using - as a separator in my URLs, for some reasons I need to add a second one.
According to RFC 3986 I can use ., _ and ~. I also have seen some sites using + as a separator. I'm ...
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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 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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How to change the structure of my URLs along with the Sitemap for a live website?
I am changing my website's URL to improve the SEO. The current sitemap contains URLs like this:
mysite/browse/1 /* 1 is the ID for fashion */
mysite/browse/2 /* 2 is the ID for real estate */
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With respect to SEO, is it preferred to use hyphen instead of period in the URL?
I have a complex class on my server side, for example class Car has Properties Make and Model.
There is a form that user can fill (Make and Model are input textboxes), then I pass all these inputs as ...
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Optimizing for Same Keyword in 2 Different Regions (US & Canada) - Yes or No?
Background: The same company is operating in 2 regions (US & CANADA). The language is fairly similar except for slight content differences, however, the primary keyword is the same, after ...
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Pagination without pagination URLs - is it bad for SEO?
I've read a few articles about pagination pitfalls but none really describe my situation. I have a products page rendered with ReactJS with about 300 products and pagination (I am also using server-...
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SEO: example.com/keyword1/keyword2 or example.com/keyword1-keyword2 [duplicate]
For search engines, mostly Google, which is better:
example.com/keyword1/keyword2
or:
example.com/keyword1-keyword2
This specific page has to rank high for keyword 2, and possibly keyword 1 too.
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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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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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Ajax Request with Push State to Current URL SEO Friendly?
After reading up on getting content indexed in Google that is pulled into a page from an AJAX request, I have found that you can use pushState to change the URL and this will allow Google to find it.
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SEO: Multilingual website with different subdirectories for each languages [duplicate]
I have a multilingual website with the following structure:
example.com <--- Main english version
example.com/fr <--- The french version
Is it important for SEO reasons to put a ...
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Numerical IDs in URLs optimized for SEO
I'm a server-side developer dabbling in SEO practices for the first time. This question is about getting the url structure right for a web application I'm developing, goal being having some which is ...
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Does it matter for SEO which keyword is first in the URL path? [duplicate]
Does it really matter in SEO if my URL is:
https://example.com/test/18-apr-2019/author
https://example.com/18-apr-2019/test/author
https://example.com/author/test/18-apr-2019
Does it really matters ...
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Can I use a query parameter for SEO, or do I need to create a URL path for each page?
I am building a open blog website which users can create posts. Whenever a user creates post, it is being inserted to database and fetching its heading from database in the main page. Whenever a ...
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Why use "!" after "#" in URL?
I am working on a project where my landing page URLs will be generated dynamically.
I keep hearing that I have to use ! after # in URLs that are generated dynamically, for SEO reasons.
But no one ...
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Can search engines index webpages with path after ".html"?
Are search engines able to index a webpage which has a path after .html?
Example:
http://example.com/about.html/abc/123
Is it an acceptable implementation for SEO?
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