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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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