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Shopify SEO- GSC Help
I am facing some issues about Shopify Product Links. First, i am throwing some example that might be help to understand the problem.
Case-1: https://mywebsite.com/products/someproduct
Case-2: https://...
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SEO friendly URL for items which belongs to multiple categories
I have a website with trainings, which belong to certain categories. So naturally I'd like to organize my website URLs in this way:
example.com/trainings/{category name}/{training name}
for example
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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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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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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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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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Magento 1 adds a trailing slash at the end of CMS page
I am using Magento 1.9 and I have a problem with one of my CMS pages. I found out that the page is available under two versions:
www.example.com/MyCMSpage
www.example.com/MyCMSpage/
I am not sure ...
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How can I prevent the Googlebot from indexing duplicate URLs?
I have duplicate URLs for each ad page. For example:
https://example.com/ads/2161/%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B2%D8%B3_GS350.html
https://example.com/2161/
I used the second URL for Twitter and Instagram posts....
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Is it OK to "pause" an advert in terms of SEO?
I have a website along the lines of Craigslist, where users can post classified ads. Some users have requested a feature where they're able to pause/resume their ads. From an seo point of view, the ...
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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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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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Are these programmatically generated pages a correct SEO approach?
I am presently working on a taxi booking website. As a test case, the website (which is not yet online) can presently take bookings from 20 cities and booking can be made for 626 destinations (cities) ...
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What sort of URL structure should be used to display AMP HTML vs vanilla HTML
There's an existing WordPress plugin that creates AMP formats automatically by adding /amp onto the end of any posts URL.
I'm worried about duplicating my content at multiple URLs and wondering if ...
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60% organic traffic drop after permalink structure change?
On a very large website I have changed the permalink structure, for technical reasons. Every URL is 301 redirected to it's appropriate one.
A few days after the change I have noticed a drop in ...
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Google Webmaster Tools - Duplicate content (slash and none slash version of a page)
Google Webmaster Tools shows a lot of duplicate content in the following pages:
www.example.com/example
www.example.com/example/
I do NOT offer two versions of any page on my website, when you type ...
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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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apache directory pages in default setup = duplicate content?
I'm trying to figure out if google or any other service would treat apache folder pages as duplicate content if in each access attempt a random number of slashes are used. For example, these four URLs ...
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SEO when creating many URLs for a page that differ only by the name of the person that created the link
I'm developing a referral system for my website, and the way it works now is to generate an unique URL like www.example.net/public/referral/UNIQUE_URL. This page is just a normal registry page like ...
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SEO for a website with a commercial and a residential versions that use the same images and mostly the same text
A website I'm currently working on requires there to be both a residential and commercial version of the website.
The two versions will be quite similar across the board, but the copy will have some ...
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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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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 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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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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SEO & Reordering of duplicate content
I am currently working on a website, and the designer wants a menu that is setup like this:
Toplevel1
Toplevel2
submenu1
submenu2
submenu3
Toplevel3
Toplevel4
All menu items have a title and ...
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Would the following URLs result in duplicate content if I only used one canonical link?
In your experience, have you ever had problems with duplicate content being caused by the following URLs:
www.mysite.net
www.mysite.net/
www.mysite.net/index.html
Do you think that this could result ...
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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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Duplicate content issue on product review page
I have a product review page that defaults to showing all reviews. On this page I have 5 links which link to showing only the 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 star ratings.
If I have a product with 1 review which is ...
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SEO for similar subject titles with different technology versions?
Let's say I'm building a programming tutorial/article website. Over time, versions of technology replace itself.
For example a service call with AngularJS is completely different in version 0.9.0 ...
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How to prevent duplication of content on a page with too many filters?
I have a webpage where a user can search for items based on around 6 filters. Currently I have the page implemented with one filter as the base filter (part of the url that would get indexed) and ...
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How Come This Website Is Not Suffering From Duplicate Content Issues? [closed]
If you visit the following website
http://onedesigncompany.com/
and scroll down then you'll notice that the URL is being changed in the address bar. So, isn't it a duplicate content issue?
Is not ...
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Handling duplicate content caused by 'new' smart-url structure
I used to have an URL structure like this:
mydomain.com/search.php?key=value
which I've since changed to:
mydomain.com/key/value.
I've changed all the internal links in my site, but Google still ...
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How to handle duplicate product pages for SEO?
I am using the following URL format to display products: mysite.com/category1/product.
Now I am finding certain products fall into more than 1 category and I would like the product to be listed in ...
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URL query variables and rel=canonical
I have 14 pages of products on my site. Each page has 10 products. The product pages are powered by Ajax, and I have a filter results feature which lets them only show products with higher ratings, ...
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Separate urls for a set of pages sharing 80% duplicate content
Issue:
Currently my site has one particular page which has country specific data. So I've URLs like :
mysite.com/sale-united-states
mysite.com/sale-united-kingdom
mysite.com/sale-sweden
etc.
All ...
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Same page in different "locations" on same site - duplicate content? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
The same page, or rather the same content on a page is accessible from two very similar URLs, ...
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