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Forcing google to clear its cache of bad pages without specifying each one manually for temporary removal
I have several outdated links on my website that are not used anymore. I give an HTTP error 410 (Gone) and have X-robots-tag: noarchive in the HTTP header to try to make google stop crawling the page, ...
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Would Google penalize home.php and index.html on one root?
Would home.PHP and main.HTML at the same website be confused by Google crawlers as canonical? If a website has home.php and also index.html do you think Google will down rank it in its search? What if ...
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Does the root domain hold more power then an inner page? [duplicate]
I am building a new site and I am just thinking out the structure of the whole site.
It's is going to be a pretty big site with a lot of different content and I was wondering if the root domain is ...
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Can Google show a simple list of URLs visited?
Is there a way for Google Analytics (v4) to show me a simple detail log of URLs visited?
I don't want any aggregate data, just a simple HTTP log like the kind you'd get from NGINX or something like ...
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Why is my page title appearing in lower case on Google?
My page title, in google search results is now in lower case, with the exception of our company name. The title tag is in title case:
<title>Free Mobile Home Value - Used Mobile Home Book
Values&...
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Home page title updated to fix a misspelling but Google still has the error
So recently I found that there was a misspelling on the URL title for my business in the google search and I fixed it within WordPress but it has updated on google yet, there is still that error. Does ...
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Would Google accept a text sitemap if the URL had a .php extension?
Google accepts a sitemap as .txt file with a list of URLs separated each by a newline.
Would Google also allow the same text file format with a .php? Ie.mysitemap.php instead of mysitemap.txt?
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Weird /'http URL pattern leading to many 404s
I got very weird 404s from the Google Search Console. It shows me some kind of URL mix up and I cannot pinpoint where this pattern comes from. It is a WordPress installation.
https://example.com/...
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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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My webpage is showing strange url on google results [closed]
I'm developing a website for a local school on Wordpress but today noticed someting weird when I look for the page in google this is the result I get:
KEELER FORCE ブラック+Creepy Crawler M8090 7.00-16 ...
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Page URL Modifications and Google response [duplicate]
I need to change the address of one of the pages of my site.
I will create a new page with absolutely the same content and the same structure of the page (no changes to the content of the page at all, ...
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SERP Google - Mobile URL in incognito and normal URL on Desktop
Something strange is shown in Google SERP. My website have a desktop version and mobile version with a /m/ in URL that differ them. The problem or strange behavior i see is that:
When i search for ...
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Google Search Console says "submitted URL blocked by robots.txt" even though there is no robots.txt file
Today I got a email notice from Google that there were search problems with my site. I logged into Google Search Console. It shows that 1 file was being blocked by robots.txt, and has been for ...
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How can I substitute our site name in the place that the URL usually appears in the Google search results?
Below is a screen shot of a query on Google. The URL usually appears where the green text is. How do you control what that says?
For my specific site it displays the URL. I want to put my business ...
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Google is indexing a useless page for each image uploaded to my WordPress site
I found that when I create a blog post and insert images, WordPress automatically generates page for each one. When I check index status in Google with a site: search, I see 4 to 5 or more pages for ...
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Will be a identical title for the same url with different parameters known as duplicate title?
As you know google will punish you when two different pages of your website have the same "title". Now I want to know, is having "questions list" title for these pages known as duplicate titles?
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How to verify all four variants of the URL to Google Search Console for Shopify?
How to verify all four variants of the URL to Google Search Console for Shopify?
I have a main variant with www. It's conected with the Analitycs (this one shows the data), but Google Search Console ...
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Noticing a lot of crawl errors in Google Search Console for pages that never existed on our site
I recently began work on an existing Wordpress website that was extensively revamped 3 months ago. https://thedoctorwithin.com. I'm a bit new to Wordpress, so I thought I should reach out to some of ...
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Impact of switching from an exact match domain name (EMD) to a business name domain
We have a 6-year-old keywordy 34 letter "EMD" domain name (3 words with hyphens).
We want to switch to a new 35 letter business name domain name (yes our business name is 35 characters without ...
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Do URL parameters create different URLs from Google's SEO perspective?
I have the following 4 URLs.
Are all these the same URL or different URLs from Google's SEO perspective?
(Having a different query string makes it another URL?)
https://www.example.com/buy-web-...
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If we use goo.gl for a link, will Google be the referrer for that link?
For example, I can shorten http://example.com with Google URL shortener goo.gl. If I get clicks to the Google shortened URL https://goo.gl/..., will I see goo.gl as the referrer in the analytics for ...
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Is it bad for SEO to have a URL with nothing on it? [duplicate]
I have a WordPress site and for a very complicated reason I have to set some post type's template to empty file. Nothing.
Which means I have a URL on my site (let's say: example.com/postype/the-best-...
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Do URLs submitted in a site map to reindex have the same priority as request indexing?
Will Google position the URLs with same page rank in both cases?
Which is fast and good?
Will all URLs in the site map get indexed?
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Google Analytics: How to remove parameters from Search Results
I have configured Google Analytics in the past hours to get more knowledge about how people come to visit my site. I now have the question wheter Google fetches these links with its parameters (e.g. ?...
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Should I change all the URL paths on my website to include keywords for SEO and should I rename my cart and checkout pages too? [duplicate]
I'm trying to make my site as SEO optimized as possible and have a question.
Do I change the name of my "cart.php" and "checkout.php" pages to have keywords in them?
For example, here's the current ...
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Prevent others from seeing stats of URLs shortened with Google's URL shortener via API
Using Java API, I am generating shortened URLs with goo.gl
But it's showing the analytics information to anyone who is accessing the URL by adding .info extension.
I want to secure this so that the ...
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Can changing internal URLs and implementing redirects risk an SEO penalty from Google?
I have the profiles of my website users indexed on Google:
example.com/username
I want change profile URLs to:
example.com/profile/username/id
All the previous indexed profiles redirect to new ...
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Migration from HTTP to HTTPS and changing URL structure at the same time
There are several reports of migration to HTTPS (using 301 redirects and HSTS) without an impact to rankings (no fluctations).
Since that seems like changing URL structure I'm thinking to migrate
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Can keywords in the URL path be separated by commas for Google?
As we know, keywords in the URL are helpful with your SEO, for example, /keyword1-keyword2, or keyword1_keyword2. We know that Google is able to identify the two keywords.
However, what if it was ...
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search from Domain name , results showing lower case Title
Search from a domain name, results in showing title in lower case (although this is not the page title been given).
Example: jw building services (jwbuildingservices.com)
Is it possible to make ...
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Dynamic URL generation and SEO
We are integrating some web-services in our website and it is mostly about integrating post codes search within the website.
There are couple of ways to build this, the easiest is below but we are ...
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Wrong URL showing up in Google search results resulting in 404 error after migrating from blogger to WordPress
I have ported a blogger blog to a WordPress blog. I have switched the DNS to point to the new WordPress blog. The WordPress blog is up and running fine. I have created sitemaps for the pages on this ...
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Best way to use date in URL for better SEO
There is a website scenario in which a user gives date as input and the result will be something related with that date.
Lets take the scenario is my website gives earth quakes happened in Europe on ...
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Generate urls for same product with different designs
How do you handle a product url when a brand has the same product type in different shapes?
Let me provide you with an example. I have Brand A that has sling bags. There is a sling bag, and there is ...
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Do the internal searches need to be by GET for SEO purposes?
I have a site with products, which can be searched using a convoluted search form, with quite a few input fields. I send the data by POST, to the same page, so I can list all products in the URL: /...
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Should I translate URL for better SEO?
I have a website about TV shows, that for default (EN) pages, it's like this:
example.com/en/show/actors
example.com/en/show/episodes
The site is localized in different languages, and I was ...
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why does google request apple-app-site-association from every domain on the server?
I received the following in my log:
[Mon Oct 05 11:04:35 2015] [error] [client 66.249.75.xxx] File does not exist: /path/to/user/public_html/apple-app-site-association
xxx in the log is a number ...
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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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Should sitemap contain URL for all categories of Product?
I am having open cart eCommerce website. Here I need to add one product under multiple Categories. By default what opencart produces SITEMAP.xml, it includes URL for all the categroies for that ...
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How can I remove URLs from Google search that contain my product name?
I'm working for a company, and while searching for their name in Google, the results returned contain links with their product name in them that I want to be removed.
Is there any way Google can help ...
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Train search engines to learn domain names that are not spelt correctly
I'm in the process of building a web app called Vybecast. I brought vybecast.com (and various other vybecast.tld's) a while back. Since then I've managed to secure and purchase vibecast.com (and also ...
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Google thinks my domain doesn't exist or is misspelled when users search for it
I created a website for ecommerce, but am having problems with the Google search. My site link is "banilla.com.br" or "www.banilla.com.br", but Google thinks they are both misspellings (on either ...
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Should I include product URLs in my Sitemap, if I have Google Shopping?
Well, the title says it all, really. We already have Google Shopping, where they have data for all of our products in the product feed, including URLs. Should I still include the URLs to the products, ...
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Do shorter URLs benefit the pagerank and overall SEO value of pages vs. a longer categorised url showing the site structure
We are coming to the end of a long project in which we are upgrading our client's site from a custom built CMS to the latest version of Umbraco CMS whilst also making their website responsive. As part ...
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How do I improve the rate at which Google crawls my website?
Google is not crawling my website. I want to be in the search results as soon as possible. How do I get Google to crawl faster?
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SEO implications of using different content with the same URL for campaign purposes
I'm assessing the feasibility of serving up slightly different content based on the campaign ad that is clicked on. In many aspects, this will be similar in approach to serving up different languages ...
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Crawler errors for unused URLs containing "mozekcdn-a.akamaihd.net"
In the AdSense dashboard, Google is reporting crawl errors for unexpected URLs. It shows that Google crawler was unable to access some of my 87 pages. When I checked those pages I found that I haven't ...
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How do I find when an URL was first indexed by Google?
How do I find out when a particular URL was first indexed by Google? I'd prefer a solution that works even for competitors' URLs that are not owned by me.
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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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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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