Questions tagged [seo]
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of web content in search engines using an understanding of search engines' processes and algorithms. Also known as "natural" or "organic" search, it is distinct from paid web advertising.
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Font styling H!
I will be changing the font style/sizes on my website. The header tags will be properly itemized H1, H2, H3, etc.
I am wondering if we change the font styles to the image on the left. The current is ...
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How long need to wait to google index pages [closed]
I have a problem with indexing subpages on my website by Google.
https://polnedrogi.pl/
I don't know if this is normal, but many websites, even those added almost a year ago, have not been indexed by ...
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On Hiring an SEO, what do I need to look for? [closed]
I am a self employed carpenter with my own website, housemastersllc.com, I built using GoDaddy. It was cheap, fairly easy to do, it got my content out there that I wanted to show. I do understand, it ...
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Google discovered pages from my sitemap, but none are indexed [duplicate]
I've recently put a new site online. I've written content for it and created a sitemap. I submitted it to Google thinking that would be it, but it's been a couple of weeks and the site's pages still ...
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Is changing the A record of main domain safe for seo?
I have two hosts with different IPs.
The first one (say host A) serves the old version of website at site.com, plus some subdomains and emails (ema[email protected]).
Host B serves the new version of ...
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Posts are not being indexed [duplicate]
So I have a fairly new blog up and running, and while I'm aware of sandboxing, one post immediately started to receive impressions and got some queries.
post-sitemap.xml - Sitemap processed ...
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CSS direction property, actual page language and SEO
I have a menu with a vertical scrollbar in my HTML pages.
This menu is on the left side of the HTML pages.
In order to have the scrollbar on the left side of the menu, I used a trick I found on the ...
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Domain & Subdomain have same Domain Rating
I'm doing SEO on a (relatively) new subdomain of an existing website. I'm having an issue where I can't seem to find the subdomain's Domain Rating, Authority Score, or any similar metric without it ...
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Why pages aren't indexed in Google Search Console [duplicate]
I created a blog page using nextjs and registered a Google Search Console page. Just in case, I also registered a sitemap and found 14 pages.
However, the total number of indexed pages is 6. Why are ...
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Clicks into site dropped precipitously after internationalizing canonical URL
I went from 3k clicks/day to close to only a few hundred. I have 2 sites using the same canonical link generation code, only 1 has this problem (the other has a sitemap, any relevance?).
I examined my ...
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Effect of SEO on Mixed Language Content in a Single page
I want to know what will happen, if I prepare a single page content in two languages. For example English & Hindi content in same page. Main keywords are in English. By considering Google can ...
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Are these parasite sites and could they be impacting my site's stats?
My site stats have been dropping considerably in recent months as you can see here:
My site still appears number 1 on google for "username generator" but - if I search for my site via this ...
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Multiple use of the same alt tag in multiple places on the blog
I have a blog on which I present all sorts of interesting design for different types of materials (flyers, business cards, document templates, etc.). I present both interesting examples of other ...
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How can I use "Google Earth" or "GPS exchange format" files to enhance my SEO ranking?
Google claims that it knows certain file types. This includes Google Earth (.kml, .kmz) and GPS eXchange Format (.gpx) files.
I have some clients who are active regarding locations. For example, a ...
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What happens if we change the website language when it is already indexed?
I currently have a Next.Js website where I set the default language by the user one. This means that Google bot reads it as an English website (I have English and French).
I plan to change it: set the ...
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Why Ranked Keywords Lead to the Homepage rather than to the Actual Article - as a result users couldn't get the things that they were looking for?
I am watching my Google Site KIt, Most of the traffic that we are getting to our Archive Pages and Homepage.
After some research, I found the problems:
When I search the entire title of my article, ...
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How to make Wordpress generate a description meta tag on post tag list pages?
Wordpress 6.3.1, Rank Math SEO plugin
ahrefs Site Audit flagged an Error of "Meta description tag missing or empty" for all our Wordpress tag list pages. For example, the public showcase ...
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How can I appear in "Web Results" section of Google Map's search?
A user searches for something on Google Maps and clicks on one item from the list. A panel appears on the left (or right) side of the screen that contains information about that searched entity and ...
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Trying to find out where a screenshot of an "Empty Pages" report came from. Doesn't look like a Google tool [closed]
Screenshot for reference. Anyone recognize this?
The screenshot came from a client via email.
A client took the screenshot, and then sent it to me in an email.
The problem is that I do not know which ...
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Setting up hreflang correctly on a huge international website
I'm doing SEO on my company's site. It's very big, with tens of thousands of pages, in 30+ languages.
We have hreflang & canonicals set up, and the structure is quite straightforward where each ...
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My video can't be indexed: does it impact the SEO of the page on which it appears?
The google search console tells me that some of the videos on my site cannot be indexed.
The main reason is that
The video is outside the viewport
This isn't really a problem because I don't really ...
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wordpress - all URLs with no trailing slash redirect to include slash
Just started a new job and the company website is built on Wordpress. All URLs seem to have a trailing backslash for example https://www.digitallearninginstitute.com/courses/professional-diploma/
We ...
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Is activity in Google's "Ask Question" box good for my website's SEO?
For some keywords, Google shows an Ask Questions box. And I have seen that some websites have a long list of questions being asked and answered.
Does it have a noticeable value for SEO ranking?
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Does query string case affect SEO?
Our team is working on how to handle query strings. Does it matter in terms of SEO whether we use pascal case, camel case or kebab case? Which is best?
https://example.com/page?dealType=m&...
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How to optimize a website for Google Search Generative Experience SGE?
With the latest updates in AI, Google introduced its LLM Model in search called SGE Search Generative Experience, by which they are showing AI-generated content on the top of search results pages.
I ...
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Page Indexing > Page with Redirect to Google Search Console
I need help. My website URL is like https://example.com/.
I have a problem with page indexing with redirect.
There are shown Page Indexing > Page with Redirect in Google Search Console. That's why ...
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Best SEO practices for for multi-page articles
I'm planning on releasing a number of articles spanning multiple pages. Each page of the article is thematically connected to the other pages through its main topic, but focuses on a particular aspect ...
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Should We Use The Same Alt Tags For Multiple Images Of The Same Product? [duplicate]
I have an e-commerce website with thousands of product images. These images don't have alt tags and are showing as missing alt text errors, so should we use the same alt tags for multiple images of ...
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Architecture for SEO
I have a new domain without any authority, and I am organizing the structure of the website. I want to go first for long tail KWs, and after for the big ones.
My question is, if I have a category page ...
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How do I get Keywords to show up in a vue website?
I'm trying to make my website more friendly for search engines and I have been running it through ubbersuggest to monitor the site's organic keywords always appear as nothing, which doesn't make sense ...
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When to use noreferrer in a link ? Am I using it correctly?
I noticed that one website that I own uses rel="noreferrer" in all the links pointing to the same domain (so trustworthy links not outgoing)
<a href="/blog" target="_blank&...
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Can a regional domain beat a .com one all other things being equal?
This is a theoretical question.
Asumming that one example is named something.[ccTLD] and the second one is named somethingelse.com
Both websites have same quality content (I know it is hard to compare ...
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86 links indexed by Google Search Console. Shown in search results, but later removed from search results (still shown in the Search Console)
I have 86 links for my site example.com successfully indexed by Google Search Console. They first appeared in Google's search results. But after a few days, most of the links disappeared. Currently, ...
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Google chose non-canonical pages as canonical
On our website, we use different domains for several countries (.be, .ch, .fr, .com, .it). On each of them there's 3 languages (en, fr and it). So for a specific page, there's up to 15 possible ...
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Two smiliar pages: Google index the wrong one
Good morning On my site I offer a product, let's say "Purchase a car" (obviously it's not that), I was ranked in second position on google for years, then I launched a more specific product (...
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My tool site is indexed but not ranking on Google which is 1 year and 164 days old [duplicate]
I have a tool site, which is created by me and published before 1 year. The site is available on Google. But till now the site is not ranking on Google. On the other hand, My tool sites are ranked in ...
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Why is Google is crawling unsupported languages?
In the Google Search Console, under Indexing's "Duplicate without user-selected canonical" error section - there are many links that are being crawled that are not supported.
I have recently ...
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Google rankings tanked a month ago, can't understand why [duplicate]
Started my site in July 2022, but it never started to rank. Might be because I messed up trying to make it multi-language.
301 redirect
Because my site never started to rank, I did a 301 redirect to a ...
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My page does not get indexed after months [duplicate]
I went live with my website (using WordPress) about 2 months ago and almost every page is not yet Google indexed, except for 2 somewhat useless pages (ex. one is a page not yet completed showing "...
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Non-standard tags effects on SEO [duplicate]
I am interested in understanding the effects on SEO (not only Google) of non standard HTML elements, be they HTMLUnknownElement or Custom Elements while retaining as much as possible native semantic ...
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Is it better to have a large chunk of text, or individual p tags for SEO
We have a website, where a lot of text is required for SEO to be preloaded on to the website.
Currently, it has been loaded with each text/sentence loaded into it's own <p> [...] </p> tag, ...
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Structured Data for Overview and Single Pages of Events
I'm working on a platform where you can post events, among other things. I would like them to be found on Google and displayed as rich search results.
Briefly about the structure of the site. ...
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Does it improve SEO to redirect website search to google search?
Let's say your website has a search box to search among content of the website.
Is it a good idea to redirect the user with the search query to google, so that he comes to website again from google, ...
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Tracking links going to 404 pages
I have a price comparison website with quite a few tracking links like this:
<a href="/go.php?id=6000579" class="fh-price-go-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ...
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Google search is not showing my site in search results [duplicate]
I have created my self a small website for converting ebooks and documents between different formats. It seems that Google is not relating my website with any keywords. The site is for sure indexed by ...
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How to use the canonical tag in multi language websites that is SEO friendly?
I have doubts about using the canonical tag in multilingual websites.
This is how I currently use the canonical tag on a multilingual website:
English Website:
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What is the best seo practice in my scenario?
I will provide you a fictional scenario.
We have an url named example.com/swimming-pools which has all the swimming pools without any particular filters.
Then we have other urls like /swimming-pools/[...
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What about img blob data affect for seo & client performance [closed]
in simple cms project with some picture lower 1mb , save all image as blob data in database (exp: sqlite) is good idea for files management...
How does this affect SEO? for example on: pageload web ...
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Website was hacked. Now thousands of links are showing in Search Console [duplicate]
Our website was attacked with Japanese SEO Spam last year in October. We have now removed all the spam links from the database and website is secure. But Search console is still showing thousands of ...
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Validation of canonical links not working in Google Search Console
I internationalized my site's canonical links using the guide from here: https://yoast.com/hreflang-ultimate-guide/#hreflang-canonical
Which has an output like this:
<link rel="canonical" ...
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