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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Remove dev URL of website from Google Search
I have the following website:
However somewhere along the way Google seems to have decided to index my old development URL which doesn't exist anymore debtfreeme.223.165.77.73.sth.nz and I cannot for ...
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Internation SEO - issue with hreflang tag on Shopify website
I am stuck with an hreflang issue with one of the project, and would appreciate help with it.
I am working on seo for a .uk shopify website which is launched only a few days back. This brand already ...
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Can a website be full amp and still have good results on seo?
I am very new to development, learning just to make a project more efficient now, despite having a dream to be a developer I am too old to change from where I am.
I had some content written on ...
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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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Does it matter for SEO whether URLs are human-readable?
In terms of a site's SEO, is the following format best:
https://www.example.com/query/who-is-the-hippo-in-Moon-Knight
Or can a website do just as well SEO-wise if it has URLs like this?
https://www....
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Base64 encoded data url in <meta name=thumbnail>
Google says that you can specify a thumbnail image to be shown in search results by adding a <meta name="thumbnail"> tag to the head of the document. See https://support.google.com/...
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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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Do all pages have to be added to XML Sitemaps?
I'm planning to add an XML Sitemap to a client's existing website. According to this, it will help define the difference between the root website (aimed at UK) and the US website (aimed at the United ...
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Redirect from 404 page to homepage after some seconds and SEO impact
I've read a lot about that is bad to redirect 404 page to the homepage (soft 404). But I want to know if it's a good idea to redirect, after some seconds, the user from the 404 page (with the error ...
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Is SVG better for SEO than other image formats?
While reading an article on the internet I read that SVG is better for SEO than other image formats. How true is that? Also, when adding an SVG image to a website should it be added as <svg> or &...
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Little bit Identical but paraphased content in a Tool Site. Is this a good idea in SEO wise?
I have a online tool site where provides many conversion tools. such as JPG to PNG, JPG to PDF, JPG to BMP, PNG to JPG etc..
So I have a plan to integrate my adsense account with this site. But to ...
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Do I HAVE to use return hreflang even on noindex pages? And how important is x-default?
So, our website is HUGE. It has more than 32 languages in more than a dozen countries. There's a good reason for that, related to legal regulations for our business.
Because of that, we have only a ...
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Both HTTP and HTTPS versions of my site are currently indexed on Google. Is that hurting SEO?
When on Google, I search for the name of my site, with no HTTP, HTTPS or WWW and the results that come up are the HTTPS, then another listing for HTTPS page and then the HTTP version.
Is the fact ...
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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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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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Should H1 tags on all pages in a section of the site be the same?
When navigating to various pages within the "About Us" section of our website, should the H1 tags, be the same or different for SEO?
For example we have a page with "about us" as ...
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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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How to remove a link from my sitelinks without removing it from indexing
I have this shop website which contains a lot of dynamic product. I added a dynamic sitemap which updates constantly. it did great to my SEO and click rates but now its adding the products on the ...
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Google is indexing my website pages with hash bang fragment parameters not used in my web application
In the Google Search Console I have a lot of "Alternate page with proper canonical tag" (34k for 46k valid pages) with these weird fragment identifier parameters:
https://example.com/somepage#!&...
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How to target local SEO to one side of our city (a group of suburbs)?
Our suburban tennis club website has improved its rankings on Google Perth, Western Australia, and search visibility has doubled, but website traffic has remained the same.
I appreciate that not all ...
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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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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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SEO Impact when replacing html entity with unicode
I am revamping my whole site in reactjs with server-side rendering. In the process, I am replacing all HTML entities in title and meta tags with Unicode.
Old title example:
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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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In the GSC page indexing issues: Found a URL with a two different file names
Strange URLs in Search Console's Page with a redirect, Alternate page with Proper Canonical Tag'
Search Console is showing 240 excluded pages with 'Page with a redirect, Alternate Page with Proper ...
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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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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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Using multiple 'main' and 'section' tags in one page and SEO
I use semantic HTML5 tags for SEO reasons. In react I have some components that they inherit from each other. For example, a parent component has two children. Each outer HTML tag of the child is <...
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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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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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Do search engines perform JS rendering while crawling?
I have couple of websites recently created (~8 months) and Google is marking them as "Duplicate without user-selected canonical" or "Page with redirect" errors
How I implemented:
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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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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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LocalBusiness Schema - difference between @id and @url
We include the localBusiness data across all pages on our ecommerce site.
What values should be set for id and url on different pages e.g.
example.com/about-us
example.com/shop
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How to name image files in multi language site?
I have one site with two languages: English and Spanish for example.
What would be the proper convention to name image files?
From my point of view it would be stupid to duplicate image and then name ...
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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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SEO Impact of moving blog posts from root to subdirectory /blog
In a current corporate WordPress site, I have all the pages (about us, services, etc...) in root, but also the blog posts. For example: domain.com/a-simple-service-page, but also domain.com/a-simple-...
