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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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If Both Article Page and PDF File Have the Same Content, Will It Cause SEO Problems?

I have a blog page and I publish articles on this blog page. You can download these articles as PDFs by clicking the download button on that article. PDFs are the same content found in the article. ...
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Yandex Ranking Leak - Which Specific Ranking Signal Should be a Focus?

From the recent Yandex ranking Leak, https://searchengineland.com/yandex-search-ranking-factors-leak-392323 which of the following signals will have the most relevance for every site in 2023 on Google?...
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Link Share Buttons - SEO Approach

My site uses Link share buttons for Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. When a user clicks a share button, they experience one of two scenarios, depending on their login status: Already Logged In: Share ...
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Does blocking api URL hurt rendering by googlebot

In my GSC crawl stats most of the 404s and URLs using page resource load are: API URLs for a JavaScript part of our content Cloudflare's managed challenge If I add an entry to robots.txt for 1, will ...
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Any SEO impact after removing the current breadcrumbs available upon the website?

I have a very old website where a lot of the niche main keywords covered through the breadcrumbs. Now we have recently revamp our whole product at new Tech Stack (React - Strapi). Now, what's the best ...
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Yoast SEO shows " No images appear on this page "

Yoast SEO shows " No images appear on this page " for a particular page which contains images in my website. I already updated Yoast SEO plugin, but there is no change. How can I solve this ...
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Is it best to move a poorly-performing website to a new domain name upon a major update?

My rationale is since my site was poorly received, it will be better to get a clean state. There are many instances of bad user experience with the current site, related to slow loading and ...
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Having trouble dealing with backticks in keyword phrase: Yoast

I have a site I wrote in WordPress. I've been using the Yoast SEO plugin to see if I can get my content more easily found. I just wrote an article on my site about the SQL SELECT statement. It begins ...
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Why is my server 302-redirecting Lighthouse away from my robots.txt file, but not when I visit it with a web browser?

This is my robots.txt file: User-agent: * Disallow: /user/ Disallow: /user/* Disallow: /home/* Disallow: /adminpanel/* Disallow: /Valorant_Guess/* Disallow: /Leagueoflegends_Guess/* Disallow: /...
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Does NOT outputing HTML for a navigation menu in mobile hurt SEO?

I have a menu visible in Desktop and Tablet, which shows all the categories available (in a Category Page). That menu is hidden by a button in Mobile, and I use Javascript to NOT output the menu HTML ...
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Redirected exact-match domain names for SEO?

Google usually favors domain name exact matches. For example, if your domain is mailonline.com, when you search "mail online", it would recognize the similarity between the two and likely ...
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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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Can randomly generated web page content lead to search engine penalties?

I have specialized pages with random content. Every time they are accessed or refreshed, different content is displayed. I have pages that contain randomly selected users of my website: I have pages ...
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Does it cause any SEO issues for my <h1> tag to come after my <h2> tag in the HTML?

I have a <div> with an <h1> tag that I moved to the top of the page using CSS, but in the code, the <h2> tag comes before the <h1> tag. Is Google Crawler smart enough to read ...
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Why does Bing Webmaster Tools tell me that my h1 tag is missing?

Here is a snippet of code from my index.htm page. The h1 tag is there, so why isn't Bing recognizing it? <body class="designview landing-page sidebar-collapse"> <script> ...
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My website is changed and re indexed by google but I have not got it when I search by it's new title [duplicate]

I have change by websites title from "Nova Hotel - Your First Choice" to "Nova Hotel" and apply for re indexing to google search console and google indexed it. When I searches by ...
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What are the main factors to rank website on google? [duplicate]

How we can find the best blogs to learn about the SEO. Although there are many mentors but how we can find that which one is better.
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Best seo pratice for category pages

Let's say you have an e-commerce store that has a category page of "Easter Offers" with an URL of /easter-offers which contains special discounted products which only easter for Easter. ...
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google is ranking the wrong url for my keywords

I have a food blog and I publish recipes. Recently, Google is ranking my posts with the wrong URL for the majority of the content. It's linking the homepage for my keywords. I already submitted my ...
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Same content, different domains, different languages = hreflang?

I have a question. Related topics would be: duplicate content, different languages, maybe hreflang. I'm located in Belgium. Belgium is multi-lingual. I have a company that offers preparation for a ...
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Home page redirection (due to multiple language versions)

I'm working on a gatsby based multilingual website. Each translation has its own root based on the language code. For example: Blog /en/blog /pl/blog /de/blog Contact /en/contact /pl/kontakt /de/...
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TTFB vs SEO and My Site Location

I have a website and about 90% of the users are Brazilian, so I migrated my website to be hosted on a America/São Paulo server on Google Cloud Platform. However, after the migration I noticed that ...
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Best Practice For Multi Language Site [duplicate]

I have my website in English but My Audience is with Hindi and Gujarati Language. I have preferred to go with English version as my primary website with URL like https://example.com because my ...
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Why does my site fall that much? Google update? Or something else? Seeking expart opinion [duplicate]

In February 28 or Maybe March 1 there is a google update showing in semrush. My site was a very good site after all. But suddenly it dropped 500 users to 100 users per day. Many ranked content ...
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Google Impressions Cratered 95% - How to troubleshoot? [duplicate]

My impressions tanked from ~2k/day to ~100/day on January 17th, 2023. Two days earlier, I received a Page indexing issue detected alert from the Google Search Console Team. The following picture ...
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Which language specification method is best for SEO? [duplicate]

Local language is English and the website has German and Spanish translations. What's the correct way to structure local URLs' according to SEO? Should the local language be: http://www.website.com/ ...
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Multilangual content in single website: should I seperate content by language?

I'm building a website where I plan to publish some content in two languages: Arabic and French. Since this is a one-man job, I wanted to avoid unnecessary complexity and have one single page to list ...
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Does Content on a Subdomain build Authority/PageRank on the Main Domain? [duplicate]

SEO Question: What is the best place to host a Blog on a website? is site.com/blog better for SEO than blog.site.com? If we have a Blog at blog.site.com and a lot of people link to a popular post e.g: ...
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How do I correctly use h2 tags given that Google says to not overuse them?

I am confused about when I should use a h2 tag and when I should avoid it. Like most commercial websites I have a product list page. 24 products are divided into 6 rows of 4 columns each. The product ...
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How exactly Inertia.js solves SEO concerns in the case of SPA?

I've just read the paragraphs under the subheading "SEO Concerns" in the article "The Ultimate Guide to Inertia.js" But I don't comprehend them. So, when Inertia is involved, the ...
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Can a Banner Advertisement Make My Site be Marked as Spam?

I have one blogging site called A with about 80000+ pages in it. It's doing good in Google Search. I have recently launched a new site called B. I have put a banner advertisement on my site A which ...
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How did Google crawler view my password-protected pages?

I have a site that is login-blocked/password-protected where Googlebot crawling has worked for 1+years and suddenly stopped. I am trying to figure out how this could have happened. It is a large site ...
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Will Google deindex pages for adding template content?

Google recently cut my indexed pages in half, which cuts revenue in half, which is pretty concerning. I have a large database driven website (millions of pages) which dynamically creates content with ...
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SEO optimization of near me keyword searches

Suppose I have a web page for product P. That web page is optimized content-wise for near me type searches, for example, "P near me" by detecting geolocation based on user IP addrsss. Since ...
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SEO effect of having anchor link content on separate pages as well as on a page all together?

If a page has several sections all using anchor links from a table of contents, are there any SEO consequences of also having separate pages for each section? Here's an example to illustrate the ...
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Site migration from .co.uk to previously owned .com to help with USA/global market reach?

We own our domain .co.uk and have recently purchased the .com version from a third-party private seller. My research shows that our .co.uk has a better domain authority score and low spam score when ...
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Check if old URLs that are redirected are receiving traffic and they are active [duplicate]

So I took over a web with almost 10.000 redirects created in .htaccess file which is ridiculous. The domain is more than 15 years old. I want to remove redirects that are no longer needed for the ...
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Why are some files not loaded in my Google Search Console account (URL Inspection)?

My website works well, but Google Search Console shows me that even style.css files can't be loaded, and many more files are not loaded as well. Please let me know why it is? And how to fix it? Image ...
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Canonical copy showing way above the original in search results

On February 1st, I uploaded a blog story to my personal website. On February 11th, it was indexed by Google. On February 13th, I uploaded the same story to Medium, with a canonical URL pointing to the ...
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how can I replace the URL on search engines with the business name?

I'm building a site and I've noticed that when I search my site's name on google, unlike other sites my websites Url is displayed instead of the business title. Can somebody please help me figure this ...
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301 Redirects & SEO

I'll keep it short and sweet. My website features a gallery set up as posts that showcase products on vehicles. Example 1: website.com/product-1-ford-f150/ Example 2: website.com/product-2-ford-f150/ ...
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How can I change the order in which Google Sitelinks are displayed?

See the image for reference. In this scenario I'm the owner of the domain, and I want "Learn Business and Creative Skills" to be on top instead of the "Shop Courses" page. How can ...
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"Page With Redirect" issue for index document

I use the Pelican static site generator with Attila which automatically creates a page for each of my site's categories (/categories.html). The default configuration for Attila created category URLs - ...
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SEO effect for Blocking entire site for a country and allowing only one page

Need your valuable guidance. Suppose via Cloudflare if we add a redirect rule for a specific country. Where if any traffic comes from that country, it will get redirected to a special subfolder ...
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When searching a specific page on my website it is displaying it in Japanese language

I am searching my website's page indexing of About us (mentioned below) on browsers but it is giving me details on other languages which we haven't added anywhere. Consulting with the front-end team ...
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Best way to handle link for login-protected pages

I have a e-learning website with free and paid courses. On my course page, there is link to the lessons. If it is a paid course, when you click on the link you are redirected to the shop. See this ...
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Should I enable cloudflare crawler hints with Yoast SEO?

I have a WordPress site, and I want to have more traffic. I already have Yoast SEO installed in WordPress. Should I also enable CloudFlare crawler hints, and can it cause security issues? I see the ...
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Where does this URL parameter come from?

Recently, while checking the search console, I noticed that a number of URLs with this structure as you can see in the image below, have been classified by the search console in the page with ...
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Google Search Console: is it possible to get a list of de-indexed pages?

I have noticed a decrease of my "Indexed pages" in the last few weeks while taking a look at the graph in my Google Search Console. This surprises me because I did not make any significative ...
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Making an angular application findable on search engines [duplicate]

I am developing a b2c web application on angular 15. I read on their website, however, that search engine optimization might not work well with angular. Is this still the case with angular 15 and ...

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