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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How to make and submit a sitemap for a multilingual (translated) website (subdomains)?
I run a website that's been translated over Weglot to 5 languages, and now I have 5 different subdomains for https://www.example.eu/, like https://it.example.eu/, etc. First, I was worried will Google ...
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Archived Post Is Ranking Instead of Actual Article [duplicate]
I recently wrote an article that took the number 2 spot on Google for a specific search term. It was a pretty easily rankable term.
Two weeks later is was gone.
I've written articles that over time ...
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Is it okay to have <canonical> outside the <head> tag?
Is it completely fine to add rel=canonical tag outside the head section?
I ran a website audit and the crawler highlighted the issue to have rel=canonical tag inside the head tag.
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Where to put schema markup code. In <head> or <body> tag?
I am wondering where should i put the schema markup code? Should i put it in the <head> tag or in the <body> tag?
This is a sample code from Google and they haved added it in the tag but ...
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How can I add alternate tags to my multilingual site in Hugo?
I am designing a multilingual site with Hugo CMS, but I need to add tags between the headings to make it SEO compatible. I have 2 different languages and I want to add the default language feature.
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Edit sitemap in google search console
i have put the sitemap URL into the google seach console, however the sitemap that the website generates is really bad (full of sites that are only visible after signing in as an admin) and I can not ...
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How to optimize SEO for landing pages that aggregate business types in a various cities?
If I search for the single word "plumber", Google uses my location and this page "Top 10 Plumbers in Manhattan" from Yelp appears in the results.
https://www.yelp.com/search?cflt=...
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Block Googlebots from fetching robots.txt on a microservice subdomain
We have some microservices and as an example, Language Service's URL is the following;
http://prod-lang-service.example.com/
We have been getting errors (NotFoundException) on Rollbar that Google ...
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why some pages of a website are mentioned in the sitemap but not linked anywhere on the website not even mentioned in the header and footer?
So I found these pages on the sitemap but I cannot see these pages on the website in the header or footer section. How come the user will interact with this page?
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How will Google discover and remove all my new NoIndex pages?
We had around 100 pages indexed which were actually outdated, thin content and causing SEO keyword cannibalisation issues.
For administrative purposes we are unable to remove the pages (as need them ...
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After adding an .htaccess rule to remove .html from my URL, which version of the URLs go in the sitemap?
I have my website with its sitemap submitted to the Google Search Console, the whole shebang. Unfortunately, my indexing isn't going so well. I've narrowed down the problem to make my URL cleaner. I'...
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SEO process for new wordpress site after upgrading from old HTML site
i have upgraded a old htlml site(created 15years back) to new wordpress site, when I search the site name in google it list out the home page and other inner page link such as about us, contact us etc
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Marketing company set all pages to noindex,nofollow on website
In Jan 2022, a marketing company that was rebuilding my website set all pages to noindex,nofollow. The agreement also allowed them to run ads, optimize, improve SEO, etc., and I was paying a monthly ...
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Placing headline after text - SEO influence?
There is an element with image - text - headline, placed in a column flex. The headline (h3) is displayed underneath the text. Does it have a negative impact for screen readers or SEO? I'm thinking, ...
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Regex / Regular Expression for finding duplicate URL directories in Screaming Frog SEO Spider
While analysing a website with the Screaming Frog SEO Sider I've seen a problem of some pages containing duplicate URL directories.
To fix this problem I need to know which URLs this affects.
So I ...
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SEO Impact: Rewriting image urls in htaccess
I'm currently looking to leverage Cloudflare Image Resizing on a sizeable Wordpress multisite network. Changing all the image requests across the site to reflect the Cloudflare URL is of course going ...
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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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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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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 ([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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