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.
10,295
questions
3
votes
2
answers
215
views
Two links to same page in HomePage
Can two links to a specific path on the site on the home page be harmful for SEO?
For example:
<html>
<body>
...
<main>
<div>
......
- 133
1
vote
1
answer
26
views
I changed the domain name, will my articles pass as duplicates?
I decided to change my domain name x.com to y.com and moved all the files from x.com to y.com and deleted x.com.
All the articles on x.com are now available on y.com. But Google doesn't like duplicate ...
- 13
1
vote
0
answers
40
views
Could different schemas of microdata cause conflict between Google and Meta Pixel?
I'm trying to add structured data to our products page to improve SEO. We have Open Graph microdata set up for Meta Pixel, which in theory should be usable for Google as well,but Google's Rich Results ...
- 11
2
votes
2
answers
31
views
From the SEO perspective, is it ok to change h1 content based on the sites query parameters?
I have a page with many cards and with filtering. The filtering is added to the query and I want the h1 to reflect what is filtered.
While this is not problem to implement, should I, is this ok from ...
2
votes
1
answer
56
views
Should a disavow file specify domains or URLs?
Should I use full domain URL like https://www.examples.com/ or only the domain without http/https in a disavow file?
1
vote
0
answers
51
views
How to create a custom sitemap of multiple subdomains? [duplicate]
how can I achieve a certain well structured layout in the Google search results as presented below? I am working with multiple WordPress instances on several sub domains (not a multisite). Google does ...
- 11
1
vote
1
answer
32
views
Should I use en or en-us when using hreflang?
I have a multilingual website and I have questions about using hreflang.
Currently my website has 2 pages, one in Turkish and one in English.
If you enter the home page from turkey, it redirects you ...
- 789
3
votes
1
answer
35
views
302 or 301 Redirect for This Scenario?
I have a client who had an existing page on their site - example.com/page1. They have had me create another page that covers similar material, but matches some other branding and messaging that they ...
- 163
2
votes
1
answer
56
views
I've changed the URL and lost my top search result position in Google - would it help to revert the changes?
I've changed my top-ranking page to a simpler URL on the same domain with a 301 / permanent redirect, and changed sitemap and internal links accordingly.
A couple of days later Google crawled the site,...
- 121
0
votes
1
answer
17
views
Syndicate partner reviews missing author names! and GSC throws "missing author name" error
Ours is a one of the biggest e-commerce website. In item pages, For a given product, Our website pulls syndicated reviews from multiple syndicate partners and shows it under the product.We are using &...
- 141
1
vote
0
answers
41
views
Google Crawls mostly Javascript files of my HTML website [closed]
I have an issue with my HTML static page website, and the issue in my HTML(DOM) crawls only 11% and javascript crawls 70%
- 111
2
votes
1
answer
31
views
Can't Figure Out Article Review Schema Embed Code?
I'm trying to embed some schema in an article I've written which reviews a certain product. I'm using a Custom HTML block on WordPress to do this.
I basically just want the 4.8/5 stars to show on ...
- 121
1
vote
0
answers
28
views
Page can be indexed but "URL is unknown to Google" [duplicate]
Ahhhh... this is doing my head in!
I've got a bunch of URLs that are in my sitemap, able to be indexed, URLs have been live for a couple years etc. but they are "unknown to Google".
I'd love ...
- 11
1
vote
1
answer
33
views
Do canonicals actually negate SEO impact of a Google Optimize redirect test?
Someone at work is suggesting we do a redirect test with Google Optimize, and that we use canonical so that the original page's rank isn't affected.
Meaning, some visits would be redirected from page ...
- 843
2
votes
1
answer
40
views
Is disallowing all useragents sufficient to keep a site from being crawled by search engines?
We have a non-production version of our site that we want to prevent from being crawled. At some point in the past a non-production site was crawled and we still have search results pointing to it. I ...
- 123
1
vote
1
answer
42
views
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 ...
- 11
0
votes
0
answers
11
views
Google AdSense multiple account error feedback [duplicate]
I am new to Google AdSense, and I have also tried to learn and know more about Google AdSense before is applied. I applied but got a feel back that am running multiple Google AdSense accounts which ...
- 31
0
votes
1
answer
57
views
How can I change the SEO of my domain name knowing that this domain name is a redirect?
Currently, I have a domain with an associated Wordpress site [my-domain].FR, which is correctly referenced by google.
But also, I have another domain name [my-domain].EU which redirects to the main ...
0
votes
0
answers
11
views
How to find out whats caused a big reduction in traffic to my blog [duplicate]
I have a blog website and I'm trying to find out whats caused a loss in traffic to my website. My average rank on google search console saw a big drop from august to October, before it finally started ...
1
vote
1
answer
41
views
How to remove dots in the site description?
I am working on the SEO of my project.
When I search for my site in the search engine,
I see the site description there, but it has a dot.
This dot hurts my SEO.
https://prnt.sc/cUaX1FL_bEb7
That's my ...
- 13
0
votes
0
answers
18
views
How Stop Google To Show Result for Target Post On Other Posts
Consider i have a post with title "Post title 1"
this post is on same category by posts with titles "Post title 2" and "Post title 3"
so post 1 is showing on related post ...
- 101
1
vote
1
answer
42
views
Having city specific pages with same content, bad for SEO?
Let's say we want to create a web app (such as a salary calculator) and we want to optimize it for different states and cities. Basically, the content (some text and the calculation form) is almost ...
1
vote
0
answers
18
views
Should I add any specific markup or tag for automatically transcribed content to avoid SEO issues?
I am adding some educational PDF embedded files into an educational blog (not all the content is made up of pure pdf files, there are a lot of great posts written with love and care too). To improve ...
- 183
2
votes
1
answer
34
views
Is duplicative responsive text dilutive to SEO?
Let’s say I want to have responsive page text like the below:
<h1 class=“hide-sm”>My Awesome Widgets</h1>
<h1 class=“show-sm”>Widgets</h1>
Let’s say for argument’s sake my ...
- 123
1
vote
1
answer
32
views
Can somebody become a google search console owner by accident? most likely your previous seo agency
A few months back we got an update that a new email id has become the owner of GSC. Even though nobody from our company did that. The email id was of our previous seo agency. Is it possible that ...
- 11
3
votes
1
answer
47
views
Can I redirect my old post URLs to new ones without hurting SEO?
I have 5 million old indexed post pages in Google.
Now in the URL, I want to add directory name and use 301 redirects from the old URL to new one. For example:
old URL is: example.com/post/id
I want ...
- 115
4
votes
1
answer
52
views
Will changing URLs with .htaccess impact my SEO negatively?
Basically, I have URL like www.example.com/month/day/name-of-post.
What I want to do is to change the month/day to blog/month (or just /blog/) for continuity.
I have a WordPress and the pages are ...
- 65
3
votes
2
answers
186
views
SEO monthly time investment
I was recently contacted by someone who does SEO who said that he focuses on similar businesses in my country and sent me a list of other local companies he is working with and their apparent increase ...
- 175
3
votes
2
answers
87
views
Should I disavow sites with canonical url to mine?
I am having a problem and really didn't find a specific case like mine.
I found out using Ahrefs that there's several scrapped sites copying our content and from other sites that uses rel="...
- 31
0
votes
0
answers
11
views
What to do if I loose my top keywords [duplicate]
When checking my keywords in SEO tools such as Ahrefs or SemRush, I see that my top 10 keywords lose positions. I know it can be because my competitors become better, Google rolls out updates, etc. I'...
2
votes
1
answer
114
views
Google cached version of my website is not working due to CORS issue
Do I need to whitelist http://webcache.googleusercontent.com? What is the impact on SEO if the cached version does not load properly?
1
vote
1
answer
67
views
Can I Improve my website's Google rankings with a bot that searches for my site and clicks on it?
I have started a new website that I want like to obtain worldwide traffic for. And ofcourse, a key element is how to improve my Google search engine rank.
I am considering to develop a bot that would ...
- 143
2
votes
2
answers
39
views
In what situations it should be use a symbol "-" in the title of pages?
Examples for understanding, please tell me by your experience, is it good to use?
Name_of_film - watch online
Name_of_season_2_episode_4 - watch anime
Name_of_book - read
Like the main aim, what to ...
- 21
2
votes
1
answer
18
views
Using post title for cover image alt text
In most websites we can see that the cover image alt text is same as post title (e.g. blog archive), meaning that a sentence or keywords are duplicated, Does it hurt SEO? should we define different ...
- 121
2
votes
2
answers
37
views
The right landing page is not ranking
I have been trying to rank the right landing page for some specific keywords. But the page struggles to rank for the specific keywords. They are only ranking for the home page. The landing page is ...
- 21
3
votes
2
answers
1k
views
How to detect whether a hidden content will cause a penalty from Google or not?
I've read the answers here and here both saying that Google penalizes for a hidden content
when it is done for the purposes of manipulating the search engines
But there are at least two reasons why ...
- 35
2
votes
0
answers
25
views
multiple H1 or H2 tags and possible multiple usage of meta description on overview page
Good day,
I want to make a page overview page where all pages of a website are listed. (or a specific collection of them) so that the reader has a clue what to find where. Just a bit like a HTML ...
- 173
0
votes
0
answers
11
views
What's time of waiting (After updating description, title of the pages...) of searching sistem Google [duplicate]
I had PHP code, that prints meta-tags description (Only description). And in 1 week after changing descriptions amount of visitors had down (As I understand, due to Google algorithms had read it in ...
- 21
2
votes
1
answer
57
views
Protect of scraping
I want to protect my site of scraping, cloudflare helps but not 100%, i have lists of users, i make that lists only in goal for google indexed, problem is because some bad bots can use that lists for ...
- 115
2
votes
1
answer
65
views
Is it true that Google won't index my site if I do not use a FQDN?
I have personal blog, and in one week my site is still not indexed in Google Search.
I have submitted to Google Analytics and Google Search Console and it's still not indexed.
Then I read in their ...
- 123
0
votes
3
answers
40
views
If I link some specific words on my website to Wikipedia will it increase site SEO?
Possible if it's duplicate (however didn't got my answer when searching on this community)
Example: I create a hyperlink for my word 'Earth' to Wikipedia's earth's definition will it improve my SEO?
0
votes
0
answers
10
views
Should I include alternative URLs in the Sitemap [duplicate]
There are many questions and answers covering what to do with HTTP 301 redirects in a Sitemap if the redirects are used for a page which is no longer reachable.
However, our usecase is different. We ...
- 101
1
vote
1
answer
190
views
Google Crawl 404 Issue for different links
As the question title mentioned, I have checked my google console Crawl Report and found some of the URL have 404 which target the main/root directory.
I have double-checked the assets and try to ...
- 113
0
votes
1
answer
55
views
Google sitelinks directing to old website
We have launched a new website last Dec but till now the sitelinks are still directing to some of the old site pages (subdomain) which have the same domain as the new site. We submitted a sitemap to ...
- 1
2
votes
1
answer
38
views
How much does non-unique content (e.g. product specifications) affect SEO in the context of e-commerce?
Say we have a fairly successful (locally, on its product niche) online store with original content (images, descriptions, specifications). Now, we are given the possibility of working with an ...
- 121
3
votes
0
answers
56
views
Is it OK for SEO to remove old WordPress image uploads that are no longer being used on the site?
If I'm re-building a website that is not going to be using older image uploads, what's best practice in terms of SEO? Do I just delete the old uploads and move on or is it better to 301 them to the ...
- 63
3
votes
1
answer
247
views
Does using web analytics tools other than Google Analytics put my sites at a disadvantage in Google SEO?
I've been opting for an open source lightweight alternative to Google Analytics on my websites lately. Could this hurt my rankings or 'click-through-rate' on Google search results, even if I register ...
- 133
2
votes
0
answers
27
views
Googlebot increased the number of requests for a certain URL even though it has no links
As part of regular Log File Analysis, I noticed in a URL that Google_bot was crawling like crazy. This URL is an Iframe that embed in a page. My thought was maybe this page gets a new link from ...
- 51
3
votes
2
answers
68
views
What is the appropriate way to deal with blog post that start to rank on porn-related queries?
In Google Search Console, I noticed a few of my blog posts have started to rank for porn-related queries. When I checked in ahrefs I saw a few hundreds of spammy links to my page through a redirect ...
- 51
0
votes
0
answers
11
views
How can I make it so I and other people can find my website by typing keywords and not have to type in the entire url in serach bar [duplicate]
Hi I have a website using 123site how can I make it so I and other people can find my website by typing keywords and not have to type in the entire URL in search bar. I believe that this is called SEO ...
- 1