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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Why does my site's average position drop on weekends?
I noticed a weird patten in my GSC Performance chart - average position drops on weekends and rises back up on Mondays, peaking mostly the middle of the week.
The standard response "Well, people ...
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List of SEO rules for HTML tags?
I know there are some rules related to specific attributes that some tags should have. For example, input, select and textareas should have aria-label on them. I'd like to have a full list of these ...
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how to avoid ranking for keyword? [duplicate]
in our site we have a content about lean six sigma consultancy services, in google search console we found that we have monthly click about 6000 click from relevant words for sex "but in arabic ...
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What is better for SEO? Host on a cloud with virtual CPU/RAM located in my country vs host from neighbour country on a dedicated CPU/RAM?
Search engines look at various variables to rank a website. One of these variables is: site loading speed.
At the moment I have 2 options to choose from to host my website on:
Host on a cloud with a ...
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Crawled - currently not indexed [duplicate]
I have been working on improving the SEO of my website and have noticed that it has been recently crawled by Google according to my Google Search Console. However, when I search for my website on ...
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Removing __NEXT_DATA__ script tag for google bots
Our e commerce website is built on next js. We wanted to optimise the bit crawl bandwidth by reducing html size shipped to google bots. We want to treat user and bot differently. As we know bots don’t ...
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If article:published_time and article:modified_time have the same dates, should I use article:modified_time?
<meta property="article:published_time" content="2022-11-17T17:16:45+00:00"/>
<meta property="article:modified_time" content="2022-11-17T17:16:45+00:00"...
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Errant URLs from an acquired site
I recently acquired a website for an ecommerce company that I am now running, and am trying to get it up to snuff for SEO. It was previously a WordPress site but is now hosted on Shopify. I'm in the ...
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Google not indexing pages using php variables [duplicate]
For example google isnt indexing this page.
https://yorkes.live/beach.php?location=flahertys
however does index;
https://yorkes.live/privacy-policy-yorkes.pdf
I have a sitemap.xml up and working.
This ...
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Can showing maintenance page during deployment affect SEO?
I have an Azure App Service web application.
I have big traffic 24h and this is a problem when it comes to deploy. The definitive solution would be to bring the application deployment downtime to 0, ...
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Do article pages need to have an RSS Feed page?
I am working on a blog software. This blog has a home page, category pages and articles.
I will add an RSS feed to this blog. I added the RSS feed to the home page by adding /feed to the end of the ...
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SEO effect of http-equiv="REFRESH" for redirect
Question Moving Pages to New URL's - Unable to Use 301 Redirects to Tell Search Engines The Pages Have Moved got me thinking - If there is only access to change the content of a page to affect ...
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What is the actual HTML rendered to bots?
We have a product page in which 4 item carousels are present, showing mostly related products. All these 4 carousels are client side rendered.
1. Scenario1: Google rich results
Now, we have observed ...
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Moving Pages to New URL's - Unable to Use 301 Redirects to Tell Search Engines The Pages Have Moved
I am considering moving some of my website pages to new paths, but I cannot do 301 redirects as I use Google Sites.
What's the best way to tell Google the pages have moved? I could:
Request removals ...
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Google search console fails to read robots, sitemap, index files or verify ownership
I am, as a volunteer, taking care of our local YMCA websites (thereof refered to as [sub].domain where sub refers to different websites). For some reason, a few months ago google stopped indexing our ...
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How to handle additional content on paginated pages?
we have category pages with a few hundred products per category.
The category pages are properly paginated according to Googles guidelines for pagination.
One page shows 16 products. In addition to ...
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How to Remove URLs from Google Search Console
I first connected my .com domain to a Blogger blog and wrote on the blog for three months and manually indexed about a hundred url in Google Console. Later, I bought a hosting and connected my domain ...
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Images on Google Search Results not showing from S3
For a django-based website that uses Amazon S3 to handle static images, Google seems to inconsistently show the page's main image in the search results. Sometimes it shows, and sometime's it doesn't.
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SEO: Changing product name and domain name to be found when searching for the old name
When switching to a new product name (and also new domain), it seems to make sense to place 301 redirects from all old pages to the new domains pages.
But: what if almost everyone searches for the old ...
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My website 301 response crawl requests has risen 10 times
My website's 301 response crawl requests has risen 10 times (from 150-250 to 2000-4000).
What is/are the cause/s?
Has anyone experienced it?
Does it heart SEO in long term?
What is the solution for ...
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Is React based website is search engine friendly
I'm asking question because most of the content will be loading in dynamically created html.
I'm planning to develop an online store (a very small project) I'm planning to use React for the first time ...
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finding somebody's website domain [duplicate]
I am searching to find the owner of a specific domain and I have tried to do it with WHOIS technique but the owner is private. However, the owner's Analytics number is the following
UA-120371695-1
Can ...
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Multi language website, ID based URLs, and SEO
In a multi language website, can we use different product IDs for different language versions of the site? Will it affect SEO or not? For example:
English: www.example.com/en/personal-care/nivea-123
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Change a Static Website to a Dynamic One [closed]
What is the best way to change a static to a dynamic website? I know how to create the exact same page, but not with the same url. I don't want to lose any visitor of my current page. Thanks in ...
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Would changing my webpage's HTML content only partially affect my SEO?
I have a webpage like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content=&...
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From a SEO perspective is <h1><div>PAGE TITLE</div></h1> the same as <h1>PAGE TITLE</h1>?
I am aware that Google uses text inside of h1 tags to help index webpages and this can improve a website's SEO ranking.
Does nesting SEO-important text such as a page title inside of multiple html ...
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Google shows Redirect issues in google console for the internal 301 redirects
I built my website using next Js and deployed it in Vercel. Here, I had to move some old page URLs to new ones. So, I did this,
301 redirect
www.example.com/book/harry-potter => www.example.com/...
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Multilingual content and SEO - best practices?
Does having multilingual content help SEO in a given language?
I was thinking of paying to have my blog translated into other languages - my website and app are only available in English right now, ...
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200 website code by Console [closed]
Can someone help me and let me know why google is not ranking quite some few of my sites from mine latest SEO project:
https://kroatien-ferienwohnungen.at/
I see that plenty of pages are crawled but ...
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What actually happen when you repost content on different platforms?
Here is my scenario. I have WebPage A it is published on my domain. I publish the same content on another site, this is WebPage B. I've added a canonical URL on WebPage B so that it shows to WebPage A....
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How should I add a hreflang to the existing website
My e-commerce website is 10 years in the internet already, focused just on my home country (.de) and I use just one main .com domain. Now I want to expand to other market (UK) so I want to add new ...
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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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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>
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<main>
<div>
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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?
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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,...
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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 &...
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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%
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 example.fr, which is correctly indexed by Google.
But also, I have another domain name example.eu which redirects to the main one -> ...
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