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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Change product images WooCommerce (jpeg > webp.) the right way?
I'm working on converting product images from .jpeg to webp, I want to do this without a plugin, but preferably within the functions of WooCommerce. I exported the products as a .csv file and adjusted ...
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Publication wrong date in google search result
I am working on Website developed by ANgular+Nojdejs. I work now especially on SEO. I noticed that my pages are displayed with the wrong dates in google search results.
I am using several structured ...
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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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Obscuring sub-domain
I have a site that is for a realtor and its URL is say, homesforsale.example but the actual listings are housed within an MLS/IDX system that is currently set to search.homesforsale.example. The ...
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Google chooses the home page rather than the language subdirectory to index and doesn't index any of the rest of the site
My website URL is text.example.com/en/
and the same URL is also defined in the canonical tag, but Google selects a different canonical URL by itself in which it does not include the language path so ...
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What are the best practices for converting php website to nextjs website?
I have a website built using HTML and PHP. I want to revamp the design of the website but the code is literally messed up. It contains a lot of duplicate and junk code and cleaning it will be too much ...
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Internal links to homepage: Should we point to root domain, or to our (required) final (redirected) homepage URL /home?
Due to web app development constraints, we can't serve our marketing website homepage at https://example.com, but instead must redirect requests for https://example.com to https://example.com/home
I ...
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Is it valid for HowTO schema have description property?
This is a HowTo schema I copied from Google.
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "HowTo",
"name": "How to tile a ...
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Schema types for Google enhancement Event & Video
I'm working to publish the meta information for a SaaS platform emitting live events, video broadcasts live shopping sessions.
In order to take advantage of Google search enhancements for each ...
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How Google Lighthouse check Speed index time
I am tuning the performance of a wordpress website.
So I use the Google Lighthouse, which is built in function of browser console, to check the score the website.
The homepage is an article page with ...
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New business website (.co.uk) not appearing in google search - up against an established .com website with the same name
A client has started a business in the UK that shares its name with a bigger established business based in Mexico. They operate in completely different market sectors. The name is a single word and ...
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The Value of SiteNavigationElement Structured Data
I've been researching https://schema.org/SiteNavigationElement markup and there's a lot of conflicting information out there as to its value.
Some people are suggesting if you define this data in your ...
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What are the factors that lead to a listing in Google's shopping graph ranking?
I work for an online retailer that sells thousands of products from hundreds of brands. We've been advertising with AdWords (Google Ads) and Shopping for the better part of a decade with great results....
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Does Googlebot see duplicated content when content is shown in a loop with JavaScript?
One of the projects I have recently developed uses SwiperJS slider with loop option set to true. It generates duplicated slides which makes sense. Since each slide represents an article the SEO guy ...
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What's recommended size for HTML(page) response
Consider following example:
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/index.html
1 is whole document in single html with large html ...
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Stop indexing of Github pages published from forks
This is similar to this question on Stack Overflow, but I want to keep the indexing of the original repo and stop indexing of the GitHub pages sites that are generated from the forks of the original ...
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Is Server-Side-Rendering with Spring Boot backend and React.JS front end possible?
I am making a web application that utilizes java & spring boot for the back-end and react.js for the front-end. I have been doing research more recently on SEO performance on client-side-rendering ...
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SEO test tool doesn't see my H1 generated by JavaScript, will Google?
On what basis is SEO checked? When I examine my page, an H1 tag is present. However, when I look at the page source, an H1 heading is not present because it is generated via JavaScript (CMS in the ...
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GMB Business Merger - How should we handle naming conventions?
I have a client with 6 locations that is merging with another business.
What is the best practice for updating the name on their Google Business Profiles in this situation?
Our fear is that users will ...
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SEO for dynamic URLs in Next.js
I am creating dynamic URLs in Next.js.
I want Google bots to crawl my sites like Stack Overflow and show my URLs in Google
my site is like Stack Overflow when I can add questions for each question a ...
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Disallow crawling of all links to a domain, except only specific URLs with parameters
I have a domain like example.com under which everything is blocked and links to an SPA.
Like example.com, and we've disabled everything like so:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Now this SPA uses parameters ...
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Gatsby View Page Source not showing HTML
I'm trying to get my HTML code to show on view page source for SEO purposes. When I visit another Gatsby website, such as https://afsp.org/ for example and look at the view page source, and you try ...
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I want to measure websites with restricted access with Page Speed Insight
I want to measure websites with IP access restrictions in the development environment etc. with Google's Page Speed Insight.
Is it possible to use the above web services and APIs?
If the access ...
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How can you a optimize stock photography and graphics website without text content for search engines?
I've found lots of SEO articles for blogging based websites. There are also many courses and YouTube videos that cover that. However, no one teaches how SEO is done for stock photography or graphics ...
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Is it ok to add an AggregateRating schema with Google Reviews according to Google guidelines?
Google Technical Guidelines for Review Snippet state:
Don't aggregate reviews from other websites.
Should I understand here that they do not want third party content here ? Like the former Facebook ...
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Is it possible to reuse a site with a different domain name, even if the domain that was attached to this site before is now on another site?
We have moved our domain name to a brand new site and we would like to use the old site (now without a domain) with a new domain name and use the same template we used before with the previous domain. ...
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How do I redirect a subdomain blog to a subfolder without .htaccess?
I currently have a blog hosted with Squarespace on a subdomain, let's call it blog.example.com. I have my storefront hosted separately on www.example.com. My blog receives a good amount of traffic, ...
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Is there any evidence that summary headings affect either SEO or user retention?
Many sites use key item Summary or Takeaway "headings" that summarize a blog page's content. You can see an example at Investopedia (see section "Key Takeaways"). They will have ...
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When changing domains, should Google Search Console change of address also be used for domains that redirect to the main domain?
I have site A redirect 301 to site B, now I have site C and want to redirect B to it, what is the best way to change of address with google search console?
Should I set only change of address B to C? ...
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How to show same company's different office address in google based on the user's country?
our company has five offices in five countries , once the user search in google, I need to show the office address based on the user's country, for example if the user search from US , I need google ...
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Does Googlebot respect the cache-control header?
Does Googlebot respect the cache-control header? By setting an appropriate cache-control header, can one improve the crawl efficiency?
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Dynamic Serving via 'vary http': Is still valid? Why the industry prefer full responsive websites instead?
I have a client that asked me to develop a website using a dynamic serving technique, basically he uses the vary http header in order to serve different versions of the front-end discerning them based ...
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SEO/Structured data: Tag whole page as review or only snippet
We write long reviews (+3000 words) on specific products (eg certain software), which also include a lot of general specifics etc etc.
What will be better for rankings / SEO:
tagging the whole page ...
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I submitted 500 sitemaps to Google and now it keeps downloading them every 30 minutes nonstop. What is going on?
I used the google.com/ping service to make it download 500 sitemaps for a customer of mine, that was about 30 hours ago.
Googlebot reacted immediately, downloaded all 500 sitemaps.
Now I have more ...
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Why are my US Google rankings so much worse than UK rankings and what can I do about it?
My Google rank for people searching for my website from the UK is currently 14th - which considering the last 10 years I've been ranking at 18/19/20 or lower is much better.
But For people searching ...
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Sitemap File for Multiple Languages
Hi Currently my site is in 3 languages:- English, French, Dutch.
My main sitemap file is example.com/sitemap.xml
I have 2 questions:
Since I don't have a root folder for other languages (I only have ...
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What should the hreflang be for sites with more than 3 languages containing child pages?
We've got a domain: https://www.example.com/
Right now the domain is pointing directly to the page. We are based in Germany. So actually the site should be directing to https://www.example.com/de, ...
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Prevent indexing of text loaded by javascript from XHR-ed JSON file
I have a web document, https://example.com/page.html, where a javascript, like <script src="https://example.com/script.js"> loads a <div class="content"></div> ...
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What are Weiterleitungshinweis Backlinks in the Ubersuggest SEO tool?
Today I was checking my old backlinks and I saw my competitor making backlinks exactly where I have created it, so I tried to check his backlinks using the Ubersuggest tool (by Neil Patel) and I saw ...
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Does The Name Of The Subdomain Affect SEO
I want to ask if the name of a subdomain can affect search engine optimization (SEO)
I am making a tech website like cnet.com and also adding a downloads page like download.cnet.com , which will have ...
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How to fix duplicate title tags canonical for / vs index.html
I am confused, after scanning by an online SEO tool, it says:
error duplicate title tags canonical; https://cleanmypc.co.uk and https://cleanmypc.co.uk/index.html
I have in my .htaccess file
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Why do my two sites targeted at the same keywords never appear in the Google search result together?
I have two sites now, and had been doing Google SEO working about 6 months.
One site appeared on the 1st page of google search result of target keywords.
The other site also appeared for some ...
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Should a hreflang site for a language also show pages for that language and a specific region?
It's the first time for me that I implement a multi-language and regional website. I read all the google information about how to implement hreflang tags and I also read a few other information on the ...
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Images barely showing up in Google Search rich snippets, is it a subdomain problem?
I have a recipe blog running WordPress with Yoast SEO. A problem I have is that in Google Search images are not showing up in all the rich snippets for my website. I would say they show in about 50% ...
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seo and documenting multiple version of our software
How to markup the documentation of the different version of our product?
considering that
The content is not strictly identical across version,
but it is very often the same,
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