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More accurate indexing
I need to remove some pages from indexing but i still need to index subdomain links.
I have this website structure
/ -- main page
/region/ -- regions
/region/1 -- specific region with cities and links ...
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How to remove the wildcard subdomain on Apache to prevent Google from indexing Subdomains that do not exist
I am experiencing the issue explained at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53065450/subdomains-that-dont-exist-are-indexed-by-google-zombie-subdomain-removal-via. Notice how the the search engine ...
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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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How to place subdomain in the sitemap
A site made this sitemap for me:
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http:/...
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Optimizing SEO for User-Generated Content: Subdomain, Separate Domain, or Subdirectory?
I'm developing a website which will prominently feature user-generated content. This content will be high-quality and unique, produced by the users of my paying customers. However, it's worth noting ...
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Best way to configure URL and subdomain
I am configuring a new brand which is a sub-entity of a well established organisation with excellent Google standing.
I was thinking to configure the new site as a subdomain, new.old-brand.example, ...
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Temporary domain for new version of a website
I'm redesigning a website. Many parts of the old (current) website are still useable, but some other critical parts (say product page & purchase flow) are broken and the new, redesigned website ...
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Google doesn't index my site-home page and google-search-console appear the message "Crawled - currently not indexed" [duplicate]
Hello it is the first time i am trying to deal with seo and i have a problem.
Almost a month ago google crawled my site but hasn't indexted it so yet. Google search console showed me only a short ...
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How can I make a URL on one domain "front" content from another domain?
Let's say I have name.example.com and example.com set up using different CMS's
I would like name.example.com/supercool-landing-page to resolve as (www.)example.com
In other words, when you visit (www.)...
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Redirecting smaller successful site to domain of new site - SEO impacts
Our client has 2 websites, each on their own domain, let's call them A.example and B.example, both interesting to the same demographic.
A.example is a small but very successful single purpose site ...
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Will a private subdomain negatively affect my SEO on the main domain site?
I have launched a subdomain website for admin purposes. Simply for staff and clients to login and view private pages. I've ticked to discourage search engines to index it as I don't want it to be ...
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What is the best SEO practice when you have an alias host name for your website?
I user webmin/virtualmin to manage my sites. My main site is music-school.example.com, for users' convenience I also created an alias virtual server as ms.example.com
Is this a good practice when it ...
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Divorcing Subdomains from parent
I have a website xxx.example.com whose content is unrelated to www.example.com - My SEO person has provided evidence that xxx.example.com is causing a drop in SEO for www.example.com for keywords of ...
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Redirecting naked domain to a social profile
What is the best practice for SEO? I'm thinking about moving my blog to blog.example.com and having example.com redirection to my Instagram account.
Is it a good/bad idea? How can it affect my SEO ...
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How can I redirect a new bare domain to its subdomain without hurting SEO? [closed]
I want to install my new site content on a subdomain like
subdir.example.com instead of the root domain.
This is a new domain and it has no previous content to redirect. The root URL will be empty and ...
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What to do in Google Search Console when moving a subdomain to its own domain
I found this post but I it doesn't answer my question completely.
I have
https://de.example.com
https://es.example.com
and others
which I moved using 301 to
https://example.de
https://example.es
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Display custom domain in search results rather than wordpress.com subdomain
How to show a custom domain URL instead of domain's URL assigned by wordpress.com in the Google search results?
For example, if I have free subdomain like http://example.wordpress.com, how can I show ...
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Subdomain Vs Subdirectory for different languages [duplicate]
We have a news site in English and what we are doing now is launching the new version of the same news site in different languages. These news sites are supposed to be linked to our parent news site ...
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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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Backlink from subdomain [duplicate]
I wanted to know how the traffic is calculated if I get a backlink from a subdomain page. For example, a website corriere.it has over 20M organic traffic, but roma.corriere.it has 500K
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SEO Inquiry; Domain Name selection
Can any one help me by clarifying the differences between DOMAIN NAME formats according to Google search engines and SEO perspective:
example.com
ex-ample.com
example-eg.com
egypt.example.com
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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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What's the best way to redirect from domain to subdomain with protected content?
My goal is to figure out the best way to add protected content using a subdomain. I have an established website (mydomain.com) that has article abstracts and author info for seo purposes. I'd like to ...
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Subdomain vs Subfolder for Billing Software; Specifically Knowledgebase, Downloads, Status Pages [closed]
Intro
"Subdomain vs Subfolder" Yes this question has been asked many, many, times but I will try to ask this in a way which is not considered a duplicate as my question pertains more to some of the ...
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Do links from every page on my main domain to subdomain hurt SEO?
I have a WordPress website (eg example.com) which is basically a blog with weekly educational posts about a specific subject. I also have a subdomain (eg courses.example.com) which offers online ...
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SEO Implications using different domains for same website ecosystem
First off, I know next to nothing about SEO (I'm an application developer), but I have questions regarding the implications of having certain locations on a website directed to a different domain and ...
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SEO best practices for domains in multiple languages [duplicate]
I have a domain https://www.understandmydreams.com (online dream interpreter) and I wish to expand the service to more languages.
The content will be different in each language, not just simple ...
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Move a site from a subdomain of another domain when we won't be able to obtain a redirect
Good morning,
I'd appreciate if you guys could help me with a situation I have at the moment with the company I work in.
We're an online newspaper focused in Technology articles, so have our own ...
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How do some subdomains have the same domain authority as their main site?
I was wondering how can some sub domains have the same domain authority with main site? for exampleaws.amazon.com have the same domain authority with amazon.com but a blog made by wordpress.com like ...
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Subdomain to subdirectory forwarding with SEO integrity [closed]
I've set up a blog on webflow at blog.mysite.com. However, I'd like to have the blog live at mysite.com/blog for SEO purposes. See here for more detailed thought process.
Cloudflare solves this ...
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Removed development subdomain still listed in Google site: search after several months
When building websites I always do this on a test domain. This domain was subdomain of the main one. Now I have an issue. I forgot to make sure that bots wouldn't crawl the web page while developing.
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Is it OK for SEO to redirect a subdomain to its corresponding add-on domain after Google indexed the subdomain rather than the add-on domain?
I put in place a 301 redirection for the add-on domain subdomain.domain.example to subdomain.example, because Google was sometimes indexing subdomain.domain.example.
Is this 301 redirection the ...
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When my main domain is targeted for India and I want to target my subdomain worldwide, how to achieve this?
My main domain is targeted for India, Can I use my sub-domain to target throughout the world?
How can I achieve this?
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Should Geo-targeting Subdomains have their own dedicated Social Media Profiles?
I currently have a website owner, looking to expand their Geographical reach. Rather than investing in dedicated ccTLDs, the use of Subdomains have been opted for as follows:
en-gb.example.com (...
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Different Domains For Google and Users
We have a shopping cart site with a course attached to it like so:
www.example.com is the cart Magento Platform
www.example.com/course/ is the course Wordpress Platform
Both the sites are linked both ...
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Is it bad for SEO to use a subdomain other than www as main domain?
Somebody told me recently "Subdomain generally ranks lower than domain", this is not the only one to say to avoid use subdomain.
Can a subdomain rank as a root domain? Will it hurt ranking or SEO to ...
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SEO domain setup for network of locations
I am looking for some industry expert weigh-in on best practices to how to best approach the business scenario described below.
Tim runs a business, timsbusinesswebsite.com. Tim's business has ...
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Could it be good for SEO to use keyword rich domains under the .forsale TLD?
One of the top level domain (TLD) that I came across ".forsale" caught my attention. If we are to buy "accessories" domain, and apply different subdomains like mobile, laptop would that have any SEO ...
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My team wants to move news section of our website to subdomain [duplicate]
My team wants to move news section of our website to subdomain ex "news.website.com" does it affect SEO? Can anyone tell me pro and cons of this thing?
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Move a blog on a different server from a subdomain to a folder using Nginx
I have a node js application that runs on a VPS, and recently we added a blog to the site, we choose WordPress for the blog CMS, for avoiding configuring VPS for PHP and WP we moved blog to another ...
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Do noindex tags on subdomain pages affect image indexing?
Maybe stupid question, but I have to ask:
I'm hosting my images on a subdomain. My main site is example.com and images are stored on static.example.com.
Subdomain is just a simple html page - when ...
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Will hosting part of my site with a third party on my subdomain result in SEO penalties?
I run my photography website with a VPS, but I'm looking to expand my offerings through a third-party photo hosting service Pixieset. Pixieset allows users to connect their Pixieset account/galleries ...
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How to show 410 Gone status for subdomains that are already been deleted
I bought an auctioned domain to build my new project, from my analysis with Ahrefs, people that were behind this domain had a subdomain called "forum" for their forum, and somehow they didn't know how ...
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Is it good for SEO to link back from a subdomain to the main domain using web banner links with alt text?
I want search engines to connect the domain and subdomain together. eg: example.com and subdomain.example.com.
Is my method of doing so a problem for SEO?
I want the main domain to link to the ...
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Will introducing a CDN for images on a subdomain dilute our PageRank or hurt our rankings?
Background:
We run a product aggregator site. We list 20k products which will grow to 200k within the next year and also have a section of the site where users can take those product images and ...
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How to implement hreflang for a .com with a subdomain and and a .ca domain [closed]
I'm currently working on the SEO for a site that has the following domains:
subdomain.example.com
example.ca
These are both e-stores and I'm wondering how I would go about setting up hreflang in ...
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shop sitemap with each product on its own subdomains
My client has a shop and he want's me to create sitemap with products.
The problem is that each product has its own subdomain. Every products uses the same layout as homepage and non-subdomain pages.
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How can we change a subdomain to a subdirectory when we can't host on the same server
I have a client that have a site: https://www.example.com. He has a blog on an another provider with a subdomain: https://blog.example.com.
The SEO on the two is divided, so I'm wondering what is the ...
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Will cross linking three subdomains to each other be good for SEO?
I have 1 domain with 2 subdomains. for example:
example.com
news.example.com
video.example.com
Would linking these three domains to each other through the menu, content, and pictures with do-...
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Will client sites on clientsite.mydomain.com affect SEO at www.mydomain.com?
Example:
Petterson Rekvisitta is a company I am building a website for. He has a domain: petterson.com, and will eventually move there.
During development I set up his site on petterson.mydomain.com ...
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