Questions tagged [tags]
A label that identifies content, and explains, among other things, what that content is about. Not to be confused with meta-tags or html.
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Is there such thing as a line of HTML that has a space after <?
I am currently making a website, and I would like to know if there is ever a space after <. By this I mean is there anything like < html> or is there no such thing as a "command" that has a ...
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Should I disable tags and categories on my blog to prevent thin content and duplicate content?
I've recently heard SEO advice that says that tags and categories are bad for my blog.
They produce pages with thin content because some tags and categories don't have a lot of posts in them.
They ...
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Are <p> tags important inside the <article> tag for SEO?
Since you can't put <h2> tags and lists and such inside <p> tags. How to go about creating articles with <h2> tags and lists. Can I replace the <p> tag with a <div>? Or ...
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Stop URL tag redirection to my homepage
I'm trying to find a way to stop tag redirections to the homepage so that
https://example.com/?something stops redirecting to https://example.com.
Similarly, any URL which is followed by a question ...
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Using a tag on a single WordPress post creates a 404 page, how do I make that better for Google?
I have a post (WordPress) that I've tagged with a single keyword. It's the only post that has that tag.
In reviewing my internal links using screaming frog, I noticed that I had a 404 error if I ...
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Are eventParameters in gtag event required?
Simple question, in a gtag event, can we do just this :
gtag('event', 'generate_lead');
instead of
gtag('event', 'generate_lead', {
'value': '2',
'currency': 'USD',
'...
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hreflang return tag error (for magento2 extension)
I am getting this error on hreflang tag validator please help me.
Return tag error (page does not link back) Language-region code has
no standalone language code
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Does it hurt SEO to put numbers in header tags?
I have a page with quite a few h2 tags that describes basic terminology for a particular subject. I want to number them from 1 to 10. For example:
<h2>1. Term 1</h2>
<p>some info<...
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Does the canonical URL need to change for different parameters to a dynamic page that shows different content?
I have a page located at example.com/tagged, which shows posts that contain the selected tag for which a person has searched.
So, if someone searched for #apple, then example.com/tagged/apple would ...
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Indexing pages with few text (like tags with just one article) is penalizing for the SEO?
Have you done any experiment or read of any case study to check if too many tags are really damaging the SEO of a website?
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How to hide HTML tags from SEO spiders
I understand and know how hiding things from your website works and how the search engine spiders will still be able to ĀØseeĀØ this hidden element and penalize your website for it.
Thing is, I did not ...
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Order of Meta Tag Elements [closed]
I am currently working on a Salesforce page that has Meta tags with elements that are in the order . For some reason Salesforce is reversing the order of the elements on page rendering to . Would ...
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Is it OK for SEO to use a photo's tags in the img alt text when a caption isn't available?
Is it OK with SEO to use page tags as image alt and <image:caption>?
Images we are using doesn't have any caption or title. They just have tags (some of them 15 tags).
We were even thinking about ...
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Correct HTML when translate website via Google Translate API? [closed]
When translating a URL (such as https://www.straatmakershop.nl/) via the free Google Translate tool (https://translate.google.com/) this often results in 'broken' pages. It seems Google is trying to '...
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Best SEO URL Structure : Filter product list by multiple tags
Which url is better for SEO (google)?
separate tags like sub folders with slash "/":
1) shop.com/product-category-1/tags/product-tag-1/product-tag-2
separate with characters plus "+" underscore "_" ...
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why Tags Come to google first page? [closed]
Sometimes when I search a query which is the target keyword for one of my blog posts, the tag page that contains a list of blog posts that have the are tagged appear in SERP instead of the blog post ...
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Why should 'Tag' Pages be assigned the 'noinidex' treatment?
For some time now, I have been reading a lot about the notion that Tag pages should not be indexed in search engines. In fact, I have barely come across any articles which say otherwise. I am not ...
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Do search engines factor in both Product Categories and their Tags, when ranking pages?
I am currently working on an Arts & Crafts eCommerce website, with my current focus being on the creation of the Content Inventory/Site Architecture.
I am wondering if, as part of their SERP ...
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Linking Words in Category Archives to Tag Archives Instead of Pages
Does internal linking of text to tag archives instead of pages hurt SEO?
My Wordpress category archive pages have a few paragraphs of text that give more insight about the category. Within that text,...
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Why was the keygen tag removed from HTML5?
Why was the tag considered a bad API and removed from the HTML specification? This article on Google's developers site says so (the other links are just related materials):
https://developers....
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In terms of SEO, what happens when I use a tag/category which does not otherwise appear in my content?
I'm wondering whether someone here conducted some tests (or heard of someone who has done so) to see whether a totally mislabeled tag on a WordPress post has some SEO impact.
WordPress offers us to ...
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Does Google index hash tags as keywords?
I'm working on a project where the client wants to add 3-5 hashtags (i.e.: #bikes) to each page of his content.
There is a logical reason for these hash tags (or categories, or keywords); given that ...
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How should structured data look for WordPress categories and tags?
Working on rebuilding a WordPress blog with structured data I researched the site and ran across "Using Schema.org for blogging: Article VS BlogPosting" and decided to use the Article schema.
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Does a link with rel=noopener pass a referrer, or does it appear as direct traffic [closed]
I want to know about target="_blank" rel="noopener" traffic channel resource. would be referral or Direct? If a user finds out the post in Google Search, What would it be Organic or Direct? I am a bit ...
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Is it SEO friendly to step directly from h3 to h5?
Because h5 style of the theme I use is better suited to the design I need. Or do I need to switch styles and keep the tag order.
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Will URLs that search my database hurt search engine visibility?
I have a tool on my site made for searching a database. By default, the tool is located at example.com/databasesearch
One thing you can search by are tags. If you select a tag to search by, it ...
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Website <head> section questions
I've been doing some tidying up on my site recently and have been making some minor adjustments to the section of each page (primarily to cut out any potential duplication). However, I just have a ...
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Tag products on Facebook: Direct link to shop?
There is a new featured recently released by Facebook which allows you to add products to a Facebook page, and lets you tag them in images. ( https://www.facebook.com/business/help/1655062744733202 )
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Does user contributed content affect SEO?
I have a feature that allows users to "pin" images to their profile. Much like how Pinterest allows you to browse and pin images to boards.
When pinning, the user has the option to enter a name for ...
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How do I add Meta Descriptions for Shopify Blog?
I'm trying to add Meta Descriptions for my Shopify website in the following urls:
Does anyone know how to do this?
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Difference between social tag and hashtag?
Official Google Search operators page has entries:
@ Find social tags
Example: @agoogler
# Find popular hashtags for trending topics
Example: #throwbackthursday
What ...
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What is the proper way to write a tag? [closed]
Is there a proper, most preferred way of writing a tag?
Example tag word:
Option 1: Sustainable Consumption
Option 2: sustainable consumption
Option 3: sustainable-consumption
Option 4: Sustainable-...
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Using a h1, h2 keywords as a list and not as part of the content
I've noticed some people using their targeted keywords as a simple list e.g. on the footer and not in the content.
E.g. using
<h1>Keyword1</h1>, <h2>Keyword2</h2>, <h2>...
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Can brackets in page titles make it a completely different title to a crawler?
On my site, I feel to increase rankings, I'm going to include categories including one that 80+% visitors seems to want. As a result, I will need to include that category in the important HTML tags.
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Two <h1> tags on all pages showing same content [duplicate]
Hi I have a little problem. The website theme we are using displays the website name at the top of every page as an element the title of the post then gets displayed as an element again. Effectively ...
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Youtube tags that describe the videos description in a short video with a long description?
I have a short video on Youtube, with a long description thats like a story about the video.
I want to put in a couple of dozen tags that describe/categorise the text in the description. This is not ...
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Google Fetch Returning 404 Pages That Are Tags With A Web Address Added To The End
I have a Wordpress site that I have set up with Google Fetch and I have been getting a bunch of crawl errors and it has started significantly hurting my Google ranking and site traffic even though it ...
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Will googlebot misinterpret my site if I had no spacing between anchor tags?
Some sections of my website involve displaying a list of photo thumbnails. The source code to that is similar to the following when condensed:
<div> <a href="1">1</a> <a href="2"&...
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Is it mandatory to have unique titles (in H1 tag) on a mobile version of a page even if it contains rel=canonical?
So I finally ran screaming frog SEO spider on a number of my pages, and what I'm left with now are some duplicate titles on some of my mobile pages containing this HTML:
<link rel="canonical" href=...
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what does the <hr /> tag do in wordpress?
I saw that using <hr /> before and after some content sort of lifts the content. Could anybody share what does the tag do and does it come/have antecedent from HTML 4.0 or is a tag done/...
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Does a bunch of post tags within Wordpress help with SEO?
We run a WordPress blog with almost 94.000 post tags, spread over 5000 posts, and only 20.000 of these post tags are actually attached to more than one post, hence 74.000 of the total number of tags ...
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Is `<wbr></wbr>` the same as `<wbr>`?
When viewing the source of a website I realized that it is different in Firefox and Chrome.
A single tag <wbr> in Chrome is displayed as <wbr></wbr> in Firefox.
Are they the same? ...
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What is the function of a self-closing <nowiki/> tag in Mediawiki?
The #loop parser function from the Loops extension contains a <nowiki/> tag in a code example:
{{#loop: varname
| 4
| 4
| <nowiki/>
* This is round {{#var:varname}} and we have {{#...
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Is it possible to mix auto-tagging and custom tags with Google Analytics?
I am trying to use Google Analytics to track various AdWords combinations. good old A/B testing :-)
The documentation isn't great, so I tried to set utm_content to track the advert text. This didn't ...
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Does using H1 tags for each page section create SEO problems? [duplicate]
Some SEO articles have suggested "You should never have more than one H1 tag on a page."
Can I use H1 tags more than once? Can I use an H1 tag in each section tag or article?
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How many times can I repeat a keyword without looking spammy to Google?
I have an eCommerce based on Opencart, but I have some doubts about how many times I can repeat the same word.
For example, the keyword is present in the title, description, h1, h2 and is repeated ...
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Bing webmaster tool's SEO reports complain about multiple <h1> tags? [duplicate]
I have analyzed my websites in Bing Webmaster Tools and it's showing the error āThere are multiple <h1> tags on the page.ā
I have analyze the pages manually and I havenāt found multiple H1 ...
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How should tag pages be treated from an SEO point of view?
How should tag pages be treated from an SEO point of view? We have tag pages on our website.
What's the best SEO practice for tag pages, similar to existing recommendations that we use for 404 pages?...
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How to make search engines understand website sections and tags?
I have a website to sell products. It basically divides the products based on tags. For Example; if you access tag page for "iPhone", the website will display links to "iPhone 6 plus", "iPhone 4s","...
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Number of tags per page and spamming
What is the suggested ratio of <strong> and <em> to text? Lets say I have 100 words, is putting 20 of them in a <strong> tag considered ok?
Example:
Lorem ipsum aaa dolor sit ...
