Questions tagged [technical-seo]

Technical SEO is the process of editing a website's code to make it more readable and desirable to web search crawlers. It includes improving page performance, internal link structures, proper use of "meta noindex" and robots.txt, removal of broken links and duplicate content, and updating to HTTPS.

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Markup for amusing, non-factual content

On a webpage with factual information, I'd like to add a 'Did you know' box with an amusing, non-factual piece of text; a little joke to add a bit of flair to the page. However, I intend this page to ...
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Post link indexed only as images. Doesn't return in SERP when searching for the exact URL

Lately, when I'm searching for my posts in Google with the exact URL, Google only returns the images from that post, but not the actual title and description in the results. Do you know why this ...
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Should I use mainEntity markup for the headline of the generated content?

The content of every page on my website is generated after user input, which in turn modifies the URLs. However, when accessing the website, only a basic landing page is shown. To improve its ...
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How to Make Dynamic Website SEO Friendly?

The content of every page on my website is generated after user input, which in turn modifies the URLs. However, upon accessing the website, only a basic landing page is displayed, and all the ...
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How good is Google in indexing and crawling SPA webpages?

I am about to relaunch our website, but I am uncertain whether I should go with a Vue.js SPA webpage or a Nuxt.js SSR webpage. The big advantage of an SPA webpage is that it has an app-like feeling ...
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Can multiple breadcrumb trails lead to the same url?

Suppose there is a url to a real estate broker who covers Miami and Orlando. There will be several breadcrumb trails to the broker page: RE Brokers > Florida > Miami > John Doe RE ...
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Will multiple business under umbrella URL hurl local search ranking?

I have a client who owns a waterfront restaurant (+ bar + wedding venue) and a marina (+ boat sales + boat service). He wants the entire property under one umbrella brand URL (thewaterfrontbusiness....
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In the GSC page indexing issues: Found a URL with a two different file names

Strange URLs in Search Console's Page with a redirect, Alternate page with Proper Canonical Tag' Search Console is showing 240 excluded pages with 'Page with a redirect, Alternate Page with Proper ...
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Use a simplified HTML version for search bots

As my site is an Angular single page application, for search bots, I serve a static preloaded version of HTML for search bots using prerender. SEO tools are complaining that the HTML to text ratio is ...
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Is my Google search console property broken after creating it when the site was under construction?

Domain property and https://www.example.com/ property are not getting indexed well The thing is, I created the property before the under construction was deactivated on my WordPress website. Now some ...
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State and City in breadcrumbs

We are designing breadcrumbs trail for a 'Products for Sale' site. Site will have products from several retail companies. Breadcrumbs will have Home > Prod Category > Prod sub category > ...
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Yandex Ranking Leak - Which Specific Ranking Signal Should be a Focus?

From the recent Yandex ranking Leak, https://searchengineland.com/yandex-search-ranking-factors-leak-392323 which of the following signals will have the most relevance for every site in 2023 on Google?...
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Best seo pratice for category pages

Let's say you have an e-commerce store that has a category page of "Easter Offers" with an URL of /easter-offers which contains special discounted products which only easter for Easter. ...
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Multilangual content in single website: should I seperate content by language?

I'm building a website where I plan to publish some content in two languages: Arabic and French. Since this is a one-man job, I wanted to avoid unnecessary complexity and have one single page to list ...
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SEO optimization of near me keyword searches

Suppose I have a web page for product P. That web page is optimized content-wise for near me type searches, for example, "P near me" by detecting geolocation based on user IP addrsss. Since ...
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301 Redirects & SEO

I'll keep it short and sweet. My website features a gallery set up as posts that showcase products on vehicles. Example 1: website.com/product-1-ford-f150/ Example 2: website.com/product-2-ford-f150/ ...
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How do technical SEO and HTML5 markup for Headline, Section and outlines?

I am looking for a good and safe example/solution for headlines in a <section> or <footer> or <header> markup for 2023. I read here that by using <main> <section> etc you ...
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Moving .co.uk to .com for international ecommerce

I am asking for advice please on the best course of action for Shopify site that would like to expand into international markets. Shopify has the new 'Markets' functionality, where you can easily spin ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Link exchange with nofollow noindex bad for SEO?

I have different websites A and B but the same niche. Some users visiting website A has interesting to buy products on website B and vice versa. So, I thought to exchange backlinks on both sites and ...
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What is the impact of using edge workers to serve static versions of a dynamic application before loading JS?

Here is my dilemma: I have quite a complex e-reader single page application. It uses rewrites to route say /book/page/2 to /index.html for processing behind the scenes. The JS payload is quite heavy, ...
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How to disallow URLs in Robots.txt that DO NOT end with a certain characters

My website has 2 types of URLs URLs that end with .html -> example.com/example.html URLs that do not end with .html -> example.com/example The .html version is the version I want to be ...
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Schema markup for list pages

Let's take a blog as an example which lists just the article titles and dates on one page. Every article than has its own page. The individual article pages have their individual schema markups for ...
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How to configure robots.txt to disallow any URL/file/directory with a certain word in it?

I've seen basic articles online about allowing/disallowing certain subdirectories in robots.txt, but I have a more detailed need than that. Google search console keeps trying to discover/crawl certain ...
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Multiple Selection in Faceted Navigation - How to Handle? [duplicate]

I'm wondering what is the right way to handle URL structure when users are allowed to select multiple values from the same key? Based on this article in SEJ, hyphens are recommended to separate values ...
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Page Fetch: Redirect Error on Google Search Console - Getting error on some new pages but not on others

So, I know there's been a few iterations of this same question with this particular Google Search Console indexing error, but after sifting through a few of these, I couldn't find anyone having the ...
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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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Cache control headers vs using CDNs: What's the difference?

We want to implement caching to speed up the website performance. What would be beneficial in this case - using CDN or Cache control HTTP headers?
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Setting cache control headers

I want to implement cache control headers to set caching for our website. Our website uses React and Vercel. Right now, the cache control headers display a max-age of 0. We want to set up caching so ...
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Google Search result: How to show the associated image against it

Google search results now show an image against some of the results, as shown below. How can this be done? Is there some tag that needs to be added on the webpage so that when it gets indexed it shows ...
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How long does Googlebot take to crawl a page?

Googlebot crawls a certain number of pages daily, depending on the size of the site. However, how long does it take for a particular page. In other words, how many seconds or minutes does it spend on ...
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When running Lighthouse audit of website on Chrome dev tools, turning on 'legacy navigation' really messes up website performance scores

When running Lighthouse audit of website on chrome dev tools, turning on 'legacy navigation' really messes up website performance scores. It brings performance score down by 10-15 points on some URLs ...
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What is a proper schema.org markup for an About us page about a brand?

I have a standalone website dedicated to a particular software brand of a parent development company. I'm trying to optimize the About us page and schema.org markup so Google would show the Knowledge ...
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Bulk Removals in Search Console

Will this work? Remove all URLs with this prefix in the search console. https://www.example.com/^*.html
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Mobile Navbar SSR

Currently, we serve our site using SSR. On some parts of the site, we render components based on the screen size (mobile navbar for example). The SSR is serving the desktop version. So, Googlebot ...
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Does changing a link without refreshing the page affect SEO?

I would like to understand whether changing a website's link without refreshing will allow web crawlers to effectively parse my page, and aid in SEO. I have a website, with a dropdown menu where you ...
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