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Tagged with url-format or url
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Same product in multiple categories affects seo?
For example, a product called a thermostat is used in different categories like air conditioner, refrigerators, ice machine parts, oven parts. By categorizing thermostat to different categories, will ...
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What does "Disallow: /*URL" and "Disallow: /*.htmlURL" mean?
In the robots.txt file, under
User-agent: *
User-agent: Googlebot
# disallow the following specific files
there are the following lines. I don't understand the two Disallow lines:
Allow: /*.html
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What is the best place to add the language folder in url from an SEO perspective?
I have a website with multiple languages so we added the language folder after the root domain directly, and then each folder after that is localized to the same language. For example:
XYZ.com/en/blog/...
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Is the value href in the base tag for reference only or points to a URL that must exist?
I once had a webpage where I set the href value of the base tag to the path where most links start with that path, but the href value isn't supposed to point to an actual page.
Here's an example of ...
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Forcing google to clear its cache of bad pages without specifying each one manually for temporary removal
I have several outdated links on my website that are not used anymore. I give an HTTP error 410 (Gone) and have X-robots-tag: noarchive in the HTTP header to try to make google stop crawling the page, ...
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Why are my WordPress website's pages getting redirected to the main page?
I am creating a WordPress website on the topic of computers. Now, the sub-pages are getting redirected to the main page. The slugs are in place. Below, is the URL of the website.
https://...
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Which special characters are safe to use in url?
Which special characters are safe to use in url?
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Best URL structure for a "Product reviews by rating" feature
I run a board game media website (WordPress) which publishes product reviews, each of which include a numeric rating.
https://www.meeplemountain.com/
Currently my URL structure is as follows:
https://...
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Shopify SEO- GSC Help
I am facing some issues about Shopify Product Links. First, i am throwing some example that might be help to understand the problem.
Case-1: https://mywebsite.com/products/someproduct
Case-2: https://...
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Why are URLs with my domain name at the end showing up in analytics?
I have a multi-language WordPress site that has been live since the last 3 months and today when I checked Analytics, I saw a lot of weird URLs:
/menswear-fashion-autumn-winter-2013-2014/www.domain....
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When translating a site go with URLs in Chinese or English?
What is the best practice when translating a site to Chinese, go with URLs in Chinese or English?
Could you please share the reason why?
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HTTP as a protocol and an URI has standard metadata names. Is there any equivalence for other protocols or URIs?
For webpages, like https://example.com, you have standard metadata names like author, description. Is there any equivalence for other URI, like mailto:[email protected]? I know that for an email you ...
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Getting thousands of 404 pages for my website with a common URL and a .htm extension [duplicate]
I am seeing many 404 pages ending with the .htm extension in Google Search Console:
Sometimes they aren't appearing, but other times there are more than 1,000 pages in a day.
What can I do about these?...
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LocalBusiness with multiple locations on same page
I am trying to add local business Schema.org markup on a website.
I have one concern, there are around 10 different locations for the business and all those locations are on 1 page, that means they ...
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How solving the problem with three slashes in WordPress URLs
I'm writing because I have a problem that I can't find a solution to.
Google Search Console tells me that my site has over 30 pages in the "Page crawled, but not currently indexed" section. ...
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Google didn't update the search results after changing a URL with a permanent redirect
I have a simple personal webpage which I use to list my publications and link the corresponding PDFs (I work in academia). Until now, this webpage was hosted by my university:
http(s)://...
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Multiple 301 redirect and massive loss of ranking
I just remade from scratch a website for a client, the client ask me to preserve their ranking by making 301 redirect from the original URL to the new URL.
For example the following URL:
plumber-...
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My website auto generate hundreds of URLs with the same pattern, and it affects my SEO, how can i stop that and delete them?
i bought an expired domain, and i noticed in google search console that their is +2500 craweled URLs that has the same pattern (ex : www.website.com/?3567hyvz7582zmo1041590_html)
and most of them lead ...
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Display a Single location that have two words in a URL
I have to show locations in a URL. The mentioned location has two words. Salvage fort
What is the ideal URL structure?
//test. com/search/aza/salvage%20fort-to-missipi
//test. com/search/aca/...
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Best way to protect a directory outside of root directory?
My document root path is the following:
/Users/myname/Sites/
I've created 2 virtual host, like so:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot "/Users/myname/...
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How to choose a SEO friendly URL structure for user generated content? [duplicate]
I am currently designing the URL structure for a web application serving user generated content.
For SEO purposes, I want the user generated name in the URL, e.g. example.com/collection/user-generated-...
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For product comparison page what will be the ideal URL structure in terms of SEO?
Option 1: Using numerical IDs for products
https://localhost:7043/Products/1/2/Samsung-970-EVO-Plus-1TB-vs-kingston
Option 2: Using hyphen-separated numerical IDs for products
https://localhost:7043/...
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Mass ?query= dumped in to server requests
At some point in the past few months almost all of the URLs in the logs starting containing this:
?query=
I tried using all of the major search engines (Bing, Google, Yahoo and Yandex) however even ...
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How to link an unchanging Wix URL to a PDF that will be replaced with updated versions
As an example, the URL https://nationalmtb.org/nica-handbook always links to the most updated version of the organization's handbook (currently a file named NICA-Handbook.12.1.23.v2.pdf).
How do I do ...
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If i cancel my AdSense account will it also affect my youtube videos for monetizing
I moved to Netherland from Norway i want to change my bank account and all my adres from Norway to Netherland. So, my question is that if I cancel my AdSense account and if I make a new account is ...
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properly formatting an information-friendly URL [duplicate]
I have a problem with formatting a URL to make SEO tools happy with it.
I currently have a URL similar to this:
https://www.example.com/Toronto_The-Flatiron_M5E-1C9/February-16-2024_600pm_ages36-49/
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Singular vs plural forms for entities in CMS website
Let's say I have a (frontend) website where users can register and post, just like StackExchange, which makes use of a REST API to fetch the data. So the website is located at https://www.example.com ...
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not set page title
I am seeing on GA4 a lot of traffic on a "not set" page title.
I'll explain the whole situation to you:
In my company, the marketing team wants to track how many people apply to our ...
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Does it make a difference if your URL path ends in a trailing slash or not?
Does it make any difference to SEO ratings what-so-ever if your url has a trailing slash:
http://www.example.com/some/slug/paths/
as opposed to one that does not:
http://www.example.com/some/slug/...
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Google Search Console displays message "Page is not indexed: Page with redirect" but the URL it is showing is not completely mine
Google Search Console is showing me the URL: https://example.com/unique-ways-to-hang-your-curtains//1000 there is an addition of /1000.
My actual URL is: https://example.com/unique-ways-to-hang-your-...
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Impact of URL structure on SEO
I'm working on a major update on one of my website after a slow but continued lowering in google search rankings. I went from 1/2 on my major pages to being at 3 or 4th position.
Currently my website ...
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Home page keyword cannot be in the URL
I have been looking into SEO for a few weeks now trying to perfect a homepage. Going through various sources such as MOZ, and other examples of checklists. I keep seeing that you should have your ...
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Are dates in URLs going to cause SEO problems? If so, how can users share URLs with dates without hurting SEO?
I am developing a train schedule website. In their I am using following URL pattern
https://example.com/search/61-205/2023-12-28/stationA-to-stationC
so 61-205 will be from station ID and To Station ...
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Changing canonical URL impact on SEO
I have a website with multiple URLs to the same content:
/dog/black/labrador
/dog/brown/labrador
... whereas the /black/ or /brown/ hierarchy can be anything and will always show the same page and ...
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Client's Website Was Hacked and 316K Fake URLs Submitted to GSC
First, I wish you all a pleasant weekend.
I have a unique situation. My client's website was hacked before working with me, and now I'm trying to fix it to the best of my abilities.
We started working ...
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Does it matter for SEO whether URLs are human-readable?
In terms of a site's SEO, is the following format best:
https://www.example.com/query/who-is-the-hippo-in-Moon-Knight
Or can a website do just as well SEO-wise if it has URLs like this?
https://www....
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Two GH Pages site on the same domain
I have one GH Pages website at the URL username.github.io/project-name, which has a dedicated purpose. This has been around for some time, so I don't want to change its URL.
I then setup a second ...
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Why is my page title appearing in lower case on Google?
My page title, in google search results is now in lower case, with the exception of our company name. The title tag is in title case:
<title>Free Mobile Home Value - Used Mobile Home Book
Values&...
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How to fail in case of incorrect URI parameter?
What is the correct way to fail when the user provides a wrong or not applicable value for a query parameter?
with a HTTP 406 Not Acceptable status code and a page describing the issue
with a HTTP ...
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Apache URL rewrite does not mask subdirectories
The admin setup a subdirectory /sites/default/files/resources and updated the docroot .htaccess to point to this subdirectory so that the domain www.example.com points to it.
I do not have access to ...
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Which one is better: /en subfolder or just the URL itself?
I am trying to make a multi-language website with fully translated content. And the thing is I am not sure about the URL for the homepage.
So the structure I am planning to prepare right now is ...
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Building a webcomic: How to redirect URL to latest slug using htaccess?
I'm inexperienced with coding.
I have a comic that creates new pages as /?pg=pagenumber
I want visitors to be redirected to the latest page. So when they type: https://example.com they get redirected ...
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Remove dev URL of website from Google Search
I have the following website:
However somewhere along the way Google seems to have decided to index my old development URL which doesn't exist anymore debtfreeme.223.165.77.73.sth.nz and I cannot for ...
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Would Google penalize home.php and index.html on one root?
Would home.PHP and main.HTML at the same website be confused by Google crawlers as canonical? If a website has home.php and also index.html do you think Google will down rank it in its search? What if ...
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Strange URL parameter in Google search result, looks like an advertisement
I'm a total noob when it comes to being a web dev so please forgive me if the following sounds idiotic.
I noticed that when you search my website one of the result's URL looks like an advertisement:
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Should the URL for an article or post contain the category for SEO?
Is it good for SEO to include the category in the URL? Like so:
/articles/ID/example_category/slug
Or does it not matter and only make the URL unnecessary long?
Note; the article is also available at ...
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How to split a ranked page or category?
This is a general question and not related to the specified URL.
I have some websites that contain many categories. Now I want to split some categories.
For example:
I have office table and chair ...
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How to hide my username from the URL? [closed]
At my WordPress site, on every post (and comment) my DISPLAY NAME (author's name) appears, and it is fine. If a reader clicks that name then it shows the author page (blog page) with all the posts by ...
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Google Analytics: How to find URLs of paths that are (not set)?
We're getting a lot hits that have page title set to (not set). For example, on "Pages and Screens: Page Title and Screen Class", we get:
We don't know where they're stemming from. How can ...
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Why is it that in folder structure used for Websites generally Web Pages are on same level of hierarchy as additional content related to them?
As someone getting started with web development seeing that web pages themselves and content related to them is on same hierarchy level in folder(directory) structure used for website development is ...
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