Questions tagged [url]
A URL, or Uniform Resource Locator, is an address for a file or resource that specifies where that resource is, and how to go about retrieving it.
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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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Trailing Slash for home page redirect? [duplicate]
While redirecting a page to the homepage, is there any problem if I add a slash to the homepage in my .htaccess file? Currently the homepage doesn't have a slash in the URL.
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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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How to delete an incorrect url and/or site
I'm a total noob with a problem I can't seem to find an answer for, and another user suggested I try here. When I first created my site (https://example.com) using my domain host's (WPX) WordPress ...
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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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Is it good practice to create separate HTML files for each language when building a multi-language website? [duplicate]
I'm new to web development and am curious about the standard practice regarding multi-language websites.
Suppose I want to build a website on which one can toggle the language by clicking a button.
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For product comparison page what will be the ideal URL sturcture 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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Removing .html Extension On URL Inside Of An MAMP Server [closed]
Below is the code that I'm using on a .htaccess page in order to get rid of the ".html" at the end of the URL. It works fine on all pages except for one. Would any of the code on that one ...
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Remove folder name from rewritten URLs
Consider this URL:
http://example.com/gallery/20141111-some-title
In this URL I want to hide gallery/:
http://example.com/20141111-some-title
How can I achieve this using mod_rewrite?
I used ...
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how to know if certain GET param is expected in a landing page?
I'm including certain param into the URL but I'm unsure if this landing page is supporting or expecting such GET parameters... Is there a way to know if at some point this will be read/used by the ...
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Migration from Hubspot to Sanity and Remix
I am an SEO consultant and currently, we have a client who wants to migrate their website from HubSpot to Sanity and Remix without changing their URL structure. I wanted to ask if you noticed ...
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302 redirect from WebSphere when the request has come via a load balancer
I have the following setup:
HTTPS request -> AWS ALB -> Mapped to HTTP (one of two possible ports) -> Websphere 9.0.5
This works fine, except:
When I go to my url without a trailing slash (e....
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How to redirect old domain URLs without the old website?
My client deleted their website and do not have a backup of it on the old domain. I need to redirect their old domain URLs in Google Search to the new domain. I have access to their old domain and ...
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Which language specification method is best for SEO? [duplicate]
Local language is English and the website has German and Spanish translations. What's the correct way to structure local URLs' according to SEO?
Should the local language be: http://www.website.com/ ...
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SEO friendly URL for items which belongs to multiple categories
I have a website with trainings, which belong to certain categories. So naturally I'd like to organize my website URLs in this way:
example.com/trainings/{category name}/{training name}
for example
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I have a URL problem in Google arabic site [duplicate]
I made an Arabic site using Google new sites. The page titles have to be in Arabic. When I write the page title in Arabic, the URL looks funny.
Google indexing did not happen in 3 months while ...
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Optimised URL structure for e-commerce product pages
I am reviewing the URL structure of our marketplace, especially for the product pages (we have around 10,000 product pages).
Current format (includes ID for both artist and artwork name): https://www....
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Submitting a 301 Redirect to Google
For the SEO experts:
A long time ago, I created a website with some pages that used underscores instead of hyphens to separate words (e.g., "page_1.html"). I understand now that Google likes ...
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Can a SEO friendly URL contain a UUID? [duplicate]
I have a website with URLs that look like this : http://my-website.com/event/1b3f7e3d-5db2-4dc6-b8f5-e8a0d7e1b572/details/the-title-of-the-event
The long ID (1b3f7e3d-5...) being unique and used to ...
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Is there a term for URL 'autocorrect' redirection?
I stumbled upon the fact that my website can 'autocorrect' URLs, when they are close enough to an actual URL:
E.g.
https://example.com/widgets/metric-time.htm
Can also be reached by:
https://example....
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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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Errant URLs from an acquired site
I recently acquired a website for an ecommerce company that I am now running, and am trying to get it up to snuff for SEO. It was previously a WordPress site but is now hosted on Shopify. I'm in the ...
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Multi language website, ID based URLs, and SEO
In a multi language website, can we use different product IDs for different language versions of the site? Will it affect SEO or not? For example:
English: www.example.com/en/personal-care/nivea-123
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Does noindex for subpages affect the whole domain?
I want to share the unreviewed version of my future website with a few people on an URL like this:
example.com/hidden-unreviewed-version
I would apply noindex on it and all its subpages to hide them ...
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I've changed the URL and lost my top search result position in Google - would it help to revert the changes?
I've changed my top-ranking page to a simpler URL on the same domain with a 301 / permanent redirect, and changed sitemap and internal links accordingly.
A couple of days later Google crawled the site,...
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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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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 I use asterisks in URLs?
Are there any reasons I shouldn't use an asterisk (*) in a URL?
Background:
With asterisks, I could provide these nice and user friendly (or what do you think??) URLs:
example.com/some/folder/...
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Optimizing URL Parameters for Google Search
My website isn't ranking great on Google, so I've been going through pages to see what I can optimize. I've come across one section of the website where there are 5 pages, but the url is dynamically ...
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500 error when implmenting SEO friendly URLs [closed]
I want to create SEO friendly URL for my website. I am creating a .htaccess file but these file not run in Bluehost. Bluehost gets an "Internal Server Error":
The server encountered an internal ...
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How should websites handle hostname with trailing dot?
I read this question How can URLs have a dot . at the end, e.g. www.bla.de.? and realise that FQDN should contain a trailing . for the root label of the DNS tree:
example.com. instead of example.com
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When doing URL forwarding from my custom domain from registrar to GitHub, mobile view doesn't work and gives tablet view instead
I have a website set up so that my custom domain forwards to my GitHub pages website. I set this so that it's easier to host static websites.
When I view my website through custom domain on mobile ...
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Best SEO sensible way of forwarding user when clicking an rel="shortlink"
I have a question. What would be the best SEO sensible method of forwarding a user when the shortlink is clicked?
<link rel="shortlink" href="https://example.nl/&s=2415969336&...
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is www.abc or www.www.com a valid url? [closed]
I know www.abc.com is a valid URL but what about www.abc or even www.www.com?
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Removed AMP for WordPress Plugin and now "/amp" and "?nonamp=1" URLs have infinite self-redirect
Google Search Console(GSC) shows "Page with redirect" errors on my website. According to GSC, these posts are not indexed. That is fine. But look like the URLs with "/amp" and &...
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Are singular or plural categories in a blog better for SEO?
I am using the singular form of the categories for my niche site.
"Oven" not "ovens."
"Blender" not "blenders."
Eg: www.example.com/blender/what-are-the-best-...
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Why isn't iframe designed to be able to load only a certain element of another website? [closed]
Reading the answers in iframe to Only Show a Certain Part of the Page, and given the fact that you can always hide and customize elements via the devtool, I have a hypothesis that the web (in general ...
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