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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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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about source title need to be long ok [closed]
what is zippy i mean for view-source:https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72851?hl=fr-CA#WHexplain&zippy=%2Cquentendez-vous-par-heures-de-visionnage-valides-sur-des-vid%C3%A9os-publiques ...
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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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Category in URL. Is it a good practise? [duplicate]
I am running a multi-category niche (just started. So I can do all the modifications). Lets say I have blender and oven categories.
Currently my URL structure is set to like below
{site name}/{post ...
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URL structure and singluar plural issue of a multi category niche site [duplicate]
I am running a multi-category niche (just started. So I can do all the modifications).
Lets say I have blender and oven categories.
Currently my URL structure is set to like below
{site name}/{post ...
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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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How do I do a basic multilingual site with worpress and use `/xx/` as the language separator?
I'm new to WordPress.
I need to build a 3-page site in various languages.
If it was not multilingual I'd use slugs pages (not posts) and publish like these for example:
https://example.com/ ...
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Descriptive URL's from user generated content | Worth it? | How to handle in case of edit | Which of my ideas is good practise?
I am building a quiz site.
User can create quizzes and choose a title for their quiz.
I was thinking about using the title with the ID in the URL and here I have multiple ideas, which all have multple ...
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Shopping Page in Search Query
I originally wanted to do eccomerce for my website but I switched it to a service-based website, the site is now live but when I search on Google, the shop is showing up on the organic query(that wasn’...
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Redirecting URL from node/express server works locally but not when hosted on AWS
I have a particular situation where I need to temporarily redirect from an already hosted domain on AWS to a different URL altogether.
Let me first describe my original setup:
I've registered the ...
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How can I upload my files to a domain that I bought?
I secured domain on register.ca, and I have it in my account. How would I go about actually uploading my HTML & CSS files onto the website? Previously, I just used GitHub to host my sites, so I'm ...
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How to make my percent encoded URL work with the Google Rich Results Test without removing the question mark?
When I pass my URL to the Google Rich Results Test or in Google Search Console, the URL automatically changes. Here's an example:
https://example.com/blog/Jak%20zainstalować%20WordPress%20na%20swoim%...
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What to do with unwanted URL parameters?
The majority of my pages do not use parameters. But users can always add them on. At the moment, I am ignoring most of them. I have started redirecting some of them to the home page.
Bing has a few ...
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Removing .html Extension On URL Inside Of An MAMP Server
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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Does the root domain hold more power then an inner page? [duplicate]
I am building a new site and I am just thinking out the structure of the whole site.
It's is going to be a pretty big site with a lot of different content and I was wondering if the root domain is ...
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Today I observed a referral through a site Biztool.corp.google.com [duplicate]
Today I observed a referral at my site from biztool.corp.google.com Which was redirected to moma webpage
Can Someone Please Explain If I should Block the Referral
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How to best create URLs for google and other search engines, using query parameters, or as hyphenated/nested URL paths?
I am torn on what is best here, I have read tons of blogs on the topic but haven't found a really clear solution/answer.
Basically I am wondering one thing which has two implications:
Does Google (or ...
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fixing Search Console index problems after submitting no subdomain or extension in canonical URLs and sitemap
I prefer clean URLs... so my internal links lack the .html or .php extension, and I'm omitting the www. subdomain. The links are resolved by .htaccess rules, and the browser shows example.com/my-page. ...
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Adding Parent Categories and keep current URLs without affecting SEO
I have a website that contains 200 categories with thousands of words in on every category page. Most of these category pages is where my traffic comes from, and have the following URL structure: ...
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Google Search only returns my WordPress site's URL to a blog page [duplicate]
I have a WordPress and only the blog page URL example.com/blog is being displayed by Google and not example.com/how-make-a-content-to-mobile
How do I make the full link appear in Google Search and not ...
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Can Google show a simple list of URLs visited?
Is there a way for Google Analytics (v4) to show me a simple detail log of URLs visited?
I don't want any aggregate data, just a simple HTTP log like the kind you'd get from NGINX or something like ...
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How to correct company website classification at the database level from companies like Sophos
A Corporate client using web blocker such as Sophos cannot access our company website. Blocker comes back and indicates our site is "Sex Education" however it is mental health education. I ...
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amp&iframe with URLs getting hits in GSC
I am seeing pages like this getting hits in GSC, can someone help me figure out what pages are these and how to remove them from GSC.
https://www.example.com/resume/examples/data-systems-...
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How to place manual ads of Google Adsense in the pages where URL is dynamically changing?
I have a url like
www.example.com/test/aYnThInG
Where last part is a random string,it is creating randomly.
In this page I have placed manual Google Adsense ads.
When we open this url instantly after ...
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CDN changes URLs to cdn.example.com
I am testing a CDN. All the website URLs are being changed from www.example.com to cdn.example.com and this will lead to a SEO drop.
I have followed the procedure and asked the support service, with ...
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What is best for an URL: upper case or only lower case
At this time we have URLs formed with upper cases like this:
mywebsite.com/us/Fine-Art/
And we want to add artist names like Van Gogh, so is the best for SEO to continue with a mixed of upper case ...
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Is it risky for SEO to change URLs with 301 redirects? [duplicate]
Our company has URLs that are well ranked which is vital for us.
But we need to change all the structure of thousands of URLs and I am afraid of a negative impact on our natural indexing and ranking ...
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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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Bing randomly adds MSCLKID parameter to links in SERPs
When searching Bing recently, I noticed, that links to my websites get automatically appended MSCLKID parameter whichs turned out to be some id for analytics or ads-tracking. This resulted in 400 (Bad ...
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Google is indexing the root domain rather than the language subdirectory where it redirects
I have a multi language website for my company.
my language routing goes like example.com/[language]. I have 2 languages, and my URLs are example.com/tr,example.com/en, and example.com/ redirects to ...
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What's wrong with Bing bot Index?
I'm facing serious issues with Bing since last year. To start, most organic traffic of my website came from Bing when compared to others search engines. I wouldn't make a fuss if the situation was ...
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[] vs %5B%5D in URLs
A question. Is there any difference that any of you know of in using %5B%5D vs [] in a URL for params?
Current: https://www.example.se?location_ids%5B%5D=123&location_ids%5B%5D=234
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Other: ...
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Which url structure is recommended SEO practice, or that does not matter much nowdays? [duplicate]
Which is recommended approach to categorize and form URL structure nowadays?
Should we do it by template type, or skip that part, and go directly for slugs, or split URLs in to deep structure?
Here ...
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Is better to use URL from single pages OR URL from WooCommerce categories?
I have an eshop which I'm trying to improve my SEO. My MENU links are links from Woocommerce categories. I haven't single pages in WordPress for my product categories. So I am wondering if its better ...
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Which url structure should I choose for seo? [duplicate]
I am preparing a site that offers a variety of information in a particular area, i've searched here and on many seo sites, but I've always gotten different answers.
I'm undecided about the url.
For ...
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After changing URLs, how do I clear the old URLs out of Google Search Console?
I've recently changed the url structure of my site for SEO purposes from...
example.com/this_is_the_page
...to...
example.com/this-is-the-page
The sitemap.xml is up to date and Google Search Console ...
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Change URL in pagination without refresh but detectable by Google
We have a pagination. Right now we use buttons for the next, previous and page numbers in the pagination. But since we change the page number in in an onclick of a button and the Google bot doesn't ...
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Will updating the page title without changing the URL hurt SEO?
I have a website and I want to update some titles of its pages, e.g.
"White wine" i want to change to "French White Wine", but I do not want to change URL, i.e. I would prefer to ...
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Does Google care about query string case sensitivity, and also does it care about correctness of casing?
Consider these two query string parameters:
?category=healthAndBeauty
?category=healthandbeauty
Does Google differentiate them? What is Google's behavior if it finds both of them in my website for a ...
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Do crawlers/bots treat the normal url and the uri encoded uri as the same for page ranking?
We want to start uri encoding using encodeURI() our URLs during 301 redirect handling on our server. We have to handle special characters in other languages.
We want to make sure that we don't ...
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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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Question regarding Sitemap value in a robots.txt file, and the lines of a txt sitemap
I have two related questions.
To start, in a robots.txt file can you just put the following for sitemap:
Sitemap: www.example.com
Or do you have to have:
Sitemap: http://www.example.com
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Sitemap: ...
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Browser appends a '?' to links on page, but the '?' does not appear in the source [closed]
I'm a little puzzled with the following problem:
When I hover over a link a WordPress site I'm looking after, I can see that the URL is https://xxxxxxx.com/apply-now/?
All the links on the page have ...
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Multiple Domains for 1 Website/Folder & CNAME
I have 2 domains which I would like to point to 1 website/location. The website is a brand created DAM with filecamp.com. So we have created testdam.filecamp.com (for example purposes). This will be ...
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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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Should the URL in the "SeekToAction" Video Schema point to your own site or can it point to Vimeo, Youtube, or another video host?
Google recently launched "SeektoAction" as an addition to the Video Schema, however, what URL you add is not clear.
Here is their example:
"@type": "SeekToAction",
"...
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Is translating an URI completely a good idea?
Today I received a request to translate the URIs of the site I was developing. I am not convinced about the suggested approach because it seems to me error prone. Is translating URI paths a common ...
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