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Google result displays invalid heading text
Where does Google take the highlighted text in the below image from?
Below is the header section of the page.
The page title clearly states 'St Vincent’s Private Hospital, Werribee' so, I'm not sure ...
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Unable to set up a domain in Google Domains pointing to a Google Site
I'm at my wits' end with this.
I'm trying to do something simple, that is direct a domain (something.org) rented at Google Domains to a site made in Google Sites. I am an Owner of both the domain and ...
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GitHub https page error: Webpage showing in plain HTML format
When I first created my GitHub webpage and registered a domain at Google Domains, I didn't realize I had it made with HTTP.
To switch it to HTTPS, I changed my Google Domains DNS (screenshot below)
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State and City in breadcrumbs
We are designing breadcrumbs trail for a Used Products for Sale site. Breadcrumbs will have
Home > Prod Category > Prod sub category > state > city
Should State and city come first ?
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Is it possible to ignore href links on page in search results? [duplicate]
I've got a page that has been indexed by Google however the page requires users to select an option in a popup before continuing ie. Are you a practitioner? Yes/No
If the user selects yes the popup ...
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Upload PDF to Google site
I have created a Google site with my custom domain (www.example.com)
How I can add a PDF file without having to uploaded to Google drive. I want to have a link with my PDF like: www.example.com/file....
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SEO / Same product for sale on on own e-commerce and marketplace: alternate links for marketplace listings?
Assume that a product if for sale on both own e-commerce and marketplace(s), with same picture, quite similar title and description.
Although they might be some differences like a more detailed ...
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is possible to stop google to crawl specific part? [duplicate]
i want to stop google to open/indexing specific part of page:
/profile/username
but in same time i want to google leave indexed old data of /profile/username
is that possible?
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How can a react/vue apps like these rank just by using client side rendering?
By client-side rendering I mean, you can't see any content (h1,title,meta tags etc) in the source code, which is the only place where google bot can learn what a page is about.
here is this site: ...
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Do any other websites beyond Twitter use Twitter Cards instead of OpenGraph? [closed]
I've been adding OpenGraph tags to a webpage. I remembered that some websites use Twitter Cards to generate content previews if OpenGraph tags are not present.
Twitter itself uses Twitter Cards ...
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How do I change the google results snippet name/title? [duplicate]
So I managed to index my website successfully, but I have this issue with the name of the search result snippet. I want it to show DuckMastersGames but instead it says 000webhostapp.com. I hope it’s ...
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SEO / Redirect from category to unique product in it
I am working on an e-commerce website with a category page for each model in stock.
The category page let the visitor compare the main characteristics of products before accessing more details on the ...
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Updating the "WordPress published date"?
My site is the number 1 result in a search for "board game conventions" (see screenshot below). The only thing that concerns me is that the date shows as 2017, even though I update this ...
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0 discovered links in Google Search Console and only my homepage is indexed [duplicate]
Last month I launched my website.
It is using SSR, fixed almost all high/medium priority SEO issues existing in screaming frog, all pages are indexable and SEO friendly and from my index page I have a ...
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Nginx: Would Cache Background On Ensure Every Item is Always Served from Cache [closed]
I don't want anything served directly from the application. If an item is expired, Nginx should serve stale and update it in the background. I have set inactive duration to 7 days.
Would this ...
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Publication wrong date in google search result
I am working on Website developed by ANgular+Nojdejs. I work now especially on SEO. I noticed that my pages are displayed with the wrong dates in google search results.
I am using several structured ...
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How to manage internal links using short alternate URLs when the canonical URLs are complex to generate?
I am working on an existing e-commerce website where the canonical URL for product pages are long and complex to generate, hyphenated, and ending by the product id: https://example.com/brand-model-and-...
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Why are Semrush and Ahrefs reporting 403 forbidden on FontAwesome Kits, despite crossorigin?
Having authorized my domain from within Font Awesome kit, and included crossorigin attribute in both my link and script tags as below, both ahrefs and semrush crawl reports continue to give me the ...
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Deceptive site ahead - WordPress Backend Edit Post/Page
Error Message (While Editing Page / Adding Page in WordPress using Google Chrome - Only happens for Chrome Users):
"Deceptive site ahead
Attackers on 24-tsb.net may trick you into doing something ...
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Need to set up cgi on VPS to execute Perl (.pl) files
The server is a VPS running CentOS 7 64bit with CyberPanel. Perl is already present (ver 5.16.3) and will run scripts from the command line.
However, clicking a link to a Perl script just results in ...
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How to add full-screen overlay ad when transitioning pages on a website? [closed]
Sometimes, on a website, when I click a link, I get the full page blurred with what seems like a Google ad overlaid in the center, like this:
You have to click the blurred overlay to close the ad.
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Primary phone number on website keeps auto-changing to a different number
Last week, a co-worker/client of mine emailed me to tell me that she noticed the primary phone number on our website had changed. Nobody on the team has touched that phone number, and neither had I, ...
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My wordpress posts wont get indexed/displayed anymore in Google image search
Suddenly my website seems to be locked out of Google image search.
None of the articles of the website get indexed when I search, however search console says the urls are getting crawled.
I have ...
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Trouble deploying godaddy and edgio
I have a custom domain and I'm trying to deploy it using a domain I acquired through godaddy. I am having trouble deploying it. Used edgio documentation, this link and tried to follow it best I could.
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302 redirect 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 can I remove the indexing to my site of a secondary domain no longer owned by me whose only function was to redirect to the main one from Google?
I had a series of domains that redirected to a main domain (let's call it A) where the website is located. One of them is no longer owned by me, and a few hours after being removed from the previous ...
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If Both Article Page and PDF File Have the Same Content, Will It Cause SEO Problems?
I have a blog page and I publish articles on this blog page. You can download these articles as PDFs by clicking the download button on that article.
PDFs are the same content found in the article. ...
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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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Link Share Buttons - SEO Approach
My site uses Link share buttons for Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
When a user clicks a share button, they experience one of two scenarios, depending on their login status:
Already Logged In: Share ...
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What I have tried & about to try (Deleting Bing Webmaster Account) to fix Bing Delisted Website. Advice Appreciated
If I delete my bing webmaster account, will it reset/delete ALL the data Bing has listed against my domain?
I ask this question because our site has been deindexed by bing - Like thousands of other ...
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Does blocking api URL hurt rendering by googlebot
In my GSC crawl stats most of the 404s and URLs using page resource load are:
API URLs for a JavaScript part of our content
Cloudflare's managed challenge
If I add an entry to robots.txt for 1, will ...
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Getting huge subscriptions at website with same user name with minor difference
My Website has got 339 subscribers since hosting has been changed to Hostinger that is almost 15 days. I observe the list of subscribers and found that there were around 50 subscribers who have user ...
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How to have 1 billion URLs in sitemap for Google?
Google sitemaps can contain max 50k URLs, and you are allowed to have max 500 sitemap index files, leading me to believe you can have at most 25 million URLs in sitemap files.
What if you have more ...
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Using CloudFlare with GitHub Pages and SSL/TLS Full or Full (Strict) and Proxied DNS prevents GitHub Pages' Certificate Renewal
I am hosting my personal webpage on GitHub Pages with a custom domain and using CloudFlare for DNS etc. I am using the Full (Strict) mode for TLS/SSL and Proxied DNS. When The GitHub Pages tries to ...
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Forwarding GoDaddy domain and all its urls to a new domain
I have two domains on GoDaddy (a.com, b.com). I went to the a.com DNS administration and forwarded it to b.com using a 301 type.
If I go to a.com, it correctly redirects me to b.com. But, if I go to a....
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Any SEO impact after removing the current breadcrumbs available upon the website?
I have a very old website where a lot of the niche main keywords covered through the breadcrumbs. Now we have recently revamp our whole product at new Tech Stack (React - Strapi).
Now, what's the best ...
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Yoast SEO shows " No images appear on this page "
Yoast SEO shows " No images appear on this page " for a particular page which contains images in my website.
I already updated Yoast SEO plugin, but there is no change.
How can I solve this ...
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Suspicious requests to nginx web server
Periodically, the nginx web server receives a lot of requests from the same IP address:
$ cat /var/www/site.com/logs/access.log | grep '213.80.239.170'
213.80.239.170 - - [14/Mar/2023:11:05:03 +0600] ...
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Is it best to move a poorly-performing website to a new domain name upon a major update?
My rationale is since my site was poorly received, it will be better to get a clean state. There are many instances of bad user experience with the current site, related to slow loading and ...
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Having trouble dealing with backticks in keyword phrase: Yoast
I have a site I wrote in WordPress. I've been using the Yoast SEO plugin to see if I can get my content more easily found.
I just wrote an article on my site about the SQL SELECT statement. It begins ...
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Alternate page with proper canonical tag - htaccess rule
I have been receiving lots of canonical error messages from Google Search Console. Most of the time, the referring pages are my own pages and the urls are correct in the referring page.
Google is ...
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Why is my server 302-redirecting Lighthouse away from my robots.txt file, but not when I visit it with a web browser?
This is my robots.txt file:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /user/
Disallow: /user/*
Disallow: /home/*
Disallow: /adminpanel/*
Disallow: /Valorant_Guess/*
Disallow: /Leagueoflegends_Guess/*
Disallow: /...
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Does NOT outputing HTML for a navigation menu in mobile hurt SEO?
I have a menu visible in Desktop and Tablet, which shows all the categories available (in a Category Page).
That menu is hidden by a button in Mobile, and I use Javascript to NOT output the menu HTML ...
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Redirected exact-match domain names for SEO?
Google usually favors domain name exact matches.
For example, if your domain is mailonline.com, when you search "mail online", it would recognize the similarity between the two and likely ...
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Should H1 tags on all pages in a section of the site be the same?
When navigating to various pages within the "About Us" section of our website, should the H1 tags, be the same or different for SEO?
For example we have a page with "about us" as ...
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Make a link for an address that opens the default map app
HTML provides for:
<a href="tel:+5558675309">555-867-5309</a> for a link to dial a phone number
<a href="mailto:alice@example.com">alice@example.com</a> to ...
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Can randomly generated web page content lead to search engine penalties?
I have specialized pages with random content. Every time they are accessed or refreshed, different content is displayed.
I have pages that contain randomly selected users of my website:
I have pages ...
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Someone seems to be running ads for our business with incorrect or misleading information
We've been getting a lot of people contacting us saying they saw an ad for our business advertising free services or services we do not provide as well as people coming from regions we do not operate ...
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Does it cause any SEO issues for my <h1> tag to come after my <h2> tag in the HTML?
I have a <div> with an <h1> tag that I moved to the top of the page using CSS, but in the code, the <h2> tag comes before the <h1> tag. Is Google Crawler smart enough to read ...
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Do You Need Backlinks to Rank for Long Tail Keywords?
My site has been known to Google for about 9 months now, the domain is around 3 years old.
I have a generous amount of content related to my niche across my site, around 1000 words per page, some up ...
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