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Automatic reauthenticate at oauth2 endpoint
I am currently (ab)using an oauth2 endpoint of an API to enable users of the API to log in to my site (using response_type=code). I do not save refresh tokens or even access_token as that oauth2 ...
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Sharing internal traffic filter across GA4 properties
I manage multiple websites for a large multi-national (dozens of offices around the world, each with its own set of IP addresses). I'm in the process of migrating from the old UA to the new GA4. ...
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Migrate Blogger Atom feed to self hosted blog
I have a blog running on blogger using my own domain (lets say www.example.com).
The standard blogger Atom feed is available at www.example.com/feeds/posts/default
Now I want to migrate my blog to a ...
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How to handle AdSense ads on an SPA - single page app?
I have an SPA (single page app) that I'll display AdSense ads on it.
The main reason I've designed as an SPA, is because I do not want users to refresh the page in order to see different content. All ...
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How does proxy work in Virtualmin, and can I forward whatever.domain.example to an internal ip address with a different port?
In Virtualmin, I've read that you can set up a proxy website under a subdomain.
All traffic on port 80 hits Apache where there are multiple virtual servers sharing the internal server IP.
I have a ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 can't enable .htaccess
I'm developing a website local and just switched from Windows to Ubuntu 16.04 - Sadly my .htaccess doesn't seems to work since rewrite rules don't apply and sources can't be found.
I activated:
sudo ...
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Fetch as google Content-length: 0 when using IIS with active request routing (ARR)
I'm very new to this and just had a new issue dropped on my desk which I could use help with.
Basically all requests for domain name www.example.com are routed through an IIS with active request ...
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How to display an HREF PDF in an object element in Chrome?
I am having an issue with viewing a PDF in an object element in Chrome. The initial PDF loads, but when I go to a different HTML, then HREF, it will not display. I 'think' I am getting the following ...
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Chrome incorrectly marking our domain without a hyphen as deceptive when we own and use both versions
Chrome has a fairly new "lookalike URL" or "typo squatting" detection feature. The aim is to warn users if they are accidentally going to the wrong URL.
We own two sites (made up ...
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Why do my links require two taps on iOS when using AdSense?
A weird issue appears when I'm integrating AdSense on my pages. My standard links (simple <a> elements) need to have 2 taps on iOS (maybe android too). It’s very frustrating. The first tap (...
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Block certain namespace webpages for anonymous users (non registered users)
For each general audience webpage (i.e. any main-namespace page such as an article page or Category: page), the MediaWiki content management system creates about 10 or 100 or 1,000 if not more ...
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How can I test that a webapp is available to users in China?
Does anyone know what the best (quickest) way to test whether a small webapp is viewable inside China? We've already tested with a small but varied group but we're looking to extend our testing ...
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Customizing Google AdSense "Privacy and Cookie Settings" popup
I am using Google AdSense's default GDPR consent message. Yet after clicking the consent button, users get this annoying permanent popup on the left bottom corner:
Is it possible to move this div to ...
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CSP added but Lighthouse flags it as missing
Ive added a CSP via PHP but Lighthouse is still saying
'Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks'
Heres my CSP, is there something missing or set incorrectly that could be causing Lighthouse to ...
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Working around Flutter's Lack of SEO Support
I wanted to familiarize myself with Flutter, and began working on a webapp in Flutter Web and have completed a fair amount of work in the language at this point. It wasn't until very recently that I ...
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Configure Nginx to serve the home page and a sub-directory with WordPress and everything else with Laravel
I'm currently facing a problem where a single vhost must serve two apps. One of them is WordPress, the other one is Laravel. I've managed to get it some kind of working using a URL prefix, but I can't ...
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Does a <link rel="stylesheet">` with a non-matching media value download sync or async, render-blocking or non-render-blocking?
I'm looking for an authoritative reference with regard to whether <link rel="stylesheet"> with a non-matching media attribute value downloads synchronously or render-blocking or ...
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How to add node modules to cPanel
I am new to web hosting. I am currently hosting my website on Morse Host. My website has a menu screen that requires node modules. Uploading them from my computer will take a really long time. Is ...
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“See Index Coverage” link from sitemap not working in Google Search Console
Why is my “See Index Coverage” button is disabled? I created the property 2 months ago and also submitted sitemap then. I still can't see my index coverage for the sitemaps I submitted.
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Disallow Image Loading to Reduce Number of "Other Error" in Crawled Page Resources?
We have a hotel search website. Many landing pages of our site load resources asynchrously (e.g. Ajax), but very often (about 25% of the time) when we click "View Crawled Page" in Google Search ...
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Another site not owned by us chosen for the Google-selected canonical
One of our sites is affected by negative SEO. In our Google Search Console, we notice that Google has chosen a different domain as the canonical URL. We don't own that domain. How it got there is ...
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Why do external links on Google Search Console vary so much from month to month
I keep an eye on external links to my website that google reports in its webmaster dashboard for my blog (technical tipps).
According to that dashboard, my website has a wildly varying number of ...
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Google Search Console “Mobile Usability issues” but live test shows “Page is mobile friendly”
Looking into a customers site that has been having issues with Mobile Usability issues in the google search console.
Specific issues are:
Clickable elements too close together
Text too small to read
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Can I use a reverse proxy service to route web requests to some other port than 80 on my home server to avoid breaking my ISP's ToS?
Is there a way to route all requests thru a proxy service, like Amazon Gateway, to specific ports on my home internet?
This will increase security at my home and will allow me to operate with the ...
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“prev. next.” text in Google search results meta description
Strange things happend when I check my website in Google search results. I'm using Wordpress and Yoast SEO plugin. Meta description of site was typed in Yoast SEO plugin so everything is fine but at ...
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Is it necessary to block googlebot and googlebot-video to block video crawl?
We have problem with declining CTR caused by unwanted video snippet on SERP. Therefore we have taken measure to block the Googlebot from crawling our video file.
User-Agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*....
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Increase in self-referrals in Google Analytics since implementation of CDN
Since the implementation of a CDN, my self-referrals have gone from being non-existent to thousands per day, the referral report in analytics with full referrer as a secondary dimension show that the ...
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Migrating Wordpress to Hugo (or generic markdown)
I have a blog which I want to migrate from Wordpress to Hugo.
The problem is that the blog has a lot of posts which contain code examples, including HTML code.
I'm using Codecolorer as Wordpress ...
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Using Nginx to rewrite a friendly URL to index.php handler gives 404 errors
I am having some issues getting the below to work the way I expect. What I am trying to do is take a url like
https://example.com/TOPIC/courses/details/143911
but have it sent to php with the URI ...
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Problem using mod_deflate with ProxyPass
Using Apache 2.0 (2.0.53) on a particular legacy system, enabling mod_deflate causes directly-served content to be gzip-encoded just fine. However, and this is my problem, content proxied from another ...
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Problem with PageSpeed Insights, question marks and "Required traces gatherer did not run" error
I'm having issue with PageSpeed Insights, when I run an audit I get question marks instead of scores, and under each metric there is an error "Required traces gatherer did not run". Here's a ...
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Setup Google Analytics 4 property from 2 different tags
To measure my top-level domain and my subdomain I have installed 2 different Google tags in each of them and use 2 Google Analytics properties (Say Site & App). I am looking to setup a 3rd Google ...
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Traffic source issue in GA4 with subfolders
We have established 2 properties from 2 different accounts in ga4 for tracking our website general English root domain example.com in the first property and tracking its subfolder example.com/es/ in ...
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Should I Add images Subdomain To Search Console?
My website:
example.com
My images subdomain:
images.example.com
I added images.example.com to search console a few years ago, because I had read that subdomains should be added to search console.
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Proxy requests from origin to CDN
Reading Google's web.dev article on Optimize Largest Contentful Paint (https://web.dev/optimize-lcp), there is a section that talks about using CDNs which says
While image CDNs are a great way to ...
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How to embed GitHub "Discussions" thread within your website
I've newly added "Discussions" to my GitHub repo for a website I am hosting on GitHub. I've checked the YouTubes and the Googles and can't find anywhere about how to embed your discussions ...
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Point a domain (example.com) to subdomain (example.xyz.com) with Route53
I'm looking to point my root-level domain; example.com to a subdomain sub.xyz.example. The goal is that users visiting example.com should have all content loaded from sub.xyz.example; without any ...
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Weird increase of url visited reported in Google Analytics
Oddly, there has been lately a very significant increase of 404 errors detected in Google Console Insights for some website I run.
I checked Google Analytics for that website: the URLs that give the ...
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Access DirectAdmin virtual host without domain name
I just created a new domain name in DirectAdmin 1.63 but due to some administrative reasons I can't change the domain DNS yet to point to my DirectAdmin server.
The website location is /home/admin/...
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How to detect if a browser has English spellcheck enabled?
I'm building a language learning app and there are some input fields (using CKEditor 5) where users can input English text.
CKEditor 5 has spellcheck plugins, but I am trying to keep my website as ...
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Prevent crawling of mobile site will impact the actual's site ranking or indexing?
We have a responsive mobile-first indexing site in place. Unfortunately, the m.example.com - mobile version is also there and it ranks for certain keywords.
We don't want to have such a separate m....
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What could cause a huge drop-off in traffic from two specific countries? (Germany and US)
We launched a new website in March this year and site traffic has been fairly consistent, however, since the beginning of September I noticed a huge drop off in traffic, all of which seems to be ...
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"Cert authority invalid" error from Chrome on Android when viewing my website which uses Lets Encrypt
I have installed and activated open SSL (letsencrypt.org R3 version V3) on my website. Website is working fine in Desktop browsers (Chrome, Firefox....) but in Google Chrome Android, I get security ...
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How to authenticate to WIX-BLOG API?
So I need to get all my blog posts every 5 hours.
This looks like a way to go:
https://dev.wix.com/api/rest/wix-blog
The only thing I don't get is how to authenticate to this API so I get MY OWN blog ...
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When Bing requests a sitemap or a robots.txt, why do I see Apache reject the 1st request with a 403, followed immediately by a 2nd successful request?
This is a small issue that has been ongoing for quite some time.
When I check my Apache server log for 403's, all entries are related to Bing, and all from when it requests a robots.txt, sitemap.txt, ...
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Users (erroneously) type a short URL in the Google search box instead of the address bar. How to make it navigate instead of showing search results?
I'm using a URL shortener to publish pronounceable URLs for my pages so I can tell people something like, "Visit mydomain.com/slug to solve that problem." If people go to the address bar of ...
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Google Analytics 4 showing all traffic is "Direct"
1 week after setting up a new site with Google Analytics 4, GA stopped showing any search engine traffic information and now shows all traffic as Direct
I'm stumped as to why GA is losing all ...
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Should translated English keywords pointing to local language landing page be in a separate Campaign / Ad group or same as original?
We have done quite a bit of testing with driving local traffic using English terms (eg. used cars Stockholm) instead of local language terms (begagnade bilar Stockholm). Basically, English keywords ...
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Can I change the name of my site as shown in the mobile search results on Google?
I'm working on a wp site that is displaying the incorrect name of the brand for Google search results. This only happens on a phone/mobile. Each search result is in a card with a little breadcrumb ...
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svg vs canvas for SEO
While choosing a charting library for my react application, one of the criteria that I am evaluating is whether the library works with canvas or svg internally. Apart from the various other factors ...
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