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Why Ranked Keywords Lead to the Homepage rather than to the Actual Article - as a result users couldn't get the things that they were looking for?
I am watching my Google Site KIt, Most of the traffic that we are getting to our Archive Pages and Homepage.
After some research, I found the problems:
When I search the entire title of my article, ...
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Ensuring the identity of the client from an HTTP request [closed]
When I receive a Python request object from a client, is the only way for me to ensure that request is from an allowed entity to force them to authenticate?
A lot of the security measures around HTTPS ...
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Is there an advantage to running a small ecommerce site on a headless CMS connected to Shopify compared to using Shopify's built in CMS? [closed]
I have seen a few developers using headless CMS Sanity and host their sites using Netlify or Gatsby for a small ecommerce site with products below 20 items then they connect it to Shopify store for ...
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How to set up event parameters/custom dimensions in Google Tag Manager start up JavaScript for Google Analytics 4
I have been using Universal Analytics previously and now switched to Google Analytics 4.
In UA, along with the page view we used to set and send a custom variable called userName. This variable helps ...
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How to make Wordpress generate a description meta tag on post tag list pages?
Wordpress 6.3.1, Rank Math SEO plugin
ahrefs Site Audit flagged an Error of "Meta description tag missing or empty" for all our Wordpress tag list pages. For example, the public showcase ...
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How can I appear in "Web Results" section of Google Map's search?
A user searches for something on Google Maps and clicks on one item from the list. A panel appears on the left (or right) side of the screen that contains information about that searched entity and ...
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Why isn't GA4 debug viewer showing most events when it was working this morning
Hi I've been using GA4 debug viewer most of today and everything has been fine until I went away from my computer for about 2 hours, came back without changing anything in my GTM setup up and for some ...
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Trying to find out where a screenshot of an "Empty Pages" report came from. Doesn't look like a Google tool [closed]
Screenshot for reference. Anyone recognize this?
The screenshot came from a client via email.
A client took the screenshot, and then sent it to me in an email.
The problem is that I do not know which ...
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Web site no longer displays and has been replaced by a page containing only "Index of..."
I have a web site hosted on a VPS that was working correctly until a few weeks ago. This domain is used primarily for email and that still works as it did previously. However, attempting to reach ...
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Technical SEO: 8 month old site still is NOT indexed
Around 8 months ago, I launched a new website. I wrote about 200 articles for the website to get complete topical authority about the subject. Now 8 months later, I would expect to start seeing some ...
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I am using hostinger hosting, and cannot get the website to run, in spite of having put the .html/.css files into the "public_html" recipient folder
thanks for any help attempts.
I am currently trying to run a website.
I have put the dutch.html and english.html files into the folder.
But it had not worked, so I tried a second method I saw on ...
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GA4 - "Pages and screens" report - fewer views than users?
In the "Pages and screens" report of a site I'm looking, a bunch of pages have view counts much lower than users:
Is there any reasonable explanation for this, or might there be an actual ...
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How can I "reclaim" the MX control of domain where former employee configured Gmail to handle mail?
A former employee had configured Gmail to handle their work email (an address that is @ an alias—herein called "example.com"—for our primary domain). The employee left and is not cooperative....
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Bing shows wrong favicon in SERP
For some reason Bing SERPs show and old favicon of one of my clients websites. All other search engines that I tested (Google, DuckDuckGo, Yandex) show the correct icon. The website didn't use this ...
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Setting up hreflang correctly on a huge international website
I'm doing SEO on my company's site. It's very big, with tens of thousands of pages, in 30+ languages.
We have hreflang & canonicals set up, and the structure is quite straightforward where each ...
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Use Cloudflare WAF to block all URLs except home page and one subdirectory
I want to block all paths except /English/ and the home page www.example.com in Cloudflare WAF. If I allow the English category, I would expect access to be allowed to all URLs from this category. The ...
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How to disallow URLs containing fragment identifier or a hash symbol?
Can we disallow URLs contain #!/xxxx in robots.txt? For Example:
/peach-polyester#!/inventory/linen-rentals/
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HTML & CSS - Multiple Tiered Lists [migrated]
How can I recreate via HTML & CSS a list that would have item bullets such as:
1 Definitions and ...
1.1 Test 123
1.2 Smile 23
1.2.1 Test 23
2 Fed
2.1 Fes
etc...
When I try
<ol>
<...
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Cache warming: is fetching the url of the pages enough?
Googling on the topic of cache warming, I see that most approaches consist in automated http calls (get requests) to the pages listed in the sitemap, using a script or command line tool.
But I suppose ...
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My video can't be indexed: does it impact the SEO of the page on which it appears?
The google search console tells me that some of the videos on my site cannot be indexed.
The main reason is that
The video is outside the viewport
This isn't really a problem because I don't really ...
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SEMRush Site Audit can't crawl PDFs on my site, is this an issue with my server?
My agency uses SEMRush, and we especially find the Site Audit function helpful for spotting potential issues with our SEO and UX.
However of late, SEMRush has been flagging PDFs quite frequently, ...
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wordpress - all URLs with no trailing slash redirect to include slash
Just started a new job and the company website is built on Wordpress. All URLs seem to have a trailing backslash for example https://www.digitallearninginstitute.com/courses/professional-diploma/
We ...
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Is activity in Google's "Ask Question" box good for my website's SEO?
For some keywords, Google shows an Ask Questions box. And I have seen that some websites have a long list of questions being asked and answered.
Does it have a noticeable value for SEO ranking?
Update:...
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Does query string case affect SEO?
Our team is working on how to handle query strings. Does it matter in terms of SEO whether we use pascal case, camel case or kebab case? Which is best?
https://example.com/page?dealType=m&...
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how to tell google to not use a DIV with product suggestions as the catalog-search resultt
How to let google know, the content in a div is not the main content of this page?
abstract example of my catalog-page:
Users search for "sports car", my website displays "sports cars&...
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How to change identity when sending email and SMS on AWS SES or SNS
I use AWS SES and SNS to send email and SMS to users. I want to change the display name and email address of the sender depending on the country of the user. My understanding is that I can create a ...
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How to optimize a website for Google Search Generative Experience SGE?
With the latest updates in AI, Google introduced its LLM Model in search called SGE Search Generative Experience, by which they are showing AI-generated content on the top of search results pages.
I ...
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Page Indexing > Page with Redirect to Google Search Console
I need help. My website URL is like https://example.com/.
I have a problem with page indexing with redirect.
There are shown Page Indexing > Page with Redirect in Google Search Console. That's why ...
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How do I remove a subdomain that is shared to another webhost?
One of my team members had a separate webhost from mine and he suggested to host a website from a subdomain on his webhost, we did that and it was all ok untill the team disbanded and now I want the ...
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Why is the pageviews of the session entryl url higher than the pageviews of the page url with the same url?
I am comparing page views for the following conditions :
dimension : session entry - filter : session entry url = url
dimension : page url - filter : page url = url (same as above)
page views of the ...
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Why site:example.com doesn't give the same amount of results in incognito mode
Did you ever tried to search on Google site:domain.example on incognito mode? I am never getting the same amount of results than when I am doing it in normal mode. Sometimes more, sometimes less, do ...
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how to show google , my website is fair use downloading site befor removing from results?
My website is for downloading software and is limited access for only users (by IP limitation) and there is no relation between this country and US for copyright policy (Circular 38a of the US ...
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htaccess and redirects
I'm wanting my URL to resolve to https://example.com if the visitor is typing in the URL with http://www or http:// or https://www
Right now I have a redirect in my htaccess and it works but I get ...
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why my blog on blogger keeps getting rejected by google adsense
i made my blog on blogger with a custom domain. i have 20 posts as well as relevant pages. my site URL is www.dailysomtech.com i have applied for google adsense for three times and i keep getting ...
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Prevent subdomain users from using Google webmaster tools
For special purposes, I offer subdomains to users.
I have Google Webmaster console access for my domain including all subdomains via domain property there.
However, I need to prevent my users from ...
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How do I enable edit button on Mobile for the Main Page of a MediaWiki?
I've enabled editing and it is available to all users on all pages but on mobile it is only available to users on all the pages except the Main Page.
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How to disable cookies on my weebly website?
I have a website built with Weebly. It is just a simple static webpage. It seems to me that this kind of site doesn't require any kind of cookie, since there is no user log-in, no preference to be set,...
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How to control RSS feed access to my blog
I have a personal blog I set up using Jekyll and getting hosted on GitHub Pages.
How can I make sure people access any article from my blog fully only by visiting it, not through an RSS reader such as ...
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How to get the GA4 Explore reports full width?
How do we get the Explore reports to be full width for our data? This following is the best I can do at full width. But yet there is all that white space in the far right that is being used for ...
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Confused about " Duplicate without user-selected canonical"
I'm confused about this error in Google console. It's telling me 2 pages are not indexed because of Duplicate without user-selected canonical.
Both are the same page though. It's the main page of the ...
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Best schema type to use for a crowdfunded product?
On my website I maintain a list of crowdfunding projects related to tabletop gaming. The list is primarily board games, but will occasionally include dice, books, or even campaigns raising funds for ...
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How to prove you created it first [duplicate]
Let's say you write really good articles and people start copying them. After a while it may not even be clear who did it first.
Now assume the unlikely event that someone registers copyright with ...
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How can I check the certificate validity of an email server?
I have this problem continuously.
Thunderbird works fine, using POP and SMTP
Crazy Domains changes something on the shared server
Thunderbird stops fetching email
I complain and provide the ...
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Best SEO practices for for multi-page articles
I'm planning on releasing a number of articles spanning multiple pages. Each page of the article is thematically connected to the other pages through its main topic, but focuses on a particular aspect ...
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Should I renew Google Domain at low yearly price before the transfer to Squarespace?
So I'm using Google Domains with yearly renewal to host my static GitHub pages website and I was wondering if it would be a good idea to renew the domain for the next 9 years (which is the max limit) ...
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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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How did someone discover my new URL so fast?
I own a domain, and manage its DNS entries manually using godaddy.com.
I use IIS as my webserver, and it runs on an Azure server. I host several specific services there, and each is configured in IIS ...
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Even after setting 301 redirect on firebase hosting, Google Search Console displays 301 redirect error
I am using firebase hosting. At first, i used default domains but now i have changed it to custom domain. Now i changing address in google search console for the default domain but i am getting the ...
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How to change breadcrumb title?
I'm using Google Tag Manager to implement my breadcrumb schema. But instead of the name I'm assigning, breadcrumbs show page title which looks really bad. My script is in JSON-LD and doesn't have any ...
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Why do I get different clicks and impression numbers on my domain & prefix properties?
I've got for my website (example.com) domain property on GSC.
While doing search results report I'm filtering page=URL Containing example.com/pt-br/news and get the clicks & impressions.
In ...
