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Tracking links going to 404 pages
I have a price comparison website with quite a few tracking links like this:
<a href="/go.php?id=6000579" class="fh-price-go-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ...
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Move from one web host to another but keep Google Email Settings
Web host: Hostinger
Domain from Google Domains
MX Records for Googledomains (Nameservers:4 records starting with: NS-CLOUD-E1.Googledomains.com. ALL 4 are to cloud.googledomains.com)
New Web host : ...
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Custom "cookie solution" [closed]
I'm working on a website for a client who owns a restaurant.
I've just finished developing it and I'm working on the part relating to the privacy policy and related cookies.
The cookies used by the ...
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page not indexed - duplicate without user selected canonical
I have submitted sitemap to google and it keeps identifying unique product pages as duplicates. Can someone please explain why its happening and how to resolve them please.
All the product pages are ...
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What's the correct way to setup multiple environments (other than production) for the Server-Side Google Tag Manager?
The client-side GTM containers allowed configuring multiple environments. It was especially useful for testing GTM in staging, QA and whatnot first.
It is available under: https://tagmanager.google....
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Google Business profile: Provides service at one location and mobile service to several zip-codes
My business provides service at a physical location and we can send a crew out to provide service in several zip-codes.
My objective is to show up in the Google Search Local Pack as well as on Google ...
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Adding new DNS record to Netlify in order to make my domain point a new site
I have a new site: newsite.com (my new site has no subdomain such as www or ftp), so I wrote "@" to Name section when I created my DNS record.
I had an old site that I wanted to redo. I registered a ...
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How to put Google Business Updates on website
I'm trying to add the updates section of a google business profile (picture below) to my website and I can't find which API to use. I've checked both the Google Maps and the Business API's and I can't ...
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How can I redirect a GitHub project to another location?
How can I redirect a GitHub project to another location? Example:
I have this project:
https://github.com/myuser/foo
And I manually moved the content from the old repository to a folder inside a new ...
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Sitemap indexing
I recently started working for e-commerce website and I noticed their website was missing a Sitemap. They sell more than 10 million titles and google indexed only 200 pages when I checked in google ...
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GA4 Unassigned Traffic
I have a client using GA4 that is experiencing some anomalies in how GA4 is assigning Session default channel groups.
A large portion of their revenue (about 60%) is falling into the Unassigned ...
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Google search is not showing my site in search results [duplicate]
I have created my self a small website for converting ebooks and documents between different formats. It seems that Google is not relating my website with any keywords. The site is for sure indexed by ...
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My website can not searched with Google, but works fine with other search engine [duplicate]
My website has been published for a year and I have set a title and description tags but they don't work.
According to the document guidelines, I found that the website has been included by Google, ...
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Large list of backlinks disappear from Google Search Console
I typically have 700-800 backlinks listed in GSC. I normally check this list every other week. However, today when I checked, it showed 73. At first I suspected that Google cleaned up all of the ...
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Google AdWords showing more clicks than keywords clicked?
Why does AdWords sometimes show for example a total of 185 clicks, and in the keyword tab it shows a total of 12.
Most of the time, if I manually add up the clicks on each keyword and the "total&...
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Does a domain sale share the owner’s contact info?
I am selling a domain online and my registrar uses privacy protection which is automatically enabled. Behind the privacy protection, I have myself listed as all 3 contacts, along with my personal ...
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How to use the canonical tag in multi language websites that is SEO friendly?
I have doubts about using the canonical tag in multilingual websites.
This is how I currently use the canonical tag on a multilingual website:
English Website:
<link rel="alternate" ...
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What is the best seo practice in my scenario?
I will provide you a fictional scenario.
We have an url named example.com/swimming-pools which has all the swimming pools without any particular filters.
Then we have other urls like /swimming-pools/[...
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What about img blob data affect for seo & client performance [closed]
in simple cms project with some picture lower 1mb , save all image as blob data in database (exp: sqlite) is good idea for files management...
How does this affect SEO? for example on: pageload web ...
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Why my robots.txt is not honored by Google?
This is my robots.txt.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /property/
Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml
As you can see, I have disallowed the /property/ path. Yet I see some of the links on my website ...
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My website's favicon is not displayed in Bing search results [duplicate]
My website has a problem with displaying the favicon in the output.
Even though I've practically done all the items from the recommendations https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/forum/all/what-...
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GA4 - Why do event count and the corresponding conversions not match?
We have a custom event called "consumer_action_booking" which we're passing to GA4. I marked that event as a conversion event:
However, when I look at the event count for that actual event, ...
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Setting up DKIM, SPF, and DMARC Records for Domains that You Won't Use for Email
I have a few domains out there that are never used for email. If you look at the domains, you'll know the company. This makes me wonder, should I set up DMARC, DKIM, and SPF for these domains even ...
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Shoud a sitemap include favicon.ico and robots.txt?
Should a sitemap include favicon.ico and robots.txt? They are in mine (and do exist) and I'm worried removing them will cause some problem.
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Website was hacked. Now thousands of links are showing in Search Console [duplicate]
Our website was attacked with Japanese SEO Spam last year in October. We have now removed all the spam links from the database and website is secure. But Search console is still showing thousands of ...
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Why is Google not Indexing most of my pages it found? [duplicate]
When I visit search console, it shows 5 indexes pages and 18 pages not index. But no error whatsoever.
Why is google not indexing my pages?
Where can I get more information about why it's not being ...
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Someone used my Google Analytics Tracking ID, how do I remove that traffic in GA4?
Someone used my Google Analytics Tracking ID, how do I remove that traffic in GA4?
This seemed possible with UA properties, but can't find how to do this in GA4 properties.
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I have a domain name. What is the cheapest or free way I can forward email to those domain to a gmail? [closed]
Basically I want an email alias.
I suppose I can use google workspace that cost $4 per month.
Just simple forwarding. No need for full email.
I wonder if we even need 3rd party for this?
Do registrar ...
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What is the Query to add in robots.txt for blocking URLs has some special characters?
I was going through the Google Search Console pages issues and one of the issue reason is "Alternate page with proper canonical tag" and this has some URLs which look like below
example.com/...
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Validation of canonical links not working in Google Search Console
I internationalized my site's canonical links using the guide from here: https://yoast.com/hreflang-ultimate-guide/#hreflang-canonical
Which has an output like this:
<link rel="canonical" ...
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GA4 cross domain measurement with client_id and session_id
According to https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/10071811?hl=en#zippy=%2Cmanual-setup, I can use code similar to the following to set the client_id and session_id values for Google Analytics:
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How can multiple people in my organization access multiple client Google Analytics accounts?
I work at a web development and marketing agency. We need to access multiple client GA accounts.
Currently we handle this by having a [email protected] account, which people at our organization log ...
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Why my website is not showing but my articles are showing in google
I created a website around 2 months ago, and I have written around 90 articles till now. Most of them are getting indexed in google search. When I used to search the name of my website it used to ...
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Is there an A/B testing feature in GA4?
On the Google Optimize sunset announcement, there's this statement...
We remain committed to enabling businesses of all sizes to improve your user experiences and are investing in third-party A/B ...
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Apache2 with multiple sites and default
I am tinkering with an apache2 webserver. I have several sites setup using domain names, however if I just browse to the IP address of the webserver, I get one of the domains I already have setup. I ...
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spam clicks and impressions google search console
I have this issue i can't find any solution
spam clicks and impressions, and doesn't appear in google analytics
edit: The main issue is my website is at the medical niche while spam clicks are coming ...
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How to Solve Pages with Duplicate Meta Duplicate Tags & Content Error due to multilingual pages?
I am using one of popular SEO tool and it showing me error of duplicate meta tags and content for below type of URL structures (I am taking as example) and I am working for agency.
www.example.com/abc/...
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How to protect data on a website from indexing and inclusion to machine learning or LLMs training data?
I'm supporting a larger web database that contains many hundreds of articles with consumer grade and technical tests of hardware and electronics. Our policy has always been to provide open access to ...
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How to properly block indexing my admin subdomain?
I have a website hosted on https://admin.example.com.
However, the public website displayed is on this sub-directory : https://www.example.com/website/
For technical reasons, we cannot install it or ...
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Two domains linked with CNAME - do I need two CA certificates for SSL?
I have a pretty simple question. Suppose I have a domain a.example and I add a CNAME record for the apex/root of that domain pointing to another domain I own: b.example. Suppose now that I want to ...
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How to properly set up google search indexing for site which requires authentication
I was not sure of the best way to describe this in the title but my scenario is the following:
Every page on our site requires authentication and will redirect unauthenticated users to a login page ...
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How do you transfer a domain with BlueHost?
I have a domain purchased. I have a website without a domain that I can view with the IP address. I need to point the website to the domain. It is hosted with BlueHost but for the life of me I cannot ...
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Use passive listeners to improve scrolling performance
Google's Lighthouse tests for CWV ran on my website include an issue stating that touch and wheel event listeners are not marked as passive.
How and where to fix this?
I have tried to check my file ...
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How can we redirect using htaccess and DNS together with Google Sites?
I have updated a site and some of the old links are no longer referring to the right place (404). I wonder how I can do it through DNS and .htaccess.
As I understand Sites does not support redirecting ...
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Help with HTACCESS 301 Redirect to different site with URL parameters
I have two websites, elijahstreams.com (OLDSITE) and projectjustcause.com (NEWSITE).
I need ID-based URLS to forward from OLDSITE to SEO-friendly URLS on NEWSITE via .htaccess directives.
This is what ...
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Google Search Console not showing new sitemap pages [duplicate]
I published a new sitemap on GSC and it appears that it was published successfully and that 9 pages were indexed, but when I click to see the pages, it shows me 5 pages not indexed which are the pages ...
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NopCommerce - access values from Settings table
I have to modify the NopCommerce aspx page (NopCommerce 1.9 old version - Web Forms app).
I can only modify aspx pages (no access to code behind .cs files).
Inside the aspx page, I need to get info ...
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HTTPS site on Chrome with paid SSL showing as Dangerous
I built a WordPress STAGING site on projectjustcause.com domain. I have installed and tested paid SSL cert and it worked fine. When I added directives to APACHE 2.4 .htaccess file to forward all http ...
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Duplicate without user-selected canonical with Google Sites and custom domain
Got an issue with my Google Site for which I have registered a custom domain name (and Google, through the Search console, recognizes me as the owner).
The problem is that Google considers the ...
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Connecting to MySQL database hosted on CPanel
I have followed all of the usual steps in setting up a pipeline but cannot seem to get the database itself to connect. I am confident in the correct database name, username passowrd etc but am ...
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