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Can I use existing Google analytics/Search Console for SSL based site?
I am planning to change hosting provider(From Site5 to Namecheap) and also will be using SSL. My site(WordPress) is 5+ years old and indexed. My question is, can I just change http://example.com to ...
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I've changed the URL and lost my top search result position in Google - would it help to revert the changes?
I've changed my top-ranking page to a simpler URL on the same domain with a 301 / permanent redirect, and changed sitemap and internal links accordingly.
A couple of days later Google crawled the site,...
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Syndicate partner reviews missing author names! and GSC throws "missing author name" error
Ours is a one of the biggest e-commerce website. In item pages, For a given product, Our website pulls syndicated reviews from multiple syndicate partners and shows it under the product.We are using &...
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Google Crawls mostly Javascript files of my HTML website [closed]
I have an issue with my HTML static page website, and the issue in my HTML(DOM) crawls only 11% and javascript crawls 70%
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How can I clone 1 Million images website? [closed]
I want to clone a website and upload it on my own that has 1 million images with descriptions. Descriptions need to be attached to a photo, with database possibly.
For example: https://www.freepik.com/...
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Can't Figure Out Article Review Schema Embed Code?
I'm trying to embed some schema in an article I've written which reviews a certain product. I'm using a Custom HTML block on WordPress to do this.
I basically just want the 4.8/5 stars to show on ...
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Page can be indexed but "URL is unknown to Google" [duplicate]
Ahhhh... this is doing my head in!
I've got a bunch of URLs that are in my sitemap, able to be indexed, URLs have been live for a couple years etc. but they are "unknown to Google".
I'd love ...
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Google Analytics Realtime report suddenly shows very few views by page title, even though many users are present
Here's what this looks like in my dashboard.
This never used to happen, but now it's my norm. This behavior coincided around the same time I set up google tag manager and started promoting my content ...
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Nov 22 Google analytics spam traffic
Is it possible to create a analytics filter with multiple conditions?
Recently I started seeing a large jump in sessions and page views on my site.
I was able to lock this traffic down by a number of ...
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"Discovered - currently not indexed" in Google Search Console [duplicate]
I have a 25 page website that I have submitted the sitemap for, but I have 13 pages that are under "Discovered - currently not indexed". I have clicked on Validate Fix, and then it took ...
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Do canonicals actually negate SEO impact of a Google Optimize redirect test?
Someone at work is suggesting we do a redirect test with Google Optimize, and that we use canonical so that the original page's rank isn't affected.
Meaning, some visits would be redirected from page ...
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Is disallowing all useragents sufficient to keep a site from being crawled by search engines?
We have a non-production version of our site that we want to prevent from being crawled. At some point in the past a non-production site was crawled and we still have search results pointing to it. I ...
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Is the Chinese Registry really this obliging?
Dear Manager,
Hope you everything goes well. We have not heard from you. As
mentioned in my previous email, anybody can register the China domain
names(###.cn,
###.com.cn, ###.net.cn, ###.org.cn) and ...
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Is it good practice to add Adsense code snippet via Google Tag Manager?
My understanding of Google Tag Manager (GTM) is that it's a centralized place to register tags to be inserted into your website.
For GA4, there's a customized tag type allowing it to load on all pages....
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What does "Disallow: /*URL" and "Disallow: /*.htmlURL" mean?
In the robots.txt file, under
User-agent: *
User-agent: Googlebot
# disallow the following specific files
there are the following lines. I don't understand the two Disallow lines:
Allow: /*.html
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Do I HAVE to use return hreflang even on noindex pages? And how important is x-default?
So, our website is HUGE. It has more than 32 languages in more than a dozen countries. There's a good reason for that, related to legal regulations for our business.
Because of that, we have only a ...
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Restrict Storj bucket access to a CDN / specified IP addresses
AWS S3 allows you to restrict access to buckets using JSON policies. Great when you need a bucket to be accessible to a gateway, CDN on specified IP addresses only. Typical use is hosting a static web ...
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Google AdSense multiple account error feedback [duplicate]
I am new to Google AdSense, and I have also tried to learn and know more about Google AdSense before is applied. I applied but got a feel back that am running multiple Google AdSense accounts which ...
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Why would this malfunctioning site pad its error page? [closed]
One of my daily websites, gocomics.com, is currently down with an error message:
The requested service is temporarily unavailable. It is either overloaded or under maintenance. Please try later.
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Can I track no. of purchases & profit for each session source in GA4
I want to know the profit and no. of purchases in my store that came from specific sources like Instagram & Snapchat in GA4, I did try to make a custom report from Explore in GA4 but it doesn't ...
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Size of svg file with text converted to paths
I'm using an svg image as a full screen page for reference material. That way I can have it stretch to fit whatever width of screen is being used.
Example here: https://aloba.net/dinoJump/hints/index....
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Apache2 Reverse Proxy only showing default page
I'm completely new to Apache. I have a Django backend that serves as an API and a SvelteKit frontend. Django runs on 0.0.0.0:8000 and SvelteKit on 0.0.0.0:3000.
I'm trying to setup Apache so it uses ...
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How can I change the SEO of my domain name knowing that this domain name is a redirect?
Currently, I have a domain with an associated Wordpress site [my-domain].FR, which is correctly referenced by google.
But also, I have another domain name [my-domain].EU which redirects to the main ...
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Website is under spam backlink attack [duplicate]
Our website's ranking has been dramatacically dropped.
We now realized there are too many spam backlinks and obviously someone is attacking to our website.
There are more than 10,000 backlinks from 10-...
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Chrome Lighthouse result for LCP don't match the Performance tab values
I'm running my app on localhost and I've been experiment with the Lighthouse tool to implement some optimizations. It's a statically built NextJS app, so it should be pretty fast.
This is the result I ...
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Why the facebook pixel tests well in Chrome but not in Firefox?
I've a website with a facebook pixel via Tag Manager. I fire a "page view" FB event triggered on the "page view" tag manager event.
In chrome
I then open the pixel tester on Chrome ...
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How to find out whats caused a big reduction in traffic to my blog [duplicate]
I have a blog website and I'm trying to find out whats caused a loss in traffic to my website. My average rank on google search console saw a big drop from august to October, before it finally started ...
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How to remove dots in the site description?
I am working on the SEO of my project.
When I search for my site in the search engine,
I see the site description there, but it has a dot.
This dot hurts my SEO.
https://prnt.sc/cUaX1FL_bEb7
That's my ...
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Website can only be found on Google by typing the exact url with extension
My Royal PC website is correctly indexed but it is impossible to find it by simply typing the name of the site on google. I have been to the fifteenth page and my site never appears.
If I type the ...
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How Stop Google To Show Result for Target Post On Other Posts
Consider i have a post with title "Post title 1"
this post is on same category by posts with titles "Post title 2" and "Post title 3"
so post 1 is showing on related post ...
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GA4 Config Tag is not firing, but triggers have fired
GA4 tag isn't firing on one of many hostnames, despite all triggers firing and no blocking triggers being set. This only happens on this single hostname.
I could likely resolve it by arbitrarily ...
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How to track conversion from visitors that do not return to the thank you page after payment
We use GA4 and Google Ads to track conversions made in our clients shops. Sometimes, a conversion is not recorded in either Analytics or Adwords.
In an attempt to find out why, we now keep track ...
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Same Arabic phrase encoding into two different urls, why? How to handle?
I have a multi-lingual site which two arabic phrases which to my eye (and to the Arabic speakers I've asked) looks the same, but they encode differently.
إعادةصياغةالنصتلقائياباللغةالعربيةمجانا ...
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(not set) for source/medium Google Analytics
Can someone khnow why it is displayed for me source/medium as not set?
thank you.
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Facebook pixels - Invalid Match Key For PageView Events
I tried adding FB pixels to my site, but now for a few days I've run into a problem on FB and have no idea what to do.
I get an error message in my Diagnostics tab:
Diagnostic issues found
Diagnostics ...
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googlebot is trying to crawl images but they're hosted externally on CDN causing 404s
We have an e-commerce site with product pages with images.
If you check src of img tags, they're of the format
https://ik.imagekit.io/path/image-asset.jpg?queryParams=somevalues
But we're getting ...
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How do I restart mediawiki on namecheap's shared hosting?
I just made a change for my mediawiki configuration in the LocalSettings.php file but I don't know how to restart mediawiki so that it picks up the configuration change.
I installed mediawiki using ...
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Track traffic & purchases came from instagram shop
Is there a way to track visitors and purchases for my woocommerce store that came from my instagram shop?
I know I Must Use UTM Links and see results in GA for Specific link, but I have hundreds of ...
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Having city specific pages with same content, bad for SEO?
Let's say we want to create a web app (such as a salary calculator) and we want to optimize it for different states and cities. Basically, the content (some text and the calculation form) is almost ...
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Find Data Stream of a Script in Google Analytics Dashboard
How to search for the corresponding "Data Stream" of a script in the Google Analytics dashboard?
<script async="" src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-...
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Why does the BIMI authentication result header show results for icloud.com instead of the company domain?
I've received an email from my bank (bank.example.com) that has an expired VMC certificate. Understandably, this causes the BIMI logo fail to display in my iOS mail client (with iCloud as my mail ...
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How to run a nodejs app over HTTPS?
I have a node.js app that I want to deploy on a VPS. So I ran the app on port 8080, then went to IP_ADDRESS:8080 and the website was there. So the next step was removing that port number because I don'...
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While setting up http to https redirect on Apache (with Drupal and certbot) it broke http access and fails to redirect
I am trying to set up a Drupal site on a VPS. It was working. I used certbot to set up https, which worked when going to https://example.com . Going to example.com was in http.
I vaguely followed ...
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htaccess: differentiate between directory and directory with query parameters
I have a little PHP framework like this:
?page=page-name
?page=page-name%slug=slug-name (in the case of plural list pages)
I'm trying to pretty her up.
/exercises → ?page=exercises
/exercises/...
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Should I add any specific markup or tag for automatically transcribed content to avoid SEO issues?
I am adding some educational PDF embedded files into an educational blog (not all the content is made up of pure pdf files, there are a lot of great posts written with love and care too). To improve ...
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How to submit a new sitemap to GSC with API
I would like to programmatically submit new sitemaps to Google Search Console. I found that it can be done with Google Search Console API.
However, in this docs they say that request require ...
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Capture Source (From Google Ads) In the Form
I have a client who wants to know (based on an actual form submission) when a client came from a Google Ad conversion. I have everything wired up properly (GA4 > Google Tags > Google Ads) so ...
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testing out changes to adwords - finding my own ads via a google search
Say I made a change to my AdWords campaign. Like let's say I modified the tracking template to include the keyword. It'd be nice to be able to click on an ad and verify that it's working.
The problem ...
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Yahoo rejecting email after registrar change
I recently changed registrars and DNS location from Tucows to Cloudflare for one of my domains. During the change, Cloudflare copied my existing DNS records including SPF, DMARC and DKIM keys. The ...
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What is the real risk in not using an SSL certificate?
Note, I'm not asking whether or not I should use an SSL certificate, as I will always use one when possible. Better safe than sorry, but now I'm working on a group chat using a PHP web socket and ...
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