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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of web content in search engines using an understanding of search engines' processes and algorithms. Also known as "natural" or "organic" search, it is distinct from paid web advertising.
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Can a sitemap be used only to index the latest content?
You can submit RSS feeds as sitemaps. They are designed to only include recent urls.
You may even want to push rss feed changes via pubsubhubub:
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/submit …
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Preventing Duplicates on Google
In your case the Canonical tag is not important. The 301 is the strongest signal you can give that Google should update its index.
Canonical is more important if you can't or don't want to do a 301 R …
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"302 found" for index page bad for SEO?
It also sounds bad that cookie info is in the URL itself. It would indicate that every URL is different. Your making it very hard for a Search Engine to find the content and associate it with a valid …
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How to handle multiple pages of the same site with the same outlinks
I use quite a few backlink toos, so I can tell you what I would like to see:
How many backlinks from a domain
How many pages from that domain are backlinking to me
How many of my pages are being link …
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Why Google search displays only the English title of a bilingual website?
I'm not sure how your bilingual website works but I suspect it detects a users language and serves the content in that language.
This means the one URL is used for all languages and there is no way f …
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Google search console issue "redirected"
If my eyesight is good, the destination url ends in a slash (/) while the original one does not.
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How to reset Search Console Indexing to reflect correct reports?
The error type will still be reported for some time, however now you have zero pages with that error (see column to the right). So you have passed and fixed all pages with that error.
A 404 or soft 4 …
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One page but multiple top-level domain names: how to tag?
The outside world sees them as two pages. they have different URLs and different content. It does not matter how you generate the pages content.
Your hreflang examples look fine. You can use the old …
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Big drop in valid pages in GSC
Google recently had a glitch that caused lots of pages to get de-indexed. This has been fixed. You are now seeing the delayed report on that de-indexing. In a few days you should see it recover.
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In the screenshot for live test url in google search console, no texts are visible
Your robots.txt is blocking a bunch of css files. Your theme is adding version parameters to them, and your robots.txt disallows URLs with query parameters:
Disallow: /*?*
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Excluded from Google: Duplicate, submitted URL not selected as canonical
Canonical tags are a suggestion and just one of the signals used to help Google determine which URL to chose.
A stronger signal is to 301 redirect the http pages to the https ones. That will also for …
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What does "submitted and indexed" mean in the coverage report from Google Search Console?
The site: search is not exhaustive. URLs that are indexed may not be included.
Indexed means it can be shown in search results. Try making a real query that relates well to the page's content.
Submitt …
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SEO alternative for website with iframe
Google considers the content of an iframe as part of the main page's content. I last updated my article on it in January 2022.
I'm not sure how other search engines deal with iframes.
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TTFB vs SEO and My Site Location
Google measures and cares about real user experience using their Core Web Vitals, which includes their metrics for speed called Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). TTFP can be a big contributor to LCP as …
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How can I change the 404 to 410 in Google Search Console?
The search console reports 404 and 410 responses under 404 as it considers them the same thing, a missing page. People have asked for them to be separated, but that has not happened yet.