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Is it worthwhile to buy my domain name with many top level domains?
It is almost impossible completely "lock up a brand" by buying it for every top level domain. There are hundreds of top level domains with new ones coming online all the time. Only well funded ...
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How do I tell blogger which image is the thumbnail to use in data:post.thumbnailUrl?
In fact, you can, but in a little hack way.
As blogger considers the first image in a post as a thumbnail, and you want to add some other image as a thumbnail which should be not included in a post ...
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Schema.org BlogPosting and image required
Schema.org does not require any properties, so having a BlogPosting without an image property is totally fine. (And, other than omitting the property, there is no way to denote that you don’t have an ...
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Does Google really care if your WordPress site has a "blog page" or not?
Google cares only about content (unique, correct headerts etc. ) and incoming links (from good sites with similar content) . Nothing more, nothing less :D
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Is it good impression to put ads on a professional blog?
I think you're going to find opinions supporting both sides on this situation. One group will say that it is unprofessional because all you're trying to do is lure people in with second-hand ...
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Personal blog vs Medium
The Correct Answer is...Both?
Everything should start on your website. So you should definitely create that. The advantage here is that you're creating your own place with a domain that is associated ...
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Posting old content on a new website. Which date to use?
You could provide both dates.
To make the difference machine-readable, you could use these Schema.org properties (e.g., for a BlogPosting):
dateCreated
The date on which the CreativeWork was created....
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Can you be sued for using publicly used images on a blog without copyright permission?
Each country has it's own laws, however, in the U.S., the law is quite clear.
17 U.S.C. § 107
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 17 U.S.C. § 106 and 17
U.S.C. § 106A, the fair use of ...
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Is it worthwhile to buy my domain name with many top level domains?
You want to lock the domain the moment you purchase it in order to secure it to the one domain registrar you are working with.
Without locking, someone could sign up and transfer your domain name ...
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Will Google punish me if I import a story from my own blog to content sharing sites such as Medium.com?
When Google finds two pages on different sites with the same content, it usually picks just one of them to include in the index. It usually picks the one that it considers the most authoritative. ...
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WordPress subcategories and SEO
Obviously you can always have nested categories in WordPress (and most other CMSs) as well as child pages, child posts, grandchildren, etc.
If done in a non-spammy fashion, there is no real ...
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Should I remove rel next/prev from a single WordPress article?
Your understanding is correct. The sequential link types are for documents that are "part of a sequence".
I would only use it for blog posts that belong together ("… Part 1", "… Part 2"), for a blog ...
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Should an IP be automatically blacklisted for a given timeframe after so many bad requests within a minute?
These look like vulnerability profiling. Basically, they are looking for vulnerabilities to exploit.
If you can block these, you should.
These are likely coming from open proxies. Instead of ...
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May I use custom images in a wordpress theme (not mine)?
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /membri/thekrumbs/wp-content/themes/comicpress/functions.php on line 40
<?php
if ( has_post_thumbnail()):
the_post_thumbnail( 'featured-image', ...
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Why are there requests for non-existent WordPress URLs on my vb.net website?
The first step is to ensure these URLs do absolutely not exist on your domain. Check your FTP now to make sure of this.
Once you are certain that these files don't exist, then you can safely ignore ...
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Blog is only indexed in Google search under HTTPS and not HTTP
It seems that your server is allowing both connections. The main problem is that you are generating duplicate content.
It's well known that Google prefers https, that could be the reason you have ...
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Is it necessary to have "blog" somewhere in the URL for a blog for SEO?
It's usually better to have as clean of a URL as possible. And for that reason, in most cases, I would not add /blog/ to your URLs.
If you are really trying to rank your website for the keyword "...
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I've read many books and became an expert in a subject area - would it be a copyright infringement if I share my knowledge on my blog?
According to copyright.gov:
Copyright protects original works of authorship [...] Ideas and discoveries are not protected by the copyright law, although the way in which they are expressed may be.
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Should I make my website private until I have a lot of content?
Generally I tell people not to worry too much about things that in the end do not matter. However, I do want to say that it is far better that a site that is reasonably formed and populated show up on ...
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WordPress security checklists on cPanel
Your installation is ok as per your given directory path, To secure WordPress site/blog, you should follow these steps :
Make sure you are using latest WordPress version, update it time by time when ...
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Google removing full path in search results
Not sure if this is really an answer, more an observation, but anyway...
It seems that if Google is able to extract an obvious breadcrumb trail from the page then it will show this in the search ...
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Discounts for free blog post
From the Google Webmaster Guidelines: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356?hl=en
Buying or selling links that pass PageRank. This includes exchanging
money for links, or posts that ...
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May I use custom images in a wordpress theme (not mine)?
Yes, you can do whatever you like with theme that you have. You've purchased it (or it's free).
As long as you purchased it or if it's free, you can do whatever. Just make sure that you make a child ...
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Schema.org 'CollectionPage' for list of blog posts by specific author
The author
Your description seems to be about the person, not the page. And for creator, you would ideally provide a Person value (which then also allows you to add the description there).
However, ...
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What is the SEO impact of pointing a Medium blog to a subdomain on my site?
Will my domain get credit for backlinks to the blog content?
Ans: Yes, your domain will get credit for the subdomain.
If Medium changes in the future and no longer points to my
subdomain, will I ...
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Should you target popular (i.e competitive) keywords as a small website?
Wow. What a fun gig. Congratulations!
I'd have a field day with this. So much potential.
If you are in a competitive niche, then make your content localised. e.g. "How/where to meet a girl/boy/...
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Preventing Duplicate Meta Errors in Multi-page Sections
Canonical links will help for page content but they do not help against duplicate titles and meta descriptions. WordPress is notorious for adding duplicate titles and meta descriptions whenever using ...
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Blog and BlogPosting for Google
BlogPosting is a more specific type of Article, but Blog isn’t.
Blog is for the blog itself. It can make sense to use it only for the homepage of the blog, but it’s also possible to use it for every ...
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How can I prevent a blogspot blog from misusing our company's toll free number?
I think you can try this Blogger form to report inappropriate blogger content
On that form, select the Unlisted phone number option and fill up all details.
I think Google don't consider toll free ...
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Is there a best practice for blog URL formatting (dated vs. non-dated)?
I think having the date in the URL is primarily useful if you're writing news articles that pertain to events of a specific day. Let's say that in 5 months from now, someone is searching for a ...
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