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Do I need JSON-LD on all pages or just the home page?
Google uses the phrase "Include the contact markup on one page in your official site" in relation to the Organization information you are adding.
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/...
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Do I need JSON-LD on all pages or just the home page?
JSON-LD should be included on the company home page for the company info. While you shouldn't use that on other pages, you should include JSON-LD on the other pages that provides the information on ...
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When the root URL of a domain doesn't have a specific site, how should visitors be directed to language folders?
Many multi-lingual sites don’t have the language tag for the default/primary language in the URL¹, but I think it’s better to include it. So yes, in my opinion, it’s not only good design, it’s the ...
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Should I make the homepage the parent page of each category on a WordPress site for SEO?
A parent page is a top-level page of a hierarchy - they have nested child pages.
If you are using your site’s default menu, parent pages will usually show in the menu with child pages as a drop down.
...
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Will a home page with minimum text hurt SEO?
If your page will not be optimised well with appropriate text then it will not hurt in a bad way.
But it may be hard for you to get the desired ranking.
So, if you are serious about the ranking then ...
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What canonical URL should be used for sub-pages? The sub-page itself, the home page,or something else?
It depends what is on those pages, you didn't give any details. If the home (front) page is identical to /page-1 then it would be best to set the canonical on both pages to the home page (ie https://...
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Is it bad for SEO to 301 redirect the homepage URL to a deeper URL?
This is an incorrect implementation.
You are using a 301 redirect which indicates permanent redirect.
You are using a canonical tag to indicate that the main URL is the one being permanently ...
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Root index.html file of a multi-language website
Search engines love multiple-languages and are super flexible
Google and Bing are very flexible when it comes to structuring a website with multiple languages. The first thing you should know about ...
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404 to 301 Permanent Redirect a good idea?
It is a bad idea to 301 deleted article links to your home page, both from UX and SEO perspectives. A 301 redirect says "the content you are looking for is here", so if you redirect to your homepage ...
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Do I need JSON-LD on all pages or just the home page?
You can include multiple structured data objects on a page, as long as they describe user-visible page content. However, if you mark up one item in a list you must mark up all items; marking up just ...
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Should JSON-LD contact markup be placed on a homepage or Contact Us page?
Both are fine, or either one is fine. As long as search engines can crawl that specific page, they will most likely take note.
Google states in their structured data spec: "Include the contact markup ...
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Include the homepage or not in breadcrumbs?
Didn't the first paragraph of your question answer it?
Are you going to follow the herd who have likely never heard about google's guidelines or are you going to follow the guidelines of the ...
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Structure homepage path
Having no path is definitely best practice.
When people type your domain into their web browser, you will want to immediately show them your homepage without redirecting them. Having your home page ...
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How can I bulk redirect old URLs to my home page using .htaccess?
As stated by Stephen, you should rather set a 410 Gone redirection, like this:
# /.htaccess:
Redirect 410 /pl/index/12
Redirect 410 /pl/index/16
Redirect 410 /pl/index/18
# And so on.
Or, if you ...
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If my blog on the side has no traffic is it still contributing to my home page rank?
If by no traffic you mean no traffic from search engines you can delete it.
If its being spidered by engines but not receiving hits it might be contributing to your site by providing keywords (...
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Will setting your homepage to "your latest posts" in WordPress hurt Google SEO?
It depends what you're trying to do. Do you want to rank with the homepage? Or do you have posts and pages that target the keywords?
"Static page option" in WordPress makes sense for some ...
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How to block access to all but homepage unless that access comes from the homepage?
There is a simple way if you want the rules to be followed but not enforce them against deliberate spoofing. This looks something like this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www....
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Does linking articles from the homepage help their SEO?
Only you can know after you've tried it.
Will linking to one of your blog posts from your homepage increase its keyword rankings?
I, or anyone else, cannot say.
It will increase the PageRank of Your ...
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Should a Sitemap include the home page?
If you are creating an XML sitemap for your site, it should include all the pages you want search engines to index, including the home page.
Google gives you extra information about the pages in your ...
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Will a home page with minimum text hurt SEO?
What is your home page for? If it exists for SEO, then you need a different approach. If it exists as a way to show off some work to people who came deliberately to check out your company, SEO may not ...
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Showing the home page first in Google search results for searches for the domain name
"Profile" isn't really a bad name for the home page, but it isn't complete. The home page could be named any of:
"Brand Name Profile"
"Profile of Brand Name"
"example.com Profile"
"Profile of ...
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Is there a benefit of specifying the canonical URL for the homepage, or can search engines figure out common index, www, and https variants?
Having different versions of you homepage as https, http or www and non-www could result in your homepage ranking on all different versions and splitting page rank, you wont get any duplication issues ...
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Is it bad for SEO to 301 redirect the homepage URL to a deeper URL?
Canonical tags aren't needed when doing a redirect. I agree with Emirodgar to use a temporary redirect. As for the SEO part, you can use Yoast and set the home title and description. If not, you can ...
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H1 tag solutions for the main page
Dont worry about forcing the H1 to be the company name. Google will do just fine deducting this from the content, domain name, and page title. H1 should define content. Additionally make sure to only ...
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Is redirecting homepage to a page with keyword it's targeting helps in SEO?
Summary:
NO. Since your website is new and has minimal value in eyes of Search Engines, targeting keywords with appropriate landing pages is better for SEO. Instead, you can add an internal link with ...
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Redirect to homepage based on server error code with htaccess
If you are using .htaccess, then you are using Apache. .htaccess files are Apache's directory level configuration files. Other web servers don't use them.
The specific error code should be 403. ...
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How do you create a home page without a file name or .HTML extension?
There are several ways to achieve this:
Create an index.html inside root folder of your hosting and open your domain ie. http://example.com, you can see the output from index.html on http://example....
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Will setting your homepage to "your latest posts" in WordPress hurt Google SEO?
The danger of using latest posts on the home page is duplicate content. By default, WordPress uses the full text of each of several posts on the home page. That will cause Google to index your ...
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How to block access to all but homepage unless that access comes from the homepage?
I've not tried this as my environment makes doing so tricky, but I posit something along the following lines will work in .htaccess
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{...
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Do links to the home page need to be consistent about the trailing slash?
The main question is what does your server do in that instance?
If the answer is when you visit:
/page
and
/page/
Does one redirect to the other? or do both resolve in the browser? If the latter, ...
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