Unanswered Questions
2,009 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Use site:mysite.com search without adding impressions to Google Search Console
Is there a way to conduct a site:mysite.com search without it adding impressions to the Search Console > Search Analytics report?
When I do this search it adds a spike to the impressions ...
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Automatic reauthenticate at oauth2 endpoint
I am currently (ab)using an oauth2 endpoint of an API to enable users of the API to login to my site (using response_type=code). I do not save refresh tokens or even access_token as that oauth2 ...
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Any problems with including a unique identifier in bulk email from address?
I understand that VERP allows you to encode the recipient's email address into the sending email address and we can use this to identify the recipient in bounce management system.
But if I instead ...
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Would could Google not index an AJAX news feed after 1 month?
I have a website that in page1.php uses a news API from other website. It has JS calling a PHP method like this:
<script id="mdval"
src="http://example.com/parvazproject/parvaz.php?c=...
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AdSense crawler access fails because the bot adds a slash to the login URL
I'm trying to get a site verified for AdSense. Since I want to display ads in authenticated pages too, I'm setting up Crawler Access to give a username and password to Google crawler.
In this site, ...
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Add custom domain on Azure without application restart?
Few months ago Azure started restarting applications when change occurs in custom domains. This behavior is, of course, quite bothersome as, aside of unnecessary restarts, startup on Azure can't ...
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Google Analytics subdomain filter is filtering out virtual page views
I have a reporting view setup with a filter to show only the traffic to the subdomain. I can see in realtime view that it is correctly showing only traffic to the subdomain. However, it seems that no ...
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Migrate Blogger Atom feed to self hosted blog
I have a blog running on blogger using my own domain (lets say www.example.com).
The standard blogger Atom feed is available at www.example.com/feeds/posts/default
Now I want to migrate my blog to a ...
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When asking users to stop using ad block for the site, what percentage are expected to comply?
30% of desktop users block ads in the USA
I'm guessing it is probably higher in my niche since I'm making a game and gamers are closer to the early adopter segment.
When some sites politely ask me ...
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Will forbidding “bad bot” user agents via .htaccess add a layer of protection against email address scraping beyond the existing captcha?
I was reviewing the security/protection measures for the websites I manage (one is for a small consulting firm, the other for a not-for-profit art association), and I came across the topic of bad-bot ...
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Is there a way to delete ALL threads in Disqus?
I removed several pages with disqus threads from my website, so now in the "latest discussions" section of Disqus for my site, it lists comments which redirect to a 404 (because I removed the pages). ...
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When I access my Website with Safari, Google Analytics shows referrers as “Direct”, why?
When I access my Website (website A) with Safari (v 10.1.1) via a link from another website (website B), the access (in the real-time section) is seen as direct access.
With firefox, I can properly ...
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How do I make my website available via IPV6 under an AWS load balancer?
What do I need to do to make my website available under IPV6? My site is running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) behind a load balancer. I just saw that Amazon has announced support elastic load ...
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/404.html being requested by different IP addresses - Is this a new form of attack?
On some of our sites /404.html is being requested by different IP addresses, every second or so. The request is not accompanied by other resources loading on the page and will quite often then ...
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Search Console: Server Connectivity Error - Connect Timeout
Over the last 4 days server connectivity errors have started to pop up in my Search Console.
Specifically, it is the connection timeout error.
I have been talking to my hosting provider and they ...
