Unanswered Questions
489 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Fetch as google Content-length: 0 when using IIS with active request routing (ARR)
I'm very new to this and just had a new issue dropped on my desk which I could use help with.
Basically all requests for domain name www.example.com are routed through an IIS with active request ...
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Google Search Console “Mobile Usability issues” but live test shows “Page is mobile friendly”
Looking into a customers site that has been having issues with Mobile Usability issues in the google search console.
Specific issues are:
Clickable elements too close together
Text too small to read
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How to stop Google translation on a link?
I use Mailchimp for campaigns. They have a feature where a person that receives the email can click the email in a web browser and translate to another language. The issue is the links in the email ...
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Is it necessary to block googlebot and googlebot-video to block video crawl?
We have problem with declining CTR caused by unwanted video snippet on SERP. Therefore we have taken measure to block the Googlebot from crawling our video file.
User-Agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*....
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Setup Google Analytics 4 property from 2 different tags
To measure my top-level domain and my subdomain I have installed 2 different Google tags in each of them and use 2 Google Analytics properties (Say Site & App). I am looking to setup a 3rd Google ...
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What could cause a huge drop-off in traffic from two specific countries? (Germany and US)
We launched a new website in March this year and site traffic has been fairly consistent, however, since the beginning of September I noticed a huge drop off in traffic, all of which seems to be ...
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Disallow Image Loading to Reduce Number of "Other Error" in Crawled Page Resources?
We have a hotel search website. Many landing pages of our site load resources asynchrously (e.g. Ajax), but very often (about 25% of the time) when we click "View Crawled Page" in Google Search ...
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Analytics imported conversions show as "No recent conversions"
I have imported a few goals from Analytics into Google Ads, but they show as "No recent conversions":
The reason it's confusing me is that there are quite a few conversions in Analytics.
I believe ...
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Google Mobile Friendly Test doesn't download css/js/images reliably (cloudfront + ALB)
I use CloudFront and ALB with AWS and my site always looks good from mobile, desktop and tablet browsers.
But in the Google mobile-friendly tool, it often doesn't have random images, css, and ...
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Redirecting www and non www to HTTPS on blogger
I have a blog on Blogger and have activated HTTPS. This link works:
https://www.example.com
But this does not:
https://example.com/
Is there a solution to this problem?
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Why are there data discrepancies in my Google Analytics Ecommerce report when I compare year-on-year?
I have found some quite large discrepancies in my Conversions --> Ecommerce --> Product Performance report. The data for the same time period is changing when I use the 'compare to' tool.
The ...
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Can I use canonical tags in place of 301 redirect that remove a parameter that had been used by a meta refresh?
For one of my sites, I had used a the meta tag refresh:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="...;url=...">
A few months ago, I removed this tag and instead implemented 301 ...
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Does Google crawl domains with dynamic IP addresses?
Does Google crawl web sites with dynamic IP addresses and dynamic DNS entries?
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How to use GA4 to track page specific sales data
We are an e-commerce website and we want to track conversion data for category pages using GA4 campaign data tracking.
For example, sales data of users who went through Category1, Category2, Category3 ...
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Why doesn't Google follow the links on my site while crawling?
Google doesn't seem to realize that there are links on my page.
I don't yet have provided a sitemap, and I know that I should (and I will).
Regardless, I'm trying to figure out whether I've done ...