Unanswered Questions
179 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Bing removed page from index after switching from WordPress to Next,js
My site had been ranking well (position ~4 page 1) on Bing, but after switching from WordPress to Next.js, Bing Webmaster Tools says it can't be indexed.
Any idea what could be wrong? The webpage is ...
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When Bing requests a sitemap or a robots.txt, why do I see Apache reject the 1st request with a 403, followed immediately by a 2nd successful request?
This is a small issue that has been ongoing for quite some time.
When I check my Apache server log for 403's, all entries are related to Bing, and all from when it requests a robots.txt, sitemap.txt, ...
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Users (erroneously) type a short URL in the Google search box instead of the address bar. How to make it navigate instead of showing search results?
I'm using a URL shortener to publish pronounceable URLs for my pages so I can tell people something like, "Visit mydomain.com/slug to solve that problem." If people go to the address bar of ...
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With WordPress multi-language site in English and Spanish, Google doesn't index the URLs with the /es/
I have launched a website with English and Spanish languages. I've done it using WordPress multi-language (WPML), but I'm having a lot of problems indexing and ranking the Spanish URLs, which appear ...
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What to do with my RSS sitemap & PubSubHubbub for fast URL indexation in Google?
I've read on several places, that by using Google PubSubHubbub will get the newest pages posted in RSS feeds ultra fast indexed by Google.
So, I have my RSS sitemap with lots of new pages added daily ...
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How good is Google in indexing and crawling SPA webpages?
I am about to relaunch our website, but I am uncertain whether I should go with a Vue.js SPA webpage or a Nuxt.js SSR webpage. The big advantage of an SPA webpage is that it has an app-like feeling ...
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Does Googlebot see duplicated content when content is shown in a loop with JavaScript?
One of the projects I have recently developed uses SwiperJS slider with loop option set to true. It generates duplicated slides which makes sense. Since each slide represents an article the SEO guy ...
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Stop indexing of Github pages published from forks
This is similar to this question on Stack Overflow, but I want to keep the indexing of the original repo and stop indexing of the GitHub pages sites that are generated from the forks of the original ...
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Is it possible to reuse a site with a different domain name, even if the domain that was attached to this site before is now on another site?
We have moved our domain name to a brand new site and we would like to use the old site (now without a domain) with a new domain name and use the same template we used before with the previous domain. ...
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Canonical and Duplicate without user-selected canonical
I manage a website made up of HTML pages (as oppose to PHP). There is a .htaccess file that:
adds www
adds https
hides the .html extension
All of the current HTML pages have a line of code telling ...
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Best way to ensure Google indexes a video iframe that is dynamically injected upon user interaction?
I work on a publishing site and sometimes we use Youtube videos instead of a hero image at the top of articles. When Core Web Vitals rolled out, we noticed that the YT video became the LCP element and ...
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How to show same company's different office address in google based on the user's country?
our company has five offices in five countries , once the user search in google, I need to show the office address based on the user's country, for example if the user search from US , I need google ...
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If I use content from one domain on my other domain, but spread it - how do I implement the canoncial tag?
I used the content of one of my domains (nameA.example/ContentA) and copied it to another domain, but on several pages:
nameB.example/ContentA1
nameB.example/ContentA2
nameB.example/ContentA3
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Could allowing our images to be indexed hurt our web search rankings?
We are trying to solve some issues related to our SEO. When we compare ourselves to our competitors who are higher that us in SERPS, other than more backlinks (not much more), we don't see any ...
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Does The Name Of The Subdomain Affect SEO
I want to ask if the name of a subdomain can affect search engine optimization (SEO)
I am making a tech website like cnet.com and also adding a downloads page like download.cnet.com , which will have ...
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