Unanswered Questions
231 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Does Google Search index direct download links?
Does google index direct download links the likes of which you can find on file download sites? I searched for some specific links on Google but couldn't find them.
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Google Image Search - link to specific part of page
I have a longer webpage with many images on it. Google is indexing those images.
Currently, when I get to my webpage via Google Image Search, I'm taken to the top of the page. This is not very user ...
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How to disavow backlinks from the Bing group of websites?
I manage a website for a blues band. I recently posted some gigs on a local information site. Google webmaster tools correctly shows 3 backlinks from this site. Bing shows 434 backlinks from the same ...
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It is considered black hat SEO to use 1x1 <img> images to make CSS background images crawlable?
According to Google, GoogleBot does not index CSS background images.
Using standard HTML image elements helps crawlers find and process images. Google can find images in src attribute of element (...
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Issues with Googlebot crawling and negative number pages
I am dealing with very heavy load from Googlebot, I have hundreds of sites running on multiple IPs all on the same server and googlebot is constantly crawling these sites causing a lot of availability ...
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Is mismatching trailing slash in hreflang a problem for indexing spiders like Googlebot?
I got a Joomla 4 website.
there's a .htaccess rule redirecting URLs ending with / to version without slash, also www. is removed
I'm using Aimy Canonical plugin for rel="canonical" URLs. Can'...
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Non-English German Website Indexation Issue On Google
We are having issues in indexing one of our non-english store. Here is the timeline of events:
Event 1: Back 2022, we mistakenly made the website in english and english URLs got indexed
Event 2: We ...
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Will my site be penalized in search engines for using data from a public API?
I am developing a website that utilizes the CoinGecko API to display cryptocurrency coin prices. I would like to understand the potential pitfalls or common issues I should be aware of as I proceed.
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Best practice for delivering multi-language website
I'm about to turn my website into one that's for multiple languages. I read these two points from Google Search Central which I find rather conflicting.
The first point states:
Use different URLs for ...
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Should I optimize meta data for each URL in listings even the created by search filters?
On my website there are many products and each of them can be shown with many search filters. I made sure that they had canonical tags but should I change each page's title tag, meta description, H1, ....
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Page with Google's reCAPTCHA gets massive traffic peaks from Googlebot, why?
In a web application there is a contact form that is protected by Google's reCAPTCHA.
The page as such is set to NOINDEX, FOLLOW:
<meta content="noindex, follow" name="robots"&...
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How to make text that a normal user can see by hovering over an image accessible to robots?
How to make text that a normal user can see by hovering over an image accessible to robots?
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Website Indexing in google search console dropped
We are facing issues on google search console indexing page.
Issue 1: Due to some reason indexing dropped from 800 to 224 after website URL structure update
Issue 2: Wordpress xml sitemap missing few ...
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SEO: can Google penalize me if i reuse same video / images content for an other website?
I created a funny video sites that is containing around 10.000 videos and 5000 images. It become quitly good on my Google local search then now i decided to create a second site that is offering ...
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301 Old content to New Content but now different language (negative SEO effect?)
I have a question. I have a Dutch website and used to receive backlinks from good and high-quality websites. Now, I want to 301 redirect the Dutch page to an English page. Will this affect my website'...
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