Unanswered Questions
392 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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Should translated English keywords pointing to local language landing page be in a separate Campaign / Ad group or same as original?
We have done quite a bit of testing with driving local traffic using English terms (eg. used cars Stockholm) instead of local language terms (begagnade bilar Stockholm). Basically, English keywords ...
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Can I change the name of my site as shown in the mobile search results on Google?
I'm working on a wp site that is displaying the incorrect name of the brand for Google search results. This only happens on a phone/mobile. Each search result is in a card with a little breadcrumb ...
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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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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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Blocked due to other 4xx issue in Google Search Console
I have problems with error "Blocked due to other 4xx issue" in Google Search Console. I dont know how to fix that and what is problem. I just have on website "call button" for ...
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What would cause numbers to show up as popular keywords?
I'm digging into Google Analytics of a website and I went to check the most popular keywords and they're just numbers (these are just an example, not the actual numbers in the report):
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SEO | VueJS | Why do I see "We're sorry but desk-app doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue." in web browser?
I set up a single page application using Vue.js and Firebase.
It works fine but when I search for the website in Google Chrome, this is what pops up :
I expect to see a proper description, instead of ...
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Why Googlebot is crawling only one page?
I am trying to understand why Google bot is crawling only one page only on my website.
At the Google console I registered a small XML sitemap with 9 URLs. Only one URL I marked as a high priority (0.8)...
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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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Google knowledge graph not properly showing two companies have merged, it shows one aquired the other
My org recently merged with another org. A joint press release was issued and everybody has gone out of their way to stress that this is a merger and not an acquisition. However, when you search for ...
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Does Google use the text property in image object schema markup to determine the relevance of a page to a query?
I'm creating a page that summarizes a variety of statistics on a topic. I believe a dashboard-like graphic like this one would provide a better experience than a textual list of the statistics.
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GoogleBot constantly crawls non-existant PDFs with 'viagra' or 'cialis' in the name?
My access log is full of requests for non-existent pdfs relating to 'viagra' and 'cialis' or other similar drugs from GoogleBot (user-agent is: Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html) ip range ...
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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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