Unanswered Questions
320 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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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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Matrix URL vs query string URL
Matrix URL is a way to pass data in URL to the program, it's like a query string, but a bit nicer.
Matrix URL notation is an idea first introduced in a 1996 proposal by
the founder of the web, ...
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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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Removed AMP for WordPress Plugin and now "/amp" and "?nonamp=1" URLs have infinite self-redirect
Google Search Console(GSC) shows "Page with redirect" errors on my website. According to GSC, these posts are not indexed. That is fine. But look like the URLs with "/amp" and &...
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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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After changing URLs, how do I clear the old URLs out of Google Search Console?
I've recently changed the url structure of my site for SEO purposes from...
example.com/this_is_the_page
...to...
example.com/this-is-the-page
The sitemap.xml is up to date and Google Search Console ...
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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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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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Google Search Console reports mobile friendly errors after enabling WordPress caching plugin
I tried to test my site in the google webmaster, I got Mobile usability issue
But when I exclude the Googlebot in my cache plugin it's working properly!
The speed is important so I am trying to send ...
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URL crawlable in old Google search console, but blocked in new
Google stopped crawling images for our site, when we moved images to cdn subdomain.
Old search console states image is crawlable, but new one states it is blocked by robots.txt (for same link).
our ...
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