Unanswered Questions
224 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Why does Google Search Console say that my website is not served over HTTPS?
My website is registered with Porkbun and hosted on Heroku. My backend is django. I've registered with Google Search Console for indexing and verification but I keep getting the error 'These pages are ...
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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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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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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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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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google search console crawl stats average response time jump after temporary network change
I have one windows IIS server to serve my website images and it works good enough . for a part of time, starting from 27 Dec 2023 to 16 Jan 2024, I changed public or valid ip of IIS web server and set ...
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Website aggregators
I have a marketplace website (with 1.5 m pages), these pages has categories with items that links directly to another site, google is very poor indexing it (only main page without subpages). Google is ...
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Indexing speed of 500k+ pages site
I am reaching out for some guidance regarding the Google Search Console (GSC) indexing of my website. I launched this site about a month ago, and I'm encountering some challenges with Google's ...
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Block Googlebots from fetching robots.txt on a microservice subdomain
We have some microservices and as an example, Language Service's URL is the following;
http://prod-lang-service.example.com/
We have been getting errors (NotFoundException) on Rollbar that Google ...
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