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What characters should be escaped in canonical url's?
Should I url-encode non-ascii characters in canonical url's?
That is, should i use
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.example.com/öland">
...or
<link rel="...
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Another site not owned by us chosen for the Google-selected canonical
One of our sites is affected by negative SEO. In our Google Search Console, we notice that Google has chosen a different domain as the canonical URL. We don't own that domain. How it got there is ...
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Redirected to www, but Google is indexing no-www without snippets, should I use noindex instead?
I started my blog a month ago and was using non www version for my website.
Then, I recently decided to stick to www.example.com version. So I changed it and Google has indexed the www version ...
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Duplicate without user selected canonical, even though pages are different. Why?
I am using the Search Console and I encountered this problem with my Angular 7 app for a webshop. At first, I thought it was a Javascript rendering problem, but made sure all server resources were ...
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An entire language subdirectory is "duplicate, submitted URL not selected as canonical" in Google Search Console
I am currently facing a major issues as the German content of our website at /de/ is not being indexed.
Here is the error from Google Search Console:
Duplicate, submitted URL not selected as ...
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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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Search engine ranking of paginated categories, subcategories and tag pages
Suppose we have an E-commerce domain with the following structure:
domain/items - contains all items.
domain/items/category - contains a narrower spectrum of results than above.
domain/items/category/...
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hreflang and no return tags with canonicals
my question is in direct response to the following question...
Canonical vs HREFLANG
I am in a similar situation. However we are using canonicals in each country to handle duplicated content caused ...
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WordPress Yoast SEO canonical tag trailing slash on custom post type categories
In my theme is a custom post type for events.
On the category pages for these custom post types no trailing slash is being added to the URL in the canonical tag when there should be.
What could be ...
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.htaccess redirect from HTTP to HTTPS and add canonical
I am having a few problems with Google search console not validating any of my self hosted WordPress blog pages and I have tracked it down to (I think!) a redirect from HTTP to HTTPS.
This is my ....
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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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How to manage internal links using short alternate URLs when the canonical URLs are complex to generate?
I am working on an existing e-commerce website where the canonical URL for product pages are long and complex to generate, hyphenated, and ending by the product id: https://example.com/brand-model-and-...
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How should I name my websites, URLs, usernames for better Google search indexing?
I want to change my username on GitHub, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter for better indexing. I want it to be in Google searches when I search my name or website.
How should I change it? For e.g. ...
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