Unanswered Questions
206 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Using display: none VS a SPA approach, when it comes to SEO and performance
Say I have a component like,
// first approach (SPA)
const Component = () => {
const [show, toggle] = React.useReducer(show => !show, false)
return (
<div>
{show && &...
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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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Prevent search engines from crawling and indexing all domains and subdomains set up under an Apache server
My company is renting a CentOS server, with one main domain and ~30 subdomains (the number varies, but it's usually around 30) hosted on it. The subdomains themselves are used for various purposes (...
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Do HTML elements with the boolean attribute hidden get picked up by search engines?
I recently learned of the existence of the hidden attribute. It basically hides elements that are not relevant in the current state of the webpage (e.g., a user that is not logged in):
<p hidden>...
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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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Should a page with adsense be viewed at least once for adsense crawler to crawl?
I use plugins to insert Adsense codes on my WordPress website. The plugin has an option to disable ads for the admin user. Hence, I will not be seeing ads when creating and publishing/reviewing posts. ...
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Does Googlebot cache JavaScript files between two pages if they expire in one year?
My question is about javascript websites.
Suppose GoogleBot has crawled example.com/index.html?id=1
Does it request all the javascript files again when crawling example.com/index.html?id=2?
index....
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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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Why is GoogleBot crawling HTML pages as JSON using as referrer the one from my android app?
Recently, I started finding in my logs errors caused by missing templates for pages that reasonably should have them, i.e.
REQUEST_PATH : /foo/bar.json
HTTP_HOST ...
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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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One day after putting my site online and registering it with Google I got spam mail. How?
I put my website online yesterday and registered it with Google at the same time. Before that, I didn't even put a single link to the site anywhere online. And I don't have any email address on my ...
