Unanswered Questions
153 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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Are orphan pages on a job board an SEO problem?
Working on a website that also has a job board, and over 4000 active job ads. All of these ads are listed on a single "job board" page, and not linked to from anywhere else. Both Ahrefs and ...
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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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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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Moving .co.uk to .com for international ecommerce
I am asking for advice please on the best course of action for Shopify site that would like to expand into international markets.
Shopify has the new 'Markets' functionality, where you can easily spin ...
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Googlebot increased the number of requests for a certain URL even though it has no links
As part of regular Log File Analysis, I noticed in a URL that Google_bot was crawling like crazy. This URL is an Iframe that embed in a page. My thought was maybe this page gets a new link from ...
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Schema markup for list pages
Let's take a blog as an example which lists just the article titles and dates on one page. Every article than has its own page.
The individual article pages have their individual schema markups for ...
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What are the best practices for converting php website to nextjs website?
I have a website built using HTML and PHP. I want to revamp the design of the website but the code is literally messed up. It contains a lot of duplicate and junk code and cleaning it will be too much ...
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Internal links to homepage: Should we point to root domain, or to our (required) final (redirected) homepage URL /home?
Due to web app development constraints, we can't serve our marketing website homepage at https://example.com, but instead must redirect requests for https://example.com to https://example.com/home
I ...
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Ahrefs Orphan Page Error - SEO Friendly Pagination using JavaScript
One of my clients is a Cybersecurity startup company. We are using a custom built theme on Drupal. We have a well-designed internal link building architecture.
We have about 600 blog articles. We are ...
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Stop indexing of Github pages published from forks
This is similar to this question on Stack Overflow, but I want to keep the indexing of the original repo and stop indexing of the GitHub pages sites that are generated from the forks of the original ...
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Is it possible to reuse a site with a different domain name, even if the domain that was attached to this site before is now on another site?
We have moved our domain name to a brand new site and we would like to use the old site (now without a domain) with a new domain name and use the same template we used before with the previous domain. ...
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Canonical and Duplicate without user-selected canonical
I manage a website made up of HTML pages (as oppose to PHP). There is a .htaccess file that:
adds www
adds https
hides the .html extension
All of the current HTML pages have a line of code telling ...
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