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Weird increase of url visited reported in Google Analytics
Oddly, there has been lately a very significant increase of 404 errors detected in Google Console Insights for some website I run.
I checked Google Analytics for that website: the URLs that give the ...
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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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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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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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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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Nginx + haproxy (or sslh) does not work without trailing slash in URL
Have a setup like the following:
haproxy listening on 443 -> nginx listening on 4545
I have also tried this with:
sslh listening on 443 -> nginx listening on 4545
This is on ubuntu server
For ...
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Putting an ampersand (&) in a webpage's path (via WordPress Yoast) can be problematic?
I consider putting an ampersand (&) in a webpage's path (via WordPress Yoast).
I have a webpage with the h1 of "Questions and answers" and I'd like the webpage path to be just q&a (like ...
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404 error on a file/directory that exists?
We are using the vBulletin system.
I have set it up so that it redirects 404 errors to a PHP page, so it follows the theme of the forum.
However, if I go to a directory that exists (the admin ...
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Bing randomly adds MSCLKID parameter to links in SERPs
When searching Bing recently, I noticed, that links to my websites get automatically appended MSCLKID parameter whichs turned out to be some id for analytics or ads-tracking. This resulted in 400 (Bad ...
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Google Analytics: the impact of "Website's URL" in View settings when using a filter to combine path and hostname
I have a Google Analytics view that combines traffic to multiple subdomains. It has an advanced filter set up to view full page URL in reports.
As expected when using this filter, when I go to ...
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unable to access webpage on IOS devices
I am currently developing an IOT device that can connect to the internet but works offline as well.
I have designed it so that when the user first connects to the wifi network run on the ...
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Using sub_filter command in Nginx by specifying its starting values
Seems like an odd request but I'm wondering if it's possible to alter values in nginx just by specifying several of its values. I've proxied my business website through nginx so I can have different ...
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Get Google to index new URLs after migrating to Godaddy Simple Website Builder which doesn't support redirects
I recently updated a website for my company from its extremely outdated design (last edited in 2009). After the update, when you click on the page in the google search it says that there is nothing ...
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On Netlify, how do I redirect a URL wildcard to that parent directory?
I have URLs I want to redirect to their parent folder/directory:
/hats-category/hats1
/hats-category/hats2
/hats-category/cool-hats
Rule looks like this: /hats-category/* /hats-category
So I can ...
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invoke a URL Perl script silently, without changing URL visible to client
I've been fighting the Google canonical page algorithm bug for 2+ months. Following various forum advice and suggestions haven't solved it yet, although for sure they've made our website better. One ...
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