Unanswered Questions
192 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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Can I change the name of my site as shown in the mobile search results on Google?
I'm working on a wp site that is displaying the incorrect name of the brand for Google search results. This only happens on a phone/mobile. Each search result is in a card with a little breadcrumb ...
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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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Are (non-escaped) URL fragments bad for SEO?
I have a product search page with a search filter with a fair number of different options. Each time the user changes the filter, the search results are updated in-place by JavaScript, and the URL is ...
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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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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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nginx rewrite for an url with parameters
I have two types of URL and want to rewrite it for friendly URL.
1. The first:
https://example.com/folder/myfile.php?id=xx¶m1=yy
I want to rewrite to:
https://example.com/folder/myfile/xx/...
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New business website (.co.uk) not appearing in google search - up against an established .com website with the same name
A client has started a business in the UK that shares its name with a bigger established business based in Mexico. They operate in completely different market sectors. The name is a single word and ...
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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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When changing domains, should Google Search Console change of address also be used for domains that redirect to the main domain?
I have site A redirect 301 to site B, now I have site C and want to redirect B to it, what is the best way to change of address with google search console?
Should I set only change of address B to C? ...
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