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131 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Best SEO URL Structure : Filter product list by multiple tags
Which url is better for SEO (google)?
separate tags like sub folders with slash "/":
1) shop.com/product-category-1/tags/product-tag-1/product-tag-2
separate with characters plus "+" underscore "_" ...
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Is hashbang in URL still SEO friendly in 2018?
I have seen old posts that say you can make sure your website is crawled by Google crawlers if you add #! in it. E.g. www.example.com/guns#!colt.
But those posts are way old from 2014. And I've also ...
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Re-writing static website in angular 6. Will default 404 route hurt SEO?
Let us say our previous website was a WordPress application with links like example.com/about-us that served up static pages.
Well now our application is an Angular 6 SPA being served in IIS through ...
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What's the best practice URL Path with multiple occurences of the same parameter?
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User searches on a website for "cake" and filters the results via two categories: "united states" and "germany".
Researched best practices SEO
relevant and as short as possible URL
if possible ...
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Remove non-existent language directory from URLs under nginx
I've got URLs like this:
/lang/path-to-file.ext
and I want to remove the "lang" because it doesn't exist:
/path-to-file.ext
How do I do that on an nginx server?
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How best to handle a common mis-spelling of my domain name?
My surname is Kirkby, but very often people mis-spell it, by leaving out the second 'k' and so spell it as Kirby.
My domain name is kirkbymicrowave.co.uk, but I took a guess that a few people at ...
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What could cause occasional continued 404 errors that were originally triggered by high website traffic?
I have a website where one page received huge traffic in one moment, causing errors 404.
Next day, traffic returned to normal but some percent of this page visitors still receive this error (5-10%).
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nginx proxy pass to standalone application
I'm trying to use pass traffic which is going to www.example.com/subfolder to a standalone application running on the same machine. Here is what I have:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
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Should I set short or long URL fragments for headlines?
I have an article like:
<h1>My article example</h1>
<div class="table-of-content">
<a href="#subheadline-example-here">Subheadline example here...</a>
<a href=...
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404 error for pages that working fine on google search console
I have a website that has over 2 million pages, for some time now I am seeing on google search console 404 errors for pages that are working fine and that I know for a fact were working fine before we ...
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Really old URL that redirects to an old URL that redirects to the current URL is still being crawled by Googlebot
I am working on a website and just change to a new template. My boss also decided to change all the URLs.
I did all the redirection in .htaccess. Lets say old URL is site1.html which will become ...
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Invalid URLs with 5 character prefixes
I've been getting lots of attempts to access pages on my site with 5 upper/lowercase chars as the first path. For example:
/aOKTW/validpage
That first 5 character path is always different. I ...
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How do I link to a "bitcoin:" URL from my WordPress.com site? Can I use a redirect?
I'm having a slight problem, Wordpress.com doesn't play nice with bitcoin: URLs (it mangles them into http://{current page url}/{wallet address} ), so I need to do a redirect of some sort.
I found ...
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Can the sitemap contain URLs only differentiated by a # (hash)?
My website is a single page and uses the anchor tags to navigate.
When I generated my sitemap using an online tool, it generated 2 URLs:
<url>
<loc>https://www.example.com/</loc>
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How do I create a URL identical to the direct download URL created by my browser when I save a file from the web?
I am streaming video files from the web using VLC player but most files I can only stream with a direct download URL to the file, as opposed to the file URL as it appears on the web.
To be specific, ...
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