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My website doesn't provide 404 errors
My website doesn't provide 404 errors.
If you were to type in: clientsforcounsellors.com/dlkforiereg or pretty much any gibberish page that doesn't exist, you'd be redirected to my home page.
Why ...
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Which special characters are safe and unreserved to use in the complete URL?
After reading these answers and some Googling I couldn't find a precise answer. RFC states that these characters are unreserved
"-" | "_" | "." | "!" | "~&...
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What is the correct or most appropriate way to address phantom or untraceable 404 errors showing up in a website audit?
Currently I am running my site through neilpatel's website for the purposes of an audit on SEO - the analyzer continues to return a 404 error that i cannot find anywhere, following this URL structure ...
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Encoding spaces in urls for SEO when hyphens are already present in text
From my research it seems that hyphen - chars are the preferred word breakers in urls in respect to SEO.
I'd like to use text in my urls for both SEO purposes and for functionality, consuming the text ...
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allow users to post url schems that not http/https?
i have a blog comment section where users write their website and a comment about it and it is shown like this
<a href="https://example.com">Website</a>
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<span>my website ...
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What link structure should i use for subdomains with same page names and similar content?
I'm taking over a website of a construction company that has multiple franchise locations. Their site is currently setup as the city name of the franchise as the subdomain.
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seattle.domain....
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How do I redirect a subdomain on Google domains to a URL with masking?
I bought a domain (on Google Domains) for a personal webpage and set it up to point to my github.io page
I also added a subdomain (say somefile.mydomain.example) and it now redirects to a Google ...
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Search Console Fetch Not Found and Redirect
When fetching a URL in Search Console i get 3 results; success, redirect and not found.
Can I ignore the redirect warnings or is Google telling me there is a problem?
The not found pages; I can not ...
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Do shorter URLs really outperform longer URLs?
I'm researching whether or not to use a link-shortening service for the links created by a new social sharing function on a website. When someone clicks "share this page", should they be sharing the ...
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Proper way to handle URLs in the form of http://example.com/
On an apache server with a standard setup, when I request a URL in the form of:
http://127.0.0.1/..
I receive this error in my log:
[Sun Aug 30 22:52:44 2015] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Invalid URI ...
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Chasing 404 links that were never valid
GSC regularly reports 404s on my site for links that never existed. It seems Google has picked up external links that were made up by the remote site. When Google then scans our site, it finds it ...
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