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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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Another site not owned by us chosen for the Google-selected canonical
One of our sites is affected by negative SEO. In our Google Search Console, we notice that Google has chosen a different domain as the canonical URL. We don't own that domain. How it got there is ...
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Redirected to www, but Google is indexing no-www without snippets, should I use noindex instead?
I started my blog a month ago and was using non www version for my website.
Then, I recently decided to stick to www.example.com version. So I changed it and Google has indexed the www version ...
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Duplicate without user selected canonical, even though pages are different. Why?
I am using the Search Console and I encountered this problem with my Angular 7 app for a webshop. At first, I thought it was a Javascript rendering problem, but made sure all server resources were ...
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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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An entire language subdirectory is "duplicate, submitted URL not selected as canonical" in Google Search Console
I am currently facing a major issues as the German content of our website at /de/ is not being indexed.
Here is the error from Google Search Console:
Duplicate, submitted URL not selected as ...
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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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hreflang and no return tags with canonicals
my question is in direct response to the following question...
Canonical vs HREFLANG
I am in a similar situation. However we are using canonicals in each country to handle duplicated content caused ...
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WordPress Yoast SEO canonical tag trailing slash on custom post type categories
In my theme is a custom post type for events.
On the category pages for these custom post types no trailing slash is being added to the URL in the canonical tag when there should be.
What could be ...
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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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.htaccess redirect from HTTP to HTTPS and add canonical
I am having a few problems with Google search console not validating any of my self hosted WordPress blog pages and I have tracked it down to (I think!) a redirect from HTTP to HTTPS.
This is my ....
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How to manage internal links using short alternate URLs when the canonical URLs are complex to generate?
I am working on an existing e-commerce website where the canonical URL for product pages are long and complex to generate, hyphenated, and ending by the product id: https://example.com/brand-model-and-...
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