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206 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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Why might Google analytics behavior flow show visitors going from the homepage to a page that isn't linked from it?
I was looking at my behavior flow chart and I noticed that people are going from the homepage to a page that can't be accessed from the homepage at all.
What do you think could be the reason for this ...
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Are orphan pages on a job board an SEO problem?
Working on a website that also has a job board, and over 4000 active job ads. All of these ads are listed on a single "job board" page, and not linked to from anywhere else. Both Ahrefs and ...
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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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Will using x-Robots-Tag on a 302 redirect URL from advertising prevent Google penalties when the publisher doesn't support nofollow links?
Usually we buy ads banner on some website (not with SEO purpose) and we use this approach:
publisher-website.example -> banner -> short-link.example/1234/
On this domain we have configured a ...
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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 ...
