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How can we troubleshoot why a 404 page doesn't retain its url rather changes to another 404 page of its own?
I am working on a client website for a technical SEO audit for the first time. They have a 404 page where the URL of the missing page is not retained, instead, it goes to a separate 404 page. For ...
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*Example* Is this the correct use of hreflang & canonical reference
Not to pick on Xero, but I'm wondering if this is a good example of hreflang & canonical use.
https://www.xero.com/uk/resources/small-business-guides/
https://www.xero.com/nz/resources/small-...
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Switching from single to multi language website - indexing problem and lost rank
I have a website which used to be to available in a single language website: French. We wanted to purpose our product in other language (English, Portuguese, Spanish, etc.)
First, we have changed the ...
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SEO friendly best practice for putting id and title in different language
I know there are very similar questions like this, but I didn't find the best answerer.
I have url like site.com/:id1/:id2/:id3
For having best result in SEO, someone told its better to put titles in ...
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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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Google picks wrong canonical url in search results
When I do a search in google I receive results as expected. When I hover over the search result I can see the correct url. But when I click on it I'm redirected to the homepage. In the search console ...
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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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PWA keeps being delisted as "Soft 404"
Our main root domain for our PWA is here:
https://editor.construct.net
There are many versions of the product, all accessible in sub folders, EG:
https://editor.construct.net/r150/
https://editor....
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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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GSC Sitemap Coverage questions
I recently noticed that my sitemap listed the urls in my site beginning with http:// although the canonical tags of the page are https://, so I resubmitted my sitemap with the correct urls.
I am not ...
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Branded organic traffic to pages having canonical tags to other domain, possible?
There are two sites/domains: old and new one, they both use the same structure and content. I want a new site to get all the organic traffic except branded organic traffic of the old site, that the ...
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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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