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Do inbound & outbound links on canonicalized pages carry any SEO weight?

So, I have a page [A] that has canonical tag with URL pointing to a page [B]. Do inbound & outbound links on page [A] carry any SEO weight if they aren't nofollowed? Is the weight of links on ...
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PRweb and canonical linking

My lovely marketing department have started publishing press releases on PRWeb. Whilst opinions on this service differ wildly I have a SEO question which I would like to garner some input on. They ...
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Duplicate meta tags issue despite having "rel='canonical'" tag

I'm getting more and more duplicate meta tags alerts on Google Webmaster tools everyday. It's a blog and I have setup rel='canonical' tags long before and they are showing up correctly. http://www....
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In Google Analytics how do you track page stats over a time period when your pages changed URLs?

we recently revamped about 90 pages on our website. MAJOR changes to increase conversions and user retention. We also redirected the pages to better search engine friendly (SEF) URLs. In Google ...
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Get Google to re-evaluate thousands of pages that it excluded because of an errant canonical that is now fixed?

Due to an error in my website header canonical tag, Google marked 7,000 pages which is half of my website as Excluded on Google Console. I fixed the error but it is still showing all of those pages as ...
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Best URL structure for a "Product reviews by rating" feature

I run a board game media website (WordPress) which publishes product reviews, each of which include a numeric rating. https://www.meeplemountain.com/ Currently my URL structure is as follows: https://...
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Shopify SEO- GSC Help

I am facing some issues about Shopify Product Links. First, i am throwing some example that might be help to understand the problem. Case-1: https://mywebsite.com/products/someproduct Case-2: https://...
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What is the best place to add the language folder in url from an SEO perspective?

I have a website with multiple languages so we added the language folder after the root domain directly, and then each folder after that is localized to the same language. For example: XYZ.com/en/blog/...
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Google forcing HTTP as canonical, despite rel tag linking to HTTPS and despite HSTS enforced for entire TLD

I have a small personal website with a .dev TLD, which has HSTS enforced across the entire TLD. So my site is entirely HTTPS with Let's Encrypt certs and all that fun stuff. This year I've been ...
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How to Solve Pages with Duplicate Meta Duplicate Tags & Content Error due to multilingual pages?

I am using one of popular SEO tool and it showing me error of duplicate meta tags and content for below type of URL structures (I am taking as example) and I am working for agency. www.example.com/abc/...
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What does "Disallow: /*URL" and "Disallow: /*.htmlURL" mean?

In the robots.txt file, under User-agent: * User-agent: Googlebot # disallow the following specific files there are the following lines. I don't understand the two Disallow lines: Allow: /*.html ...
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When doing URL forwarding from my custom domain from registrar to GitHub, mobile view doesn't work and gives tablet view instead

I have a website set up so that my custom domain forwards to my GitHub pages website. I set this so that it's easier to host static websites. When I view my website through custom domain on mobile ...
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Descriptive URL's from user generated content | Worth it? | How to handle in case of edit | Which of my ideas is good practise?

I am building a quiz site. User can create quizzes and choose a title for their quiz. I was thinking about using the title with the ID in the URL and here I have multiple ideas, which all have multple ...
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Can canonical tags on filter pages direct search engines to the main categories?

I'm working on a job board. The filters on the job board spawn around a million different category pages. I'm wondering if the best solution for potentially thin and/or duplicated pages is to use the ...
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[] vs %5B%5D in URLs

A question. Is there any difference that any of you know of in using %5B%5D vs [] in a URL for params? Current: https://www.example.se?location_ids%5B%5D=123&location_ids%5B%5D=234 Vs. Other: ...

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