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166 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Google does not index pages and defines wrong canonical
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I have a domain, andrasnovoszath.com which previously I redirected to another one bcdataanalytics.com. About a month ago I stopped the redirect and started to write posts on it as on a separate ...
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Can't add tags to the page head for my content at another publisher, can the canonical be embedded in the body?
I have published some good articles to a technical community.
Actually, these articles have been ranked as the first result in google and I would like to add my original article as canonical but I don'...
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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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Showing more text with JavaScript - Google and SEO aspects
I have a page with several lists. Each list has "Read more" button or link. When clicking the "Read more", additional elements are added to the list (sometimes by just changing the ...
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SEO URL Behind Login That May/May Not Require Payment Structure
I have the following parent URL:
example.com/courses/course_name/
Currently, that parent URL can be accessed without a login.
When a user is logged in, and they try to access a video child URL, 2 ...
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On Netlify, how do I redirect a URL wildcard to that parent directory?
I have URLs I want to redirect to their parent folder/directory:
/hats-category/hats1
/hats-category/hats2
/hats-category/cool-hats
Rule looks like this: /hats-category/* /hats-category
So I can ...
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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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Handling international SEO indexing for "country-specific" and "language-specific" URLs on the same website?
I'm developing an international website and this is my current situation.
My home URL is country-specific, i.e: every country has specific content that differs from the others.
/ USA
/au ...
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Is it possible to create a short URL that redirects to a longer URL if that short URL currently doesn't exist?
I've a URL that's very long. I need to put the URL into a hardcopy format but it looks ridiculous on paper. The URL performs well so changing it is not on the cards.
Would it be possible to write a ...
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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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Blocked URL in Bing still showing up in search results
I am trying to block a URL from showing up in search results. I am the webmaster for the site, and the content has been deleted.
I used the "block URL" link 2 days ago and the URL is still showing ...
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HTTPS migration: thousands of "Duplicate without user-selected canonical"
I migrated a website of 500,000 URLs from HTTP to HTTPS in 2017 (through a 301 redirection via htaccess). Today I've been checking the 'Coverage' section of the old HTTP property (within 'Google ...
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How to use the same base url prefix for category and product pages in Woocommerce?
I checked out this article https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/removing-product-product-category-or-shop-from-the-urls/ which explains that it is not good to remove the product and category bases ...
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How to decide domain of CanonicalUrl
I assume that I have two domains http://www.domain1.com and http://www.domain2.com with the same contents. By default, accessing DOMAIN 1 will be redirected to DOMAIN 2. Now I want to add the Facebook ...
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Do subdirectory URLs need to work for SEO if there are other URLs within that subdirectory? Does time of indexing subdirectory matter in search result
I have a website where I built a sub-folder structure on my links, like this: /category/city/postname
Does it matter if /category/city doesn't have a page, even if there is no link to it on the ...
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