Unanswered Questions
166 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Google Analytics showing the previous page path as the current page
My data shows that for one of my pages, Previous Page Path and the page are the same. After Googling, I see this can be due to page refreshes or uploads.
I tried to test this out, by uploading/...
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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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How can I make Xenu Link Sleuth check relative URLs?
I'm using an old free web crawler called Xenu Link Sleuth to find broken links on my site.
Normally it works well enough for my needs, but the site that I'm testing it on right now seems to ...
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Should mobile sitemaps point to canonical urls
I've recently developed a mobile-friendly version of an old site.
The old site still does really well in the SERPs for key terms, so I don't want to redirect everyone (yet). But I do want to give ...
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SEO Implications Of Canonical Link Requiring Login
Is it considered bad practice for a canonical link on a page return a 302 redirect to a login page?
Example:
If https://foo.com/bar/slug?version=2019-02-01&signature=XXX returns
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
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Google "Duplicate, submitted URL not selected as canonical" between UK and IE sites with same content meant for different audiences
We have an /ie and /uk variation of our site.
/ie uses € and /uk £'s, both are in English. Both sites are submitted to google as we want the IE site to return in googole.ie and UK site to return in ...
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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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Would a JavaScript redirect for location based on the IP affect SEO?
So, we've got 2 separate-but-identical sites (one for US, one for the rest of the world), and were planning on redirecting visitors to their correct one, provided we can guess their location by their ...
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URLs appearing twice in Google Search
While checking using site:example.com in Google, certain URLs are seen twice. The URLs are exactly the same.
Can anyone explain why so?
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Which Vimeo URLs can I include in a video sitemap that are not redirected or forbidden?
I am not entirely sure what Vimeo URLs I can use for video sitemaps as they either seem to "redirect" or "forbidden" - both which would not really be acceptable in Google video XML sitemaps.
How do ...
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How can I migrate a single page application to a site with many URLs for SEO?
I will be migrating a single page application (SPA) to a normal URL structured site.
Usually I would map the old URLs to the new URLs and use 301 redirects to the relevant URLs. In this case, that ...
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Is a cross domain canonical appropriate when an API is used to pull in data from a page on another site?
This is simply a question to figure out if I am understanding this and my approach is correct.
www.ticketwebsite.example/event/event-name - Event ticket website
www.mysite.example/event/event-...
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Should my homepage's url contain the "home" keyword?
I'm thinking about making an SEO improvement. Which URL is better for my homepage?
http://example.com/home
http://example.com/
Since both URLs provide the same content, should I redirect /home to /,...
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Why am I receiving request with h/randomNumber.html
Recently, I've been receiving request spikes from requests of the form
example.com/h/<randomNumber>.html
Each time the random number is consistent (per 24 hours). On Google analytics I'll ...
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Is there an advantage for a completely dynamic mobile site opposed to having some pages at separate mobile URLs and some pages dynamic?
We are serving both mobile and desktop platforms through a single domain. In case of mobile, we append /m at end of the domain.
In some cases, pages are served dynamically. Common URL for both the ...
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