Unanswered Questions
166 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Is hashbang in URL still SEO friendly in 2018?
I have seen old posts that say you can make sure your website is crawled by Google crawlers if you add #! in it. E.g. www.example.com/guns#!colt.
But those posts are way old from 2014. And I've also ...
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What's the best practice URL Path with multiple occurences of the same parameter?
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User searches on a website for "cake" and filters the results via two categories: "united states" and "germany".
Researched best practices SEO
relevant and as short as possible URL
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Remove non-existent language directory from URLs under nginx
I've got URLs like this:
/lang/path-to-file.ext
and I want to remove the "lang" because it doesn't exist:
/path-to-file.ext
How do I do that on an nginx server?
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Google doesn't index www-version
Currently I am trying to get my website being index properly in google. Within the initial push, google index the website with non-www. After that I set the www-version as preferred in Webmaster Tools ...
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Why would Google give rich snippets to a non canonical URL but the canonical never displays them?
Various parameters slightly adapt my page's content such as ?showreviewsall or ?filterresults. All pages with parameters point to the canonical through a canonical tag.
Since the beginning, Google ...
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Should I set short or long URL fragments for headlines?
I have an article like:
<h1>My article example</h1>
<div class="table-of-content">
<a href="#subheadline-example-here">Subheadline example here...</a>
<a href=...
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Really old URL that redirects to an old URL that redirects to the current URL is still being crawled by Googlebot
I am working on a website and just change to a new template. My boss also decided to change all the URLs.
I did all the redirection in .htaccess. Lets say old URL is site1.html which will become ...
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Invalid URLs with 5 character prefixes
I've been getting lots of attempts to access pages on my site with 5 upper/lowercase chars as the first path. For example:
/aOKTW/validpage
That first 5 character path is always different. I ...
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How do I link to a "bitcoin:" URL from my WordPress.com site? Can I use a redirect?
I'm having a slight problem, Wordpress.com doesn't play nice with bitcoin: URLs (it mangles them into http://{current page url}/{wallet address} ), so I need to do a redirect of some sort.
I found ...
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Google thinks that the pages for a business in each city are duplicate
I have a directory of businesses. Some of those businesses have many branches in different locatios.
For example:
Restaurant A
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---- Branch in City 1
---- Branch in City 2
---- Branch in City N
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Can the sitemap contain URLs only differentiated by a # (hash)?
My website is a single page and uses the anchor tags to navigate.
When I generated my sitemap using an online tool, it generated 2 URLs:
<url>
<loc>https://www.example.com/</loc>
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How do I create a URL identical to the direct download URL created by my browser when I save a file from the web?
I am streaming video files from the web using VLC player but most files I can only stream with a direct download URL to the file, as opposed to the file URL as it appears on the web.
To be specific, ...
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Long URLs reported in Google Webmaster Tools that have http%252525 in the query string
Webmaster Tools finds around 30 pages with duplicate title. URLs look like this:
http://example.com/9-modele-lumanari-de-botez?http%...
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Clicking on a link in Google Analytics shows me data for the link without the / at the end, which is incorrect
Whenever I click on a link in G Analytics, it automatically redirects to show me the stats for the link without the obligatory / at the end.
Which means it shows me almost nothing, since I have ...
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How to manage duplicate ajax URLs for search engines
If you use ajax URLs like example.com/#!explore - and you happen to have another URL that shows the same content, for example example.com/#!explore/world - how can you tell a service engine that both ...
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