Unanswered Questions
166 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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Should the escaped fragment URL or the hash bang URL be used with Fetch as Google in Search Console?
which one url must be added into url input field of Google search console-> Crawl->Fetch as Google?
example.com/?_escaped_fragment_=my-ajax-page
or
example.com/#!my-ajax-page
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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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Semantically correct URL structure vs. user experience
I have spent some time on SEO, recently, focusing on site architecture and domain URL structure. Logically, they go hand in hand. Through the many contradictions, the two consistent theories are:
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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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Matrix URL vs query string URL
Matrix URL is a way to pass data in URL to the program, it's like a query string, but a bit nicer.
Matrix URL notation is an idea first introduced in a 1996 proposal by
the founder of the web, ...
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How bad is forgetting all old URLs when redesigning a site?
I got to redesign a website for a very popular furniture and appliances company in my country. Currently this site receives around 100k organic traffic per month and 75% for home page.
There are ...
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Updating address bar with new URL on local .html file
I'm having an html file somewhere placed on my computer for example
file:///C:/Users/index.html
Is it possible to manipulate that URL (using code inside that file) in a Browser which opened the file? ...
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How does Google Chrome determine URL patterns for Site Search?
I have recently started monitoring my site jujubuy.com on Google Webmasters Tools. I have added codes to generate JSON-LD based structured data for Sitelinks Searchbox. I've supplied correct URL ...
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Update content of a page monthly: is it better to change the url/title and metadata
I have to study a strategy for a page where the contents are updated about once a month and the title and the url are always the same.
As now, in the page there's only a video.
To improve the seo for ...
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Prevent page indexing externally _without_ affecting internal google site search?
Is it possible to prevent google search from indexing a page, but still allow that page to be indexed by the custom search engine used for on-site search?
Our presenting problem concerns content we ...