Unanswered Questions
167 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Can I change the name of my site as shown in the mobile search results on Google?
I'm working on a wp site that is displaying the incorrect name of the brand for Google search results. This only happens on a phone/mobile. Each search result is in a card with a little breadcrumb ...
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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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Are (non-escaped) URL fragments bad for SEO?
I have a product search page with a search filter with a fair number of different options. Each time the user changes the filter, the search results are updated in-place by JavaScript, and the URL is ...
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Removed AMP for WordPress Plugin and now "/amp" and "?nonamp=1" URLs have infinite self-redirect
Google Search Console(GSC) shows "Page with redirect" errors on my website. According to GSC, these posts are not indexed. That is fine. But look like the URLs with "/amp" and &...
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After changing URLs, how do I clear the old URLs out of Google Search Console?
I've recently changed the url structure of my site for SEO purposes from...
example.com/this_is_the_page
...to...
example.com/this-is-the-page
The sitemap.xml is up to date and Google Search Console ...
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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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Nginx + haproxy (or sslh) does not work without trailing slash in URL
Have a setup like the following:
haproxy listening on 443 -> nginx listening on 4545
I have also tried this with:
sslh listening on 443 -> nginx listening on 4545
This is on ubuntu server
For ...
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Putting an ampersand (&) in a webpage's path (via WordPress Yoast) can be problematic?
I consider putting an ampersand (&) in a webpage's path (via WordPress Yoast).
I have a webpage with the h1 of "Questions and answers" and I'd like the webpage path to be just q&a (like ...
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nginx rewrite for an url with parameters
I have two types of URL and want to rewrite it for friendly URL.
1. The first:
https://example.com/folder/myfile.php?id=xx¶m1=yy
I want to rewrite to:
https://example.com/folder/myfile/xx/...
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New business website (.co.uk) not appearing in google search - up against an established .com website with the same name
A client has started a business in the UK that shares its name with a bigger established business based in Mexico. They operate in completely different market sectors. The name is a single word and ...
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Bing randomly adds MSCLKID parameter to links in SERPs
When searching Bing recently, I noticed, that links to my websites get automatically appended MSCLKID parameter whichs turned out to be some id for analytics or ads-tracking. This resulted in 400 (Bad ...
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Google Analytics: the impact of "Website's URL" in View settings when using a filter to combine path and hostname
I have a Google Analytics view that combines traffic to multiple subdomains. It has an advanced filter set up to view full page URL in reports.
As expected when using this filter, when I go to ...
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When changing domains, should Google Search Console change of address also be used for domains that redirect to the main domain?
I have site A redirect 301 to site B, now I have site C and want to redirect B to it, what is the best way to change of address with google search console?
Should I set only change of address B to C? ...
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Using sub_filter command in Nginx by specifying its starting values
Seems like an odd request but I'm wondering if it's possible to alter values in nginx just by specifying several of its values. I've proxied my business website through nginx so I can have different ...
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Could allowing our images to be indexed hurt our web search rankings?
We are trying to solve some issues related to our SEO. When we compare ourselves to our competitors who are higher that us in SERPS, other than more backlinks (not much more), we don't see any ...
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