Unanswered Questions
883 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Fetch as google Content-length: 0 when using IIS with active request routing (ARR)
I'm very new to this and just had a new issue dropped on my desk which I could use help with.
Basically all requests for domain name www.example.com are routed through an IIS with active request ...
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Block certain namespace webpages for anonymous users (non registered users)
For each general audience webpage (i.e. any main-namespace page such as an article page or Category: page), the MediaWiki content management system creates about 10 or 100 or 1,000 if not more ...
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Working around Flutter's Lack of SEO Support
I wanted to familiarize myself with Flutter, and began working on a webapp in Flutter Web and have completed a fair amount of work in the language at this point. It wasn't until very recently that I ...
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“prev. next.” text in Google search results meta description
Strange things happend when I check my website in Google search results. I'm using Wordpress and Yoast SEO plugin. Meta description of site was typed in Yoast SEO plugin so everything is fine but at ...
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Splitting an existing site into sub-domains and using a landing page with an HTTP 301 - is this just wrong?
I currently manage a website for a large(ish) primary school. I'm in the process of rebuilding their website, and have had a thought today about how to potentially better organise the content.
We ...
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What characters should be escaped in canonical url's?
Should I url-encode non-ascii characters in canonical url's?
That is, should i use
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.example.com/öland">
...or
<link rel="...
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Using display: none VS a SPA approach, when it comes to SEO and performance
Say I have a component like,
// first approach (SPA)
const Component = () => {
const [show, toggle] = React.useReducer(show => !show, false)
return (
<div>
{show && &...
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svg vs canvas for SEO
While choosing a charting library for my react application, one of the criteria that I am evaluating is whether the library works with canvas or svg internally. Apart from the various other factors ...
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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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Google Search Console reports the number of indexed pages in the sitemap fluctuates
We have a large site. The number of indexed pages in our sitemap has been decreasing and increasing constantly in the last month.
What should I do? Is there a special reason?
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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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How do I prevent keyword cannibalization with href lang tag?
I'm afraid that "keyword cannibalization" takes place when for example I have the following two pages on my site: /en/shoe and /en-us/shoe. Can I assume with absolute certainty that Google's ...
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What could spammers do to our video URLs in our video sitemaps?
Google states that:
If you want to prevent spammers from accessing your video content at the <player_loc> or <content_loc> URLs, verify that any bots accessing your server are really ...
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Is it OK for SEO to remove old WordPress image uploads that are no longer being used on the site?
If I'm re-building a website that is not going to be using older image uploads, what's best practice in terms of SEO? Do I just delete the old uploads and move on or is it better to 301 them to the ...
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Can I use canonical tags in place of 301 redirect that remove a parameter that had been used by a meta refresh?
For one of my sites, I had used a the meta tag refresh:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="...;url=...">
A few months ago, I removed this tag and instead implemented 301 ...
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