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115,979 | <p>I have a part of domain <code>example.com/~mypart</code>. In that folder is <em>index.html</em>. If I visit <code>example.com/~mypart/something</code> I get a "Not Found" error. </p>
<p>I want every address with some string after <code>example.com/~mypart/</code> to rewrite to <code>example.com/~mypart</code> (<em>... | [
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"text": "<p>This is a standard <em>front-controller</em> pattern. You can use mod_dir's <code>FallbackResource</code> direc... | 2018/06/21 | [
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] | I have a part of domain `example.com/~mypart`. In that folder is *index.html*. If I visit `example.com/~mypart/something` I get a "Not Found" error.
I want every address with some string after `example.com/~mypart/` to rewrite to `example.com/~mypart` (*index.html*) and keep the string so I can use JavaScript in *ind... | This is a standard *front-controller* pattern. You can use mod\_dir's `FallbackResource` directive in the `.htaccess` file at `/~mypart/.htaccess`. For example:
```
FallbackResource /~mypart/index.html
```
(If `/~mypart` is an [Apache per-user web directory](https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/public_html.html) ... |
116,045 | <p>I want to open different pages by default in different countries. But It affects SEO of main URL. </p>
<p>Like my website is <code>example.com</code>. I want to open this URL in India and <code>example.com/abc</code> outside India by default. </p>
<p>But my SEO of <code>example.com</code> should not be affected. h... | [
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"text": "<p>You can use <code>rel=alternate</code> to indicate that the <code>example.com/abc</code> is for outsid... | 2018/06/25 | [
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] | I want to open different pages by default in different countries. But It affects SEO of main URL.
Like my website is `example.com`. I want to open this URL in India and `example.com/abc` outside India by default.
But my SEO of `example.com` should not be affected. how can I achieve that? I have written following sc... | You can use `rel=alternate` to indicate that the `example.com/abc` is for outside India and that `example.com` is the default version. This way a user in India will find the `example.com` in his search results and any other user will see `example.com/abc` in his search results while in another country.
[Checkout the g... |
116,093 | <p>I just got finished with moving my site from one domain name to another. All old links on social media and search engines are broken. If I click on a link from reddit or Facebook it still points to <code>olddomain.com</code>. Even though if I type <code>olddomain.com</code> into a browser, <code>newdomain.com</code>... | [
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"text": "<p>First of all, you should change domain name in <code>Google Search Console</code>, from property setting,... | 2018/06/27 | [
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] | I just got finished with moving my site from one domain name to another. All old links on social media and search engines are broken. If I click on a link from reddit or Facebook it still points to `olddomain.com`. Even though if I type `olddomain.com` into a browser, `newdomain.com` does pop up. Is there anyway I can ... | All the existing links won't automatically change to the new domain. They never will, except on some websites that take the time or have that automated.
But as long as you keep `olddomain.com` with the 301 redirect, clicking on those old links should bring the people to the new site just fine.
However, it is not unli... |
116,151 | <p>As far as I know, two links with the same URL don't hurt SEO, Google will only see and consider the first one, and SEO benefits will be passed only to this.</p>
<p>But what about, if I have two links, one with image and another with text (usual in article listing), which of these will be considered for SEO?</p>
<p... | [
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"text": "<p>It's common for same links to appear multiple times on a page and both Google and Bing have never penali... | 2018/07/01 | [
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] | As far as I know, two links with the same URL don't hurt SEO, Google will only see and consider the first one, and SEO benefits will be passed only to this.
But what about, if I have two links, one with image and another with text (usual in article listing), which of these will be considered for SEO?
For example:
``... | It's common for same links to appear multiple times on a page and both Google and Bing have never penalised for it.
*This is correct!*
```
<!-- EXAMPLE #1 -->
<div class="container">
<h2>
<a href="#">Header Title</a>
</h2>
<a href="#">
<img src="example.jpg" alt="example">
<span>A... |
116,197 | <p>The content on my website was on Google Scholar but now is gone. We added the <code>citation_title</code> class to the element containing our articles titles. We also modified the style of that class so it is the largest on the page. To the author listings we added the <code>citation_author</code> class as the docs ... | [
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"text": "<p>It sounds like either something changed on your website or Google has updated its rules and re-evaluated the c... | 2018/07/03 | [
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] | The content on my website was on Google Scholar but now is gone. We added the `citation_title` class to the element containing our articles titles. We also modified the style of that class so it is the largest on the page. To the author listings we added the `citation_author` class as the docs stated. None of these hav... | It sounds like either something changed on your website or Google has updated its rules and re-evaluated the content.
---
The Requirements
----------------
To have your article indexed in Google Scholar, the website hosting it has to comply with some requirements. [Google Scholar Guidlines](https://scholar.google.c... |
116,227 | <p>I'm working on a website which has different content depending on the province/state the user is from. </p>
<p>Is it valid to add the subdivision code to the <code>hreflang</code> like below?</p>
<pre class="lang-html prettyprint-override"><code><link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-ca-ab" href="https://www.examp... | [
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"text": "<p>The HTML5 specification defines <code>hreflang</code> like this:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>The hrefla... | 2018/07/04 | [
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] | I'm working on a website which has different content depending on the province/state the user is from.
Is it valid to add the subdivision code to the `hreflang` like below?
```html
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-ca-ab" href="https://www.example.com/ca/ab/example/"/>
```
If not, is there another way to let sea... | In short, no. The "Supported language/region codes" section of [Google's hreflang guidelines](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en) is fairly unambiguous:
>
> The value of the hreflang attribute identifies the language (in ISO 639-1 format) and optionally the region (in ISO 3166-1 Alpha 2 format)... |
116,248 | <p>I'm stuck with redirecting for specific domains. The setup consists of azure webapps which bring their own domain <code>*.azurewebsites.net</code>, I want to exclude those from redirecting. For additional domains e.g. example.com I need to redirect </p>
<ul>
<li>to https</li>
<li>to www</li>
<li>and no redirection ... | [
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"text": "<p>If you are just trying to force HTTPS that is now a feature of Azure Web Apps without any config changes ... | 2018/07/05 | [
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* to https
* to www
* and no redirection if I enter the correct address `https:/... | Based on Joses Answer this does what i need:
- I can access the azurewebsites domain while still on the deployment slot
- the production domain will always be redirected to subdomain with https
```
<rule name="HTTPS and Subdomain in Production" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{... |
116,301 | <p>I have own the <code>example.tld</code> .<br>
I want to force SSL and https for <code>root-domain</code> and all of its <code>subdomains</code>.<br>
I have used below code in <code>.htaccess</code> file of root-domain:</p>
<pre><code>RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.exa... | [
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"text": "<p>Pagination makes it harder to index your deeper products. you can consider extending number of product... | 2018/07/08 | [
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] | I have own the `example.tld` .
I want to force SSL and https for `root-domain` and all of its `subdomains`.
I have used below code in `.htaccess` file of root-domain:
```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.tld$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.tld/$... | Simply use these to solve the issue and always prefer performing manual brain-ful checks over automatic audits and softwares.
1. Use `<link rel="next" href="...">` on each page that has a page after it (all pages but the last page. The href attribute comes with the absolute URL of the next page.
2. Use `<link rel="pre... |
116,351 | <p>I am setting up a new site on a domain that has an SSL certificate. The DNS is all configured correctly and I can access the site on either <code>http://example.com</code> or <code>https://example.com</code> URLs.</p>
<p>Currently, it is redirecting <code>http://example.com</code> to <code>https://example.com</code... | [
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"text": "<p>I would say this depends on a few other aspects and is too much detail to go into on here. </p>\n\n<p>To help ... | 2018/07/10 | [
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Currently, it is redirecting `http://example.com` to `https://example.com` and `http://www.example.com` to `https://example.com... | I would say this depends on a few other aspects and is too much detail to go into on here.
To help you out, I have provided a couple of links below that should help. If these don't help, reply to this and I will see if I can better answer your question.
* [How do you structure your ad groups - via PPC Hero](https:/... |
116,459 | <p>Below is an example of the JSON-LD I've added to my home page (company name removed).</p>
<p>My question, is it generally recommended that this be added to all pages of a site, or just the home page?</p>
<pre class="lang-html prettyprint-override"><code><script type="application/ld+json" id="website-json-ld"&g... | [
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"text": "<p>Google uses the phrase \"Include the contact markup on one page in your official site\" in relation to th... | 2018/07/15 | [
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] | Below is an example of the JSON-LD I've added to my home page (company name removed).
My question, is it generally recommended that this be added to all pages of a site, or just the home page?
```html
<script type="application/ld+json" id="website-json-ld">
{
"@context":"http://schema.org",
"@type":"WebSite"... | Google uses the phrase "Include the contact markup on one page in your official site" in relation to the Organization information you are adding.
<https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/enhance-site>
Typically you would add it to the home page or contact page. i.e. pages that talk about the organization.
... |
116,460 | <p>I am trying to use robots.txt to allow crawling public links on my SPA, but to disallow other links to the site. When I use the robots.txt tester by Google, it does not differentiate between the two kinds of links and either allows both of them, or none of them.</p>
<p>Typical links are:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>to be dis... | [
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"text": "<p>Summarizing the comments from closetnoc and my understanding:</p>\n\n<p>robots.txt does not work for si... | 2018/07/15 | [
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Typical links are:
1. to be disallowed: <https://www.ex... | Summarizing the comments from closetnoc and my understanding:
robots.txt does not work for sites using `#!` to either allow or disallow folders in the 'fragment' ie, after the `#!`.
It can be used to change access to folders or files not preceded by #!. For example: `Disallow: /backend/crawler`
If you do not want l... |
116,526 | <p>Is it possible to add more than one <code>Person</code> structured data in one page?</p>
<p>I have a website that shows search results for individuals' profiles, hence I want to know if it's possible to add structured data for each individual on the same search results page? As each structured data would point to a... | [
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"text": "<p><strong><em>Mobile First... Always.</em></strong></p>\n\n<p>You don't have a choice, since Google will ... | 2018/07/18 | [
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I have a website that shows search results for individuals' profiles, hence I want to know if it's possible to add structured data for each individual on the same search results page? As each structured data would point to a different URL to the... | ***Mobile First... Always.***
You don't have a choice, since Google will now determine your rankings from the mobile platform so it would make sense to canonical link the mobile platform and not the desktop.
>
> [SOURCE](https://moz.com/blog/mobile-first-indexing-seo)
>
>
> Mobile-first indexing is exactly what it... |
116,545 | <p>The home page of my website has some images of users, I want to know if I can stop the crawling of these images with robots.txt</p>
<pre><code>Disallow: /img/users
</code></pre>
<p>My question is I want to know if that can make a difference from an SEO perspective by blocking these images with the robots file. </... | [
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```
Disallow: /img/users
```
My question is I want to know if that can make a difference from an SEO perspective by blocking these images with the robots file. | ***Mobile First... Always.***
You don't have a choice, since Google will now determine your rankings from the mobile platform so it would make sense to canonical link the mobile platform and not the desktop.
>
> [SOURCE](https://moz.com/blog/mobile-first-indexing-seo)
>
>
> Mobile-first indexing is exactly what it... |
116,942 | <pre><code> HTTP2_SESSION_RECV_INVALID_HEADER
--> error = "Invalid character in header name."
--> header_name = "last-modified:"
--> header_value = "Thursday,%2009-Aug-2018%2001:21:53%20GMT"
</code></pre>
<p>This error message is preventing static content from being displayed in Chrome</p>
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HTTP2_SESSION_RECV_INVALID_HEADER
--> error = "Invalid character in header name."
--> header_name = "last-modified:"
--> header_value = "Thursday,%2009-Aug-2018%2001:21:53%20GMT"
```
This error message is preventing static content from being displayed in Chrome | The issue turned out to be the colon in header\_name = "last-modified:" Basically, there were two colons in the ngnix config file, which lead Chrome to throw an error (Firefox, on the other hand, ignores this and renders the page). The header\_name should simply be header\_name = "last-modified" |
116,953 | <p>I have a WordPress multisite setup with subdomains. I have pointed five subdomains to it. I have also installed SSL to main domain and the other subdomains.</p>
<p>I have written the below Redirect code for redirecting the non-www main domain to www, and all (main domain+sub-domains) to https. </p>
<pre><code>Rewr... | [
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I have written the below Redirect code for redirecting the non-www main domain to www, and all (main domain+sub-domains) to https.
```
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ... | The issue turned out to be the colon in header\_name = "last-modified:" Basically, there were two colons in the ngnix config file, which lead Chrome to throw an error (Firefox, on the other hand, ignores this and renders the page). The header\_name should simply be header\_name = "last-modified" |
117,024 | <p>I'm trying to make API calls to the Google Analytics API v3. Simple read-only calls work just fine, but when trying to update data views (or any update method) I always end up with the following response:</p>
<pre><code>{
"error": {
"errors": [
{
"domain": "global",
"reason": "required",
"message"... | [
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```
{
"error": {
"errors": [
{
"domain": "global",
"reason": "required",
"message": "Field name ... | The issue turned out to be the colon in header\_name = "last-modified:" Basically, there were two colons in the ngnix config file, which lead Chrome to throw an error (Firefox, on the other hand, ignores this and renders the page). The header\_name should simply be header\_name = "last-modified" |
117,047 | <p>I noticed today when I did a search for our site "mohavecounty" that the sub-domain www is missing from the links when I click on the result:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wxrvw.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wxrvw.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
<p>... | [
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"text": "<p>I would suggest using redirects in an htaccess file. This is something the Google bots understand perfectly. I... | 2018/08/14 | [
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[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wxrvw.png)
For example "Mohave County Jail", is now going to
```
https://mohav... | Redirect the old site to the new site - redirect it properly. You might see changes on the rankings (if it already ranked) but it should get back on track as long as the redirects are properly set. Make sure everything's properly optimized on page too. |
117,049 | <p>A appreciate that this is not ideal but I have a dataLayer ecommerce tracking output which is in the old format for GA and is not compatible with Google Tag Manager. However, all of the values are there. </p>
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Is there a way you set up eccomerce tracking dataLayer in GTM and then use variables to pull in the values you nee... | I believe you can do this, but it will be complicated enough that, if at all possible, you may prefer to make the switch to the current Enhanced Ecommerce dataLayer syntax.
In Google Tag Manager, the important thing to know is that you can read EEc data from a variable instead of from the dataLayer. You have to enable... |
117,052 | <p>I have a photography business that offers multiple services. Our site is hosted with Zenfolio. They allow me to create custom web pages that contain HTML and CSS as expected.</p>
<p>One of our services pages is Maternity & Newborn. We offer several packages. As of right now, I don't have any schema.org data on ... | [
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One of our services pages is Maternity & Newborn. We offer several packages. As of right now, I don't have any schema.org data on that page, Goo... | You are looking for a Service with an OfferCatalog. Here is an example of how to get started, lifted [directly from Schema.org](https://schema.org/Service) under CC-BY-SA:
```
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "http://schema.org/",
"@type": "Service",
"serviceType": "Weekly home cleaning",
"pro... |
117,090 | <p>I have a website like Stackoverflow. I'm creating a sitemap for it. I want to know, what timestamp should be as the value of last-modified for a page? <em>(a question and all its answers)</em></p>
<p>All I'm trying to understand is <strong>when</strong> exactly should I update the value of <code>lastmod</code> in a... | [
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All I'm trying to understand is **when** exactly should I update the value of `lastmod` in a question and answer website? When someon... | Google doesn't use the `lastmod` value in sitemaps: [Google Says They Mostly Ignore the lastmod Tag In XML Sitemaps](https://www.seroundtable.com/google-lastmod-xml-sitemap-20579.html)
The `lastmod`, `changefreq`, and `priority` are not worth including in your sitemap at all. They just take up extra space and don't do... |
117,133 | <p>When I use these lines in my <code>.htaccess</code> file, everything works well:</p>
<pre><code>RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
</code></pre>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/UMQaz.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stac... | [
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] | When I use these lines in my `.htaccess` file, everything works well:
```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
```
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UMQaz.jpg)
Then I tried to make it ... | Depends on your content. Does/Would a subtitle help clarify or build on the title for visitors? Does it bring a call to action?
If the subtitles help bring structure and enhance the content, sure.
<https://medicalpracticeadministrator.com/2012/04/proper-use-of-subtitles-h2-tags-for-se/> |
117,152 | <p>I am finishing a new project. I have been working local for the last weeks/months. Now I want to begin the first tests on the real server and sql database. I do not want the site to be public yet and I do not want the search engines take the site into account till is ready (that will be soon but I will need a week o... | [
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"text": "<p>You can request that certain search engines not <em>crawl</em> your site by adding the following to your... | 2018/08/18 | [
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] | I am finishing a new project. I have been working local for the last weeks/months. Now I want to begin the first tests on the real server and sql database. I do not want the site to be public yet and I do not want the search engines take the site into account till is ready (that will be soon but I will need a week or t... | You can request that certain search engines not *crawl* your site by adding the following to your `robots.txt` file
```
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
```
This will stop Google from crawling your site but your site still may be indexed. Keep in mind however that other search engines may not respect your robots.txt file ... |
117,164 | <p>I currently host my website and all its images in Bluehost with Wordpress. When I right click and image and select 'open image in new tab' I am sent to where my image is stored, something like <code>https://www.example.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/my-image.jpg</code>. </p>
<p>Now, if I want to host my images else... | [
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"text": "<p>Google is pretty slow to index new image URLs (can take months, dataset is skewed based on my experience)an... | 2018/08/18 | [
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] | I currently host my website and all its images in Bluehost with Wordpress. When I right click and image and select 'open image in new tab' I am sent to where my image is stored, something like `https://www.example.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/my-image.jpg`.
Now, if I want to host my images elsewhere, say if I want ... | Any time you change a URL (even for an image) you should use a 301 permanent redirect from the old URL to the new URL.
I would also recommend that you try to find an image host or CDN that allows you to use a sub-domain from your site. That way Google knows that the images are still part of your site.
So if your URL... |
117,309 | <p>I was checking Google Search Console and noticed that there is massive drop in Google impressions since July, not sure what could be the reason.</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/WjjMp.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/WjjMp.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
... | [
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"text": "<p>The Google Search Console site you are looking at is specific to http.</p>\n\n<p>You need to also verify... | 2018/08/26 | [
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] | I was checking Google Search Console and noticed that there is massive drop in Google impressions since July, not sure what could be the reason.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WjjMp.png)
I remember that I integrated a `cookiebot.com` script for GDPR co... | When moving from http to https you will see http drop and https rise until all the 301 and 410 are integrated into https (google webmaster tools treats each protocol as different sites)
As how to proceed, in my experience you just add the https version as a new property, set up the redirects in your server: use 302 (f... |
117,316 | <p>I've recently changed the domain from <code>https://example.me</code> to <code>https://example.im</code>. However, <code>https://example.im</code> is not being displayed on Google. After inspecting it in the Search Console, this is what I got: "Duplicate, submitted URL not selected as canonical".</p>
<p>How can I f... | [
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How can I fix it?
Both `https://example.me` and `http... | When moving from http to https you will see http drop and https rise until all the 301 and 410 are integrated into https (google webmaster tools treats each protocol as different sites)
As how to proceed, in my experience you just add the https version as a new property, set up the redirects in your server: use 302 (f... |
117,382 | <p>I want to have a report (in Google Data Studio) showing a list of URLs to see how they improved over time.</p>
<p>I thought I could escape my URLs and then use a list like:</p>
<p><code>\/blog|\/other-page|\/yet-another-page</code></p>
<p>Those are just examples, pages could contain a variety of characters which ... | [
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I thought I could escape my URLs and then use a list like:
`\/blog|\/other-page|\/yet-another-page`
Those are just examples, pages could contain a variety of characters which would possibly need to be escaped.
... | You don't need to escape the "/" cause it's not a special character. So, your code would be:
```
/blog|/other-page|/yet-another-page
```
You can also use a short method like
```
^/(blog|other-page|yet-another-page)
``` |
117,399 | <p>I want to apply structured data product markup for a marketplace website. I have a page where five sellers are selling the same product. </p>
<p>Each seller has different price and different rating. The seller gets his aggregate rating by his buyers (the rating is for the product).</p>
<p>I want to apply product m... | [
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Each seller has different price and different rating. The seller gets his aggregate rating by his buyers (the rating is for the product).
I want to apply product markup and want to... | It depends on what you are expecting. If you want to scroll to a specific part of the page you need to use [# as anchor text](https://moz.com/learn/seo/anchor-text). This method is fast cause you don't refresh the site, just move inside it.
If you just want to refresh the page, just link to the absolute URL (example.c... |
117,410 | <p>Is it possible to get Google to stop crawling certain pages without using robots.txt?</p>
<p>My understanding is robots.txt can block Google from accsesing a page, but if using noindex (meta or header) Google may still crawl the page.</p>
<p>As I have millions of pages I want to block Google from ever accessing ce... | [
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My understanding is robots.txt can block Google from accsesing a page, but if using noindex (meta or header) Google may still crawl the page.
As I have millions of pages I want to block Google from ever accessing certain pages, to f... | It depends on what you are expecting. If you want to scroll to a specific part of the page you need to use [# as anchor text](https://moz.com/learn/seo/anchor-text). This method is fast cause you don't refresh the site, just move inside it.
If you just want to refresh the page, just link to the absolute URL (example.c... |
117,491 | <p>I'm a runner and I've spent a lot of time using Google maps to compile <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1705vlkvdLl-y5phIsP95DR0xQGQ&ll=42.35966174693784%2C-71.06362244999997&z=13" rel="nofollow noreferrer">a collection of drinking fountain locations in Boston</a> where I often run. I've ma... | [
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```
function initialize() {
var mapOptions = {
center: new google.maps.LatLng(59.326822,17.471719),
zoom: 7,
mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.TERRAIN,
};
... |
117,513 | <p>We have built backlinks from Social networking websites such as gplus, Facebook and LinkedIn for many websites.</p>
<p>For some websites, In web master, We see very less number of links and for some websites, we see no links. </p>
<p>Why is it so ?
Google does not count the links from Social networking websites ?<... | [
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For some websites, In web master, We see very less number of links and for some websites, we see no links.
Why is it so ?
Google does not count the links from Social networking websites ? | My example for displaying many places in the Google map (part of the map of the royal palaces of Sweden):
```
function initialize() {
var mapOptions = {
center: new google.maps.LatLng(59.326822,17.471719),
zoom: 7,
mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.TERRAIN,
};
... |
117,564 | <p>Here is the deal, I have an app that gets content via a webview of my website on the internet.
The only thing am changing is that am setting a custom user-agent for this webview app, so I am able to target it.</p>
<p>Meaning:</p>
<p><strong>Case 1:</strong> The regular website viewers with a browser will see the n... | [
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The only thing am changing is that am setting a custom user-agent for this webview app, so I am able to target it.
Meaning:
**Case 1:** The regular website viewers with a browser will see the normal site.
**Case 2:** The u... | Your app has not only the issue with a quasi-cloaking (displaying slightly different kind of view, as the website does), but with duplicated content too (taking the content from the website). Forbidding the bot access to the app will close all issues. If I were you, I would close the app crawling.
**Up**
I don't know,... |
117,566 | <p>This Quora Answer: <a href="https://www.quora.com/Can-I-mix-microdata-and-JSON-LD/answer/Aaron-Bradley" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.quora.com/Can-I-mix-microdata-and-JSON-LD/answer/Aaron-Bradley</a></p>
<p>The above answer from 2015 mentions there being a potential problem when marking up the same entity ... | [
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The above answer from 2015 mentions there being a potential problem when marking up the same entity with JSON+LD and Microdata.
I am making a site that is hopefully SEO good for both Google and other search engines. Will ... | If you provide structured data about the same thing in different syntaxes, you should convey that it’s actually the same thing, not different things.
You can do this by giving all representations the same URI.
JSON-LD: `@id`
Microdata: `itemid`
RDFa: `resource` / `about`
```html
<!-- JSON-LD -->
<script type="... |
117,626 | <p>I am making a site with privacy as one of its main topics. Subsequently, we want to make privacy a concern, by minimizing privacy violations for visitors of my site. (In this crazy world that is the best we can do, minimize). We need to add social media buttons (intent buttons like tweet intent) so visitors can shar... | [
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"text": "<p>I don't think this happens like you think it does...</p>\n\n<p>From your description, it sounds like you're ex... | 2018/09/09 | [
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From your description, it sounds like you're expecting browsers to just follow URLs to preload whole pages - but from what I know it's a lot more explicit than that...
The "*[Prefetching, preloading, prebrowsing](https://css-tricks.com/prefetching-preloading-prebro... |
117,728 | <p>My Website URL is <code>https://www example.com/index.do</code></p>
<p>My Mobile Website URL is <code>https://m.example.com</code></p>
<p>What URL need to mention for Mobile site home page for canonical</p>
<pre><code><link rel="canonical" href="https://www.example.com/index.do">
</code></pre>
<p>or</p>
<... | [
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My Mobile Website URL is `https://m.example.com`
What URL need to mention for Mobile site home page for canonical
```
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.example.com/index.do">
```
or
```
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.example.com/">
```
Well web... | The solution here is to use both the rel="canonical" and rel="alternate" tags on your general website home page, and just the rel="canonical" tag on the mobile page.
Thus, on your regular home page:
```
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www example.com/index.do">
<link rel="alternate" media="media query for your mo... |
117,744 | <p>Recently Google has been complaining about certain pages saying:</p>
<pre><code>Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt
</code></pre>
<p>I am confounded by this error. Yes the page, is blocked by robots.txt and it has always been. Nothing new has happened and <strong><em>I don't want it crawled or indexed.</em></s... | [
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```
Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt
```
I am confounded by this error. Yes the page, is blocked by robots.txt and it has always been. Nothing new has happened and ***I don't want it crawled or indexed.*** Why is google indexing the page when I ex... | Google isn't crawling your page, but it is indexing the URL. It isn't indexing the content of the page, just the URL itself, possibly along with anchor text of links that point to it. [Google says](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062608?hl=en):
>
> A robotted page can still be indexed if linked to from ... |
117,748 | <p>I have a Q/A website which is lunched for about 3 months. I don't know why the single pages will not be indexed in the google. For example when I search for <code>جهت مستفیض شدن از ماه محرم</code>, I will see the page-list of asked questions instead of the single page of that specific question which is related to t... | [
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The best solution I can offer (without actually seeing the website you are referring to) is to suggest that you create "landing pages"... |
117,825 | <p>I have a sitemap (which is submitted to Google for indexing) in which I am adding URLs which have an ampersand (<code>&</code>) in it. Since in sitemap <code>&</code> has to be escaped I replaced <code>&</code> with <code>&amp;</code> in the URLs in the sitemap. My actual page URLs contain just <code... | [
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As I am new to Google webmasters and SEO, I wish to understand... | >
> if this difference of ampersand in URL and sitemap will cause any issue.
>
>
>
**tl;dr** No issue, because the *URLs* are the same.
>
> Since in sitemap `&` has to be escaped I replaced `&` with `&` ...
>
>
>
Your sitemap is an XML document. As with any XML document, the data values must be stored XM... |
117,916 | <p>My friend has come to me today to tell me he wants his wordpress site moved from example.com to example2.com.</p>
<p>I have full access to the same server managing both those URLs, I copied the entire file and folder contents that apply to example.com over to example2.com so that both domains are 100% duplicate.</p... | [
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I have full access to the same server managing both those URLs, I copied the entire file and folder contents that apply to example.com over to example2.com so that both domains are 100% duplicate.
When I trie... | The answer by [Stephen's Ostermiller ♦](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/117919/20604) is correct but sometimes you can run into problems even when updating the site address, this is due to the fact that plugins don't always update their paths when changing the site address, which means you need to scan through t... |
117,939 | <p>Google's <a href="https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_meta_tag" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Robots meta tag and X-Robots-Tag HTTP header specifications</a> page (<em>Practical implementation of X-Robots-Tag with Apache</em> section) gives an example of <code>noindex</code>ing certain filetypes, ie:</... | [
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```
<Files ~ "\.pdf$">
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex,... | Since all the subdomains point to the same place on the filesystem then you can do something like the following at the top of your `.htaccess` file in the document root:
```
SetEnvIf Host ^docs\. INDEX
SetEnvIf Host ^foo\. INDEX
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow" env=!INDEX
```
This uses mod\_setenvif to co... |
118,009 | <p>Recently I find out google shows my blog post with wrong date (1997)
I search content for this year(1997) but nothing found</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/sUO01.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/sUO01.png" alt="google search screen shot"></a></p>
<p>Sitemap</p>
<pre><co... | [
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I search content for this year(1997) but nothing found
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sUO01.png)
Sitemap
```
<url>
<loc>http://go2tr.com/blog/ZzNxAH34/گشت-و-گذاری-در-آنکارا-... | If you translate the page to English (using Google Translate) then you have the text `01 مهر 97` at the top - that certainly looks like it has something to do with it.
As @Stephen suggested in comments they often fish the date out from on-page content - using some kind of "clever" (but seemingly flawed) algorithm.
Se... |
118,010 | <p>I have an ecommerce i.e <code>www.mainsite.example</code> which has various products from merchants when clicking on merchant profile the URL is like <code>www.mainsite.example/company-name-products</code>. </p>
<p>We need now to provide domains to each merchant instead of profile URL. So this URL <code>www.mainsit... | [
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We need now to provide domains to each merchant instead of profile URL. So this URL `www.mainsite.com/company-name-products` will bec... | When you have multiple domains it causes duplicate content. Google usually handles duplicate content by choosing just one of the duplicates to index. See [What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/35652/what-is-duplicate-content-and-... |
118,042 | <p>Is it standard in HTML 5 if we use span in span?</p>
<pre><code><span class="fake-input">
<span id="fake-input"></span>
<span id="deftext">No file selectedspan</span>
</span>
</code></pre>
| [
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"text": "<p>This looks like a job for a div:</p>\n\n<pre><code><div class=\"fake-input\">\n <span id=\"f... | 2018/09/28 | [
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```
<span class="fake-input">
<span id="fake-input"></span>
<span id="deftext">No file selectedspan</span>
</span>
``` | This looks like a job for a div:
```
<div class="fake-input">
<span id="fake-input"></span>
<span id="deftext">No file selectedspan</span>
</div>
```
If you wanted to take that further, you might be using `<form>` tags, `<input>` tags, etc, but that's going further off topic.
Divs and spans have no semantic val... |
118,075 | <p>A website for an artist has following simple structure: </p>
<ul>
<li>index - an image and a very simple description about the artist's work </li>
<li>blog - news about the artists projects </li>
<li>projects - an archive of the realized artist's work </li>
<li>events - a list of upcoming bookable event... | [
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* index - an image and a very simple description about the artist's work
* blog - news about the artists projects
* projects - an archive of the realized artist's work
* events - a list of upcoming bookable events
* contact - info about the location of the art s... | You can provide multiple entities on each page, and you should do that if it makes sense for the data. The [`mainEntity`](https://schema.org/mainEntity) property can be used to convey what the primary entity for this page is.
If you don’t want to repeat the data about an entity on each page, you can define it only on ... |
118,105 | <p>I'm curious to the best approach of writing up structured data for a website that is for a brand of a parent company and its products.</p>
<p>Using the first example I could think of - Oreos are a brand of Nabisco. </p>
<p>Typically I'd have on my homepage structured data (JSON-LD) for <code>Organization</code> an... | [
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Using the first example I could think of - Oreos are a brand of Nabisco.
Typically I'd have on my homepage structured data (JSON-LD) for `Organization` and `WebSite`. In this case, O... | >
> Would Nabisco be the organization with Oreos listed as a brand
> underneath?
>
>
>
Well, according to **[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreo)**, Oreo is the brand of Nabisco.
>
> Would Oreos be an organization, that is considered a memberOf Nabisco?
>
>
>
Most likely it will be useful to use ... |
118,106 | <p>Example:</p>
<pre class="lang-json prettyprint-override"><code>"@context": "http://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"articleBody":"The body of my article."
</code></pre>
<p>Can I do it? I saw on Schema.org that <code>articleBody</code> is property of <code>Article</code>.</p>
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```json
"@context": "http://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"articleBody":"The body of my article."
```
Can I do it? I saw on Schema.org that `articleBody` is property of `Article`. | >
> Would Nabisco be the organization with Oreos listed as a brand
> underneath?
>
>
>
Well, according to **[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreo)**, Oreo is the brand of Nabisco.
>
> Would Oreos be an organization, that is considered a memberOf Nabisco?
>
>
>
Most likely it will be useful to use ... |
118,161 | <p>I am using AdWords conversion tracking using AdWords and Tag Manger. What I did is the following: </p>
<blockquote>
<p>1) <strong>In AdWords</strong>: <strong>Tools</strong> -> <strong>Conversion</strong> -> <strong>New conversion</strong> -> <strong>Website</strong> -> Fill in all
the conversion details [Lead ... | [
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] | I am using AdWords conversion tracking using AdWords and Tag Manger. What I did is the following:
>
> 1) **In AdWords**: **Tools** -> **Conversion** -> **New conversion** -> **Website** -> Fill in all
> the conversion details [Lead conversion](Name,Category,Value,count
> ....). After that I copied Conversion Id, C... | Differences between Ads and Analytics
-------------------------------------
Google Analytics and Google Ads are two different tools and the data registered may differ. The main difference is that Ads track users with clicks and Analytics with sessions. Please check [this post](https://support.google.com/analytics/answ... |
118,181 | <p>Lets say, I want to move most of my site content from <code>example.com</code> to <code>a1.com</code>, but also want to put i.e. 20 pages to <code>a2.com</code>.<br>
Mainly I care about page-rank to be transited well.</p>
<p>what are best way to do that? Should I use <code>Address Change</code> tool in webmaster an... | [
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] | Lets say, I want to move most of my site content from `example.com` to `a1.com`, but also want to put i.e. 20 pages to `a2.com`.
Mainly I care about page-rank to be transited well.
what are best way to do that? Should I use `Address Change` tool in webmaster and `.htaccess` 301 redirect everything to `a1.com` (exce... | Differences between Ads and Analytics
-------------------------------------
Google Analytics and Google Ads are two different tools and the data registered may differ. The main difference is that Ads track users with clicks and Analytics with sessions. Please check [this post](https://support.google.com/analytics/answ... |
118,225 | <p>few of my websites were compromised, there were thousands of links submitted to google, bing etc which are not relevant to my site.</p>
<p>I cleaned the websites in question and updated the robots.txt.</p>
<p>the robots.txt file look like this:</p>
<pre><code>User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Disallow: /administrator/
Di... | [
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I cleaned the websites in question and updated the robots.txt.
the robots.txt file look like this:
```
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /bin/
Disallow: /cac... | As @Henry has already pointed out, you have a serious problem with your `robots.txt` file that needs fixing.
However...
>
> yes it is a bandwidth concern for example there are not just 10-20 links but in runs into thousands.
>
>
>
This really should not be a "bandwidth" concern. If it is then you likely already ... |
118,294 | <p>Currently I am part of a wordpress.org site. Something has happened in that the old administrator login details allow us to login, but every user only has "editor" capacities, and no account has permissions to edit appearance, users etc. We now need help locating which account holds administrator status so that we c... | [
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"text": "<p>If the users are there but something has happened to the administrator status of one, I would use phpMyAdmin.<... | 2018/10/09 | [
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First, backup the database. Open the database in phpMyAdmin
Note that where I use `wp_` your installation may be different. It might be something like `wptd_`. It should be obvious when looking at the table l... |
118,309 | <p>How can I use LinkedIn pixel on a specific event in Angular 5 app?
I got this crappy code from our SEO team:</p>
<pre><code><img height="1" width="1" style="display:none;" alt="" src="https://dc.ads.linkedin.com/collect/?pid=XXXXXX&conversionId=XXXXXX&fmt=gif" />
</code></pre>
<p>And it should run wh... | [
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I got this crappy code from our SEO team:
```
<img height="1" width="1" style="display:none;" alt="" src="https://dc.ads.linkedin.com/collect/?pid=XXXXXX&conversionId=XXXXXX&fmt=gif" />
```
And it should run when a user completes registration. How ca... | Thanks for all the input Stephen.
I have finally got a solution. I've placed a tag like this `<div [innerHtml]='linkedinPixel'>` and am filling this variable with a proper link via service. |
118,313 | <p>Currently I use this rule on my WordPress .htaccess file to redirect HTTP to HTTPS:</p>
<pre><code><IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
</IfModule>
</code></pre>
<p>But I found some other rules than the rule I... | [
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```
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
</IfModule>
```
But I found some other rules than the rule I used like this one:
```
RewriteEngin... | Mix and Match!
They are both pretty similar apart from `RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https`
This is reverse proxy/load balancer and not fully compatible with every setup, but good to use if you do use one.
It's best to do a mix if you are not sure.
Like This:
```
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On... |
118,391 | <p>I’m trying to better understand Apache’s use of a binary attribute. In an <code>.htaccess</code> file with the code </p>
<pre><code># Check if HTTPS is
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
</code></pre>
<p>Is there more processing occurring – <em>at any level</em> – than there is with the similar code</p>
<pre>... | [
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```
# Check if HTTPS is
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
```
Is there more processing occurring – *at any level* – than there is with the similar code
```
# Check if HTTPS is
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
``` | **tl;dr** In this example, the net result is the same, but the pattern `!=on` is arguably more efficient because it is a lexicographical string comparison, not a regular expression. Unlike `off`, which is processed as a regex.
However, in real terms, there is no measurable performance difference between these particul... |
118,422 | <p>I am using Magento 1.9 and I have a problem with one of my CMS pages. I found out that the page is available under two versions:</p>
<ul>
<li><p><code>www.example.com/MyCMSpage</code></p></li>
<li><p><code>www.example.com/MyCMSpage/</code></p></li>
</ul>
<p>I am not sure why the <strong>trailing slash</strong> at ... | [
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* `www.example.com/MyCMSpage`
* `www.example.com/MyCMSpage/`
I am not sure why the **trailing slash** at the end of URL is there. The settings under **Admin > CMS > Pages > MyCMSpage > Page... | Yes, regardless of how this is being added, a 301 redirect of
```
www.example.com/MyCMSpage/
```
to
```
www.example.com/MyCMSpage
```
should solve the issue without it affecting your SEO. Make sure you get the redirect correct so that you don't end up with a circular redirection.
**Note:** if the same page is ... |
118,447 | <p>I cannot find the <code>public_html</code> file from the PuTTY terminal when accessed through SSH giving valid public-private-key(PPK) file, </p>
<p>But when accessed from the FileZilla Client software, I can see the <code>public_html</code> file/folder</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/cnki8.jpg" rel="nof... | [
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But when accessed from the FileZilla Client software, I can see the `public_html` file/folder
[](https://i.stack.imgur.... | Using putty terminal using SSH will automatically log you in with the top level directory structure while using FTP will be bound to whatever is set within your config.
You will normally find `public_html` within `/home/username` or `/var/www/example.com`
Other than that you can easily find the directory by viewing ... |
118,506 | <p>I am using NGINX for 301 redirects on Ubuntu and reverse proxy for my Web Application and aim is to redirect traffic to non-www url such as <code>https://mywebapplication.example</code>. </p>
<p>So with my current config for NGINX Conf File:</p>
<pre><code>mywebapplication.example -> https://mywebapplication.ex... | [
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So with my current config for NGINX Conf File:
```
mywebapplication.example -> https://mywebapplication.example
www.mywebapplication.example ... | Using putty terminal using SSH will automatically log you in with the top level directory structure while using FTP will be bound to whatever is set within your config.
You will normally find `public_html` within `/home/username` or `/var/www/example.com`
Other than that you can easily find the directory by viewing ... |
118,541 | <p>I am continuously getting the following error:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Missing '}' or object member name.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Does anyone see what it is referring to? I am not missing the ending <code>}</code>.</p>
<pre class="lang-json prettyprint-override"><code> {
"@context": "http://schema.org",
... | [
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>
> Missing '}' or object member name.
>
>
>
Does anyone see what it is referring to? I am not missing the ending `}`.
```json
{
"@context": "http://schema.org",
"@type": "ProfessionalService",
"additionalType": "http://www.productontolog... | Dan provided a suggestion that ended up working. I removed the last comma from the areaServed parameter. This resolved the issue I was having. |
118,633 | <p>I have a multi-language website like this:</p>
<pre><code>example.com/de/about
example.com/fr/about
example.com/about (English)
</code></pre>
<p>I decided to put the <a href="https://yoast.com/hreflang-ultimate-guide/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">hreflang</a> link elements in the <code><head></code> of each fi... | [
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```
example.com/de/about
example.com/fr/about
example.com/about (English)
```
I decided to put the [hreflang](https://yoast.com/hreflang-ultimate-guide/) link elements in the `<head>` of each file.
Now I wonder, is it enough to only put the default English URL in the sitema... | Wherever you put the hreflang is fine you have to use only one of the above methods. Find the methods suggested by Google here: [Tell Google about localized versions of your page](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en)
>
> **Methods for indicating your alternate pages** There are three ways to ind... |
118,647 | <p>We run VM's in azure behind LB and public dedicated IP address. The customer requires proof of ownership of the dedicated IP address. Or if that's impossible, than he requires to have the ability to at least check to see if the IP address is eclusively provisioned to our VM's. When he checks the RIPE (IANA) register... | [
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> The customer requires proof of ownership of the dedicated IP address.
>
>
>
Unless this customer is willing to pay an massive premium for you to really **own** an IP address block ([more info](https://superuser.com/q/323801)...is this a multimillion dollar enterprise contract?) and pay for the talent and hardw... |
118,652 | <p>I have noticed in a few articles that xml sitemaps for Multilingual websites are setup like this...</p>
<pre><code>http://example.com/sitemap_fr.xml
http://example.com/sitemap_en.xml
http://example.com/sitemap_es.xml
</code></pre>
<p>Is there an SEO benefit or disadvantage for me setting them up like this...</p>
... | [
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```
http://example.com/sitemap_fr.xml
http://example.com/sitemap_en.xml
http://example.com/sitemap_es.xml
```
Is there an SEO benefit or disadvantage for me setting them up like this...
```
http://example.com/fr/site... | >
> The customer requires proof of ownership of the dedicated IP address.
>
>
>
Unless this customer is willing to pay an massive premium for you to really **own** an IP address block ([more info](https://superuser.com/q/323801)...is this a multimillion dollar enterprise contract?) and pay for the talent and hardw... |
118,678 | <p>I have a pretty unique situation so I'm wondering how to properly get this handled.</p>
<p>Basically our old site consists of 2 things:</p>
<ol>
<li>An eCommerce site hosted directly on the domain (ex: <code>mysite.com</code>).</li>
<li>A FTP Image server hosts on the /img subfolder (ex: <code>example.com/img/</co... | [
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"text": "<p>Use a <a href=\"https://help.shopify.com/en/api/guides/application-proxies\" rel=\"nofollow n... | 2018/10/25 | [
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Basically our old site consists of 2 things:
1. An eCommerce site hosted directly on the domain (ex: `mysite.com`).
2. A FTP Image server hosts on the /img subfolder (ex: `example.com/img/`)
We are using these images on various other... | Use a [Shopify App Proxy](https://help.shopify.com/en/api/guides/application-proxies).
Your proxy setup will look something like this:
```
Sub Path Prefix: img
Sub Path: (blank)
Proxy URL: (direct HTTPS link to FTP server)
``` |
118,702 | <p>Is it possible to define file type permissions through .htaccess? I have a site that uses .pl and .cgi scripts which require 0755 CHMOD. The shared server setting is apparently geared for WordPress which require 0644 CHMOD as it is php-driven, so I'm guessing that my file permissions on .pl and .cgi occasionally g... | [
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"text": "<p>Apache's .htaccess files cannot be used to set unix file permissions.</p>\n\n<p><code>chmod</... | 2018/10/26 | [
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`chmod` is a command line tool for unix-like systems that is used to change the unix permissions of files on the filesystem. `chmod` is not an Apache or .htaccess construct, therefore `chmod` cannot be invoked through a .htaccess file - it can only ... |
118,757 | <p>I have a blog and its URLs are paginated like</p>
<pre><code>www.example.com/blog?page=x
</code></pre>
<p>I have pagination to create these links:</p>
<pre><code>www.example.com/blog?page=1
www.example.com/blog?page=2
www.example.com/blog?page=3
</code></pre>
<p>But then I thought about making the <code>page=1</... | [
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```
www.example.com/blog?page=x
```
I have pagination to create these links:
```
www.example.com/blog?page=1
www.example.com/blog?page=2
www.example.com/blog?page=3
```
But then I thought about making the `page=1` to be the default link without the page parameter like... | URLs don't matter that much for SEO as long as your are consistent about it. 99% of the advantage of creating "SEO friendly" URLs is that it makes you think about what the URLs should be and makes you double check that you always use them the same way.
The worst thing that you can do for SEO with URLs is link to mult... |
118,768 | <p>When user clicks on a button a message is sent to the Data Layer, with the relevant information, however it doesn't contain <code>Event</code></p>
<p>To set up a GTM trigger to fire on custom events I need to specify an Event name.</p>
<p>Is there a default name I can use? Or is there any other GTM trigger I shoul... | [
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To set up a GTM trigger to fire on custom events I need to specify an Event name.
Is there a default name I can use? Or is there any other GTM trigger I should consider instead?
Attache... | Yes, you can by using HTML data attributes. When adding them to you HTML Markup you can automatically trigger events.
Also, you can try the CSS-selectors option. <https://www.simoahava.com/analytics/matches-css-selector-operator-in-gtm-triggers/>
I love this solution, but it comes with a downside: GTM is very picky w... |
118,809 | <p>I have a main website (<code>http://www.example.com</code>) and a blog (<code>http://blog.example.com</code>), the blog is powered by Blogger. Sometimes users may do a search and it brings up the blog page but I think it would be useful if the search took the users directly to my website. Would it be a good idea to ... | [
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] | I have a main website (`http://www.example.com`) and a blog (`http://blog.example.com`), the blog is powered by Blogger. Sometimes users may do a search and it brings up the blog page but I think it would be useful if the search took the users directly to my website. Would it be a good idea to replicate my blog article... | Yes, you can by using HTML data attributes. When adding them to you HTML Markup you can automatically trigger events.
Also, you can try the CSS-selectors option. <https://www.simoahava.com/analytics/matches-css-selector-operator-in-gtm-triggers/>
I love this solution, but it comes with a downside: GTM is very picky w... |
118,844 | <p>The website GTmetrix is giving me low score on "Optimize images" for the following reason:</p>
<p>On my main page I have 4 columns with images. Each column takes 25% of the screen resolution so on my 1920x1080px monitor, each image has width of 463px. However, when the user is viewing the main page on a device with... | [
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On my main page I have 4 columns with images. Each column takes 25% of the screen resolution so on my 1920x1080px monitor, each image has width of 463px. However, when the user is viewing the main page on a device with resolutio... | The best way to optimize page performance yet serve high-res images to high-dpi clients is to use the `img srcset` HTML attribute, like this:
```
<img
srcset="
/img/image4x.jpg 4x,
/img/image3x.jpg 3x,
/img/image2x.jpg 2x,
/img/image1x.jpg 1x"
src="/img/image1x.jpg"
>
```
In this example, the larger multip... |
118,879 | <p>I recently read that shorter URLs rank higher in the search results, but I suspect it might also have an SEO advantage to sort posts, topics, etc... into folders.</p>
<p>Do you recommend shorter URLs, for example:</p>
<pre class="lang-none prettyprint-override"><code>example.com/1/title-of-the-post
example.com/5/a... | [
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Do you recommend shorter URLs, for example:
```none
example.com/1/title-of-the-post
example.com/5/another-post
```
or a folder containing all the posts a... | The best way to optimize page performance yet serve high-res images to high-dpi clients is to use the `img srcset` HTML attribute, like this:
```
<img
srcset="
/img/image4x.jpg 4x,
/img/image3x.jpg 3x,
/img/image2x.jpg 2x,
/img/image1x.jpg 1x"
src="/img/image1x.jpg"
>
```
In this example, the larger multip... |
118,894 | <p>Currently I am considering adding a <code>canonical</code> tag onto the homepage of my website as there appear to be a few other URLs that Google and other search engines are picking up on. Realistically the preferred one is the <code>https://www.example.com</code> however, examples of others include:</p>
<ul>
<li>... | [
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* `http://www.example.com`
* `http://w... | Having different versions of you homepage as https, http or www and non-www could result in your homepage ranking on all different versions and splitting page rank, you wont get any duplication issues tho since Google can understand that is the homepage.
This is an easy issue which can be solved with 301 redirect, the... |
118,909 | <p>So on my site, my shopping cart is located at <code>example.com/zc2</code></p>
<p>I use this .htaccess file</p>
<pre><code>RewriteEngine On
Redirect /index.html example.com/zc2/
</code></pre>
<p>So that anyone that lands on <code>example.com</code> will be redirected to my shopping cart.</p>
<p>All good, but no... | [
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I use this .htaccess file
```
RewriteEngine On
Redirect /index.html example.com/zc2/
```
So that anyone that lands on `example.com` will be redirected to my shopping cart.
All good, but now if I try and install WordPress at `example.com/wp` then brow... | >
>
> ```
> RewriteEngine On
>
> Redirect /index.html example.com/zc2/
>
> ```
>
>
*Aside:* I assume this must be a "typo" in your question, but this mod\_alias `Redirect` directive is completely invalid (you are missing a protocol from the target URL) - this would break your server with a 500 Internal Server Er... |
118,983 | <p>Let's say I have a food delivery business that offers pizzas, hot dogs, ice cream, burritos, etc. My website has a page titled "What food do we offer" and that page has a list of food types each linking to a separate page, like this: </p>
<pre class="lang-none prettyprint-override"><code>/pizza
/hotdog
/icecre... | [
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```none
/pizza
/hotdog
/icecream
/burrito
```
All these pages are basicall... | Google has an internal threshold for determining whether they consider pages to be duplicate content. If your pages are 95% the same except for just a few words, that will certainly trigger the duplicate content penalty and/or the doorway penalty (if you do keyword permutations).
If the only difference between your pa... |
119,007 | <p>The checkout area of my site includes an iframe that contains a PayPal button.</p>
<p>Recently, PayPal seems to have automatically added a "Credit" button to this iframe. I don't want two buttons, I just want to keep the old yellow PayPal button.</p>
<p>How do I get rid of it? Is there a setting somewhere to disab... | [
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Recently, PayPal seems to have automatically added a "Credit" button to this iframe. I don't want two buttons, I just want to keep the old yellow PayPal button.
How do I get rid of it? Is there a setting somewhere to disable it?
I don't s... | From the docs that Stephen Ostermiller linked above:
You can disable PayPal Credit in your `paypal.Button.render` function.
For example:
```
paypal.Button.render(
{
funding:
{
disallowed: [ paypal.FUNDING.CREDIT ]
},
});
``` |
119,009 | <p>I got a website for SEO, But the site is already having a Google verification code. They don't want to share the account details and not giving the account access. So we want to generate a new verification code and add it to the website so that we can track the website details.
But can't remove the existing verifica... | [
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] | I got a website for SEO, But the site is already having a Google verification code. They don't want to share the account details and not giving the account access. So we want to generate a new verification code and add it to the website so that we can track the website details.
But can't remove the existing verificatio... | From the docs that Stephen Ostermiller linked above:
You can disable PayPal Credit in your `paypal.Button.render` function.
For example:
```
paypal.Button.render(
{
funding:
{
disallowed: [ paypal.FUNDING.CREDIT ]
},
});
``` |
119,028 | <p>My PHP-based site files start off with </p>
<pre><code><?php include("PHP/header.php"); ?>
</code></pre>
<p>which includes all the HTML (metadata, scripts, etc.) shared by every page - along <code><head></code> and <code><title></code>. The options I've considered for dynamic page titles are:</p>
<pre... | [
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```
<?php include("PHP/header.php"); ?>
```
which includes all the HTML (metadata, scripts, etc.) shared by every page - along `<head>` and `<title>`. The options I've considered for dynamic page titles are:
```
<title id="title">...</title>
...
<script>window.onload=function... | Set the title as a variable and pass it to your include:
```
<?php
$page_title = 'Welcome to my site';
include("PHP/header.php");
?>
```
Then inside your header PHP you can use that variable. Here I'm using `htmlspecialchars` to ensure that `<>&` are properly escaped if they are used in the title.
```
<tit... |
119,064 | <p>I spent two days to find out what the problem is with the following JSON-LD, but to no avail. </p>
<p>If you check this code in testing tool, you will see <code>Product</code> weirdly appears as the last item of <code>BreadcrumbList</code>.</p>
<pre class="lang-html prettyprint-override"><code><script type="app... | [
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If you check this code in testing tool, you will see `Product` weirdly appears as the last item of `BreadcrumbList`.
```html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@graph":
[{"@type":"Brea... | The third `ListItem` and the `Product` have the same URI (in `@id`).¹ This means they are the same thing.
If the structure allows it (like in your case), Google’s SDTT displays an item only once, even if it’s defined in different JSON objects.
### URIs for page vs. product
If you care about Linked Data, there is one... |
119,076 | <p>After installing mod_security and firewall and restarting the server getting the error as</p>
<h2>Plesk\Lock\Exception</h2>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Lock Manager error:</strong> '[LockManagerException] Can't open or create shared memory by shm.name:
"/run/lock/lmlib/SharedLockManagerStorage0.2.4"; shm.start... | [
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>
> **Lock Manager error:** '[LockManagerException] Can't open or create shared memory by shm.name:
> "/run/lock/lmlib/SharedLockManagerStorage0.2.4"; shm.start\_size:
> "8388608"; err... | The third `ListItem` and the `Product` have the same URI (in `@id`).¹ This means they are the same thing.
If the structure allows it (like in your case), Google’s SDTT displays an item only once, even if it’s defined in different JSON objects.
### URIs for page vs. product
If you care about Linked Data, there is one... |
119,353 | <p>If I do </p>
<pre><code><h1>H<span style="font-size: 12px;">ello</span>
W<span style="font-size: 12px;">orld</span></h1>
</code></pre>
<ol>
<li>Will search engines read it as "Hello World"?</li>
<li>Will this hurt SEO?</li>
</ol>
<p>I am not doing any JS or anything else. I jus... | [
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] | If I do
```
<h1>H<span style="font-size: 12px;">ello</span>
W<span style="font-size: 12px;">orld</span></h1>
```
1. Will search engines read it as "Hello World"?
2. Will this hurt SEO?
I am not doing any JS or anything else. I just want the other letters smaller. I know I should find a font called "Small Caps" - b... | 1. Yes, this is ok and Search engines would see the text as "Hello".
Reason: Drop caps, Websites likes NYC.com uses drop caps, drop caps needs special CSS codes without div, span or class drop caps are not possible but Search engines still crawl them. You just have to make sure Search engines can crawl your site.
2. ... |
119,447 | <p>We have added content in Tabular format in our website like Our Competitors are doing but these featured snippets are picked by Google but our Not. We are using react to develop our website? Is there any issue with our programming language our problem with our table placement.</p>
<p><strong>Some Keywords Sample &a... | [
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**Some Keywords Sample & Featured Snippet... | I think you're missing out adding Paragraphs, tables and Lists. You must be using the plain format, that must be the reason why google is not picking it up. Furthermore, Google reads all data in the form of Paragraphs, Lists and tables as follows;
[](... |
119,472 | <p>Recently, we launched separate URL site <code>m.example.com</code> for mobile users. That was a mistake because we don't have corresponding pages on mobile for every page on the desktop version. We have fewer pages on the <code>m.example.com</code> website compared to <code>www.example.com</code>.</p>
<p>Google st... | [
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"text": "<p>For pages where you have both desktop and mobile versions of the page:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>On... | 2018/12/06 | [
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Google started to index our mobile pages. This causes... | The best recommendation that I have is to be as explicit as possible for when you do have a mobile URL and for when you do not. The best method for this is to state this in your sitemap as is indicated in the official Google documentation here: <https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/separate-urls... |
119,576 | <p>I have just had an email from google console to say “New Mobile Usability issue detected for site <a href="https://unusualplaces.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://unusualplaces.org/</a>“ and below that it says</p>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Viewport not set</li>
<li>Text too small to read</li>
<li>Clickabl... | [
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] | I have just had an email from google console to say “New Mobile Usability issue detected for site <https://unusualplaces.org/>“ and below that it says
>
> * Viewport not set
> * Text too small to read
> * Clickable elements too close together
>
>
>
As I have had the website as it is for several years I assume the... | I like to use the Developer Tools (F12) in my browser to debug this. There's a Responsive Mode icon in the tool bar for both Chrome and Firefox. Top left in Chrome and top right in FF. I used this a couple of weeks ago for the same message. I turned on the mobile view port and looked over the problem page. I found link... |
119,664 | <p>I have to verify my website to different platforms such as G-Suite via meta tag verification but it fails every time and in all platforms.</p>
<p>This is my HTML header code:</p>
<p>
<pre><code><title>Website title</title>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-wi... | [
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] | I have to verify my website to different platforms such as G-Suite via meta tag verification but it fails every time and in all platforms.
This is my HTML header code:
```
<title>Website title</title>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<meta name="google-site-... | I am pretty sure that this happens for one of two reasons:
1. Unlikely, but you submit the site as `http://example.com/`, but it redirects to HTTPS.
2. Most likely your server blocks some incoming requests (at least [PageSpeed](https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/) and [Host-Tracker](https://www.hos... |
119,689 | <p>I pulled up a DMARC Analyzer report showing emails received on behalf of my domain:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/J9HMz.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/J9HMz.png" alt="DMARC report"></a></p>
<p>In addition to my normal authorized (SPF+DKIM aligned) personal emails from the <co... | [
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] | I pulled up a DMARC Analyzer report showing emails received on behalf of my domain:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/J9HMz.png)
In addition to my normal authorized (SPF+DKIM aligned) personal emails from the `protonmail.ch` domain, there are unauthorized emails coming f... | **Short Answer:** You're seeing internally routed emails in your DMARC reports, for recipient domains hosted on Google GSuite.
From the screenshot you share, it seems like these emails sent from Google servers are actually allowed through, based on DKIM signing for your domain (100% DMARC compliance), while failing SP... |
119,731 | <p>We have a request to have an entire block of content be clickable as opposed to just a link field. </p>
<p><strong>Questions:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Is it good practice to allow for entire block of content to be clickable?</li>
<li>If we wrap content with link, does that ding our SEO page rankings?</li>
</ol>
<p><... | [
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**Questions:**
1. Is it good practice to allow for entire block of content to be clickable?
2. If we wrap content with link, does that ding our SEO page rankings?
**Example:**
* Link only clickable
```
<div>
<img ... | Yes, it is fine and even advisable to put block elements inside an `a` element where appropriate, as long as the browser supports HTML5 (all modern browsers do):
>
> The a element may be wrapped around entire paragraphs, lists, tables, and so forth, even entire sections, so long as there is no interactive content wit... |
119,845 | <p>I pay for a domain every year (e.g., <code>example.com</code>) that is registered by enom through Google on my behalf. I have made a website using Google Sites which you can be found at a URL that's similar to: <code>https://sites.google.com/a/example.com/example/</code> </p>
<p>My question is: how do I make it so... | [
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My question is: how do I make it so that visitors to `https:///www.e... | In your situation the steps for "In Google Domains" should be done in Enom. It looks like you have Enom already set up correctly.
Just because `http://ghs.google.com/` doesn't have a website on it, it doesn't mean it isn't useful as a DNS entry. A `CNAME` to it will point your domain to the server with its IP address... |
119,922 | <p>This is driving me crazy, can anybody tell me why this 301 redirect does not work. I just get a 404 error with the old /about page. Here is the code for info:</p>
<pre><code>{ENV:WPR_SSL}.html%{ENV:WPR_ENC}" -f
RewriteRule .* "/wp-content/cache/wp-rocket/%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}/index%{ENV:WPR_SSL}.html%{ENV:WPR_... | [
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```
{ENV:WPR_SSL}.html%{ENV:WPR_ENC}" -f
RewriteRule .* "/wp-content/cache/wp-rocket/%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}/index%{ENV:WPR_SSL}.html%{ENV:WPR_ENC}" [L]
</If... | >
>
> ```
> Redirect 301 /about https://scottcarneyphotography.com/about
>
> ```
>
>
The `Redirect` directive belongs to mod\_alias and consequently runs after the existing mod\_rewrite directives in your config file, this is possibly resulting in a conflict.
You should move this *redirect* to the *top* of your ... |
119,945 | <p>I want to start using SSH instead of FTP, but I am clueless when it comes to SSH keys.</p>
<p>I'd like to use a Gulp command to transfer my files (as I do now with FTP). I've found a good amount of NPM packages that do this. However, none explain how to actually set up SSH keys on my remote shared (LAMP) server and... | [
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I'd like to use a Gulp command to transfer my files (as I do now with FTP). I've found a good amount of NPM packages that do this. However, none explain how to actually set up SSH keys on my remote shared (LAMP) server and on my loc... | * Perhaps, [this article](https://silvantroxler.ch/2015/deployment-with-gulp-and-rsync/) might interest you. However, before following this article, it would be nice to setup the SSH trust first.
* So, the problem statement is, you want to copy some files from your local machine to a remote server.
* To do that, you ha... |
119,985 | <p>For months now, I have been removing old URLs that used to exist on my website going back years, using the Google Webmaster removal tool.</p>
<p>When I think I've removed all of the existing URLs/slugs that appear when I type <code>SITE:WEBSITE.COM</code> on google.com, more appear the following week and so on and ... | [
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When I think I've removed all of the existing URLs/slugs that appear when I type `SITE:WEBSITE.COM` on google.com, more appear the following week and so on and so on.
How can I per... | **tl;dr** - Please do not do this. Hop on over to the fix.
WordPress is a fantastic Content Management System (CMS), and is generally considered great when it comes to publishing content written for higher search visibility (I don't want to use the term SEO here).
What WordPress does as part of it's inherent design ... |
119,986 | <p>Sorry, I am new and deleted my question thinking I had posted some info I should not have. I am posting the edited question once again:</p>
<p>In our website, php5-fpm takes care of the PHP calls made by the browser.
We have received a lot of outages/<code>504</code>s lately.
Now, I checked the php5-fpm logs to corr... | [
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In our website, php5-fpm takes care of the PHP calls made by the browser.
We have received a lot of outages/`504`s lately.
Now, I checked the php5-fpm logs to correlate with the times... | To find out the correct value, we need to find the average memory being used by one php-fpm process.
Active php-fpm processes memory consumption:
`root@example:~# ps -eo size,pid,user,command --sort -size | awk '{ hr=$1/1024 ; printf("%13.2f Mb ",hr) } { for ( x=4 ; x<=NF ; x++ ) { printf("%s ",$x) } print "" }' | gre... |
119,989 | <p>Currently I'm creating a review website on which the items that are reviewed have their logo / main image as an SVG object.</p>
<p>Unfortunately Google's Structured Data Testing Tool doesn't allow SVG as value for images in the <code>Article</code>.
Strangely enough Google <em>does</em> accept SVG as logo for an or... | [
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Unfortunately Google's Structured Data Testing Tool doesn't allow SVG as value for images in the `Article`.
Strangely enough Google *does* accept SVG as logo for an organization.
Anyway, is ther... | I know it's old ... but the answer has changed. both SVG and WEBP formats are now acceptable.
"Google Images supports images in the following formats: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WebP, and SVG" |
120,088 | <p>I created a recipe on Drupal 8. When I <a href="https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool?hl=fr#url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.s1biose.com%2Ffr%2Frecette%2Fmini-brochettes-de-jambon-melon-fromage" rel="nofollow noreferrer">test my page</a> with Google Structured Data Testing Tool, it tells me that the image fiel... | [
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![](https://i.stack.imgur... | The error the SDTT reports is only for getting Google’s Article rich result. If you don’t want to get the rich result, you can ignore the error.
For getting Google’s Article rich result, the value for `image` needs to be either a URL, or an Schema.org `ImageObject`.
So you can either remove the FOAF `Image` type, so ... |
120,097 | <p>.About a month ago my website was hacked.</p>
<p>I was alerted to that by Google Adwords because a random scan of my site indicated that it had inappropriate content and / or links to inappropriate content and my ad was disabled / disapproved.</p>
<p>I confirmed that it had been hacked.</p>
<p>My ISP and I restor... | [
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I was alerted to that by Google Adwords because a random scan of my site indicated that it had inappropriate content and / or links to inappropriate content and my ad was disabled / disapproved.
I confirmed that it had been hacked.
My ISP and I restored the website from a ba... | The error the SDTT reports is only for getting Google’s Article rich result. If you don’t want to get the rich result, you can ignore the error.
For getting Google’s Article rich result, the value for `image` needs to be either a URL, or an Schema.org `ImageObject`.
So you can either remove the FOAF `Image` type, so ... |
120,109 | <p>I got a hosting package with one of the lead shared hosting providers, and transferred to them a domain name I have had for over five years. Last September I received their email alert to renew the domain, I paid the annual fee as well as the privacy fee to hide personal details in the whois. About three months late... | [
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For getting Google’s Article rich result, the value for `image` needs to be either a URL, or an Schema.org `ImageObject`.
So you can either remove the FOAF `Image` type, so ... |
120,144 | <p>We are trying to figure what is the correct <code>hreflang</code> attributes that should be displayed on our pages. We have 4 languages that we will enable for all our pages: <code>English</code>, <code>French</code>, <code>Spanish</code>, <code>German</code>. Our site is setup as below.</p>
<ul>
<li>All <code>Engl... | [
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* All `English` pages will be accessible through `https://www.example.com/some-path`
... | The hreflang tag needs to be a fully qualified URL including a protocol part of some sort.
Take a properly formatted language tag like this one as an example:
```
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="es-es" href="https://es.example.com/some-path">
```
Crawlers read that tag literally like this:
>
> There is an alterna... |
120,162 | <p>I have a virtual host with multiple <code>ServerAlias host1.example.com host02.example.com</code> etc. </p>
<p>I match the same pattern and based on <code>ServerAlias</code> I want to proxy them to different backend hosts. What I have is : </p>
<p>Snippet from config: </p>
<pre><code>RewriteEngine On
RewriteCo... | [
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I match the same pattern and based on `ServerAlias` I want to proxy them to different backend hosts. What I have is :
Snippet from config:
```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?host1.example.com [NC]
Redire... | The hreflang tag needs to be a fully qualified URL including a protocol part of some sort.
Take a properly formatted language tag like this one as an example:
```
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="es-es" href="https://es.example.com/some-path">
```
Crawlers read that tag literally like this:
>
> There is an alterna... |
120,186 | <p>I have a gz index sitemap file that lists 4 different sitemaps that each are 50mb big. What I want to do is I want to get all the URLs in those 4 sitemap files. </p>
<p>I tried to use <a href="https://robhammond.co/tools/xml-extract" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://robhammond.co/tools/xml-extract</a> but it cou... | [
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I tried to use <https://robhammond.co/tools/xml-extract> but it couldn't deal with the index file properly. My main sitemap.xml.gz only lists the other xml f... | I prefer to use command line tools to extract sitemap URLs. Most sitemaps have each URL on its own line which make them work really nicely with Unix command line tools. I can easily extract your four sitemap URLs from your index sitemap:
```
$ curl -s https://www.example.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz | gunzip | grep -oE 'h... |
120,387 | <p>I'd like to show some descriptive text when the mouse hovers on a link:</p>
<p><code><a class="foo" alt="Hello World" href="/index.html">Hello World</a></code></p>
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`<a class="foo" alt="Hello World" href="/index.html">Hello World</a>` | Go ahead and use the title attribute my friend!
```
<a href="#" title="hello universe!">Hello Everyone!</a>
``` |
120,510 | <p><a href="https://support.google.com/a/answer/2466563" rel="nofollow noreferrer">G Suite states</a> that one can add a DMARC record with an <code>rua</code> field to get reports about DMARC activity by email:</p>
<pre><code>v=DMARC1; p=reject; rua=mailto:youremail@example.com
</code></pre>
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```
v=DMARC1; p=reject; rua=mailto:youremail@example.com
```
But doesn't this basically circumvent WHOIS privacy (where my actual name, address, email etc. a... | You are correct in that it does basically circumvent WHOIS privacy by making the email address you put there public. You have a couple options here:
1. If your registrar supports email forwarding, create an email forward from a mailbox on your domain - something like `rua@example.com` - to your real email address. Thi... |
120,537 | <p>Let's say I have a web site with a bunch of articles on it, with each article on its own page. Also, each page's URL has the title of the article in it, like this:</p>
<pre><code>http://www.example.com/article/how-to-feed-a-walrus
</code></pre>
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```
http://www.example.com/article/how-to-feed-a-walrus
```
If I create the article "How to Feed a Walrus", and a month later change the title to "How to... | The recommended way to deal with this is to use a 301 ("permanent") redirect from the old article URL to the new article URL. That way users and search engines will be automatically redirected, and you should keep the vast majority of your link equity.
That being said, bathing vs feeding a walrus sound like they would... |
120,552 | <p>Can our website used the trick: putting all SEO data in some tag, but rendering all the web page elements with JavaScript? How would that work for SEO?</p>
<p>May be like:</p>
<pre><code><div>
<a href="/about">Link to about</a>
<a href="/smth">Link to smth</a>
<a href="/posts"... | [
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May be like:
```
<div>
<a href="/about">Link to about</a>
<a href="/smth">Link to smth</a>
<a href="/posts">Link to posts</a>
<h1> This is a Page about SMTH </h1... | Why is there some initial text in tags? If it's there for SEO reasons, then this is hidden text and definitely a bad idea for SEO.
To answer your JS question, it's fine to dynamically populate your page text with javascript. (Google spiders with Chrome, and executes JS).
The issue is really the pre-existing text an... |
120,658 | <p>Is there any difference between the syntax here;</p>
<pre><code>example.dk/ (danish)
example.dk/en
</code></pre>
<p>and</p>
<pre><code>example.dk/da (danish)
example.dk/en
</code></pre>
<p>I realise that in the top example, the domain is Danish <code>.dk</code>, which makes it implicit that it is Danish, but I... | [
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```
example.dk/ (danish)
example.dk/en
```
and
```
example.dk/da (danish)
example.dk/en
```
I realise that in the top example, the domain is Danish `.dk`, which makes it implicit that it is Danish, but I would like to know if the second practice influences SEO ne... | This is a bit of a guess so don't hold me to it.
With tools such as SEMRush (Helps identify weaknesses in your sites SEO); I think this reads the page only up until you would be able to execute jQuery / JS. So whatever is on your page within the DOM on load - is what is read.
Having objects 'overflow: hidden;' isn't ... |
120,691 | <p>I am working on a multi-national/multi-lingual eCommerce website, with the following website structures:</p>
<pre><code>www.example.co.uk (UK Based English speakers)
www.example.co.uk/es/ (UK Based Spanish speakers)
www.example.co.uk/fr/ (UK Based French speakers)
www.example.es (Spain Based Spanish... | [
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```
www.example.co.uk (UK Based English speakers)
www.example.co.uk/es/ (UK Based Spanish speakers)
www.example.co.uk/fr/ (UK Based French speakers)
www.example.es (Spain Based Spanish speakers)
www... | Simply put; No, it's not enough!
Google uses multiple signals to determine that. Not just GEO-IP of the user or your URL.
Do not trust/rely on Google fully. Instead, mark up your URLs with HREFLANG (either markup the html code or use the easier setup ->sitemap markup) to say to Google (and all other search engines) wh... |
120,704 | <p>My client has 3 websites, each has it's region.</p>
<pre><code>eu.ralphkerlesart.com - for Europe countries
us.ralphkerlesart.com - for USA and Canada
ralphkerlesart.com - for other regions
</code></pre>
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```
eu.ralphkerlesart.com - for Europe countries
us.ralphkerlesart.com - for USA and Canada
ralphkerlesart.com - for other regions
```
I need only one website display in each region - the one that fits it. For now the website for other regions also show up in USA toget... | Finally it is Google decision, where to rank a website. What do you could do:
* create for every country subdomain an own Search Console property and bind it to certain country. The country binding can be done in the old GSC, under <https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/i18n>.
* Another hint, which lies in your han... |