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125,425 | <p>I put the FAQ schema code on my single page (WordPress) and it doesn't display on Google result. </p>
<p>The code is right but I don't know why it doesn't work.</p>
<pre class="lang-php prettyprint-override"><code><!-- FAQ schema-->
<?php if(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'dm_que1',true)){ ?>
... | [
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] | I put the FAQ schema code on my single page (WordPress) and it doesn't display on Google result.
The code is right but I don't know why it doesn't work.
```php
<!-- FAQ schema-->
<?php if(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'dm_que1',true)){ ?>
<div itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/FAQPage">
... | Google guidelines [make it clear](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/sd-policies) that rich snippets are not guaranteed, even if the code is correct:
>
> Google does not guarantee that your structured data will show up in search results, even if your page is marked up correctly
>
>
>
Those guidelin... |
125,426 | <p>I have a domain through godaddy (<code>www.example.com</code>) and it is hosted on a different server. I also have a static aboutus page that I have in an S3 bucket. How do I link my aboutus page to the main website so that it has a URL of <code>www.example.com/aboutus</code>? What changes should I make in my DNS se... | [
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"text": "<p>I would recommend you check out <a href=\"https://www.netlify.com/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Netlify</a> fo... | 2019/09/28 | [
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] | I have a domain through godaddy (`www.example.com`) and it is hosted on a different server. I also have a static aboutus page that I have in an S3 bucket. How do I link my aboutus page to the main website so that it has a URL of `www.example.com/aboutus`? What changes should I make in my DNS settings? | It is not possible to use DNS to point different pages on the same host name at different servers. All the documents on `www.example.com` have to be served from the same server. DNS can only point `www.example.com` to one IP address. It can't be split up based on pages.
There are however, some things you can do instea... |
125,454 | <p>How can I configure restriction for URL generated by opencms application on Apache Tomcat?</p>
<p>I tried</p>
<pre><code><Location "/cs/intranet">
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
</Location>
</code></pre>
<p>But folder does not exist physically, just url.</p>
<pre><code>http... | [
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I tried
```
<Location "/cs/intranet">
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
</Location>
```
But folder does not exist physically, just url.
```
http://DOMAIN/cs/intranet
```
**Edit.**
Something like th... | It is not possible to use DNS to point different pages on the same host name at different servers. All the documents on `www.example.com` have to be served from the same server. DNS can only point `www.example.com` to one IP address. It can't be split up based on pages.
There are however, some things you can do instea... |
125,507 | <p>I have in the past copy and paste a jquery css or js url into my projects.</p>
<p>Recently the question has come up, what if the urls stopped working for some unforeseen reason. Either code.jquery.com is unavailable or what if jquery as a service (or company) closed down.</p>
<p>For instance if i put:</p>
<pre><c... | [
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"text": "<p>As with any link on any website: if the link no longer exists, the link will be broken, dead, etc.<br>... | 2019/10/03 | [
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] | I have in the past copy and paste a jquery css or js url into my projects.
Recently the question has come up, what if the urls stopped working for some unforeseen reason. Either code.jquery.com is unavailable or what if jquery as a service (or company) closed down.
For instance if i put:
```
<link rel="stylesheet" h... | There are a few considerations that need to be made before anyone would make this decision. I do both, download to my site or link remotely depending upon what works best.
If you are concerned that these resources will disappear, do not worry. Even if they do disappear, someone would host these resources within second... |
125,594 | <p>My website detects where the visitor is coming from. If the visit is from Guatemala, the title is:</p>
<pre class="lang-html prettyprint-override"><code><title>[Company name] | Discounts in Guatemala</title>
</code></pre>
<p>If the visit is from El Salvador, the title is:</p>
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"text": "<p>Google uses <a href=\"https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1061943?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noreferre... | 2019/10/09 | [
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] | My website detects where the visitor is coming from. If the visit is from Guatemala, the title is:
```html
<title>[Company name] | Discounts in Guatemala</title>
```
If the visit is from El Salvador, the title is:
```html
<title>[Company name] | Discounts in El Salvador</title>
```
I am doing this for SEO purpose... | Google uses [searchers](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1061943?hl=en) from [multiple origins](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/80553?hl=en) but most of them are located in USA. That means that Google will always see the same title:
```
<title>[Company name] | Discounts in USA</title>
```
I... |
125,606 | <p>We want to make a report of visitors of a selected set of pages.</p>
<p>So we use "Behavior" > "Site Content" > "All Pages".</p>
<p>We fill in part of the pagenames, so <code>FR_PLT*</code> for pages <code>FR_PLT_01</code>, <code>FR_PLT_02</code> and so on. This works.</p>
<p>Also for <code>FR_Country*</code>, fo... | [
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"text": "<p>That is a perfectly valid regex that ought to do what you want, so here is my guess: are you opening the advanc... | 2019/10/10 | [
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] | We want to make a report of visitors of a selected set of pages.
So we use "Behavior" > "Site Content" > "All Pages".
We fill in part of the pagenames, so `FR_PLT*` for pages `FR_PLT_01`, `FR_PLT_02` and so on. This works.
Also for `FR_Country*`, for pages `FR_Country_01`, `FR_Country_02` and so on. Works fine.
But... | Use this shortener version of your regular expression
```
FR_(PLT|Country)
```
And make sure you are using "regular expression" setting inside the filter.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eCLek.png) |
125,630 | <p>We changed our site from HTTP to HTTPS about a year ago. </p>
<p>We have a static website, with no functionality for user input, so did not see it as an imperative to change to HTTPS anytime sooner, the reason we changed, is that we used to gets lots of Google Analytics refer data a few years ago in Google Analytic... | [
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"text": "<p>Now that you have your site updated with HTTPS I would circle back around to the referring sites... | 2019/10/11 | [
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We have a static website, with no functionality for user input, so did not see it as an imperative to change to HTTPS anytime sooner, the reason we changed, is that we used to gets lots of Google Analytics refer data a few years ago in Google Analytics, but not... | I just tested whether or not implementing HSTS and getting your site on the preload list would allow browsers to pass a referrer through a `http` link to your site. Sadly it doesn't work.
Here is how I performed the test:
1. I found a `.dev` site with a PHP script that echos back the referrer. I did this by searching... |
125,646 | <p>Is there any SEO reason to add <code>title</code> after <code>alt</code> attribute of image?</p>
<pre><code><img src="./cat.jpg" alt="Funny Cat" />
</code></pre>
<p>vs</p>
<pre><code><img src="./cat.jpg" alt="Funny Cat" title="Funny Cat" />
</code></pre>
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```
<img src="./cat.jpg" alt="Funny Cat" />
```
vs
```
<img src="./cat.jpg" alt="Funny Cat" title="Funny Cat" />
```
I know the title will be as tooltip for user, I'm just asking as SEO optimization tip.
I cant find any tip here: <https://sup... | There is no use of title for image in terms of SEO. It is only used for providing extra information for that image element.
You can increase the SEO by adding ALT tag to your Images. |
125,693 | <p>NEW EDIT 28/oct/19 →
I edited the .htaccess file as you said</p>
<pre><code>
AddHandler x-mapp-php5.5 .php
# HTTP to HTTPS redirect
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.bebechan.net/$1 [R=301,L]
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^ind... | [
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I edited the .htaccess file as you said
```
AddHandler x-mapp-php5.5 .php
# HTTP to HTTPS redirect
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.bebechan.net/$1 [R=301,L]
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
Rewri... | **tl;dr** You're HTTP to HTTPS redirect is in the wrong place. It needs to go near the start of the `/clickandbuild/bebechan/.htaccess` file, not at the end. (See below for further explanation.)
---
There seems to be a lot of misinformation / confusion here...
>
> The host that takes care of my SSL just told me "Th... |
125,740 | <p>About 9 months ago i changed my permalink structure in WordPress from the <code>domain.com/year/month/article-name</code> format to the <code>domain.com/article-name</code> one. </p>
<p>I hired someone to do the rewrite rules for me. The person seemed to have done a good job, as all links i tested redirected as e... | [
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] | About 9 months ago i changed my permalink structure in WordPress from the `domain.com/year/month/article-name` format to the `domain.com/article-name` one.
I hired someone to do the rewrite rules for me. The person seemed to have done a good job, as all links i tested redirected as expected.
1 month ago I moved my w... | **tl;dr** You're HTTP to HTTPS redirect is in the wrong place. It needs to go near the start of the `/clickandbuild/bebechan/.htaccess` file, not at the end. (See below for further explanation.)
---
There seems to be a lot of misinformation / confusion here...
>
> The host that takes care of my SSL just told me "Th... |
125,861 | <p>I am working on an e-commerce website. I used to have a sitemap with category Ids, something like:</p>
<pre><code><url>
<loc>https://my-domain.com/home/browse/2/45/139</loc>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
</url>
<url>
<loc>https://my-domain.com/home/browse... | [
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] | I am working on an e-commerce website. I used to have a sitemap with category Ids, something like:
```
<url>
<loc>https://my-domain.com/home/browse/2/45/139</loc>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
</url>
<url>
<loc>https://my-domain.com/home/browse/5/60/160</loc>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
</url>
```... | You have a misconception of what a sitemap is.
The sitemap is used to audit the site crawl by the search engine bot. The sitemap and crawling a site are two different and independent things. Google will continue to crawl your site independently of any sitemap. The sitemap will be used to audit/see if Google is able to... |
125,939 | <p>First, I want to preface that I am not very good with php so I am looking for some guidance.
I'm working on a website using Dreamweaver that is being accessed through .davaccess </p>
<p>each php page has the following variables:</p>
<pre><code><?php
require_once "../config.php";
$title="Custom Title I enter";
$... | [
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I'm working on a website using Dreamweaver that is being accessed through .davaccess
each php page has the following variables:
```
<?php
require_once "../config.php";
$title="Custom Title I enter";
$metaDescription="Custom ... | What I do for pages that I want to mark as canonical is put the following code in my header.php file that is loaded on each page:
`<link rel='canonical' href='<?php echo 'https://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>'>`
This loads the prefix `https://` plus the domain `www.example.com` plus the pa... |
125,980 | <p>I've had my website hacked. I have cleaned it and searched google <code>site:example.com</code> and made a list of all the results. Removed the actual links that are OK and made a list of the ones in the format of <code>example.com/ad0-b1fermarte54eb17chb-1244425</code>. I've submitted these links to Google to remov... | [
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"text": "<p>This problem won't be solved by pinging Google to recrawl your site or resubmitting the sitemap because it... | 2019/11/03 | [
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126,008 | <p>Searched all questions by <em>redirect</em> keyword (e.g. <a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/1441/is-there-any-way-to-redirect-one-domain-to-another-via-dns-settings-keeping-the">1</a>, <a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/63227/redirect-root-path-on-root-domain-to-subdomain">... | [
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"text": "<p>Cloudflare Webworkers or Nginx reverse proxy redirection could be worth a shot.</p>\n... | 2019/11/05 | [
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] | Searched all questions by *redirect* keyword (e.g. [1](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/1441/is-there-any-way-to-redirect-one-domain-to-another-via-dns-settings-keeping-the), [2](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/63227/redirect-root-path-on-root-domain-to-subdomain)) but none of them fit my c... | You can use a DNS A record to point the domain to the IP address of your Linux instance. Assuming that the instance is running Apache, you would then create a virtual host that does this redirect:
```
<VirtualHost *:*>
ServerName example.com
RedirectMatch ".*" "https://www.lokki.newdomain.example/resources/ind... |
126,110 | <p>Since you can't put <code><h2></code> tags and lists and such inside <code><p></code> tags. How to go about creating articles with <code><h2></code> tags and lists. Can I replace the <code><p></code> tag with a <code><div></code>? Or just leave out the <code><p></code> tag altoget... | [
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"text": "<p><strong><em>Couldn't anyone do this?</em></strong></p>\n\n<p>You are missing one factor. Domain name regist... | 2019/11/11 | [
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***Article example 1: ( No H tags )***
```
<article>
<header>
<img src="">
<h1></h1>
<p></p>... | ***Couldn't anyone do this?***
You are missing one factor. Domain name registration and hosting are two different things even if your host will register your domain for you. A domain name has to be registered and pointed to an IP address before the domain name does anything.
The hosting company does not generally car... |
126,154 | <p>I would like to ask if is there any difference when I have <strong>description</strong> and <strong>og:description</strong> separately and together. Is there just only difference that when it's separately I can add different text and when it's together, so same text is used for both ?</p>
<pre><code><meta name="... | [
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```
<meta name="description" content="Lorem ipsum" />
<met... | There is no problem in implementing Open Graph(OG) along with the description and same is the case for twitter cards.
Different platforms prefer different descriptions and they would be free to go ahead with the one they see fit. (facebook prefers open graph, twitter prefers Twitter cards).
And yes, the format that ... |
126,231 | <p>I have a lot of backlinks (it seems crawlers or something similar) in google console from domains like these :</p>
<pre><code>https://gallos-de-pelea.info/
https://nationaldayofreconciliation.com/
https://beattynews.info/
https://fopp.info/
https://kazco.info/
https://thecrestsun.com/
https://4808.info/
...
</code>... | [
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] | I have a lot of backlinks (it seems crawlers or something similar) in google console from domains like these :
```
https://gallos-de-pelea.info/
https://nationaldayofreconciliation.com/
https://beattynews.info/
https://fopp.info/
https://kazco.info/
https://thecrestsun.com/
https://4808.info/
...
```
Almost all site... | If you haven't noticed any problems from these links, you can safely ignore them. Googlebot usually knows how to ignore poor quality links without you taking any action. The fact that these pages now return 500 status means that Googlebot will not be able to see the links anymore either next time it crawls.
Other answ... |
126,309 | <p>I have a website with a responsive theme optimized for mobile.</p>
<p>Despite that, many pages don't pass the "mobile-friendly test" from Google (<a href="https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly</a>)</p>
<p>Here is the result of the v... | [
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Despite that, many pages don't pass the "mobile-friendly test" from Google (<https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly>)
Here is the result of the validation attempt on Google's tool:
[![The reasons why the validation fail are: text too small; click... | Ok, this was tricky because Google's suggestions are deceitful: Google talks about "clickable elements too close to each other" and "small text", but looking at the screenshot, the problem is that the video container is too big (despite the responsive wrapper).
Considering that there's an error type in the tool called... |
126,327 | <p>I am a citizen of Israel and I desire to generally cut all ties with it besides generally with family, friends and job.
Currently I live in another state as a temporary resident.<br></p>
<p>I consider changing my last name in generally all of Israel's systems (formal name change procedure):</p>
<ul>
<li><p>As of 1... | [
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Currently I live in another state as a temporary resident.
I consider changing my last name in generally all of Israel's systems (formal name change procedure):
* As of 11/11/19, Israeli citizens ... | Ok, this was tricky because Google's suggestions are deceitful: Google talks about "clickable elements too close to each other" and "small text", but looking at the screenshot, the problem is that the video container is too big (despite the responsive wrapper).
Considering that there's an error type in the tool called... |
126,373 | <p>Suppose I have an error in my console on a couple of pages, like the following:</p>
<pre><code>(index):239 Uncaught ReferenceError: incom is not defined
at (index):239
at dispatch (jquery.min.js?ver=1.8.3:2)
at u (jquery.min.js?ver=1.8.3:2)
</code></pre>
<p>Does this, in any way, affect SEO or can I sa... | [
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```
(index):239 Uncaught ReferenceError: incom is not defined
at (index):239
at dispatch (jquery.min.js?ver=1.8.3:2)
at u (jquery.min.js?ver=1.8.3:2)
```
Does this, in any way, affect SEO or can I safely ignore it? | If any **error** or improper implementation of Javascript(in any form) is affecting the **crawlability** or preventing crawlers from **fetching content**, it can affect SEO in a drastic way.
If this error affects any of the processes, the crawlers may not favour your website over others.
Even after fixing errors, th... |
126,381 | <p>I have a site which has recently grown and have a second office. They have registered for business listings (so they tell me) but their business listing has dropped.</p>
<p>As well as having an individual Google map for each office, I have added <code>schema.org/PostalAddress</code> too. Originally this was as one ... | [
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As well as having an individual Google map for each office, I have added `schema.org/PostalAddress` too. Originally this was as one address but now I hav... | If any **error** or improper implementation of Javascript(in any form) is affecting the **crawlability** or preventing crawlers from **fetching content**, it can affect SEO in a drastic way.
If this error affects any of the processes, the crawlers may not favour your website over others.
Even after fixing errors, th... |
126,451 | <p>For some time now, Google has been displaying a website's favicon next to its title on the mobile SERP according to <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9290858" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this answer.</a> </p>
<p>But, for one website that I am managing, it is showing a completely different favicon.... | [
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"text": "<p>I see that your site using Magento eCommerce CMS so I searched google for your problem and included Magento int... | 2019/11/29 | [
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But, for one website that I am managing, it is showing a completely different favicon. You can see it if you open the [following URL]... | After 3+ weeks it seems that Google has finally picked up the correct favicon. So my suggestion to anyone else facing the same problem would be to just wait it out, if you have double checked every other solution. |
126,514 | <p>We are using a tool called SEMRush where it is flagging that the <code>en</code> and <code>x-default</code> values for the hreflang are causing conflicts. </p>
<p>Should both <code>en</code> and <code>x-default</code> be included for the <code>hreflang</code> tags?</p>
<p>This is what we have now. </p>
<pre><code... | [
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Should both `en` and `x-default` be included for the `hreflang` tags?
This is what we have now.
```
<html>
<head>
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="https://de.example.com/"... | Your implementation is correct. The tool you're using is either hinting that you may want to double check your setup, or it is plain incorrect in calling this out.
If you go through the [Yoast Hreflang Guide](https://yoast.com/hreflang-ultimate-guide/), you'll note the "hreflang x-default" section, closer to the botto... |
126,563 | <p>So I have domain <code>http://example.com</code>.</p>
<p>I want to setup htaccess to redirect all of these variations</p>
<ul>
<li><p><code>http://www.example.com</code></p></li>
<li><p><code>http://example.com</code></p></li>
<li><p><code>https://example.com/111</code></p></li>
<li><p><code>http://example.com/222... | [
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"text": "<p>This guide from Apache should help: <a href=\"http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/intro.html\" rel... | 2019/12/05 | [
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I want to setup htaccess to redirect all of these variations
* `http://www.example.com`
* `http://example.com`
* `https://example.com/111`
* `http://example.com/222`
...
basically EVERYTHING on this domain I want redirect to
```
http://www.newexample.com
```
How to set it up... | This guide from Apache should help: <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/intro.html>
But for something you can copy and paste, [see this cheatsheet](https://www.cheatography.com/davechild/cheat-sheets/mod-rewrite/) but drop the `$1` from the Rewrite Rule.
It's easier for me to post the code than to explain:
... |
126,599 | <p>I want to know how does Google Judge page performance, let us our server are located in India as our audience is from India and page speed over all is fine based on FF developer tools & Chrome ..</p>
<pre><code>Total 68 Request
2.80 MB/2.38MB transferred
Fisnish4.62s
DOMContentLoaded:2032s
Load 2.80s
Total Req... | [
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```
Total 68 Request
2.80 MB/2.38MB transferred
Fisnish4.62s
DOMContentLoaded:2032s
Load 2.80s
Total Request 94 (including... | Google measures speed from the US. However, for SEO, Google doesn't actively penalize sites unless they are *very* slow. Unless your pages (without JS, CSS, and images) takes more than 7 seconds from the US, you have nothing to worry about.
Google will notice if your users find your site slow. If your page isn't usabl... |
126,610 | <p>I am a newbie when it comes to GA. I've created a new project that is available on the web through 6 different domains. I want to measure which domain gather the most traffic. To easily compare traffic between all the domains I was thinking about using one Google Analytics code for all the domains. But then in stats... | [
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If you wish to track a domain and/or it's subdomains and to be able to easily compare the traffic, this can be done with a single GA Property and it's tracking code with the single, same tracking id (eg UA-123456-1) placed onto the domain *and* it's subd... |
126,617 | <p>I am developing a website which has 6-7 translations, the client owns the top level domain (<code>.fr</code>, <code>.de</code>, etc.) and wants to use these domains to direct users to the gTLD subfolder. I will be using Hreflang tags on the pages, but am wondering if there will be negative consequences from the redi... | [
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If you wish to track a domain and/or it's subdomains and to be able to easily compare the traffic, this can be done with a single GA Property and it's tracking code with the single, same tracking id (eg UA-123456-1) placed onto the domain *and* it's subd... |
126,661 | <p>I'm chasing page speed, partly as proof that getting 90%+ is consistently achievable.</p>
<p>My main issue now is Google Analytics. In the below example, it's loaded via Google Tag Manager, so there's just the one GTM snippet at the top of the screen - however page speed insights appears to state that it's GA (and... | [
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My main issue now is Google Analytics. In the below example, it's loaded via Google Tag Manager, so there's just the one GTM snippet at the top of the screen - however page speed insights appears to state that it's GA (and GTM) causi... | GA4 uses Google Tag Manager to load Google Analytics, which means a bigger hit to your site's performance.
To minimize the performance impact, here are some things I did.
Use preconnect
--------------
Use `preconnect` by adding these two tags to the `<head>`:
```
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://www.googletagma... |
126,671 | <p>I am seeing the following in my "access_log":</p>
<p><code>ip.address.output.here - - [12/Dec/2019:15:17:07 +0000] "GET /pathto/article/15104133/?ineedthispage=yes&ineedthispage=yes&ineedthispage=yes&ineedthispage=yes&ineedthispage=yes&ineedthispage=yes&ineedthispage=yes&ineedthispage=ye... | [
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`ip.address.output.here - - [12/Dec/2019:15:17:07 +0000] "GET /pathto/article/15104133/?ineedthispage=yes&ineedthispage=yes&ineedthispage=yes&ineedthispage=yes&ineedthispage=yes&ineedthispage=yes&ineedthispage=yes&ineedthispage=yes&ineedthispage=yes&ineedthispage=yes&inee... | GA4 uses Google Tag Manager to load Google Analytics, which means a bigger hit to your site's performance.
To minimize the performance impact, here are some things I did.
Use preconnect
--------------
Use `preconnect` by adding these two tags to the `<head>`:
```
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://www.googletagma... |
126,672 | <p>I'm not sure if I can use together in the same page the CollectionPage and Product schema types. Is this correct for a category page?</p>
<h3>My needs for the page are:</h3>
<ul>
<li>to identify as a <strong>CollectionPage</strong> the current category page (because it
actually is one)</li>
<li>to identify <stron... | [
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### My needs for the page are:
* to identify as a **CollectionPage** the current category page (because it
actually is one)
* to identify **breadcrumbs** for the current category page... | GA4 uses Google Tag Manager to load Google Analytics, which means a bigger hit to your site's performance.
To minimize the performance impact, here are some things I did.
Use preconnect
--------------
Use `preconnect` by adding these two tags to the `<head>`:
```
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://www.googletagma... |
126,723 | <p>I use a cron job to run the auto-archiving process for Matomo. It works great. I am analyzing some of the data and I noticed that when I filter the data in a numeric archive table for period 3 (which is the total number of visits for a given month), I get three records back for each site. However, I only expected to... | [
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126,808 | <p>Our web dev agency is working with a design agency to build a website for a client. I want to make it clear to google that our client owns the site, but that we and the design agency made it. So far here is what I have: </p>
<pre><code><script type="application/ld+json">{
"@type":"Organization",
"name... | [
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```
<script type="application/ld+json">{
"@type":"Organization",
"name":"Our Client",
... | Although you and your team are building the site, the client is buying it, which means if you want to put any sort of credit on their website (even Schema code) you really should ask their permission.
As Stephen mentioned it's unlikely that this data will be used for anything, so it would probably be better to instead... |
126,810 | <p>I'm being heavily spammed by image scraper sites. There are more than 150+ domains targeting my images & sending spammed links to my site. I just want to prevent hotlinking from them. I just want to block only those specific sites.</p>
<p>Is there any htaccess rule for preventing hotlinking in specific sites on... | [
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Is there any htaccess rule for preventing hotlinking in specific sites only and allow o... | Using <https://www.htaccesstools.com/hotlink-protection/>
```
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?example.com [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ - [NC,F,L]
```
You may or may not need `RewriteEngine on`. The next line allows a blank referrer. You may ... |
126,894 | <p>I have a saas app, where users can login to the app from <code>example.com/app</code>. Now I have created a new version of the app which will be <code>example.com/dashboard</code>.</p>
<p>What I want to do is let Google know that the new app URL is <code>example.com/dashboard</code>, but I don't want to redirect <c... | [
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What I want to do is let Google know that the new app URL is `example.com/dashboard`, but I don't want to redirect `/app` to `/dashboard` because I want to allo... | As has already been stated, treating Googlebot differently to normal users and redirecting Googlebot only is generally not a good idea.
An alternative approach is to:
* Redirect all users/bots from `/app` to `/dashboard` (the new "app")
* But include a link back to the old "app" from `/dashboard` that is not redirect... |
126,918 | <p>If I post a profile of a user from my website on Facebook, Facebook always adds a query parameter. </p>
<p>That is OK, but AdSense thinks every new query parameter is a new page and needs to crawl it before it can show ads. It is really still the same site just with a different query parameter. </p>
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That is OK, but AdSense thinks every new query parameter is a new page and needs to crawl it before it can show ads. It is really still the same site just with a different query parameter. | ```
<link rel=”canonical” href=”https://example.com/”>
``` |
126,920 | <p>I'm looking for a simple trick</p>
<p>Let's say I have a Wordpress installation and image resources in this URL</p>
<pre><code>http://example.com/wp-content/images/example.jpg
</code></pre>
<p>I would like to have the possibility of having another accessible URL (not rewritten) that points the same resources with... | [
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Let's say I have a Wordpress installation and image resources in this URL
```
http://example.com/wp-content/images/example.jpg
```
I would like to have the possibility of having another accessible URL (not rewritten) that points the same resources with a different route. For example
... | Found the solution through .htaccess
Never sure if it's the best, but it works:
```
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?content/(.*) /wp-content/$2 [QSA,L]
``` |
126,934 | <p>In my search console number of excluded url is greater than number of valid url. In large number of excluded url will affect the site ranking? </p>
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Never sure if it's the best, but it works:
```
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?content/(.*) /wp-content/$2 [QSA,L]
``` |
127,056 | <p>I'm working with a site that has millions of pages along the lines of:</p>
<pre><code>domain.com/entity/John_Smith
domain.com/entity/Google
domain.com/entity/HTML
</code></pre>
<p>One of the problems is that particularly for people names, there are lots of duplicates, so we end up with</p>
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```
domain.com/entity/John_Smith
domain.com/entity/Google
domain.com/entity/HTML
```
One of the problems is that particularly for people names, there are lots of duplicates, so we end up with
```
domain.com/entity/John_Smith
domain.com/entity/Jo... | There is a risk with URL changes of SEO problems, ranking loss, and traffic declines. When correctly implemented with 301 redirects, it can go perfectly fine, but it doesn't always do so.
I recommend changing URLs only when there is an overwhelming need. If you do want to change URLs you should consider gentler chang... |
127,114 | <p>Example robots.txt:</p>
<pre><code>User-agent: *
Disallow: /
</code></pre>
<p>Would it work? I have urls, like <a href="https://example.com/en" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://example.com/en</a>, <a href="https://example.com/de" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://example.com/de</a></p>
<p>I don't want search eng... | [
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```
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
```
Would it work? I have urls, like <https://example.com/en>, <https://example.com/de>
I don't want search engines to index <https://example.com> without language prefix. Is that possible? | `Disallow: /` will prevent robots from crawling your entire site. Robots.txt rules are "starts with" rules. Google and other search engines allow some extensions to robots.txt rules such as wild cards and ends with operators. For the robots (including Google) that follow those extensions you could use:
```
User-agent:... |
127,438 | <p>I am currently tying myself up in knots over URL percent-encoding of extended Latin characters.</p>
<hr />
<h1>Step 1 of 4</h1>
<p>I have the following URL:</p>
<pre><code>https://example.com/fußgängerbrücke/
</code></pre>
<p>The offline folder name (which I have uploaded via FTP) exactly corresponds to this: <code>... | [
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===========
I have the following URL:
```
https://example.com/fußgängerbrücke/
```
The offline folder name (which I have uploaded via FTP) exactly corresponds to this: `fußgängerbrücke`
---
Step 2 of ... | Generally, it's not a good idea to share content between a live site and its staging installation. A staging copy should be isolated, precisely to avoid messing up anything on the production installation. On top of that, adding content on the staging copy would properly test those execution paths and create a consisten... |
127,797 | <p>I'm setting up MediaWiki on an Ubuntu 18.04 server. After installing the <code>mediawiki</code> package I went to web installer and got to the "Connect to database" step. I'm using the following settings:</p>
<ul>
<li>Database host: <code>localhost</code></li>
<li>Database name: <code>testwiki</code></li>
... | [
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* Database host: `localhost`
* Database name: `testwiki`
* Database table prefix:
* Database username: `root`
* Database pass... | For newer mediawiki versions, there are some pitfalls that breaks the mysql connection. Some attempts to fix are:
1. Insert the port number on Database Host:
```
$wgDBserver = "localhost:3306";
```
2. On some old LocalSettings.php, there are active configurations for PostgreSQL besides the Mysql config. Erase or com... |
127,933 | <p>I want to allow crawling of my website only if the URL starts with accepted region/language combinations which are <code>us/en</code>, <code>gb/en</code> and <code>fr/fr</code>. Other language combinations must be restricted. On the other hand crawler should be able to crawl <code>/</code> or <code>/about</code>, et... | [
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```
example.com/us/en/videos # should be... | Assuming you have the `User-agent: *` directive on the first line then what you've posted appears to work as intended in "[Google's online robots.txt tester](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062598?hl=en)". In that it satisfies the 3 (or more) criteria you've stated:
1. `example.com/us/en/videos` IS **all... |
128,101 | <p>I have a problem of understanding what <code>crawl-delay: 1</code> means if it isn't ignored and actually being interpreted as is by a given web crawler.</p>
<p><a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/127958/58733">I understood from this answer by Stephen Ostermiller</a> that:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>With a ... | [
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[I understood from this answer by Stephen Ostermiller](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/127958/58733) that:
>
> With a crawl delay of `10` a crawler should:
>
>
> * C... | The exact interpretation of crawl delay is not specified anywhere. Crawlers could reasonably interpret it in two ways:
1. They have to wait between starting requests
2. They have to wait between the end of one request and the start of the next
For example, here how a crawler might fetch three pages according to rule ... |
128,165 | <p>URL direction path of our sites displayed by Google in the search results looks a little unusual, it's duplicate somehow as <code>www.example.com › https://www.example.com +Title</code>. For example, for "About Us" page (page title: About Us), Google index shows as: <code>www.example.com › https://www.example.comAbo... | [
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```
https://example.comAboutus
```
Then by checking the source code in the... |
128,476 | <p>I am currently making a website, and I would like to know if there is ever a space after <code><</code>. By this I mean is there anything like <code>< html></code> or is there no such thing as a "command" that has a space after <code><</code>?</p>
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> By this I mean is there anything like `< html>` or is there no such thing as a "command" that has a space after `<`?
>
>
>
No, you cannot have a *space* immediately after the `<` (less-than sign) in an HTML element's opening *start tag*.
From the [HTML spec](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#... |
128,879 | <p>I understand that the doctype at the very start of any page has this attribute:</p>
<pre><code><html lang="en-US">
</code></pre>
<p>This is obviously language-specific.</p>
<p>What I am wondering is, rather than create multiple pages for different languages, can I just simply add this HTML attribute: </p>
... | [
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```
<html lang="en-US">
```
This is obviously language-specific.
What I am wondering is, rather than create multiple pages for different languages, can I just simply add this HTML attribute:
```
<p lang="hi">नमस्ते</p>
```
"hi" is t... | You can use Javascript to add SEO meta data dynamically and than implanet dunamic rendering of your website this will help google crawl your page easily. visit this site for more info:
<https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/dynamic-rendering> |
128,952 | <p>If I have a section of text with Hebrew characters:</p>
<pre><code><p>
אאאאא <q>הללויה</q> פֿון לענאָרד כּהן אויף ייִדיש
</p>
<p>
<q>הללויה</q> פֿון לענאָרד כּהן אויף ייִדיש
</p>
</code></pre>
<p>when the <code><q>…</q></code> is surrounded ... | [
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```
<p>
אאאאא <q>הללויה</q> פֿון לענאָרד כּהן אויף ייִדיש
</p>
<p>
<q>הללויה</q> פֿון לענאָרד כּהן אויף ייִדיש
</p>
```
when the `<q>…</q>` is surrounded by other Hebrew text (the first line with the extra "אאאאא"), it works fine. But if the quote beg... | Google doesn't want to index anything on your site that looks like search results. See [Matt Cutts: Search results in search results](https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/search-results-in-search-results/). You should using some mechanism to keep Google from indexing the results of a search. As such, this JavaScript implemen... |
128,955 | <h2>Question:</h2>
<p>How should I approach <code><link></code>-ing a web document to <strong>three or more</strong> separate social media accounts, residing on one or more social media platforms (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc.)?</p>
<hr />
<h2>Exposition:</h2>
<p>In the <code><head></code> of each articl... | [
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---------
How should I approach `<link>`-ing a web document to **three or more** separate social media accounts, residing on one or more social media platforms (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc.)?
---
Exposition:
-----------
In the `<head>` of each article page on a given website, I would like to indicate ... | If your goal is to cover the most social media platforms, I would recommend using [Open Graph](https://ogp.me/) tags and getting used to their limitations. The Open Graph standard is supported by Twitter, Facebook, and many other social media sites. If you specifically want Twitter to show the twitter account of the au... |
128,963 | <p>I want to prevent my site from being indexed and listed by Google. So I follow the instructions in <a href="https://yoast.com/prevent-site-being-indexed/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://yoast.com/prevent-site-being-indexed/</a> and add:</p>
<pre><code>Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow"
</code></pre>
<p... | [
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```
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow"
```
to my .htaccess. Now how to verify that my site is not indexed? Is there a way to do so?
Thanks | As *A Biron* mentioned, after you've verified that the `noindex` directive is properly written, use Search Console's [coverage tool](https://search.google.com/search-console/index) to look at the number of "valid" indexed pages.
If there are still results, either wait for Google to re-crawl your site on its own, or us... |
129,100 | <p>I'm trying to set up User-ID tracking so that my User Explorer can show user ids instead of anonymous ids. I followed the instructions here:</p>
<p><a href="https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3123666?hl=en" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3123666?hl=en</a></p>
<p>Whe... | [
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<https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3123666?hl=en>
When I go to my User ID View, the real time reports always shows zero, and my Behaviour>User Explorer always says the... | The following code worked:
```
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html dir="ltr">
<head>
<!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics -->
<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-5315469-12"></script>
<script>
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}... |
129,108 | <p>I'm new to SEO and not sure how exactly google crawler works</p>
<p>If I use the following format for URL:</p>
<pre><code>example.com/category/id/name
</code></pre>
<p>The content of the page is loaded by only the id part, the other parts of URL are for SEO.</p>
<p>No matter what I put in category or name, the p... | [
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If I use the following format for URL:
```
example.com/category/id/name
```
The content of the page is loaded by only the id part, the other parts of URL are for SEO.
No matter what I put in category or name, the page will still load as far as the id is ... | I'd suggest you spend some more time reading URLs and SEO here, as I think you'll find many related questions and answers that you will find helpful.
Regarding googlebot, most URLs are found by crawling hyperlinks, not sitemaps (see [The Sitemap Paradox](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/4803/the-sitemap-... |
129,172 | <p>I've added this card data to <a href="https://help-service-parts.fireflysemantics.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this site</a>:</p>
<pre><code>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<meta name="description" content="Firefly Semantics Long Lead Time Capital Intensive Low ... | [
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```
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<meta name="description" content="Firefly Semantics Long Lead Time Capital Intensive Low Demand Service Parts Profit Optimization Help Center">
<me... | Since WebP is an efficient file format, and Google serves up a lot of images to users, Google has a vested interest in getting WebP supported by all major browsers so that they no longer have to serve up less efficient JPG and PNG images.
The best path to get WebP supported by browsers is to get a large proportion of ... |
129,316 | <p>My server is getting around 3,000 requests per an hour from a bot identifying itself as "MJ12bot".</p>
<p>The URLs its hitting are coming form a 301 redirect, and are invalid on my new web application.</p>
<p>Strangely though, some of the urls its hitting are at my login endpoint.</p>
<p>How can I determine if th... | [
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] | My server is getting around 3,000 requests per an hour from a bot identifying itself as "MJ12bot".
The URLs its hitting are coming form a 301 redirect, and are invalid on my new web application.
Strangely though, some of the urls its hitting are at my login endpoint.
How can I determine if these requests are legitim... | MJ12Bot is a [bot developed by Majestic](https://mj12bot.com/), that's designed to gather information about your site for their proprietary backlink checker and keyword products.
It's supposed to adhere to the `robots.txt` standard. There should be no issue with blocking it like so:
```
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: ... |
129,379 | <p>I have a WordPress website for a business. And they have many pages, Custom Posts, etc. And they do have a Blog also.</p>
<p>At present their blog urls are like this:</p>
<pre><code>Main page for blog: example.com/blog
A blog post page: example.com/my-article-about-a-random-topic
</code></pre>
<p>My question is... | [
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At present their blog urls are like this:
```
Main page for blog: example.com/blog
A blog post page: example.com/my-article-about-a-random-topic
```
My question is, if I change the permalink struc... | If you are going to change the already existing URL / permalink on an existing website, you can expect a dip in traffic after having to redirect it (301).
On the question whether you should do this change or not: that's entirely up to you. If you think that "blog" is meaningful for your users or will improve your SEO... |
129,387 | <p>I have a website that wants to link to a 1000+ pages on my website (because they are all pages that extend the information on his website), but we are both afraid that this might have a negative effect on our SEO.</p>
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So, website 1 has some information and content and wants to deliver more information by linking to websit... | If you are going to change the already existing URL / permalink on an existing website, you can expect a dip in traffic after having to redirect it (301).
On the question whether you should do this change or not: that's entirely up to you. If you think that "blog" is meaningful for your users or will improve your SEO... |
129,415 | <p>I have a Wordpress 5.4x website. I have installed Yoast 13.x SEO plugin into it and it's configured OK.</p>
<p>I also have breadcrumbs on my site using this Yoast plugin. To hide the title of the post in the breadcrumb's row, I have the following hack in WP's functions.php:</p>
<pre><code>function remove_breadcrumb_... | [
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I also have breadcrumbs on my site using this Yoast plugin. To hide the title of the post in the breadcrumb's row, I have the following hack in WP's functions.php:
```
function remove_breadcrumb_title( $link_output... | In this case, you don't need to change the code for it to work in new upgrades of Yoast SEO. But, there may be a change of code in other major future upgrades of the plugin.
In that case, you need to check the official Yoast website for updates or if your problem isn't listed there, you would need to contact them dire... |
129,506 | <p>I have set up a BIMI record for my business, but when checking with '<a href="https://www.mailkit.com/resources/bimi-inspector" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.mailkit.com/resources/bimi-inspector</a>' I am told that my BIMI record is valid:</p>
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```
default._bimi.domain.co.uk 3600 IN TXT "v=BIMI1;l=https://domain.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Logo.svg;"
```
The inspector flags up 2 errors:
* SVG... | On a side note in regards to validation failures:
I've done some extensive testing on urls that contain query strings such as `?color=000` and they are returning as failed on nearly half of the validators out there including **mxtoolbox**.
This is just a weakness in their parsers that don't understand a common case o... |
129,510 | <p>I am running a query in PHPMyAdmin. The query is fine. it's showing the correct result.</p>
<p>I want to export that result in a CSV file. It's not on the local server. It's on the webserver</p>
<p>This is my query</p>
<pre><code>SELECT notices.id, notices.gazette_notice_id, notices.notice_code, notices.company_n... | [
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I want to export that result in a CSV file. It's not on the local server. It's on the webserver
This is my query
```
SELECT notices.id, notices.gazette_notice_id, notices.notice_code, notices.company_number, notices.publication_d... | Previously answered correctly here:
<https://serverfault.com/a/435443>
The answer:
1. Execute your sql query in the SQL tab of phpMyAdmin.
2. After execution, scroll down the page and look for “Query results operations”
3. Click “Export” link from the above and you will get the page to export all the results of the q... |
129,573 | <p>I have google analytics in my website like this :</p>
<pre><code><!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics -->
<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-xxxxxxxx-1"></script>
<script>
window.dataLayer=window.dataLayer||[];function gtag(){dataLayer.push(argum... | [
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```
<!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics -->
<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-xxxxxxxx-1"></script>
<script>
window.dataLayer=window.dataLayer||[];function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments)}
gtag('js',new Date());gtag('con... | you can leave the global site tag tracking code snippet on your site, just do not also configure tags for GA pageview tracking within GTM.
If it were me, I would remove the global site tag tracking code snippet and configure tags for GA tracking within the google tag manager container.
Bit of extra information:
>
... |
129,617 | <p>I am trying to use Apache rewrite to turn something like</p>
<pre><code>https://www.example.com/sub/?v1=123&v2=456
</code></pre>
<p>into </p>
<pre><code>https://www.example.com/sub/?v1=789&v2=456
</code></pre>
<p>i.e. changing v1 to a specific value and keeping v2. In the real case, there are more param... | [
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```
https://www.example.com/sub/?v1=123&v2=456
```
into
```
https://www.example.com/sub/?v1=789&v2=456
```
i.e. changing v1 to a specific value and keeping v2. In the real case, there are more parameters.
I have
```
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)v1=1... | >
>
> ```
> RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)v1=123&v2=(\d+).*$
> RewriteRule ^sub/$ sub/?v1=789&v2=%1 [NE]
>
> ```
>
>
You are using the wrong backreference in the *substitution* string. You have 2 capturing subgroups in the preceding condition, so you would need to use `%2`, not `%1` as you have done. `%1` is a... |
129,643 | <p>I've got a website (Wordpress blog, custom .net domain, hosted in Germany) that I've submitted via the Baidu webmaster tools, via all of the available tools, that is, direct URL submission, sitemaps and the JavaScript snippet that auto-submits new links. For all of the manual submissions there have been no errors a... | [
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If you can't provide a fully translated Mandarin version for your Wordpress site, try adding this to your html:
```html
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Language" CONTENT="... |
129,683 | <p>Problem:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>We're seeing a lot of traffic from <strong>(direct) / (none)</strong> in GA whenever a Facebook Ads campaign is launched — it's always the top source/medium pair.</p></li>
<li><p>In second place, there's some <strong>fb / Facebook_Mobile_Feed</strong> etc. showing up, so it's definitely reg... | [
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* We're seeing a lot of traffic from **(direct) / (none)** in GA whenever a Facebook Ads campaign is launched — it's always the top source/medium pair.
* In second place, there's some **fb / Facebook\_Mobile\_Feed** etc. showing up, so it's definitely registering. The direct drops a lot as soon as campaigns a... | To answer your question: no, looks like that's not the cause.
It wouldn't be the tracking parameters because you mentioned that some conversions are being picked up, and others not. If it was the parameters, it'd be absolute: either always worked, or always broke.
I think there's something wrong with your GTM/pixel o... |
129,709 | <p>I'm running a Wordpress blog that has an issue with HTTPS redirect. Except home page, no other URL is being redirected to HTTPS if you visit via HTTP.</p>
<p>I want to redirect all HTTP traffic to HTTPS. Currently, only the Home page(<a href="http://www.example.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.example.com<... | [
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I want to redirect all HTTP traffic to HTTPS. Currently, only the Home page(<http://www.example.com>) is being redirected to HTTPS if you try with HTTP.
but if you vis... | Your HTTPS rewrite rule never gets executed because it is after `RewriteRule . /index.php [L]`. That rule matches all URL paths and is the last rule executed for them because of the `L` flag.
To make that redirect rule work, simply move it to the top of the *.htaccess* file.
WordPress itself does some redirects. What... |
129,725 | <p>A commonly recognised <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_icon" rel="nofollow noreferrer">share icon</a> looks like this:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z8WpJ.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z8WpJ.png" alt="Share Icon"></a></p>
<p>I'm guessing there must be (s... | [
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[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z8WpJ.png)
I'm guessing there must be (surely) a Unicode symbol out there for this, but so far - despite pretty thorough searching - I've come up... | While the `share` symbol is not in the Unicode range, maybe this workaround will help you: <http://jsfiddle.net/chillybang/a7v5obqj/>
**HTML**
```
<span class="share"><</span>
```
**CSS**
```
.share {
font-weight: bold;
position: relative;
}
.share:before {
content: ".";
font-size: 2.2em;
po... |
129,735 | <p>I want to use this way to add an ads segment on my pages:</p>
<pre><code>$("body").append(`
<ins class="adsbygoogle"
style="display:block"
data-ad-client="ca-pub-${pub_id}"
data-ad-slot="${slot_id}"
data-ad-format="auto"
data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>`);
(adsbygoogle=window.ads... | [
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```
$("body").append(`
<ins class="adsbygoogle"
style="display:block"
data-ad-client="ca-pub-${pub_id}"
data-ad-slot="${slot_id}"
data-ad-format="auto"
data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>`);
(adsbygoogle=window.adsbygoogle||[]).push({});
`... | While the `share` symbol is not in the Unicode range, maybe this workaround will help you: <http://jsfiddle.net/chillybang/a7v5obqj/>
**HTML**
```
<span class="share"><</span>
```
**CSS**
```
.share {
font-weight: bold;
position: relative;
}
.share:before {
content: ".";
font-size: 2.2em;
po... |
129,767 | <p>For the purpose of playing with the words I have H1 tag with different styles. Moreover those styles are applied two to one word. For example:</p>
<pre><code><h1>Some<span>thing</span> dif<span>ferent</span></h1>
</code></pre>
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```
<h1>Some<span>thing</span> dif<span>ferent</span></h1>
```
So my question is. Is this ok for SEO and how do the search engine understand it?
```
1. Something different o... | Search engines should understand it as a h1 level heading: Something different.
Use of the `<span>` element in this example would appear to be proper.
>
> The HTML `<span>` element is a generic inline container for phrasing
> content, which does not inherently represent anything. **It can be used
> to group ele... |
129,798 | <p>I added the JSON-LD code to my site but search bar did not appear. What is the reason for this? am i doing something wrong?</p>
<pre><code> <script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "WebSite",
"url": "https://www.example.com/",
"po... | [
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```
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "WebSite",
"url": "https://www.example.com/",
"potentialAction": {
... | Google only displays the sitelinks search box for your domain if they feel like it, even if your markup is well-formed.
[From Google's guidelines for searchbox structured data](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/sitelinks-searchbox):
>
> **Important:** Google doesn't guarantee that a sitelinks sear... |
129,942 | <p>I have the .htaccess file in the root public_html directory. It contains the following:</p>
<pre><code>Options -Indexes
Redirect / /dali
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^api/(.*[^/])/?$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}:5000/$1 [R=301,L]
</code></pre>
<p>I wished this to forward all requests from <code>http://192.168.1.144/api/so... | [
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```
Options -Indexes
Redirect / /dali
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^api/(.*[^/])/?$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}:5000/$1 [R=301,L]
```
I wished this to forward all requests from `http://192.168.1.144/api/something` to `http://192.168.1.... | Google only displays the sitelinks search box for your domain if they feel like it, even if your markup is well-formed.
[From Google's guidelines for searchbox structured data](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/sitelinks-searchbox):
>
> **Important:** Google doesn't guarantee that a sitelinks sear... |
130,047 | <p>I'm setting up a new Drupal 9 site.</p>
<p>I have added Google Analytics via Google Tag Manager.</p>
<p>I'm using Universal Analytics and these are my tags:</p>
<ul>
<li>Track link clicks</li>
<li>Track page views</li>
<li>Track scroll depth</li>
</ul>
<p>When I run page speed on my site, the only identified "Op... | [
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I have added Google Analytics via Google Tag Manager.
I'm using Universal Analytics and these are my tags:
* Track link clicks
* Track page views
* Track scroll depth
When I run page speed on my site, the only identified "Opportunity" is to **Removed unused Javascript**, which is... | Google Tag Manager makes easy and quick to set up Google Analytics goals. If you need tracking only page views, link clicks and scroll depth, you can do it without GTM.
1. How to [add analytics.js to your site](https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs#the_google_analytics_tag) or add al... |
130,053 | <p>The regex is easy for 404s in a typical Apache log:</p>
<pre><code>grep ' 404 ' access_log
</code></pre>
<p>But many are coming from bots, which I don't care about. I'm looking for actual people hitting 404s. So I'm trying to negate the term 'bot', which comes later in the line, but nothing's working. Any ideas?</... | [
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"text": "<p>This can be done using the -v (for --invert-match) option of grep:</p>\n\n<p><code>grep -v \"excluded_word\" ac... | 2020/06/15 | [
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```
grep ' 404 ' access_log
```
But many are coming from bots, which I don't care about. I'm looking for actual people hitting 404s. So I'm trying to negate the term 'bot', which comes later in the line, but nothing's working. Any ideas? | This can be done using the -v (for --invert-match) option of grep:
`grep -v "excluded_word" access_log | grep ' 404 '`
`grep -v "excluded_word" access_log` will return all the lines that don't have the unwanted word and then it is piped to `grep ' 404 '` to list only lines with that pattern.
Since an access\_log can... |
130,070 | <p>I had URLs like this: <code>example.com/post/dkKE_wd3jJ</code></p>
<p>For <em>SEO</em> reasons I decided to add some text:</p>
<pre><code>example.com/post/dkKE_wd3jJ/best_funny_videos
</code></pre>
<p>But I noticed that the alphanumeric <em>ID</em> looks weird in front, and this order is more user friendly:</p>
<pre... | [
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For *SEO* reasons I decided to add some text:
```
example.com/post/dkKE_wd3jJ/best_funny_videos
```
But I noticed that the alphanumeric *ID* looks weird in front, and this order is more user friendly:
```
example.com/post/best_funny_videos/dkKE_wd3jJ
```
But no... | If you are going to use a slash (`/`) in your URL, you should have content when the URL is truncated to that point. A slash in the URL commonly represents a directory. Both users and bots often shorten URLs to the slash looking for an index page.
An alternative is to use dashes: `/post-best_funny_videos-dkKE_wd3jJ`. D... |
130,124 | <p>I checked my website on Google Console and I found something strange. I checked the links of my website in the console and in the box that shows Top linking sites. There are two link that when I open them on browser, there is nothing in the websites. The sites are completely unknown for me. Does any one know what ... | [
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] | I checked my website on Google Console and I found something strange. I checked the links of my website in the console and in the box that shows Top linking sites. There are two link that when I open them on browser, there is nothing in the websites. The sites are completely unknown for me. Does any one know what are t... | If you are going to use a slash (`/`) in your URL, you should have content when the URL is truncated to that point. A slash in the URL commonly represents a directory. Both users and bots often shorten URLs to the slash looking for an index page.
An alternative is to use dashes: `/post-best_funny_videos-dkKE_wd3jJ`. D... |
130,127 | <p>I have been checking the errors of my website in the google console , and I fount it face an error <code>Googlebot blocked by robots.txt</code> and it shows a link <a href="https://static.doubleclick.net/instream/ad_status.js" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://static.doubleclick.net/instream/ad_status.js</a> , th... | [
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] | I have been checking the errors of my website in the google console , and I fount it face an error `Googlebot blocked by robots.txt` and it shows a link <https://static.doubleclick.net/instream/ad_status.js> , that I did not used in my project. what is it ? my robots is this
```
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
```
How cou... | I suspect you are showing us the robots.txt file for the link that is blocked. robots.txt files vary per site. In this case <https://static.doubleclick.net/robots.txt>.
doubleclick are themselves saying, don't crawl our site. That is fine as Googlebot is not interested in ads. Quite a few third party tracking systems ... |
130,225 | <p>One of my clients is a digital gaming marketplace. For about 1.5 years, he enjoyed aggragateRating star markup on Google SERP. I implemented nested aggragateRating within their product markup (without offers markup). Their 6 other competitors also have similar markup on SERP.</p>
<p>My client has 3.5 star ratings on... | [
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My client has 3.5 star ratings on TrustPil... | Google can stop showing rich results for returned webpages for any number of reasons but most of the time Google will allow valid rich results to happen in some SERPs. I would only worry about Hypotheses 5, 6, 8 as the other ones are easily debunked, but there are a couple of others you left out. For instance, on March... |
130,236 | <p>I've got a website <code>coolevent.example.com</code>, which I want <strong>completely</strong> removed from Google and Bing index.
What is the fastest and most reliable way to get rid of it?</p>
<p>Should I remove the website files (and subdomain) or keep it alive and just set all pages to <code>noindex</code>?
I'v... | [
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] | I've got a website `coolevent.example.com`, which I want **completely** removed from Google and Bing index.
What is the fastest and most reliable way to get rid of it?
Should I remove the website files (and subdomain) or keep it alive and just set all pages to `noindex`?
I've got Google and Bing webmaster tools, so I ... | If you are fully deleting your site, it can be a one step process:
1. Delete all files and the domain from the server.
Googlebot and Bingbot will remove the pages from the search index the next time they crawl them and get an error. It could take a couple weeks for all the pages of your site to be removed from search... |
130,268 | <p>We created a hosting domain for the videos, and embedded them on our website using iframes. Will that stand in the way of the Google crawler indexing our videos in Google Video Search?</p>
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1. Delete all files and the domain from the server.
Googlebot and Bingbot will remove the pages from the search index the next time they crawl them and get an error. It could take a couple weeks for all the pages of your site to be removed from search... |
130,365 | <p>We host a large number of sites that have a large number of catalog pages. We would like to slow down several bots because the traffic is quite excessive from those bots. Specifically, we get quite a bit of traffic from BingBot and SEMRushBot that we'd like to slow down. The information pages for both bots say that ... | [
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"text": "<p>Thanks for the question and welcome to this great community of like-minded individuals. You're query... | 2020/07/02 | [
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130,381 | <p>If I have a block quote</p>
<pre class="lang-html prettyprint-override"><code><blockquote>
<p>“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”</p>
</blockquote>
</code></pre>
<p>Does it matter or impact seo if I do or don't include quote characters <code>“</code>, <code>”</code>with the quote... | [
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] | If I have a block quote
```html
<blockquote>
<p>“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”</p>
</blockquote>
```
Does it matter or impact seo if I do or don't include quote characters `“`, `”`with the quote?
```html
<blockquote>
<p>Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.</p>
</blockquote>
```
Will bloc... | In terms of SEO, this should make no difference whatsoever.
Search engines rank content based on many factors, but whether the content is wrapped in quotes is not something that matters. |
130,399 | <p>I have a domain name which was registered with a registrar called enameco. It is due for renewal soon. Apparently the original registrar - enameco - do not exist anymore - atleast the original site is no more in action</p>
<p>When I do a WhoIS on my domain, here is what I get - (xxx are replaced with some private... | [
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When I do a WhoIS on my domain, here is what I get - (xxx are replaced with some private info). Spec... | I resolved the issue. It appears that Endurance owns multiple reseller registrars under them - and dint know which one to contact.
I tried the my luck with few of their reseller site's support (all the sites look the same - which was comforting) but dint have much luck.
Eventually figured that "dotster" is my new reg... |
130,420 | <p>Currently I have a website with multiple domains, each domain for a specific language. However, I also have sub folders with each language. For example:</p>
<pre><code>www.en_site.example/en
www.en_site.example/fr
www.fr_site.example/en
www.fr_site.example/fr
</code></pre>
<p>And of course the <code>www.en_s... | [
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```
www.en_site.example/en
www.en_site.example/fr
www.fr_site.example/en
www.fr_site.example/fr
```
And of course the `www.en_site.example/fr` domain is the... | You shouldn't be using `x-default` because it is for a catch all page to direct users to the correct language. See: [Introducing "x-default hreflang" for international landing pages](https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2013/04/x-default-hreflang-for-international-pages)
You should always use the country, or you ... |
130,650 | <p>I have a project and I would like to disallow everything starting with root.</p>
<p>From what I understand I think I can do so by doing this</p>
<pre><code>Disallow: /
Disallow: /*
</code></pre>
<p>However I would like to allow 4 subdirectories and everything under those subdirectories.</p>
<p>This is how I think it... | [
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From what I understand I think I can do so by doing this
```
Disallow: /
Disallow: /*
```
However I would like to allow 4 subdirectories and everything under those subdirectories.
This is how I think it should be done
```
Allow: /directo... | For `MedicalOrganisation`, I agree with your assessment. It is not a sub-type of `LocalBusiness`, which is a requirement in Google's [specification](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/local-business). But `MedicalBusiness`, as you say, is a sub-type of `LocalBusiness` and so should work, as many other... |
130,725 | <p>I've been migrating to a new host (AWS Lightsail with a Ubuntu instance) and while everything is working just fine I'm running into a quirk that I can't quite figure out.</p>
<p>I've enabled HTTP2 on my virtual server and confirmed that files are using that protocol (via DevTools and http2.pro):</p>
<p><a href="http... | [
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I've enabled HTTP2 on my virtual server and confirmed that files are using that protocol (via DevTools and http2.pro):
[![HTTP2 working in DevTools... | This has to do with how Cloudflare connects to servers. Although it does serve the client via HTTP2 (or HTTP3), it still connects to the server itself via HTTP1.1.
>
> Cloudflare only uses HTTP/1.x between the origin web server and Cloudflare.
>
>
>
<https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168076-Are-... |
130,738 | <p>For a site that carries "lists" of products, what is the best approach to using canonicals?</p>
<p><code>example.com/green-watches.php</code> - this is the MAIN page (by main, it means that this should be indexed in Search results, and this should be the landing page). It will carry list of FIRST 10 produc... | [
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`example.com/green-watches.php` - this is the MAIN page (by main, it means that this should be indexed in Search results, and this should be the landing page). It will carry list of FIRST 10 products (i.e. first 10 green-watche... | Check out how **[Google recommends using the canonical meta link](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066)**:
>
> **Why should I choose a canonical URL?**
>
>
> There are a number of reasons why
> you would want to explicitly choose a canonical page in a set of
> duplicate/similar pages:
>
>
> **To sp... |
130,795 | <p>I have several hundreds of pages with good SERPs. I have a requirement to add a common sub section (kind of note) with a single heading and and a couple of lines beneath the heading. I will be using a h3 tag for the sub heading. However, this sub section makes sense when added below navigation menu and above the h1 ... | [
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"text": "<p>Only <code>?</code> indicates a query parameter; adding <code>f</code> to the exclusion list would remove <code... | 2020/08/01 | [
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You should be able to do this with a filter, though. Add a new filter of type Custom > Search and Replace, using the field Request URI and the search string `/f/.*`.
Filters are destr... |
130,797 | <p>My page has a lot of sections. Each section has a unique anchor tag like <code><h2 id="anchor-text"></code>.</p>
<p>Is it a good practice to link anchors to themselves <code><h2 id="anchor-text"><a href="#anchor-text">Title</a></h2></code>? Will it hurt SEO... | [
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Is it a good practice to link anchors to themselves `<h2 id="anchor-text"><a href="#anchor-text">Title</a></h2>`? Will it hurt SEO somehow? | Hurt? No reason why it would.
I just don't understand why you would want to do that in the first place.
What you can do which does have an impact is creating page-jumps and putting that at the beginning of an article (or as a floating sidebar) for quick navigation of an article:
Example:
```
<a href="/internallinks.... |
130,997 | <p>I want to use Load Balancer(2 nodes) for one my Drupal site. That means editor can't edit the site since edits will go to any node. Secondly comments can also be saved in either node.</p>
<p>Even if we edit the site locally and migrate the changes to all the nodes, sometimes there can be issue in which can one of th... | [
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"text": "<p>I believe you have two databases corresponding to the two nodes. Maybe you can move the database to a separat... | 2020/08/18 | [
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Even if we edit the site locally and migrate the changes to all the nodes, sometimes there can be issue in which can one of the nodes m... | What you are describing is **not cloaking**. Cloaking is serving different content to Googlebot based on the user-agent header. In the senario you describe, both users and Googlebot have the chance of seeing incorrect content. You are not trying to be sneaky and fool Googlebot by showing it something different from use... |
131,027 | <p>So, I have this suggestion by a client - asking me to break the title on every section into two tags. They want to replace <code><h*></code> tag with a combination of <code><h*></code> and <code><p></code> tag such that only very specific keywords in in the header tag and all the other words are in... | [
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So according to them I should rew... | This is a very unusual suggestion - I've never once seen any of the SEO experts even hint at something like this. It sounds like something that used to work years ago - a bit like keyword stuffing - and could be considered to be a "black hat" these days.
It certainly doesn't meet Google's (admittedly vague) guidelines... |
131,055 | <p>I have inherited an English/French static web site. The original developer created it so all the html files are in the root directory of the English domain and added "-fr" to the French file names, instead of setting up the English under the English domain and the French under the French domain (which we o... | [
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] | I have inherited an English/French static web site. The original developer created it so all the html files are in the root directory of the English domain and added "-fr" to the French file names, instead of setting up the English under the English domain and the French under the French domain (which we own).
This is... | You just need to address the DNS thing first.
Add A or AAAA record same in both domain names as it is the same server or even you can choose to work with one principal domain to just have the need to update only one domain name A record.
Example:
```
Domain1.tld(@) A 127.0.0.1
Domain2.tld(@) CNAME Doma... |
131,139 | <p>I understand that any "Client" (or "agent" or "user agent") interacts on the World Wide Web by this pattern:</p>
<pre><code>Client ⟶ Routers(1) ⟶ DNS server ⟶ Routers(2) ⟶ Web Server ⟶ SOME_WEB_PAGE_DATA ⟶ Client
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>By client (or "agent" or "user agent... | [
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```
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* By client (or "agent" or "user agent") I mean to a human or to a software (such as a World Wide Web browser)
... | That's a very confusing description of what happens, and is mixes up network traffic and different requests.
When a client makes an HTTP request for a URL with a hostname in it, it must first convert the hostname to an IP address. It does this by using DNS, typically it will check a local cache first, then contact its... |
131,211 | <p>I understand that the geolocation of a server impacts search engine rankings. But does server time affect SEO in any manner? For example, assume that my server is located in the US. If I set the timezone to a different country for administrative purposes (to help an offshore team working from that country) does it a... | [
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] | I understand that the geolocation of a server impacts search engine rankings. But does server time affect SEO in any manner? For example, assume that my server is located in the US. If I set the timezone to a different country for administrative purposes (to help an offshore team working from that country) does it affe... | Unless your pages use PHP or another server side language to write the date into them, Google should have no idea what time zone your server is set to.
HTTP headers do have the date and time, but they should be in GMT, not in the server's local time zone. The [syntax for the `Date` header is](https://developer.mozilla... |
131,250 | <p>I recently created an Ubuntu server and installed LEMP stack after which I hosted my website on the server using WordPress.</p>
<p>But after sometime, I notices some domains ranking in Google and loading my website.</p>
<p>Is there any way through which I can stop them from doing this?</p>
<p>Previously, I never fac... | [
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"text": "<p>It looks to me like your server is set up to redirect to HTTPS, which causes a certificate mi... | 2020/09/02 | [
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] | I recently created an Ubuntu server and installed LEMP stack after which I hosted my website on the server using WordPress.
But after sometime, I notices some domains ranking in Google and loading my website.
Is there any way through which I can stop them from doing this?
Previously, I never faced such issue.
For r... | To improve security, prevent host header attacks, and preserve your search rankings, here is what I recommend:
### No default site
Simply drop all traffic not matching your genuine website. Before using the below config, execute the following example command on your server to generate self-signed "dummy" certificates... |
131,348 | <p>I am trying to block access to a specific folder and all of its content. I use methods suggested on the Internet, but they do not work.</p>
<p>This method does nothing:</p>
<pre><code>RewriteRule ^folder_name/?$ - [F,L]
ErrorDocument 403 default
</code></pre>
<p>And this one brings internal server error:</p>
<pre><c... | [
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This method does nothing:
```
RewriteRule ^folder_name/?$ - [F,L]
ErrorDocument 403 default
```
And this one brings internal server error:
```
<Directory "/folder_name/">
deny fro... | I found a method that works:
```
RedirectMatch 404 ^/folder_name/.*$
``` |
131,460 | <p>An article in the Wall Street Journal (<em>wsj.com</em>) displays HTML special character code instead of the actual character, the greater-than sign. Thus, instead of displaying <code>></code>, the article displays <code>&gt;</code>. This occurs (for me, at least) on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari (all latest ve... | [
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] | An article in the Wall Street Journal (*wsj.com*) displays HTML special character code instead of the actual character, the greater-than sign. Thus, instead of displaying `>`, the article displays `>`. This occurs (for me, at least) on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari (all latest versions with cache cleared).
My (limite... | >
> Thus, instead of displaying >, the article displays >. This occurs (for me, at least) on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari (all latest versions with cache cleared).
>
>
>
That is probably a software error where `>` was turned into `>` then that was turned into `&gt;` by some kind of duplicate encoding. You ca... |
131,483 | <p>When I use the Python package <code>newspaper3k</code> package and run the code</p>
<pre><code>import newspaper
paper = newspaper.build('http://abcnews.com', memoize_articles=False)
for url in paper.article_urls():
print(url)
</code></pre>
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```
import newspaper
paper = newspaper.build('http://abcnews.com', memoize_articles=False)
for url in paper.article_urls():
print(url)
```
I get a list of URLs for articles that I can download, in which both these URLs exist
* `http://abcnews.... | >
> Thus, instead of displaying >, the article displays >. This occurs (for me, at least) on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari (all latest versions with cache cleared).
>
>
>
That is probably a software error where `>` was turned into `>` then that was turned into `&gt;` by some kind of duplicate encoding. You ca... |
131,515 | <p>I'm working on my brand new website and I'm trying to make it as optimized as possible mainly for SEO.
In order to reach that goal, I'm trying to do best practices for it's hierarchy.</p>
<p>My website is hierarchy is as the following:</p>
<pre><code><html>
<head>
<!-- ... -->
</... | [
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In order to reach that goal, I'm trying to do best practices for it's hierarchy.
My website is hierarchy is as the following:
```
<html>
<head>
<!-- ... -->
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrappe... | >
> Thus, instead of displaying >, the article displays >. This occurs (for me, at least) on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari (all latest versions with cache cleared).
>
>
>
That is probably a software error where `>` was turned into `>` then that was turned into `&gt;` by some kind of duplicate encoding. You ca... |
131,849 | <p>Whilst looking for the right solution for me, I have been looking at the question here <a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/q/71900/">Using fonts on websites: Webfonts vs downloaded fonts</a>, and one of the answerers states:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The information given to you was seriously outdated—and unreal... | [
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>
> The information given to you was seriously outdated—and unrealistic, since most people cou... | Domain properties can't connect with GA for the moment.
To link with GSC with GA just added the URL of your website as property (you just need to add the actual URL of your website). Normally it's `https://example.com` or `https://www.example.com` |
131,886 | <p>I've noticed one bot in particular in our log files that rearranges query parameters when scanning our website. This got me thinking. Does allowing rearranging of query parameters trigger duplicate content penalties with legitimate bots? Because technically, there could be multiple urls that result in identical cont... | [
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In saying that, it's definitely not optimal to have duplicate pages with exactly the same content on them, and then rely on the canonical tag to get you out of trouble with the duplicate conten... |
131,972 | <p>I am IT for a company who hosts 600+ websites for individual businesses. So with that said, we manage analytics for these accounts as well. And for all but about 50, they only care about the basics, sessions, bounce rate etc etc so they just get a basic "view" of what's happening with their site. Being ... | [
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1. Create "Master" account
2. Create Account... |
132,311 | <p>My website right now is marginal for page loading speed on mobile. Originally written for desktop, I use a lot of images that are relatively high resolution, and only lightly compressed.</p>
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"text": "<p>The size of an image is proportional to square of the width. You get far more saving by reducing... | 2020/11/28 | [
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I'd like provide srcset images at various resolutions, but before I start, what are the optimum sizes, and how are they determined?
... | The size of an image is proportional to square of the width. You get far more saving by reducing from the largest size to the second largest size than by reducing anywhere further.
* 13002 = 1,690,000 (100%)
* 8002 = 640,000 (37%)
* 5002 = 250,000 (14%)
* 3502 = 122,500 (7%)
* 3002 = 90,000 (5%)
Users on mobile devic... |
132,345 | <p>I'm creating a website that is comparing stuff, let's say it compares programming languages for the sake of explaining my question.</p>
<p>I'm building a structure where the url/slug will contain the two languages the page is comparing. My goal is to rank high both on "C++ vs C#" and "C# vs C++".... | [
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I'm building a structure where the url/slug will contain the two languages the page is comparing. My goal is to rank high both on "C++ vs C#" and "C# vs C++".
The way I see it I have thr... | I recommend your third option. Have just one main page and use redirects for when users type in URLs that don't match the order. I chose this option with my currency conversion website (convert EUR and USD, with USD and EUR redirecting to it) and it has worked great for SEO. I recommend putting the two in alphabetic or... |