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132,427 | <p>In my web application I generate links in the following format:</p>
<pre><code>https://example.com/^token^
</code></pre>
<p>Each link according to my specs is sent via email and should not allow robots to scrape it. In order to avoid visits via robot I placed the following <code>robots.txt</code>:</p>
<pre><code>Use... | [
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] | In my web application I generate links in the following format:
```
https://example.com/^token^
```
Each link according to my specs is sent via email and should not allow robots to scrape it. In order to avoid visits via robot I placed the following `robots.txt`:
```
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
```
And on page's `<... | Incorrectly used meta tags
--------------------------
Instead of using two meta tags, you should put both values into a single tag. With two tags, some search engines may choose to obey only one of the two.
```
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
```
Robots.txt and robots meta tags are mutually exclusiv... |
132,458 | <p>I would like to have this new prerendering service I'm using NOT apply its magic to the homepage and basically only to pages that begin with <code>https://thechartcast.com/episodes/</code>. Below is the relevant section of htaccess that controls the URL rewrites for the service. I am kind of nervous about attempting... | [
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"text": "<p>You could add another <em>condition</em> to the top of the list of conditions. For example:</p>\n<pre><code>Rew... | 2020/12/10 | [
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```
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/episodes/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ....
:
```
The `RewriteRule` that follows will then only be applied when the requested URL starts with `/episodes/`. |
132,481 | <p>When running a Lighthouse check on my site, I received the following error under <strong>SEO</strong>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Links are not crawlable</strong></p>
<p>Search engines may use <code>href</code> attributes on links to crawl websites.
Ensure that the <code>href</code> attribute of anchor elements lin... | [
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"text": "<p>It seems that Lighthouse only complains if <code><a></code> is missing <code>href</code>, <stron... | 2020/12/13 | [
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] | When running a Lighthouse check on my site, I received the following error under **SEO**:
>
> **Links are not crawlable**
>
>
> Search engines may use `href` attributes on links to crawl websites.
> Ensure that the `href` attribute of anchor elements links to an
> appropriate destination, so more pages of the site ... | For this problem in Lighthouse 7.1.0, I use
```
<span id="main-content" tabindex="-1"></span>
```
and it works fine. |
132,497 | <p>I am having problems getting a virtual host to display includes. I am using XAMPP for Linux. I have tried "XBitHack on", which didn't work.</p>
<p>My index.html file looks like this:</p>
<pre><code><!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" class="no-js">
<head>
<meta na... | [
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] | I am having problems getting a virtual host to display includes. I am using XAMPP for Linux. I have tried "XBitHack on", which didn't work.
My index.html file looks like this:
```
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" class="no-js">
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-... | The error was in the vhost file. Error I received: `"Expected </VirtualHost> but saw </Directory>"`. Deleted the `</Directory>`, replaced it with `</VirtualHost>`. Everything seems to work fine now. (But I do feel stupid.)
I appreciate all your help. Thanks! |
132,570 | <p>What is the correct/recommended way from a SEO point of view to pass multiple parameter values for a single key in a URL.</p>
<p>e.g. my online store sells the watches that I'd like filtering using facets and the URL changes.
Available watch colors are:</p>
<ul>
<li>black</li>
<li>navy-blue</li>
<li>pinkish-red</li>... | [
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"text": "<p>I think most of the approaches in the OP request are less then ideal, if not problematic from an SEO POV.</p... | 2020/12/16 | [
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] | What is the correct/recommended way from a SEO point of view to pass multiple parameter values for a single key in a URL.
e.g. my online store sells the watches that I'd like filtering using facets and the URL changes.
Available watch colors are:
* black
* navy-blue
* pinkish-red
* shades-of-the-forest
* white
Googl... | You shouldn't try to make faceted navigation SEO friendly. No matter how you do it, it isn't going to be. Faceted navigation is for users once they get to your site, not for getting your content indexed in search engines.
Faceted navigation is not appropriate for search engines because it produces a near infinite numb... |
132,592 | <p>i have many Wordpress posts with over 200 comments, so i need to improve the speed of these posts.</p>
<p>In particolar, i want to improve PageSpeed Insights score, because now it reports "<strong>Avoid an excessive DOM size</strong>", caused by comments.</p>
<p>I try the plugin <a href="https://wordpress.... | [
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"text": "<ul>\n<li>order comments by votes or most recent first</li>\n<li>paginate content</li>\n<li>nofollow the... | 2020/12/23 | [
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] | i have many Wordpress posts with over 200 comments, so i need to improve the speed of these posts.
In particolar, i want to improve PageSpeed Insights score, because now it reports "**Avoid an excessive DOM size**", caused by comments.
I try the plugin [Lazy load for comments](https://wordpress.org/plugins/lazy-load-... | * order comments by votes or most recent first
* paginate content
* nofollow the pagination and
* noindex the component pages.
That way you can still show the full count of comments (to support your claims of popularity of the content) w/o a slow page 1 and w/o having indexed and even crawlable component pages that on... |
132,656 | <p>I have this web app that is accessible through those different URLs.</p>
<pre><code>URL_1: www.mycustomdomain.com // THIS IS MY CUSTOM DOMAIN (PUBLIC TO THE USERS)
URL_2: www.my-project.firebaseapp.com // THIS IS A DEFAULT FIREBASE URL
URL_3: my-project.web.app // THIS IS A DEFAULT FIREB... | [
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"text": "<p>It happen that Googlebot discovers the alternate URL. The official way if you want your application to be accessi... | 2020/12/30 | [
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] | I have this web app that is accessible through those different URLs.
```
URL_1: www.mycustomdomain.com // THIS IS MY CUSTOM DOMAIN (PUBLIC TO THE USERS)
URL_2: www.my-project.firebaseapp.com // THIS IS A DEFAULT FIREBASE URL
URL_3: my-project.web.app // THIS IS A DEFAULT FIREBASE URL
```
... | It happen that Googlebot discovers the alternate URL. The official way if you want your application to be accessible through all those URLs for internal purposes, is to use canonical links as you suggest.
The other way is to simply issue 301 Permanent Redirect so that all traffic uses the official URLs. This will also... |
132,737 | <p>I have a hobby website, where a php script presents a html page displaying information for a particular surname. I am capable of displaying information for over 100,000 surnames. So the script is called like this to generate the http output:</p>
<pre><code>/surname.php?surname=Smith
</code></pre>
<p>The script acces... | [
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```
/surname.php?surname=Smith
```
The script accesses a database to acquir... | There are 3 options to my knowledge:
1. If it's a Robots.txt compliant crawler, you can ask it to delay the requests by adding the **Crawl-delay** directive to your robots.txt file:
```none
User-agent: Botname
Disallow: /private/
Crawl-delay: 10
```
2. If your hosting allows and/or you have a content firewall/fronte... |
132,776 | <p>I have a <code>/products</code> page.</p>
<p>In that page, users may use filters to select the products they want to see.</p>
<p>Those filters will work using query strings like: <code>/products?brands=X,Y&size=1,2</code> and so on.</p>
<p>I don't want good to index any of the filtered pages. I just need the roo... | [
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] | I have a `/products` page.
In that page, users may use filters to select the products they want to see.
Those filters will work using query strings like: `/products?brands=X,Y&size=1,2` and so on.
I don't want good to index any of the filtered pages. I just need the root `/products` crawled and index.
Through my we... | There are 3 options to my knowledge:
1. If it's a Robots.txt compliant crawler, you can ask it to delay the requests by adding the **Crawl-delay** directive to your robots.txt file:
```none
User-agent: Botname
Disallow: /private/
Crawl-delay: 10
```
2. If your hosting allows and/or you have a content firewall/fronte... |
132,847 | <p>We allow users to embed our images on their websites.</p>
<p>This looks like this...</p>
<pre><code><img src="https://example.com/happy-dog.jpg" alt="Happy Dog" />
</code></pre>
<p>Note that there is no anchor tag surrounding it - does this mean that the image is just considered a resource ... | [
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This looks like this...
```
<img src="https://example.com/happy-dog.jpg" alt="Happy Dog" />
```
Note that there is no anchor tag surrounding it - does this mean that the image is just considered a resource and not noted as a backlink? Or does the fact that the r... | Google counts other sites using your images in `<img src=` as a backlink for image search ranking purposes. That usage will pass pagerank to the image and cause the image to rank better in image search.
As far as I can tell, a hot-linked image like this won't help your site rank better in regular Google web search. An... |
132,851 | <p>I have:</p>
<pre><code>ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 2 years"
</code></pre>
<p>And let's say:</p>
<pre><code><filesMatch ".(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=31536000, public"
</filesMatch>
</code></pre>
<p>When will jpg files expi... | [
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] | I have:
```
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 2 years"
```
And let's say:
```
<filesMatch ".(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=31536000, public"
</filesMatch>
```
When will jpg files expire ? In 2 years or in one year (31536000 seconds) ? | >
>
> ```
> ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 2 years"
>
> ```
>
>
First... to clarify, this should probably be `image/jpeg`, not `image/jpg`. `image/jpeg` is the official mime-type for JPEG files. Check the `Content-Type` HTTP response header associated with this response. For instance, if your server is sending J... |
132,870 | <p>Here is my website structure (root):</p>
<pre><code>private
public
.htaccess
index.php
</code></pre>
<p>The htaccess file contains:</p>
<pre><code>RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ /index.php [L]
</code></pre>
<p>Having this said, all URLs point to <code>index.php</code></p>
<p>In th... | [
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```
private
public
.htaccess
index.php
```
The htaccess file contains:
```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ /index.php [L]
```
Having this said, all URLs point to `index.php`
In the `private` folder I also have a `.htaccess` file which contai... | This is technically possible, however, there is another "preferred" solution for "a CMS with a `public` folder and a `private` folder" (see below).
To summarise the requirements:
1. Allow requests for `/private/` or `/private/<something>` (where `<something>` is not a physical file in the `/private` subdirectory) to ... |
132,935 | <p>I thought that <code>example.com/about/</code> would serve <code>index.html</code> located in a directory called <code>about</code>, but if I change the address of the website to <code>example.com/about/index.html</code>, that page doesn't exist.</p>
<p>I have seen some websites remove the file extension from the na... | [
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I have seen some websites remove the file extension from the name of a page such as from `example.com/about.html` to... | There is no single correct answer but for many sites (including WordPress) this is index.php - and this file may or may not be located in the expected place.
From a web servers POV the default file(s) it looks for and serves is usually defined in the config. On Apache Servers the directive to control this typically Di... |
132,977 | <p>I have several domains sharing the same site and use a <code>default.asp</code> as the default file where I test the <code>SERVER_NAME</code> variable and use <code>Response.Redirect</code> to redirect to the home page of the site requested.</p>
<p>The problem is that this type of redirect causes <code>302</code> st... | [
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The problem is that this type of redirect causes `302` status code. Even when having a rewrite section in my *... | I'm assuming you're using classic ASP (not .NET) since you refer to default.asp and not default.aspx.
Instead of using `response.redirect` and counting on your web config file to change from a 302 to a 301, try adding the 301 to the response object before redirecting the user.
```
<%
Response.Status="301 Moved Perman... |
133,001 | <p>Instead of manually typing in domain names in a domain search registry to see if they are available,</p>
<p>How to program a bot to run through a pre-specified list of .com domain names by searching each one in sequence at a registrar like namecheap.com? For example, give the bot a list of 8-letter English names, an... | [
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How to program a bot to run through a pre-specified list of .com domain names by searching each one in sequence at a registrar like namecheap.com? For example, give the bot a list of 8-letter English names, and search ... | Here's a bash script for it. Put your domain names to check in `domains.txt`, one domain per line, then run the script.
```
#!/bin/bash
DOMAINS=~/domains.txt
while read -r domain; do
whois $domain | grep -qci "No match"
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
# found
echo $domain
fi
done < $DOMAINS
```
This prints out... |
133,101 | <p>I am looking for any advice with regards to the SEO / Usability impact of the following.</p>
<p>On the ecommerce site, there are category pages that can be navigated to through various methods. Essentially this would mean that there would be category pages that would have duplicate content, and would also require du... | [
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On the ecommerce site, there are category pages that can be navigated to through various methods. Essentially this would mean that there would be category pages that would have duplicate content, and would also require duplicate e... | In order to avoid Google's accusation of **[duplicate content](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guidelines/duplicate-content)**, you need to specify **[canonical](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/consolidate-duplicate-urls)** content for your duplicate content. In your imple... |
133,182 | <p>Those pages are all indexed and rank well, so I want to be extra careful.</p>
<p>This is my current <code>sitemap.xml</code>:</p>
<pre><code>/OLD_FOLDER/some-slug-1
/OLD_FOLDER/some-slug-2
/OLD_FOLDER/some-slug-3
</code></pre>
<p>I'm setting up <code>301 redirects</code>, replacing <code>OLD_FOLDER</code> with <code... | [
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This is my current `sitemap.xml`:
```
/OLD_FOLDER/some-slug-1
/OLD_FOLDER/some-slug-2
/OLD_FOLDER/some-slug-3
```
I'm setting up `301 redirects`, replacing `OLD_FOLDER` with `NEW_FOLDER`.
So, my new `sitemap.xml` will become:
```
/NEW_FOLDE... | No. It doesn't count as an impression until the user goes to the page containing the link to your website.
As [Google support](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828?hl=en) says:
>
> The URL pointed to by this link records an impression when the user
> opens the page containing this result (even if the... |
133,336 | <p>I am confused about adding canonical link in my website.</p>
<p>I have a website <code>https://example.com</code> and I have added Redirect to <code>www</code> from hosting provider(firebase) config.</p>
<p>So if a user accesses my non-www <code>https://example.com</code>, it will automatically redirect to <code>htt... | [
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I have a website `https://example.com` and I have added Redirect to `www` from hosting provider(firebase) config.
So if a user accesses my non-www `https://example.com`, it will automatically redirect to `https://www.example.com`.
For the purpose of SEO I have... | The canonical is correct as long as there is only one and all URLs that access page show the same canonical. It is your choice as to which one but it is definitely best-practice that the canonical matches the redirect.
Remember that Googlebot also follows redirects, so if you have setup a *Permanent Redirect*, then th... |
133,453 | <p>In my Angular SPA (Single Page App), I have links like:</p>
<pre><code><a routerLink="/en/my-page" ...
</code></pre>
<p>When I check it in Google Search Console, I'm finding that Googlebot sees the link as:</p>
<pre><code><a href="#/en/my-page" ...
</code></pre>
<p>It seems that Googlebot c... | [
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] | In my Angular SPA (Single Page App), I have links like:
```
<a routerLink="/en/my-page" ...
```
When I check it in Google Search Console, I'm finding that Googlebot sees the link as:
```
<a href="#/en/my-page" ...
```
It seems that Googlebot can't follow such links and therefore can't see `my-page`. | That's a common JavaScript / SEO problem. It can happen with all JavaScript frameworks.
To make your website compatible with Google (and benefit from SEO), you might use the Server Side Rendering (SSR) method. Once that's done, Google will be able to crawl your website like a typical HTML website. |
133,506 | <p>I have an question that I'd like to get an in-depth answer for and could not find an answer.</p>
<p>If we assume that both of the following are styled exactly the same, which is better/worse/right/wrong considering SEO:</p>
<pre><code><h3>Awesome Apple juicer</h3>
<p>This awesome apple juicer wor... | [
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If we assume that both of the following are styled exactly the same, which is better/worse/right/wrong considering SEO:
```
<h3>Awesome Apple juicer</h3>
<p>This awesome apple juicer works great on juicy apples.</p>
<a hr... | For SEO, this really does not matter. Sure, you want relevant anchor text for your links, but if your anchor text is a monster, it'll be overkill.
This is one of those cases where you have to think about the user, and about accessibility. Imagine a person who can't see your copy, using a screen reader. The screen read... |
133,619 | <p>Given a homepage at domain.com (e.g., <code>https://example.com/</code>), I want:</p>
<ol>
<li>outside requests to <em>only</em> be able to visit the homepage and no subpages</li>
<li>that homepage to successfully redirect visitors to a subpage (for example, <code>https://example.com/page1.html</code>)</li>
</ol>
<p... | [
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1. outside requests to *only* be able to visit the homepage and no subpages
2. that homepage to successfully redirect visitors to a subpage (for example, `https://example.com/page1.html`)
I can accomplish #2 with some simple JavaScript and `window... | There is a simple way if you want the rules to be followed but not enforce them against deliberate spoofing. This looks something like this:
```
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.example.com/.*$
RewriteRule (.+) - [R=404,L]
```
Someone with intent on bypassing this can spoof the referrer thou... |
133,725 | <p>I use <code>Ubuntu 20.04</code>, <code>Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu)</code>, <code>PHP 8.0.3</code> and <code>mediawiki-1.35.1</code>. I extracted <code>mediawiki-1.35.1</code> archive in <code>/var/www/html/</code>, created symbolic link to its contents in another directory, for example <code>var/www/html/m1</code>:</p>
<... | [
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```
$ ln -s /var/www/html/mediawiki-1.35.1/* /var/www/html/m1/
```
Then I pointed ... | I removed symlinks to `includes/`, `load.php` and `index.php` of `/var/www/html/mediawiki-1.35.1/` and copy them to the `/www/html/m1`. This solved the problem. |
133,817 | <p>I read on <a href="https://moz.com/learn/seo/url" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://moz.com/learn/seo/url</a> that google prioritizes the folder over the path/page. Which wold mean that a url such as:</p>
<pre><code>coffeeshop.example/*home-brew-coffee*/**types**
</code></pre>
<p>would perform better than</p>
<pre><... | [
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```
coffeeshop.example/*home-brew-coffee*/**types**
```
would perform better than
```
coffeeshop.example/**types**/*home-brew-coffee*
```
This is something that could easily be done... | I have some issues with that moz article:
1. The optimal URL wouldn't end in `.html`. In general URLs should leave out all unneccesary technical junk. Users and search engines prefer the simplest URLs possible.
2. Keywords in the domain name are *NOT* the highest priority for Google. Since the [exact match domain (EMD... |
134,028 | <p>I have the following structure in my website :</p>
<pre><code> example.com
|
-------------------------------------------------------------
Cat-1 Page-A Blog-Page
... | [
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```
example.com
|
-------------------------------------------------------------
Cat-1 Page-A Blog-Page
| ... | There is no way this works in 2021. You should focus on producing good content and making your website fast and responsive. Otherwise you may just end up with a penalty from Google that you can't reverse. |
134,095 | <p>I received an email through a clients web form, and - while I have no intention of complying, I am not sure what to make of it. Does anyone have any insights into this kind of spam? I'm curious because it seems to be targeting people with SEO knowledge, but surely those people will have the knowledge to check an... | [
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134,204 | <p>I've written my own <strong>SiteSearch</strong> Script in PHP.</p>
<p>The <strong>SiteSearch</strong> parses two <code>GET</code> parameters from the <code>queryString</code>:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>search</code> // <em>the search-phrase</em></li>
<li><code>filters</code> (optional) // <em>indicating which parts of the ... | [
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] | I've written my own **SiteSearch** Script in PHP.
The **SiteSearch** parses two `GET` parameters from the `queryString`:
* `search` // *the search-phrase*
* `filters` (optional) // *indicating which parts of the site to include or ignore*
I don't mind **GoogleBot** and other crawlers reading the `search` parameter.
... | The Knowledge Graph and Google My Business Profiles are Different Things
------------------------------------------------------------------------
---
**Knowledge panels** are boxes that display information about (named) entities e.g. people, places, organizations, things that exist in the Knowledge Graph.
Knowledge ... |
134,235 | <p>I have a web page that lists the banks with the highest saving account rates in the country. I have created some json-ld that lists one of these banks. However, nowhere do I say in the json-ld that this is the highest rate available. Can that type of information be indicated using json-ld and schema.org?</p>
<pre><c... | [
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```
<script t... | The Schema.org structured data ontology is designed to describe specific objects and their relationships to other specific objects, it's not designed to make broad comparisons to loosely defined collections (of all the other bank accounts in the country) like that.
It's arguable that having a way to mark an interest r... |
134,301 | <p>Does website seo score changes the way writing internal links as:</p>
<pre><code><a href='http://example.com/def' title='abc'>Abc</a>
</code></pre>
<p>or</p>
<pre><code><a hef='/def' title='abc'>Abc</a>
</code></pre>
<p>I know that linking would be same but what to know the impact on SEO the ... | [
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```
<a href='http://example.com/def' title='abc'>Abc</a>
```
or
```
<a hef='/def' title='abc'>Abc</a>
```
I know that linking would be same but what to know the impact on SEO the internal link way there are written. | Providing you are already canonicalising the requested URL (eg. HTTPS and www subdomain etc.) and the `base` tag (if any) refers to the canonical URL then, in terms of SEO, it makes no difference whether you are using root-relative or absolute URLs in your HTML source.
Any search engine spider must resolve partial URL... |
134,304 | <p>I am using a custom font to display some text at the beginning of my blog post. <em>What I desire, is for the text to display only if the font has been installed by the user.</em> Here is my first attempt:</p>
<pre><code><h4>An interesting numbering system<span style="font-family: 'Tolvtalsystem';
font... | [
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```
<h4>An interesting numbering system<span style="font-family: 'Tolvtalsystem';
font-display: block">: ⑴ ɇ... | You can use experimental [`FontFaceSet.check()`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FontFaceSet/check):
>
> returns a Boolean - whether all fonts in the given font list have been loaded and are available.
>
>
>
Example implementation
----------------------
```
<h4>An interesting numbering system<sp... |
134,314 | <p>A website I'm working on has a team section. Every team member has a dedicated site. On the site's bottom of each team member three other team members are displayed randomly.</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/TEhbi.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/TEhbi.png" alt="Site" /></a... | [
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[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TEhbi.png)
What happens here is that search engines index all four ima... | You can prevent those (three) images being indexed by returning an `X-Robots-Tag: noindex` header as part of the HTTP response.
This is easier if there is something in the image filename that differentiates the images you don't want indexed, or perhaps they are in a different subdirectory. You can then simply prevent ... |
134,358 | <p>I have a website that has dual language toggle to serve English Canadian and French Canadian. I am based in U.S.A. and when I google my website, the version with the French translation is the one that shows up. How can I fix this?</p>
<p>Here is a screenshot:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/bTsnr.png" rel=... | [
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Here is a screenshot:
[](https://i.stack.imgur... | You can prevent those (three) images being indexed by returning an `X-Robots-Tag: noindex` header as part of the HTTP response.
This is easier if there is something in the image filename that differentiates the images you don't want indexed, or perhaps they are in a different subdirectory. You can then simply prevent ... |
134,368 | <p>Our company has developed software to create and publish posts automatically on a WordPress site. Since the posts are published automatically and the images are also saved automatically, is it good SEO practice to use generic data for each post?</p>
<p>For example, if I have this data for every image:</p>
<pre><code... | [
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For example, if I have this data for every image:
```
title: 'My... | It would be better SEO to not use filler text for those image attributes, because it would not be providing any useful information, either to people who depend on screen reader software, or to bots like Googlebot.
You might consider using a manual process that prioritizes the top 50 pages (just using that number as an... |
134,435 | <p>If some pages on my website link to <code>example.com</code> and others link to <code>example.com/</code>, should I make sure that all internal links point to one version, or it doesn't matter?</p>
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If the answer is when you visit:
```
/page
```
and
```
/page/
```
Does one redirect to the other? or do both resolve in the browser? If the latter, then you should investigate making them uniform, and resolving on one canonical url.
The reason is t... |
134,442 | <p>For a florist. I have products that already have size attributes. I also need to add product options (add-ons) like a vase or a personalized card that will change the product price. These options are not for all products, only for those that I will select and sometimes it could be only one or another option. I have ... | [
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```
var _wr = function(type) {
var orig ... |
134,464 | <p>I want my webpage to be in multiple languages on the same domain, for example:</p>
<p>domain.com/en</p>
<p>domain.com/ru</p>
<p>I can manually translate <code>index.html</code> into the languages I need, this is not a problem.
I tried to google the solution for hours, in the end I came across only theory. Like what ... | [
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domain.com/en
domain.com/ru
I can manually translate `index.html` into the languages I need, this is not a problem.
I tried to google the solution for hours, in the end I came across only theory. Like what is better: sub-domain or sub-dir... | Solved this with .htaccess configuration in root directory thanks to: <https://gist.github.com/markhowellsmead/0c414cea619727a3618b>
```
RewriteEngine On
#English
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^en [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ /en/ [L,R=301]
#Estonian
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^et [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ /ee/ [L,R... |
134,521 | <p>Some content management systems such as WordPress and Drupal have Short URLs by default (if the webserver allows it), but at least one other --- MediaWiki, doesn't.</p>
<p>Before I continue with the process of trying to make my MediaWiki website to include short URLs I'd like to ask a general understanding question ... | [
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] | Some content management systems such as WordPress and Drupal have Short URLs by default (if the webserver allows it), but at least one other --- MediaWiki, doesn't.
Before I continue with the process of trying to make my MediaWiki website to include short URLs I'd like to ask a general understanding question on the su... | Solved this with .htaccess configuration in root directory thanks to: <https://gist.github.com/markhowellsmead/0c414cea619727a3618b>
```
RewriteEngine On
#English
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^en [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ /en/ [L,R=301]
#Estonian
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^et [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ /ee/ [L,R... |
134,539 | <p>I have less than a <5% bounce rate on Google analytics at the moment which is abnormal.</p>
<p>I've read online this could be because of double google analytic tracking tags.</p>
<p>I've removed Google analytic tracking tags and instead kept Google Tag Manager.</p>
<p>However I'm still getting "Same Web Prop... | [
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I've read online this could be because of double google analytic tracking tags.
I've removed Google analytic tracking tags and instead kept Google Tag Manager.
However I'm still getting "Same Web Property ID is tracked down".
I ... | Solved this with .htaccess configuration in root directory thanks to: <https://gist.github.com/markhowellsmead/0c414cea619727a3618b>
```
RewriteEngine On
#English
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^en [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ /en/ [L,R=301]
#Estonian
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^et [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ /ee/ [L,R... |
134,584 | <p>For Listicle style articles, does Google prefer Ordered Lists over a list of Heading+Paragraphs? Are there any advantages or does Google only process the text? If possible, cite your source.</p>
<p>Ordered List example:</p>
<pre><code><ol>
<li>
<p>Topic1</p>
<p>Facts/Discussion... | [
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Ordered List example:
```
<ol>
<li>
<p>Topic1</p>
<p>Facts/Discussion</p>
</li>
<li>...</li>
</ol>
```
Headin... | Yes, you need consent for conversion tracking, remarketing and other personal data collection/usage in the GDPR zone.
GDPR forces us to gain consent for using and collecting personal data of EU users with Google Ads campaigns. |
134,614 | <p>We are planning our URL structure and currently deciding between two options:</p>
<pre><code>https://contra.com/[short, non-descriptive namespace]/[uid]-[slug]
</code></pre>
<p>e.g. <a href="https://contra.com/o/RYlUgZeo-contra-landing-pages" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://contra.com/o/RYlUgZeo-contra-landing-pag... | [
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```
https://contra.com/[short, non-descriptive namespace]/[uid]-[slug]
```
e.g. <https://contra.com/o/RYlUgZeo-contra-landing-pages>
and
```
https://contra.com/[descriptive namespace]/[uid]-[slug]
```
e.g. <https://contra.com/work-oppo... | What will the actual slugs be?
From an SEO standpoint, there is effectively no difference between options 1 and 3. So if it is between those, I would use whichever works best with your backend.
Option 2 gives you the benefit of a little more human readability, which *could* be useful depending on what the slugs will ... |
135,624 | <p>It happened several times that an automatically generated RSS feed broke due to the presence of HTML entities. This makes sense since RSS is <em>not</em> HTML but the issue is that it is generated from fragments of HTML articles.</p>
<p>As a simplified example, say we extract the first sentence of an HTML article to... | [
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As a simplified example, say we extract the first sentence of an HTML article to generate part o... | I think a solution suggested by Tomalak should work universally. Ref: <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3805050/xml-parser-error-entity-not-defined>
His solution was to convert character entities to corresponding numerical entities.
>
> You could HTML-parse the text and have it re-escaped with the
> respective nu... |
135,625 | <p>How to tell Google that a job posting is closed? Is it better to remove the post? We use <em>Wordpress</em> with a job board template.</p>
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His solution was to convert character entities to corresponding numerical entities.
>
> You could HTML-parse the text and have it re-escaped with the
> respective nu... |
135,680 | <p>I have a personal site that has a totally different blogging audience than my business website; however, some content (like my About page) is almost exactly the same on both websites. Would I incur any type of penalties from search engines for having duplicate content if both sites have a link to each other?</p>
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"text": "<p>As John Pointed out, the best way to intimate Google about duplicate content would be via a canonical tag. If ... | 2021/06/08 | [
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In case you prefer the page from the business website to be picked by search engines, your c... |
135,691 | <p>I'm adding some schema to my site and was wondering about the areaServed property. Is this used for SEO in any way? If it is, is it good or bad to cram as much into it as possible?</p>
<p>i.e. if I simply added "Wolverhampton" (UK) as a city, would that be just the same as adding all the surrounding suburb... | [
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i.e. if I simply added "Wolverhampton" (UK) as a city, would that be just the same as adding all the surrounding suburbs too? Would there ... | I don't believe any search engine has said they use areaServed yet.
If it is used by Google, my guess would be to help confirm GMB data. But I've not heard of it having any effect on the ranking of the page.
As there is no known consumers, there is also no known rules outside of sticking to the schema.org vocabulary.... |
135,779 | <p>On a project, there is two different URL, that has a lot of the same content. As an example, let's say:</p>
<pre><code>https://first-url.example/text/my-post
https://second-url.example/text/my-post
</code></pre>
<p>The <code>https://second-url.example/text/my-post</code> page has defined <code><link rel="can... | [
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```
https://first-url.example/text/my-post
https://second-url.example/text/my-post
```
The `https://second-url.example/text/my-post` page has defined `<link rel="canonical" href="https://first-url.example/text/my-... | You want to omit URLs from your sitemap that canonicalize to another domain. Your sitemap is for URLs on your own site that you want to have indexed by search engines. `https://second-url.example/text/my-post` shouldn't be in the sitemap because:
* You don't want to have it indexed, you want to have the canonical on y... |
135,789 | <p>I have setup a Facebook Newsfeed up on our website. But on all Apple devices (i have tested), it shows the timezone as "UNK", but it should be - and is "UTC+02" on all other devices.</p>
<p>The code is as below, so it can't be that right?
The page it's happening on is: dr-louise.dk/eventkalender/... | [
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The code is as below, so it can't be that right?
The page it's happening on is: dr-louise.dk/eventkalender/
```
<div id="fb-root"></div... | This is also occurring on in Brave and Edge on Windows and Brave on Android where I am not logged into Facebook. If I am logged into Facebook, it displays as my timezone. |
135,802 | <p>I have a problem with Google associating the wrong image with our products when they are display in Image Search.</p>
<p>For some reason, the main image of our products, which has more desirable data (alt tags, higher resolution, placed first as product image, not tampered with), is discarded.Instead, Google chooses... | [
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"text": "<p>Core Web Vitals are not always available for all the URLs.</p>\n<p>Ref: <a href=\"https://support.google.com/... | 2021/06/19 | [
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For some reason, the main image of our products, which has more desirable data (alt tags, higher resolution, placed first as product image, not tampered with), is discarded.Instead, Google chooses the last... | Core Web Vitals are not always available for all the URLs.
Ref: <https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9205520?hl=en>
>
> The report is based on three metrics: LCP, FID, and CLS. If a URL does
> not have a minimum amount of reporting data for any of these metrics,
> it is omitted from the report.
>
>
>
"P... |
135,822 | <p>I'm building a webapp using Nextjs. As some parts of the app is server side rendering, I have two sitemaps. One generated by Next and the other one generated dynamically.</p>
<p>All pages are successfully added to the search console. However I have also some urls including the bracket slugs like</p>
<pre><code>https... | [
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All pages are successfully added to the search console. However I have also some urls including the bracket slugs like
```
https://mywebsite.com/[m... | Google doesn't rely just on XML sitemaps to know what pages you have on your site and which URLs it should index. See my diatribe on the subject: [SEO Myth: Google will only index the pages listed in your XML sitemap](https://blog.ostermiller.org/index-only-sitemap/).
Google will index URLs that are not in your sitema... |
135,909 | <p>I've set up a download site using Apache's index listing feature and a custom header:</p>
<pre><code>Options +Indexes
HeaderName /index_header.html
</code></pre>
<p>While the default header displays the path ("Index of ...") on top of the index listing, I can't find a way to display the path using a custom... | [
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```
Options +Indexes
HeaderName /index_header.html
```
While the default header displays the path ("Index of ...") on top of the index listing, I can't find a way to display the path using a custom header.
However, when navigating... | I think the "Apache-way" would be to use Server-Side-Includes (SSI) (mod\_includes). There does not appear to be a way to access this information with mod\_autoindex, nor to output arbitrary variables (that is what SSI is for).
For example, in `.htaccess`:
```
# Enable SSI for .html files (or use .shtml files instead... |
135,930 | <p>I know this has been asked multiple times, but I really could not find an answer.</p>
<p>I have a relatively small logo (icon) and I need to load it multiple times on specific places. I was wondering: should I create an svg (I tried, it's 26kb) and use <code><object></code> to load it? Or perhaps <code><img... | [
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"text": "<p>I think the optimal solution for speed would be to serve a compressed (svgz) file directly inside of an... | 2021/06/30 | [
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I have a relatively small logo (icon) and I need to load it multiple times on specific places. I was wondering: should I create an svg (I tried, it's 26kb) and use `<object>` to load it? Or perhaps `<img>` to load the .svg file?
Or shou... | **Short Answer**: There will be no difference in the perceived performance between the three implementations (`img`, `object` and `background-image`). But when you use `png` fallback along with `svg`, `img` method can save you a network request.
**Explanation**:
I did a simple test on all the three implementations su... |
136,105 | <p>I have a search page for our sites that carries out search depending on the values of the following parameters in the query string;</p>
<p><code>q</code>: search string <code>cats</code>: comma separated string matches products belonging to multiple categories <code>tags</code>: comma separated string matches produc... | [
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"text": "<p>Most of the domain name market is open to competition, and hence you can shop around. You are not givi... | 2021/07/18 | [
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`q`: search string `cats`: comma separated string matches products belonging to multiple categories `tags`: comma separated string matches products having specific tags
I am now planning... | Most of the domain name market is open to competition, and hence you can shop around. You are not giving at least a ballpark of the current prices you are contemplating so it is difficult to know how far you are from example from registry prices.
But:
>
> However, in shopping around, no one else seems to offer what ... |
136,146 | <p>We include the localBusiness data across all pages on our ecommerce site.</p>
<p>What values should be set for id and url on different pages e.g.</p>
<ol>
<li>example.com/about-us</li>
<li>example.com/shop</li>
</ol>
<pre><code> {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type"... | [
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What values should be set for id and url on different pages e.g.
1. example.com/about-us
2. example.com/shop
```
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "localBusiness",
"@id": "http://example.com/current-page",
... | Structured data operates at the page level. **[Google's perspective](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structured-data/sd-policies#relevance)**:
>
> **Relevance**
>
>
> Your structured data should be a true representation of the page content.
>
>
>
and
>
> **Location**
>
>
> Put the structu... |
136,167 | <p>My client's website was hacked by a "pharma hack" which was a WORDPRESS website. Since then we reworked the website(design and logic) and it's a completely new website that is no longer using WORDPRESS or any other CMS, it's just plain PHP, JS and CSS files with a few forms.</p>
<p>The website is hosted on... | [
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The website is hosted on <https://www.digit... | Ideally, you should be serving an immediate 410 Gone (no "redirect") for these "spam" URLs that you want to be completely removed and a 404 otherwise. Serving a 410 for every non-existent URL is a short term workaround.
>
> .htaccess as requested
>
>
>
> ```
> Options +MultiViews
> Options All -Indexes
>
> Rewrit... |
136,184 | <p>I need the minimal DNS records to either point/redirect a domain at an existing web and email service. I am looking at some existing redirection DNS records and there seem to be many more than necessary.</p>
<p>All I need are the following</p>
<ul>
<li><code>example.net</code> -> <code>example.com</code></li>
<li... | [
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All I need are the following
* `example.net` -> `example.com`
* `mail.example.net` -> `mail.example.com`
* `www.ex... | Ideally, you should be serving an immediate 410 Gone (no "redirect") for these "spam" URLs that you want to be completely removed and a 404 otherwise. Serving a 410 for every non-existent URL is a short term workaround.
>
> .htaccess as requested
>
>
>
> ```
> Options +MultiViews
> Options All -Indexes
>
> Rewrit... |
136,308 | <p>I used a CLI program for benchmarking page load speed that produced a histograms like this in its output:</p>
<pre><code> 0.969 [1] |■■
1.700 [17] |■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
2.430 [2] |■■■■■
3.161 [1] |■■
3.891 [0] |
4.622 [0] |
5.352 [0] |
6.083 [0] |
6... | [
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```
0.969 [1] |■■
1.700 [17] |■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
2.430 [2] |■■■■■
3.161 [1] |■■
3.891 [0] |
4.622 [0] |
5.352 [0] |
6.083 [0] |
6.814 [0] ... | It is a little strange to need a very specific tool, because there are other ones doing the same thing (displaying an histogram).
I found that one <https://golangrepo.com/repo/six-ddc-plow-go-testing-frameworks> that seems to show kind of the same histogram as your example but not 100%. Difficult to see if it can be j... |
136,331 | <p>I have loads of traffic from SEO analysis bots (which are crawling for link analysis purpose only, rather than indexing for search engines) such as</p>
<pre><code>AhrefsBot/7.0; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/
SemrushBot/7~bl; +http://www.semrush.com/bot.html
Neevabot/1.0; +https://neeva.com/neevabot
</code></pre>
<p>I do... | [
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```
AhrefsBot/7.0; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/
SemrushBot/7~bl; +http://www.semrush.com/bot.html
Neevabot/1.0; +https://neeva.com/neevabot
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I don't use their services, ... | If you aren't using these services, then you can definitely block them. The data collected by these bots are only used within those specific tools and wouldn't affect your performance in organic search (or elsewhere). All three services respect the robots.txt file, so you could simply disallow it there.
```
User-agent... |
136,348 | <p>I understand that web fonts are distributed in one of two ways:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>They are hosted by the type foundry, who can, to a degree, enforce license restrictions (e.g., hit rate, referral host, etc.)</p>
</li>
<li><p>You just get the .woff/.woff2 file and host it yourself.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>In either case, wh... | [
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* They are hosted by the type foundry, who can, to a degree, enforce license restrictions (e.g., hit rate, referral host, etc.)
* You just get the .woff/.woff2 file and host it yourself.
In either case, what stops anyone from downloading the font file an... | If you aren't using these services, then you can definitely block them. The data collected by these bots are only used within those specific tools and wouldn't affect your performance in organic search (or elsewhere). All three services respect the robots.txt file, so you could simply disallow it there.
```
User-agent... |
136,373 | <p>Recently when I search my website on google, I find that another domain's description is identical to my domain. I'm terrified and try to understand the security breaches of my website as much as possible. I clicked on the link of this fake website and it turned out to be 'Your connection is not private'. When I sea... | [
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In your case some other domain is pointing to your server. Your server is issuing a red... |
136,419 | <p>I was instructed to implement a "filter" in some pages on a corporate website, the filter hides the page content and ask for a valid email to continue reading. Sort of an opt-in but forced, if visitor does not enter an email (that will be validated in real time) there will be no further changes, the visito... | [
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We have a schema for this - So you'll want to add structured data for to denote subscription/paywalled content. We need to semantically bind the paywall with... |
136,463 | <p>We have a Shopify store. It has URL structure for blogs like <code>mysite.myshopify.example/blogs/blogname/article-name</code></p>
<p>To overcome Shopify rigid URL structure and make links more human-readable and memorable we'd like to use the following technique:</p>
<ol>
<li>Create redirect from non-existent (404)... | [
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To overcome Shopify rigid URL structure and make links more human-readable and memorable we'd like to use the following technique:
1. Create redirect from non-existent (404) URL `mysite.myshopify.exampl... | No penalty for this. But it is ways better to live with any rigid url structure, then to build such bypasses.
Think just about computation ressources needed for crawling of Shopware inbuild urls and for crawling of those construction. You can easy check it with monitoring the CPU utilization while rendering of pages w... |
136,541 | <p>I was recently asked by a client's SEO partner - who works for a small but reasonably reputed company - an to add a number of title tags and description tags (in SEOPress for a WordPress to a site I have helped redesign and that I administer). I was very taken aback by their advice. I would have thought that this... | [
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136,584 | <p>My pages already have good html meta tags like <code>title</code> and <code>description</code> for Google SEO. I also added <code>og:title</code>, <code>og:description</code>, <code>twitter:title</code>, <code>twitter:description</code> and other meta tags, but I found in most cases <code>og:title</code>/<code>twitt... | [
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---------------------
The twitter-specific title and description meta tags are redundant if they are identical to your `og` tags, so you can leave them out.
If you omit `twitter:title`, Twitter will fallback to your `og:title` tag.
If you omit `twitter:description`, Twitter will fallback to you... |
136,593 | <p>I have the scenario where two links should redirect to the same page, similar to the case of Wikipedia where <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipe... | [
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I am using the Django framework. To implement that in Django I can have two different URL patterns in ... | Twitter-specific Tags
---------------------
The twitter-specific title and description meta tags are redundant if they are identical to your `og` tags, so you can leave them out.
If you omit `twitter:title`, Twitter will fallback to your `og:title` tag.
If you omit `twitter:description`, Twitter will fallback to you... |
136,739 | <p>I am using WordPress along with Autoptimize and Cloudflare, and using Locally hosted fonts. I can't leverage browser caching on my site.</p>
<p>I tried using Cloudflare Page rules to Leverage 1 year browser caching on all resources.</p>
<p>It worked, and most of my site was getting cached EXCEPT FONTS.</p>
<p>I know... | [
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I tried using Cloudflare Page rules to Leverage 1 year browser caching on all resources.
It worked, and most of my site was getting cached EXCEPT FONTS.
I know fonts are heavy and ... | Your mime types don't match your `ExpireByType` directives:
```
$ curl --head https://milyin.com/wp-content/uploads/omgf/neve-google-font-poppins/poppins-normal-700.woff2
...
expires: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 13:24:15 GMT
...
content-type: font/woff2
```
So you should change your `.htaccess`. Instead of, or in addition to
... |
136,881 | <p>I noticed that every time I search on google for one of my pages, the sentence "[my name] blog" is added to the title results on Google when the title is not very long:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/f3v2C.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/f3v2C.png" alt="enter i... | [
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[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/f3v2C.png)
I don't think that it actually helps to g... | Google doesn't currently use meta information about authorship. At one point Google used authorship markup to provide rich snippets in the search results. However, Google stopped using authorship markup and showing authorship rich snippets [in 2014](https://searchengineland.com/goodbye-google-authorship-201975).
What ... |
136,999 | <p>For SEO, I need to have my link <code>https://www.example.com/</code> on a third party website. However, I also need this website to pass parameters to my site.</p>
<p>If the third party website used the below structure would it pass a backlink to my main URL <code>https://www.example.com/</code> or would it pass a... | [
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If the third party website used the below structure would it pass a backlink to my main URL `https://www.example.com/` or would it pass a backlink to `https://www.exampl... | Based on [Links Crawable Guidelines](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guidelines/links-crawlable), the link will be crawled as `https://www.example.com/`, because Google can not follow link from `onclick` attributes.
Google search central says:
>
> Google can follow links only if they are an `<a>` ... |
137,006 | <p>I work as a customer support specialist for a large site (millions of pages). Every day, we receive approximately 1000 removal requests from users and businesses. We remove listings from our site, then we submit removal requests to Google to remove information from Google's cache.</p>
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> ...to remove information from Google's cache.
>
>
>
Not a solution to your immediate problem, but if the issue is with Google's "cache" (rather than the index per se) then maybe you should be telling Google not to "cache" these pages in the first place (where Google provides an additional menu option to view a... |
137,072 | <p>Up until now, our website consisted of a wiki with several wiki sites. We now decided to host some general information on a single page and move the wiki to a subdomain (<code>https://wiki.example.com/</code>). I want to redirect <em>nearly all</em> requests from <code>https://example.com/XYZ</code> to <code>https:/... | [
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Th... |
137,104 | <p>So I created a blog at the end of March 2021 and started posting 2 to 3 posts per month.
In August 2021, I started posting more often.</p>
<p>My whole goal with the blog is to bring new potential customers to my main product and therefore to the main product page too.
However, this is how my Google Search Console nu... | [
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In August 2021, I started posting more often.
My whole goal with the blog is to bring new potential customers to my main product and therefore to the main product page too.
However, this is how my Google Search Console number of v... | What You're Seeing in Search Console Looks Great
------------------------------------------------
Your blog content is *working*! I'll explain why in a second, but this is the sort of ramp we want to see early on!
[![performance graph in Google Search Console showing an increase in impressions that highlights the inc... |
137,128 | <p>I'm currently rendering guitar chords above lyrics on my website like this:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/nBernm.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/nBernm.png" alt="rendered chords" /></a></p>
<p><div class="snippet" data-lang="js" data-hide="false" data-console="true" dat... | [
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[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nBernm.png)
```css
span.chunk {
position:relative;
top: 15px;
display: inline-flex;
flex-direction: column;
vertical-align: bottom;
}
spa... | google and co are getting more sophisticated all the time so I'm not sure I would rely on a hidden 'virgin' copy of the text being picked up.
If possible it would seem safer to have google and the user see the same things all the time.
One idea would be to have the text plus spans covered with the full unadulterated ... |
137,144 | <p>In a website that provides content which is divided into parts, what is the more correct way to use the <code>H1</code> tag?</p>
<pre class="lang-html prettyprint-override"><code><div class='header'>
<span>Episode 2</span>
<h1 class='large'>Creative work name</h1>
</div>
<!... | [
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```html
<div class='header'>
<span>Episode 2</span>
<h1 class='large'>Creative work name</h1>
</div>
<!-- content body -->
```
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```html
<div class='header'>
<h1>Episode 2</h1>
<span class='la... | You're going to run into duplicate `<h1>` tags across other episode pages if the `<h1>` only includes creative work name.
Speaking of semantics, why are we using `<div class="header">` when we have the `<header>` element?
```html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<titl... |
137,197 | <p>I use simple javascript to generate pages based on thousands of products stored in a JSON object.
The page URLs will be like <code>/productList?keyword=XXX&page=x</code>. The <code>keyowrd</code> is what uses input through the search bar. Single product pages would be <code>/product?id=XXXX</code>. For both of t... | [
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"text": "<ol>\n<li><p>Search engines do not like to index <a href=\"https://developers.google.com/search/... | 2021/10/11 | [
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The page URLs will be like `/productList?keyword=XXX&page=x`. The `keyowrd` is what uses input through the search bar. Single product pages would be `/product?id=XXXX`. For both of the product list pages and product pages,... | 1. Search engines do not like to index [so-called "infinite spaces"](https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2008/08/to-infinity-and-beyond-no). You should use `robots.txt` to block search engines from crawling your internal search results pages. You can block them by using a `robots.txt` directive like this:
```
/p... |
137,229 | <p>I have a price comparison website which lists different products. On the product pages it lists 10-20 webshops per product where the item can be purchased.</p>
<p>At the moment I am linking these sites with the most basic way like this:</p>
<pre><code><a href="https://www.randomxxxx.com/link" class=&quo... | [
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At the moment I am linking these sites with the most basic way like this:
```
<a href="https://www.randomxxxx.com/link" class="redBtn" rel="nofollow noopener" tar... | There is no point in keeping both plugins active, in fact I'd think they'd end up conflicting with each-other. If you want to use Yoast instead, you can make this transition fairly effortlessly by exporting your SEO settings from All In One SEO and importing them into Yoast.
**Here are the steps to export your setting... |
137,307 | <p>I am just an amateur web editor and have had a <strong>non-commercial</strong> personal website <code>www.mysurname.example</code> with useful technical tips and culture content since 1999. I code my web pages directly in HTML and use a cheap <strong>web hosting service with cPanel</strong>.</p>
<p>Recently I have n... | [
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Recently I have noticed that other domain names with funny name... | There are a couple things you can do about it:
1. Add [canonical tags](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/consolidate-duplicate-urls#rel-canonical-link-method) to every page on your site. For example one of the pages on your site should have this tag in the `<head>` section:
```html
<link rel... |
137,312 | <p>I consider to build a website without any JavaScript/CSS.</p>
<p>I want it to be the most light weight a website can be ever.</p>
<ul>
<li>Only HTML.</li>
<li>There won't be any images, videos, audios, embeddings, iframes or tables also.</li>
<li>Page weight won't pass 5000 characters.</li>
<li>No content management... | [
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I want it to be the most light weight a website can be ever.
* Only HTML.
* There won't be any images, videos, audios, embeddings, iframes or tables also.
* Page weight won't pass 5000 characters.
* No content management system
* SSL certificate would be by Cp... | There are a couple things you can do about it:
1. Add [canonical tags](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/consolidate-duplicate-urls#rel-canonical-link-method) to every page on your site. For example one of the pages on your site should have this tag in the `<head>` section:
```html
<link rel... |
137,384 | <p>I have a website where I have properly set the OG tags, and where I share one of the pages on WhatsApp for android it properly displays the preview.</p>
<p>However, when using WhatsApp for desktop, the preview is not displayed, all I have is the naked link. I can't pinpoint the issue. Here's an example of one of the... | [
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However, when using WhatsApp for desktop, the preview is not displayed, all I have is the naked link. I can't pinpoint the issue. Here's an example of one of the pages wi... | I have the same problem where a link to my website is static and does not unfurl on WhatsApp Web, but the same link unfurls on the iOS app. Looking at the server logs at the time of sharing, WhatsApp Web does not even make a request to my website for that page. That page contains the meta tag with a link to the asset. ... |
137,403 | <p>I have a software company where we sell desktop software to a particular niche. Our domain rating according to ahrefs is 70+ and our site performs very well in organic search.</p>
<p>I have wanted to have a blog where I post about technical and programming subjects, but not ones that are necessarily of interest to a... | [
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I have wanted to have a blog where I post about technical and programming subjects, but not ones that are necessarily of interest to all custom... | I get this sort of question *a lot* from my clients, and in response I usually flip it back with the question would informal/casual content be *off brand* for their business.
I'm going to start with your latter 3 more direct questions and then end with where/how you should host the blog.
---
>
> 1. Is it harmful to... |
137,407 | <p>I am trying to index a page which was set to "discourage search engines to index" until 2021-10-31. Now it's 2021-11-06 and Google does not even try to access the page.</p>
<p>If I use the search console, it get errors it cannot be fetched. Same with the mobile testing tool:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack... | [
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If I use the search console, it get errors it cannot be fetched. Same with the mobile testing tool:
[![URL is not available to google](https://i.stac... | .Et domain zone NS block Googlebot
----------------------------------
The problem is on the side of the .et name servers - they "block" Googlebot.
This Google Support thread reports a problem with indexation with **all** [domains in ".et" zone](https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/121050229/problem-with-index... |
137,465 | <p>I am developing a static HTML/CSS website I have multiple meta tags I add to the head on each page. As it stands currently whenever I want to change the meta information I need to manually update each page. I can easily write a script to insert the meta elements into the head, however I am not sure if this will have... | [
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"text": "<blockquote>\n<p>We ran a series of tests that verified Google is able to execute and\nindex JavaScript with a multi... | 2021/10/14 | [
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> We ran a series of tests that verified Google is able to execute and
> index JavaScript with a multitude of implementations. We also
> confirmed Google is able to render the entire page and read the DOM,
> thereby indexing dynamically generated content.
>
>
>
Even tho Google crawlers can execute javascript and... |
137,578 | <p>Google's <a href="https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guidelines/links-crawlable?hl=sv" rel="nofollow noreferrer">official doc</a> says that Google cannot follow links unless the link has an <code>href</code> attribute. It explicitly says that <code>routerLink</code> cannot be followed:</p>
<blockquot... | [
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>
> Google can follow links only if they are an `<a>` tag with an href
> a... | **AWS Route 53** is a *domain registrar[1],* a company that is hooked into the greater domain name system and has a license to sell domain names to their customers and hold them in the customer's name.
To move your domain to Whois.com from AWS Route53, you can follow [AWS Route53's outgoing domain transfer instruction... |
137,585 | <p>If I direct my website pages via JavaScript (not links), will my pages become Orphan Pages? Because we have website filters that would like to move the functionality by API call.</p>
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>
> If your website uses JavaScript links, not all pages of your website
> might be indexed by Googl... |
137,637 | <p>I have a server with routes in English and that I moved to Portuguese. For example, <code>https://ginja.org/schools</code> now redirects with a 301 to <code>https://ginja.org/escolas</code>. I set up a canonical tag too:</p>
<pre><code><link rel="canonical" href="https://ginja.org/escolas">... | [
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```
<link rel="canonical" href="https://ginja.org/escolas">
```
I submitted a sitemap on the Google Search Console men... | The length of time for Google to process a 301 redirect depends entirely on how often Google crawls those URLs, which in turn depends on many factors including ranking strength and how frequently Google sees the URL's content being updated. For URLs that Google crawls very very rarely, it could take anywhere from a few... |
137,722 | <p>In my research I found that there seems to be no "single source of truth" for where to post MediaWiki questions. MediaWiki questions have been posted on these many Stack Exchange network subdomains:</p>
<p><a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/102123/clone-an-abandoned-mediawiki-site">Pro... | [
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[ProWebmasters](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/102123/clone-an-abandoned-mediawiki-site), [Security](htt... | It's a good impulse, what you're trying to do. You just need to scale back your expectations about what all gets tracked by Git.
Because `LocalSettings.php` is the main thing, you definitely want to track that, especially between upgrades and installing new extensions. I tweak that thing *constantly*, so being to run ... |
137,793 | <h3>Description</h3>
<p>If I dig for <code>businessbrief.xyz</code>, I get no results, but the subdomain <code>www</code> returns an address. Entering businessbrief.xyz into any browser's address bar goes to a valid web address.</p>
<h3>Data</h3>
<p>Note that dig for @ returns no results and dig for <code>www</code> do... | [
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If I dig for `businessbrief.xyz`, I get no results, but the subdomain `www` returns an address. Entering businessbrief.xyz into any browser's address bar goes to a valid web address.
### Data
Note that dig for @ returns no results and dig for `www` does:
```
$ dig businessbrief.xyz +short
$ dig www... | Browsers generally have heuristics built in to add missing `www.` from domain names, but it isn't something you should rely on:
* Browsers typically have a setting to turn off this "www fix up."
* Even when browsers do add `www.` it appears they don't so when the URL starts with `https://` (like `https://example.com`)... |
137,871 | <p>I am referring a link</p>
<p><a href="https://www.eurovps.com/blog/how-much-ram-cpu-storage-iops-vps-needs/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.eurovps.com/blog/how-much-ram-cpu-storage-iops-vps-needs/</a></p>
<p>to come up with a rough estimate on sizing.</p>
<p>For bandwidth consumption, the example used there ... | [
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<https://www.eurovps.com/blog/how-much-ram-cpu-storage-iops-vps-needs/>
to come up with a rough estimate on sizing.
For bandwidth consumption, the example used there is
```
Page Size ± = 1.8MB
Average Page views per Session: 5.97
Average Sessions per Day: 1,500
Bandwidth Consumption per Day: 1... | No. Not the way you describe it. Masking is marketing speak for embedding a site within another site (using an iframe), and its a questionable practice at best. The takeaway point is that the http site has no way of utilizing the https site because from the browser pov its a seperate request.
If you think about it ano... |
137,941 | <p>I want to perform a maintenance on my website, so wrote an htaccess (I do not own the server) to redirect users to a specific page.</p>
<pre><code><IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !outoforder.html
RewriteRule .* "/outoforder.html" [R=503,L]
ErrorDocument 503 /o... | [
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```
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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !outoforder.html
RewriteRule .* "/outoforder.html" [R=503,L]
ErrorDocument 503 /outoforder.html
Header Set Cac... | mod\_rewrite is not inherited by default. So any mod\_rewrite directives in a subdirectory/child `.htaccess` file will completely override the parent directives. Your mod\_rewrite rule in the parent config that triggers the 503 is not even processed.
You can either enable mod\_rewrite inheritance so that the directive... |
137,989 | <p>I have a very stranget issue on my site with Google Search Console.</p>
<p>I've added my sitemap here: <a href="https://formulastocks.com/sitemap.xml" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://formulastocks.com/sitemap.xml</a></p>
<p>which links to 2 other site maps:</p>
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I've added my sitemap here: <https://formulastocks.com/sitemap.xml>
which links to 2 other site maps:
<https://formulastocks.com/sitemap_articles.xml>
and
<https://formulastocks.com/sitemap_pages.xml>
I triple checked the URLs on all of them and ... | >
> I always thought a nameserver must have all DNS settings and the second nameserver would always clone the DNS settings of the primary nameserver. Is this actually not the case?
>
>
>
In a typical primary/secondary case, yes.
The primary has the zonefile with all records. This gets transmitted (in full or incr... |
138,033 | <p>I'm getting lots of requests from Googlebot on the .well-known/traffic-advice directory on my server. What is it and what are they looking for? Should I add something to this directory, and if yes what?</p>
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**Basically what we**,... |
138,060 | <p>I recently acquired a domain on GoDaddy auctions on behalf of a client for their new business's website. I am building the site and hosting it.</p>
<p>I am in the process of configuring Google Workspaces and just finished adding <code>txt</code> record verification and <code>mx</code> records. Important to note is t... | [
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I am in the process of configuring Google Workspaces and just finished adding `txt` record verification and `mx` records. Important to note is that while Godaddy is the regist... | The value of a CDN is use case dependent. As others have mentioned, a CDN can have benefits, but its not magic. In some edge cases it can actually slow things down - particularly if your server and client base are in the same geographic location, but the CDN isn't.
If you have fast, cheap traffic to your client base a... |
138,152 | <p>So basically my question is just a technical one.
We password protect our development server so that no duplicated content appears to google if we mirror an existing website.</p>
<p>How does the server remember me, once I logged in with the credentials stored in our .htpasswd file? I guess it has to be a cookie, sin... | [
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We password protect our development server so that no duplicated content appears to google if we mirror an existing website.
How does the server remember me, once I logged in with the credentials stored in our .htpasswd file? I guess it has to be a cookie, since in inc... | You may want to read on [Basic Authentication](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication). From that article:
>
> Server side
> -----------
>
>
> When the server wants the user agent to authenticate itself towards
> the server after receiving an unauthenticated request, it must send a
> response wit... |
138,183 | <p><strong>ahrefs</strong> site auditing, reports a redirect chain that I cant't see. Surely, only the first ruleset should be activated. What's causing this ?</p>
<p>domain</p>
<pre><code>http://www.example.software/
</code></pre>
<p>Redirect chain URLs</p>
<pre><code>https://www.example.software/
301
https://exam... | [
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domain
```
http://www.example.software/
```
Redirect chain URLs
```
https://www.example.software/
301
https://example.software/
200
```
my .htaccess is
```
RewriteEn... | You may want to read on [Basic Authentication](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication). From that article:
>
> Server side
> -----------
>
>
> When the server wants the user agent to authenticate itself towards
> the server after receiving an unauthenticated request, it must send a
> response wit... |
138,337 | <p>I am wondering what is the best approach in SEO when I don't have a good place for H1 tag for example on my Home Page. I have several H2 tags and a lot of H3 tags but in terms of design I don't have any place for nice H1 tag with keywords etc.</p>
<p>I thought of two solutions:</p>
<p><strong>Solution 1:</strong></p... | [
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I thought of two solutions:
**Solution 1:**
```
<h1>
<img src="my_websi... | While H1 used to be a major ranking factor, this is now no longer the case. Check out this article:
<https://www.searchenginejournal.com/h1-headings-for-google/406720/#close>
Some of the relevant copy:
*No Magic Ranking Power to an H1 Tag:
John Mueller’s statement expressly says that a site will rank fine without an... |
138,420 | <p>Related Github issue: <a href="https://github.com/browniebroke/gatsby-image-gallery/issues/844" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/browniebroke/gatsby-image-gallery/issues/844</a></p>
<p>So I'm using Gatsby and an image gallery. The gallery generates two images, a thumbnail and the gallery image. The thumb... | [
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"text": "<p>Google will use the image in your standard <code><img src=""></code> element</p>\n"
... | 2022/01/26 | [
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So I'm using Gatsby and an image gallery. The gallery generates two images, a thumbnail and the gallery image. The thumbnail is a low resolution file and the gallery image is high resolution.
```
<img srcset="example-320w.jpg 320w... | No, there is no way to request that Google chooses a specific image. Yes, you can predict which one Google will index.
As Trey touched on, Googlebot will always index the image in your `src` attribute and ignore `srcset`.
See more information in this related question, where it was empirically tested:
[Does Google ... |
138,436 | <p>I am preparing a site that offers a variety of information in a particular area, i've searched here and on many seo sites, but I've always gotten different answers.</p>
<p>I'm undecided about the url.</p>
<p>For example, let's say the subject of my site is SEO, and urls can be like this.</p>
<pre><code>www.site.com/... | [
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... | 2022/01/27 | [
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I'm undecided about the url.
For example, let's say the subject of my site is SEO, and urls can be like this.
```
www.site.com/seo/tools/link-checker
`... | No, there is no way to request that Google chooses a specific image. Yes, you can predict which one Google will index.
As Trey touched on, Googlebot will always index the image in your `src` attribute and ignore `srcset`.
See more information in this related question, where it was empirically tested:
[Does Google ... |
138,491 | <p>I am developing a service that deals with local city governments. For SEO, I want to have a page for each city that has some unique content for the city government (phone number, address for city hall, hours of operations, etc.) and some repeated content (how to get a permit, etc.).</p>
<p>What's the best approach t... | [
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] | I am developing a service that deals with local city governments. For SEO, I want to have a page for each city that has some unique content for the city government (phone number, address for city hall, hours of operations, etc.) and some repeated content (how to get a permit, etc.).
What's the best approach to indicat... | >
> What's the best approach to indicate that some content is duplicated
> and content is unique for each city?
>
>
>
There isn't a way to explicitly indicate this. The best thing to do is ensure that your pages are *predominately* unique content. The more duplication, the greater likelihood that it will be filter... |
138,495 | <p>I'm working with angular and had added the <code>assets</code> folder as element to exclude from the search engine crawlers, into my <code>robots.txt</code> file.</p>
<p>But I now get the following error while testing the site health of my website.
<code>1 issue with blocked internal resource in robots.txt</code></p... | [
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But I now get the following error while testing the site health of my website.
`1 issue with blocked internal resource in robots.txt`
What should I do? Is it a good practice to ... | >
> What's the best approach to indicate that some content is duplicated
> and content is unique for each city?
>
>
>
There isn't a way to explicitly indicate this. The best thing to do is ensure that your pages are *predominately* unique content. The more duplication, the greater likelihood that it will be filter... |
138,583 | <p>I am building a frontend website and I am trying to make sure that the website can be crawled by search engines so that it can appear in search results.</p>
<p>Currently, most of my links look like this in react:</p>
<pre><code><Link to="/about" className="btn">More About Us</Link>
</... | [
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Currently, most of my links look like this in react:
```
<Link to="/about" className="btn">More About Us</Link>
```
But Google says this:
>
> Google can follow l... | According to the [React documentation for `<Link>`](https://knowbody.github.io/react-router-docs/api/Link.html):
>
> `<Link>` will render a fully accessible anchor tag with the proper href.
>
>
>
In other words it renders a tag like `<a href=...>` which is compliant with what Googlebot expects. |
138,998 | <p>We can force SSL in apache servers with following config:</p>
<pre><code>RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
</code></pre>
<p>Here, we tell the apache server that return a <code>301 Moved Permanently</code> response to the client.
But there is a... | [
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```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
```
Here, we tell the apache server that return a `301 Moved Permanently` response to the client.
But there is another status `101 Switching Protoc... | The correct status code to use here is without a doubt **`301 Moved Permanently`**.
`101 Switching Protocols` is an internal status code that a server generally uses to automatically negotiate certain types of connections. It's not used when changing the URL from `http` to `https`. If you're curious about how it works... |
139,296 | <p>In cosmotown I have these 2 options:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/9lwu6.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/9lwu6.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
<p>This is how the screen for the first option looks like:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/aWVE0.p... | [
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[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9lwu6.png)
This is how the screen for the first option looks like:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aWVE0.png)
And the... | The distinction comes from how registration is done between registrars and registries, using the EPP protocol, and does not come from the DNS plane.
On the resolution side of things, there is no distinction. Each zone is served by a set of nameservers. This is all that exist. But we can already introduce here terminol... |
139,307 | <p>I have a directory that I don't want Google to index at the top level. I currently do the following:</p>
<p><code>Disallow: /profiles/</code></p>
<p>This stops Google from indexing <code>https://example.com/profiles/</code>, but it also stops it from indexing <code>https://example.com/profiles/exampleuser</code>. Be... | [
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`Disallow: /profiles/`
This stops Google from indexing `https://example.com/profiles/`, but it also stops it from indexing `https://example.com/profiles/exampleuser`. Because new profiles are created every day, it is ... | The distinction comes from how registration is done between registrars and registries, using the EPP protocol, and does not come from the DNS plane.
On the resolution side of things, there is no distinction. Each zone is served by a set of nameservers. This is all that exist. But we can already introduce here terminol... |
139,353 | <p>is there any "SEO-friendly" way to show a page title like below?</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/0csMV.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/0csMV.png" alt="Text duplication background" /></a></p>
<p>It's easy to implement with an HTML code like this:</p>
<pre><code>&... | [
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[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0csMV.png)
It's easy to implement with an HTML code like this:
```
<h2>Sample Title</h2>
<span class="shadow">Sample Title</span>
```
But isn't it bad for... | After some researches and inspirations I finally found the right solution for my case.
**Solution with a custom attribute:**
```
<style>
h2::after { content: attr(data-content); ... }
</style>
...
<h2 data-content="The Title">The Title</h2>
```
---
**Solution with inline css:**
```
<style>
h2::after { cont... |