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: Re: Homepage not at the top of the results for a "site:" search on Google When I do site: on Google for my website, the homepage is nowhere in search results. In fact, I can't find it anywhere
No, this will not affect your "whole-site-seo". At least not directly.
The ranking of your pages within googles sitesearch results (site:yourdomain.tld) especially for newly indexed sites is affected by your internal linking structure.
You could describe it like that: "What gets linked most (internally), is most important for google."
(Although there is more behind it, but for starting up, this is enough to know)
Just make sure everything is linked well and tell the robots to index your homepage.
Have a look at your most important pages, link them internally well and smart - this should be a good thingy for starting.
: Re: How to avoid SSL warnings about certificate not for the current site when redirecting alternate domains? I have multiple domains forward issue. Domains with plurals and singular e.g.: example.com,
Well, at first sight, it seems like you have issued an SSL certificate which you have installed in another domain and this will certainly trigger these warnings.
And you are not telling us which method you used to redirect the domains, there are ways to redirect the domains directly from your DNS panels, or with .htaccess files, or by using a Meta Command in the MySQL DB, or even by making a .php script for the redirection.
My opinion is that you should use
DNS redirect
.htaccess 301 redirects.
In case A you just add a redirect to the domains you want from within the DNS panel at your Domain registrar. This is the simplest and easiest solution.
Then you check again your SSL certificates and after that, you had to make sure that you have purchased the SSL for the right domain, i suggest to install it again.
And that's it.
Now if you want to use the redirect with the .htaccess file you have to NOT redirect your domains from the DNS panel of your registrar to the other domain, but point them in your webserver, in which you will have created the necessary webspace for their hosting, and then you will edit the .htaccess file.
Then you will open the root folder, in the webserver, in the webspace of the domain that is to be redirected, and If no .htaccess exists in your root folder currently, you can create one using an application like Notepad (or a similar plain text application).
The code for the file is contained in the next step.
Make sure that when you save your .htaccess file it begins with a “.”
Note that this file has no tail extension (e.g. “.com” or “.txt”)
Paste the following code into the .htaccess text file: .redirect 301 /old/oldURL.com www.newURL.com In the code, oldURL.com represents the landing page address your visitors will need to be redirected from while www.newURL.com represents the address you'd like your visitors redirected to.
There should be exactly one blank space between oldURL.com and Don't add www to the (old) URL in the first part of the code!
The code "301" is most commonly used on redirected sites and means "moved permanently".
: Naked domain cdn potential issues I would like to use a naked domain instead of one with a sub domain but am worried about some potential issues down the line. It is an ecommerce site so
I would like to use a naked domain instead of one with a sub domain but am worried about some potential issues down the line.
It is an ecommerce site so if the site grows then a cdn will most likely be used. I believe you cant use a CNAME on a root domain. Would the best solution be to use a seperate external domain e.g. staticexample.com? If we did use an external domain, would that affect images in serps?
Thanks
: How do I link to a "bitcoin:" URL from my WordPress.com site? Can I use a redirect? I'm having a slight problem, Wordpress.com doesn't play nice with bitcoin: URLs (it mangles them into http://{current
I'm having a slight problem, Wordpress.com doesn't play nice with bitcoin: URLs (it mangles them into {current page url}/{wallet address} ), so I need to do a redirect of some sort.
I found Adding «Donate» Bitcoin button in README.MD file GitHub repository on bitcoin.stackexchange.com but I can't get the redirect to work for some reason. I'm using the following code in the index.html file on my other web server, then used the URL to that page as the link for the donate button.
<script>
window.location.href = "bitcoin:17uctxtsWG3gpyAy6iJ8AVd5rdSjkJH2?label=In%20the%20treatment%20of%20Sasha's%20teeth&amount=0.0037";
history.back();
</script>
It seems to work (in the sense that it redirects the user back to the page where they came from) but it doesn't open a bitcoin application on for example my phone.
: Google Business Sub Categories for Cleaning/janitorial Company Is there a place that defines each Google my business category? I am working on SEO for a Cleaning Company that provides janitorial
Is there a place that defines each Google my business category? I am working on SEO for a Cleaning Company that provides janitorial services to local businesses/schools/hospitals..
Upon obtaining access to their Google Business Admin Page. I noticed that one of their sub categories was "Cleaners".
My initial thought was "Cleaners" doesn't mean what they think it means. I was thinking this word as a category would be served for "Dry Cleaning" and "Laundromat" businesses. However when you search "cleaners" on Google. The definition is someone who cleans.. And the first couple listings ARE cleaning/janitorial companies.
That being said ALL the local listings and other pages were indeed laundromats and dry cleaning businesses, which we don't want.
How do I find the exact definition for each Google category?
: Is there any way to use HTTP 410 Gone on Google Blogger blogs? I want to ask about HTTP 410 Gone if I can use it on Blogger Blogspot. As we know by default the wrong URL returned to 404
I want to ask about HTTP 410 Gone if I can use it on Blogger Blogspot. As we know by default the wrong URL returned to 404 Not Found, but I want to remove some old blog posts and I want to return them to HTTP 410 Gone instead of 404 Not Found.
In my template this code is the only one used to handle with Error pages:
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "error_page"'>
<title>
404: Page Not Found |
<data:blog.title/>
</title>
</b:if>
So, any suggestions can help me with this matter?
: Will adding an external ecommerce link to a site navigation effect seo? I have an ecommerce store built with an external vendor on a different URL than my main site. If I add a link to
I have an ecommerce store built with an external vendor on a different URL than my main site.
If I add a link to the store in the navigation of my main site, will this be seen as malicious by Google and hurt my SEO since it's an external link and from an outside source?
I guess I would just like to know what the pros and cons of this would be.
: Disallow cache folder of website using robots.txt If I will Disallow cache folder of website using robots.txt. So I will bad effect ranking of website or not.
If I will Disallow cache folder of website using robots.txt. So I will bad effect ranking of website or not.
: Correct way to restyling a wordpress site I have a wordpress site that needs a complete restyling (both theme and urls). I'm thinking about do the following steps: 1) Delete the current DB
I have a wordpress site that needs a complete restyling (both theme and urls).
I'm thinking about do the following steps:
1) Delete the current DB and WP installation on the domain
2) Install clean WP and DB, build the new site
3) Do 301 redirects from old urls to new urls
In a overall view, including seo, is that correct?
: Does Google care about cached versions of site having Stylesheet and JavaScript files? I would like to know if having Stylesheets and JavaScript files available for old, cached versions of a
I would like to know if having Stylesheets and JavaScript files available for old, cached versions of a site benefits SEO in any way. Currently I'm adding a hash of the file contents to the file name, so the file that is referenced by a cached version of the site would not longer be available.
Do I need to keep copies of old files around for any amount of time to improve SEO? Or can I just replace the old files with the new ones without any consequences?
: New domain and URL redirection - SEO risk? I'm considering changing my clients URL. Reasons being the following: - We're rebranding his company - Currently, the domain has the small town, outside
I'm considering changing my clients URL. Reasons being the following:
- We're rebranding his company
- Currently, the domain has the small town, outside of the city, in the name. However, for his specific practice, he generally owns the market for his niche locally, and doesn't have competitors for a much larger radius than just the small town the domain is in. So instead we want to include the city's name instead, which is available.
- The domain would be the same as the branding
Upon launch of the new domain, we'll also be launching a newly built website, new sitemap, URL structure, everything.
My thoughts were to redirect the entire domain to the new one as a 301 redirect, THEN redirect to HTTPS.
All older pages would redirect to the page that most clearly matches the topic, or to a 404 page.
According to Moz, all link equity would be passed. (Short article here: moz.com/blog/301-redirection-rules-for-seo ) However, it seems risky.
What is the true risk?
: Unique GTM account for multiple landing pages with diferent UA codes I would like to know if there is a way to achieve that a GTM account with 4 tags firing events can be used in many landings
I would like to know if there is a way to achieve that a GTM account with 4 tags firing events can be used in many landings pages with diferent UA codes.
Currently each tag is ready to fire an event to a specific UA account... but can't see if there is a way generalize to a UA-XXXXXXX-{{dinamic-ID}}
Here is an explanation of my goal:
: Re: Is it better for SEO to have multiple sub pages or all pages sumed up? I am doing a relauch of my site. example.de/service has 5 subpages. In my new layout I would love to put all subpages
tl;dr: With a proper HTTP response status code 301 (Moved Permanently) from the old subpages to the new /service one you'll be good.
Long version: It's complicated. The key for this given problem is that you are looking at a low traffic regional page with local customers only. There are not many companies in that region offering these services (is there any competition at all?). It would be a different story otherwise. For a non-regional webpage it would probably be better to keep the current structure because each subpage is more specialized for the given key words.
What you want to add is developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/local-business because that will give Google the needed information to make local search more powerful.
And give Google some 4-8 weeks time for some soul searching.
: Can you officially or globally mark a domain as For Sale? Domains are ultimately allocated through IANA. For domains that have been purchased, you can do a WHOIS lookup to get some information
Domains are ultimately allocated through IANA. For domains that have been purchased, you can do a WHOIS lookup to get some information on the owner.
If you want to sell a domain, is there any global, official, or semi-official way to mark it as For Sale? E.G. something you could put into its global WHOIS info?
: Sending Date with UTM we have a notification service based on SMS which notify user every day(Actually it's a search alter notifier and it might some days dosen't have new results for user
we have a notification service based on SMS which notify user every day(Actually it's a search alter notifier and it might some days dosen't have new results for user and of course we shortify the URL for lower SMS costs), we've set up utm_medium , utm_source and utm_campaign and it works correctly, a new news is we looking for a solution to find out from which day's SMS user is returned to our site. I mean it might to user clicks on previous days SMS links and it's not traceable for us. my idea is passed current date via utm_term to user in SMS url , something like utm_term = 20180124 but I'm not sure it's the best way, my question is **How can we achieve this requirements and send the date of SMS sent to user to google Analytics?
: Re: How to handle redirecting all of permalinks to their external sources? I have this website that fetches pages' meta info (links, title) and their main content from some predefined external websites
No -it is not SEO-wise.
First of all, it is duplicate content (even if its just part of the original content), second - the google bot will think you try to trick someone with autoredirect stuff.
Using other peoples content is allways a bad idea if trying to get users out of the searchengines.
And the thingy with HTTPS/HTTP issue is not helping at all ;-)
: Re: can't remove blocks on my resources in google webmaster tools I received an alert from Google Webmaster Tools a couple weeks ago that stated: "Google systems have recently detected an issue with
You can re-index your website anytime with Google Search Console. Just simply navigate to Crawl > Fetch as Google and you should see an input field to put a URL. Then just hit Fetch or Fetch and Render depending on your needs. This will send Google Crawl Bots to your website to recrawl.
I typically do this for all new articles after posting and also when I update publish dates or change on page content for a page or post.
: Can we call a site search result page "SERP"? I've worked in SEO company and I'm familiar with SERP term. I've moved to another company and in this company, we have an Elastic Search server
I've worked in SEO company and I'm familiar with SERP term. I've moved to another company and in this company, we have an Elastic Search server which we send data to it and use it as search handler.
My colleagues insist the page which shows results in our site is SERP and using SERP for it is correct, but I think just search engines should call their result page as SERP.
Would you please clarify SERP term? Can every website which has a search box and searches result's page, are a search engine? Can you call every search result page SERP?
: Re: Outdated 404 errors that are linked to from the pages themselves I have a lot of 404 errors in my Google search console and have been researching this a bit. I understand they are generally
I just want to make sure this doesn't end up counting as an internal 404 error that could impact my search rankings? Is it okay to leave it alone?
As closetnoc pointed out, remove public-facing links to 404 pages right away.
Also, convert those 404 pages to 410 pages since you're not dealing with them anymore.
When search engines see them as 410 pages, they will give up searching for them when trying to crawl your site because 410 means "gone" where as 404 means "not found at this time" and I say "at this time" because search engines will believe that the page will return at some point in the future.
The end result... a faster server, since each request to your server (regardless of origin) uses resources on your server (example: CPU, disk) for the processing.
: You can segment users who have activated the event, and add the metric "total events" to the filter, and set to the number you want (total events = X). The problem with this is it will
You can segment users who have activated the event, and add the metric "total events" to the filter, and set to the number you want (total events = X).
The problem with this is it will return you all the users that activated the event X times during their entire lifetime (not just the selected data range).
There is a workaround if X is 10 or less, which is including users who went through a sequence of X steps with the event.
The limitation with this is X can't be more than 10, and it will only count through the previous 90 days, and you can't change that number to anything less (or more, or dynamically with the data range).
: Keywords vs Meta-Keywords I was hoping someone could help. I have a wordpress/woocommerce online store and use Yoast SEO Plugin which allows me to Add one Focus Keyword and multiple Meta Keywords
I was hoping someone could help.
I have a wordpress/woocommerce online store and use Yoast SEO Plugin which allows me to Add one Focus Keyword and multiple Meta Keywords
It does say, however, that id i chose a Focus Keyword that it will over ride the meta-keywords.
I used the seobook.com website crawler which shows the keywords for the page I crawled and it does not return my focus Keyword but it does return the Meta-keywords.
I am keen to find out what should work better for SEO, One focus Keyword or multiple meta keywords.
I feel like having only one focus keyword will pigeon hole me whereas multiple metas should open me up to more possibilities?
I have tried searching for answers on google and seem to get a variety of different contradicting answers
: Re: Number of users today - two sources of truth? I built a custom webapp which shows today's total number of users for an analytics property. Wanting to verify that the shown value is correct,
Don't know that I can answer why, but let's look at what's happening.
Your custom app, see how you are calculating current users, how often do you refresh with new data? When do your time periods start and end?
Look at how you are determining "returning" from "new" visitors.
for the API and Analytics: You're using 1 day, and you've set your date range appropriately. And that is based on number of unique visitors who initiated sessions on your app on that day (from 00:01-23:59), (per Google's documentation) and that could be totally different from the number of users at the time you look at your stats.
Why is it fluctuating? Perhaps something with the lag between getting the metric from Analytics and displaying it on your screen.
I would recommend that you confirm that your app is using the exact same time parameters as Google's API and Analytics. On your custom dashboard, could it be that some users are being double counted by that "user type" grouping? Make sure your comparison is apples to apples and then launch it fresh (clear history, cache, fresh browser window.)
: Disallow redirects from another site A less than reputable site is redirecting to mine. Short of taking legal action, is there a way to prevent this from happening?
A less than reputable site is redirecting to mine. Short of taking legal action, is there a way to prevent this from happening?
: Will I have a better or bad SEO impact if I republish my articles on sites which adding canonical tags back to our site? Website like Medium allow us to republish the our content on their
Website like Medium allow us to republish the our content on their site. They will give footer credit as well as they add canonical tag to our site....
If we republish our articles on that type of site, Will I have a better or bad SEO impact for my site?
: Re: Apache FollowSymlinks works in DocumentRoot but 403s in subdirectories I'm trying to run the Piwigo gallery/digital asset manager on a Raspberry Pi using Apache 2.4 on Arch Linux ARM. Piwigo's
The ln commands here look incorrect.
[http@alarmpi ~]$ mv PicSub.jpg demodir/
[http@alarmpi ~]$ ln -s demodir/PicSub.jpg linkintoptosub.jpg
[http@alarmpi ~]$ ln -s PicTop.jpg linkintoptotop.jpg
[http@alarmpi ~]$ ln -s PicTop.jpg demodir/linkinsubtotop.jpg
[http@alarmpi ~]$ ln -s demodir/PicSub.jpg demodir/linkinsubtosub.jpg
The linking to PicTop.jpg requires a ../ when done inside the demodir.
The linking to PicSub.jpg from within demodir must not includedemodir/.
(ok) [http@alarmpi ~]$ mv PicSub.jpg demodir/
(ok) [http@alarmpi ~]$ ln -s demodir/PicSub.jpg linkintoptosub.jpg
(ok) [http@alarmpi ~]$ ln -s PicTop.jpg linkintoptotop.jpg
(fix) [http@alarmpi ~]$ ln -s ../PicTop.jpg demodir/linkinsubtotop.jpg
(fix) [http@alarmpi ~]$ ln -s PicSub.jpg demodir/linkinsubtosub.jpg
That being said, ls -l shows me broken links in a different color on Ubuntu. Maybe Arch does not do that? I have not used that Linux Distro in ages. One way to test whether a softlink is valid is to use a command such as test -f <filename> or stat <filename>. It will return an error if the softlink does not point to the right place.
To recreate a softlink, make sure to remove the existing one first.
[http@alarmpi ~]$ rm demodir/linkinsubtotop.jpg
[http@alarmpi ~]$ ln -s ../PicTop.jpg demodir/linkinsubtotop.jpg
: For SEO, should I prevent Google from indexing my affiliate products and just have my main pages indexded? I have a site with a bunch of products on it, about 1600 to 1700 or so. Each product
I have a site with a bunch of products on it, about 1600 to 1700 or so. Each product is a different WordPress post.
I don't really want Google to index all my posts, I would be happy for it just to index my home page and other pages I have on my site. About 4 other pages.
If i submit my site maps for just the pages, and home page, will the negatively affect my SEO ranking? The reason I ask is because my "posts" which are lists of products have images, price, and a link to the product. I don't need to have Google index all my posts as there isn't enough content to worry about that on them (Like description, uses, etc. etc..).
As from prior advice on here, it would impact me negatively more by having Google index all my posts since all my posts are just individual products on my site.
Would I be OK just having Google index my home page and pages rather than all my posts to?
For example
example.com/
example.com/about/
example.com/categories/
example.com/submit/
example.com/contact
and not all my "posts" (products)
: Google Analytics Report by IP Address How can I create a GA report to show me visitors from a specific IP address, I know I can go to Admin>view and filter by IP that way however, I would
How can I create a GA report to show me visitors from a specific IP address, I know I can go to Admin>view and filter by IP that way however, I would prefer a report in the current profile.
: How can I name an image so that a) it's still unique b) descriptive It's a given that a better name for a picture is "cat_eating_mouse.jpg" than "Aou7aIw=2.jpg". On my website I'm going to
It's a given that a better name for a picture is "cat_eating_mouse.jpg" than "Aou7aIw=2.jpg". On my website I'm going to have thousands of pictures. It's not a big of a problem to name them manually, but to come up with a unique name. Say, I have 2 pictures with the same content, the both can be name "cat_eating_mouse.jpg"
How can I make them unique so that's it's still good for SEO? Should I just add a number in the end -- "cat_eating_mouse2.jpg", "cat_eating_mouse3.jpg" ... "cat_eating_mouse155.jpg"?
: Have you noticed any difference in Google's desktop SERP meta descriptions? I was not able to find anything about this change in SERP, possibly it's some sort of 'bug' on the G side. But
I was not able to find anything about this change in SERP, possibly it's some sort of 'bug' on the G side.
But this morning I've noticed that SERP results are a bit different. Google is showing description in length more than 200 characters, ignoring meta description and use part of the content from page.
Anybody seen this change but me?
: Trouble replacing old SSL certificate on Nginx Disclaimer: This is my first ProWebmasters post. I thought this would be an appropriate place for this question but if it is not I'm happy to
Disclaimer: This is my first ProWebmasters post. I thought this would be an appropriate place for this question but if it is not I'm happy to remove it.
We use SSL For Free for our business site. We got the original certificate 95 days ago- and it expired 5 days ago. I am having trouble replacing the expired certificate.
The Nginx server is rebuilt once every 24 hours, pulling from the master branch on my Git Lab repository. The VM instance gets destroyed and replaced by a new one with a startup script that assembles and configures Nginx using the contents of the Git repository, including the SSL certificates.
When I updated the certificate and downloaded the root certificate and intermediate bundle and private key, I simply replaced the old certificates in the repository and rebuilt the web servers.
For some reason the website still uses the expired certificate days after replacing it.
This is very strange to me because the web server shouldn't have any trace of the old certificate, since they are rebuilt from a blank Ubuntu image and then pull the latest contents from Git.
I ran openssl x509 -in certificate.crt -text -noout on the certificates located in /var/www/ssl/ and confirmed that they are in-fact the new certificates.
This is the Nginx server config:
server {
listen 443 ssl default_server;
listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
server_name foobar.com foobar.com;
ssl_certificate /var/www/ssl/chained.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /var/www/ssl/private.key;
ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES128-GCM-SHA256:kEDH+AESGCM:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-EC$
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_dhparam /var/www/ssl/dhparams.pem;
root /var/www/html;
location / {
if ($http_x_forwarded_proto = "http") {
return 301 $host$request_uri; }
if ($request_uri ~ ^/(.*).html$) {
return 301 /;
}
try_files $uri $uri.html $uri/ /404;
}
}
Any ideas on what could be causing this? Thanks!
(I've already tried clearing my Chrome SSL Cache)
(SSLLabs shows that the site still uses the old certificate, but that other than the certificate being expired, nothing else is wrong with it)
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