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Republishing blog posts on a popular website

I started my blog about programming yesterday and in order to promote and increase traffic I submitted my rss to Codeproject which pulls my posts and publishes them at Codeproject. While it increases...

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After mod_rewrite the internal URLs are duplicated many times when crawling

I’m sure it is my mistake in mod_rewrite rules, but I can’t seem to figure it out. I’ve set up the rules for my new site and all works perfect, unless – I try to create a sitemap. The URLs get...

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What should be the rel=“canonical” tag in all these scenarios?

I’ve couple of questions about rel=canonical since I’m getting little confused. I’ve a website that shows list of doctors. I want to know the rel canonical for each of the following webpages. So please...

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Redirecting to page ID if “rel=canonical” setup to pretty URL

When changing the URL structure for a site with 10,000′s of pages is it acceptable to redirect to a page id (eg example.com/1234) if a “pretty” URL has been set in the rel=canonical tag? For example:...

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How to construct the URL for search with multiple input?

I am having a home page where I can search on multiple tags. How should I construct the URL? Suppose I search for tag = test_1 and tag = test_2 Should I construct the url like...

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Noindex metatag in alternate mobile version of page with canonical to...

I have a desktop site to serve content for desktop and tablet users. I also have a mobile version of the site to cater to mobile phone visitors. Desktop pages have the following kind of annotations set...

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What should the canonical URL be when users can filter on multiple categories...

I’m totally revamping my site’s URL structure and have now defined the following structure of URLs to prevent duplicate content (in which the /c/ part in the URL determines that a country filter is...

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Correct way to handle translated pages

I have a page: www.domain.com/contact-us This page is in en-US language. It is also avaliable in 3 other languages: www.domain.com/de/contact-us (German) www.domain.com/zh-hans/contact-us (Simplified...

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URLs with “space”, “%20”, “+” are canonicals?

If I have a URL encoded and another does not, e.g. <a href="http://example.com/images/foo abc.jpg">Image</a> <a href="http://example.com/images/foo+abc.jpg">Image</a> <a...

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hreflang values for domain hacks

My publisher site uses a domain hack (not included in the ccTLDs treated as generic). I understand that Matt Cutts and Google have made statements on foreign ccTLDs trying to target other audiences: If...

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Duplicate meta tags issue despite having “rel='canonical'” tag

I’m getting more and more duplicate meta tags alerts on Google Webmaster tools everyday. It’s a blog and I have setup rel='canonical' tags long before and they are showing up correctly....

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Landing page on multi language site: Canonical AND x-default

I read so many tutorials about canonical and alternate x-default, but I am still not a 100 per cent sure if this is correct: I have a multi language page that is structured like this:...

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SEO Canonical tag for multiple website

I have two websites following website: abc.com having canocial tag abc.com and i implemnted 301 redirect to abc.ca. abc.ca having canocial tag abc.ca Problem is that when we search abc on google,...

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When a website has two listings in a Google search result page, is that...

I have an insurance website. When I search something like “car insurance”, my website appears twice. www.example.com www.example.com/car-insurance From a SEO point of view, I imagine this dilutes the...

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Canonical tag to avoid duplicate content: what impacts?

I’m working for a company which job is to take care of “networks”. One brand buy websites in bulk. They set-up one website with unique content on it describing their job, what they do, what they offer…...

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How to prevent duplicate pages with different URL slugs on my Cold Fusion site?

My programer has made my website in Cold Fusion and the URLs are like http://www.example.com/article.cfm/articleid/12345/seo-keyword-title but the problem is the page opens even if the...

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Do any important SEO robots (such as search engine crawlers) rely on IP...

Currently, I have it where anyone who attempts to access my server IP address as a website (example: http://nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn) will be redirected to a domain name with the original request URI appended....

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Using canonical links to eliminate “similar” search results in google

In our site, we have links as such: /{{category-name}}.html – will display all products /category-name/filters/{{some-filter}}.html – will display filtered products The problem we are facing is that...

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Redirect URL to the same page with parameter

I have this url in my blog: http://www.myweb.com/ and would like to change into: http://www.myweb.com/?lang=en all the URl, of course, in the same page = index.php I need to use param lang=en to grab...

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I have two version of my website (desktop and mobile). If my desktop version...

what is the best way to canonicalize? Should all 5 of the mobile pages have a canonical tag that points back to the desktop page? Or should I not use canonical tags on the mobile pages that don’t have...

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