Category: Technical SEO
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Does Having Approximately 5,000 Orphaned URLs in the New Site Present an SEO Concern Due to Canonical Linking to Active Pages?
New Site Migration: Handling 5,000 Orphaned URLs Hello everyone, We’ve recently completed a migration of our Hong Kong site from M1 to M2 and encountered an interesting challenge. The M1 Scenario On the original M1 platform, product page internal links included the file path. For example: example.com/football/football-goals/6-x-4-football-goal These URLs had canonical tags pointing to: example.com/6-x-4-football-goal…
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Confusion over Screaming Frog’s Unlinked Hreflang URLs report
Understanding Unlinked Hreflang URLs Hello everyone, I’m a bit puzzled about the concept of unlinked hreflang URLs. We’ve identified thousands of these “unlinked hreflang” URLs. From what I’ve gathered, these are URLs that aren’t found during a regular site crawl because they aren’t linked in the standard HTML content—they only appear in the hreflang tags.…
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Are WP speed optimization plugins necessary if Cloudflare is already set up?
“`markdown Evaluating WP Speed Optimization Plugins Alongside Cloudflare I’m currently utilizing Elementor and WooCommerce on my website, with Cloudflare serving as my CDN. However, my Google Core Web Vitals performance scores are less than ideal. I’m particularly having trouble with Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and main thread work. Can speed optimization plugins enhance these scores,…
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Is it time to change my URL?
Should I Update My URL? Hello everyone, I’m seeking advice regarding some URLs on one of my websites. I’ve recently taken over management and noticed that some URLs include the term “node,” like this example: /prices-financing#node-2365. I’m curious whether changing “node” to something more intuitive would be SEO-friendly and, importantly, what impact this URL modification…
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Can someone translate this error into simpler terms and advise on fixing it? “Alternate page with proper canonical tag. These pages aren’t indexed on Google.”
“`markdown Understanding the “Alternate Page with Proper Canonical Tag” Issue and How to Fix It When I switched to Hostinger, everything was running smoothly until last month, when I encountered an error: “Alternate page with proper canonical tag. These pages aren’t indexed or served on Google.” The message isn’t very specific and doesn’t indicate which…
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What Is the Importance of Page Names in SEO?
The Significance of Page Names in SEO Hello everyone, I’m seeking some guidance on the best practices for naming pages, particularly from an SEO standpoint. As a technical writer, I’m currently working on a project using MkDocs. This tool offers a feature that allows you to choose whether to link to pages as directories or…
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Which Schema (ld-json) are you implementing? Details inside
“`markdown Exploring Schema Markup Options for Airport Transfer Booking Platforms Hello everyone, I’m currently developing an airport transfer booking platform and am seeking some advice on schema markup implementation. For the landing page, would you recommend structuring the schema as Website > LocalBusiness > TaxiService? Or would it be more effective to implement TaxiService on…
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Ideal hreflang x-default setup for regional e-commerce
“`markdown Best Practices for Using hreflang x-default in a Regionalized E-commerce Setup I manage an e-commerce website that automatically redirects visitors to a regional or language-specific subfolder based on their location or preferences when accessing the homepage or default URL. For instance, users from the USA are taken to .com/en-us/, while those from Canada are…
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Handling outdated news posts that add no value
“`markdown Managing Outdated News Posts: Best Practices I’m currently revamping a site for an estate agency, and I’ve encountered a series of old news posts. These posts haven’t generated much traffic in the past 16 months and aren’t contributing any value to the business. I’m aiming to declutter the site’s content. What’s the best approach…