Is Omitting Hreflang Attributes Harmful for SEO? Recently, our company onboarded a new Chief Marketing Officer who believes that not implementing hreflang attributes on our website is detrimental to our SEO efforts. Our operations are limited to just three states within the US, and the majority of our clientele communicates in English. Considering these factors,…

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“`markdown Should I Index a Page for Every County on My Property Data Website? Hello Everyone, I’ve developed a program that gathers property data from every county across the US. Alongside our API, we’ve integrated analytics and a user interface to facilitate property searches for those who might not be comfortable using the API. I’m…

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Domain Migration: Redirecting BrandGoal to Brand.com with Sub-Folders? Introduction Hello, I’m part of a team at a soccer equipment company, and we’ve recently acquired our primary domain: brandname.com. Current Domain Situation At present, we operate three ccTLDs—essentially three different sites or domains: brandgoal.com, brandgoal.co.uk, and brandgoal.com.au. These domains incorporate our brand name appended with “goal”…

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“`markdown Analyzing Core Web Vitals: Did This Page Pass? Lately, I’ve been testing several websites using Pagespeed Insights, and I’ve encountered some conflicting information. According to the Core Web Vitals, it looks like I’ve passed. However, when I check the performance section, it indicates that I’ve failed in terms of Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and…

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Top Tool for Analyzing Multiple Redirects Hello, I manage a large website that has over 4,800 redirects in its virtual host configuration. I’m currently on the lookout for a tool that can efficiently check these redirects and provide useful information, such as whether they are still necessary and if the URLs are still indexed. Your…

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“`markdown Understanding the Image Link Spam Phenomenon Hello readers! Recently, I’ve been diving into the puzzling issue of spammy image backlinks. Using tools like Ahrefs, I’ve noticed that these peculiar links appear on nearly every website I inspect. They originate from seemingly random domains globally, many based in the EU (.it, .fr, .de, .ch, .hu),…

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Why Are Thumbnails Missing in Google SERPs? I’m looking for advice on an issue that’s affecting my website’s visibility in Google search results, particularly when it comes to thumbnails not appearing for our recipe pages. Despite adhering to all best practices, our recipe thumbnails just don’t show up in the SERPs. After comparing several sites,…

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“`markdown Is the ‘rel=alternate’ Tag in Your Sitemap Necessary? For many years, I’ve been managing numerous sitemaps containing thousands of URLs. Recently, I revisited them and noticed they have the following structure: xml <url> <loc>https://example_com/product/acme</loc> <xhtml:link rel=”alternate” hreflang=”en” href=”https://example_com/product/acme” /> <xhtml:link rel=”alternate” hreflang=”de” href=”https://de.example_com/product/acme” /> <changefreq>yearly</changefreq> </url> However, after reviewing the official sitemap protocol (sitemaps.org,…

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“`markdown Managing Crawl Budget: 301 Redirects vs. Canonical Tags For some curious reason, Google has been crawling numerous URLs on my website following this structure: https://example.com/product/acme-555/ (with a trailing slash) instead of the correct format: https://example.com/product/acme-555 (without a trailing slash) Initially, I opted to apply a 301 redirect to handle URLs with a trailing slash:…

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