Category: Technical SEO
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What’s the worse bulk 301 redirect project of your career?
“`markdown Reflecting on the Most Challenging Bulk 301 Redirect Project of My Career I’ve been feeling a bit nostalgic lately, especially since we’ve moved beyond manual mapping for 301 redirects. The new programmatic and algorithmic solutions available to us now are a blessing for up-and-coming Technical SEOs, sparing them from some of the challenges we’ve…
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Optimizing Magento page speed?
Boosting Page Speed on Magento E-commerce Sites Hello everyone, I’ve recently begun the journey of optimizing SEO for a large e-commerce platform built on Magento. Despite its robust architecture, the site suffers from poor page speed performance scores. I’m reaching out for advice on enhancing these scores. What strategies would you recommend? Additionally, what are…
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Does Google generate upper-case URLs?
“`markdown Is Google Generating Uppercase URLs? Hello everyone, I’ve been analyzing the Google Search Console (GSC) data for a newly launched website (launched on April 10th). Interestingly, Google’s bot (Gbot) is identifying URLs with uppercase characters (e.g., example.com/Page1.html), while all my URLs are strictly in lowercase. Despite this mismatch, the erroneous URLs are returning a…
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Does having WordPress in a subdirectory confuse search engines?
“`markdown Does Hosting WordPress in a Subdirectory Affect SEO Crawlers? I currently run a custom PHP web application at the root of my domain, which is performing excellently in terms of SEO and traffic. I’ve also opted to add a blog using WordPress, placing it in a subdirectory, and everything seems to be functioning well.…
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What are the effects of SERP URLs with ?srsltid?
Understanding the Implications of SERP URLs with ?srsltid Hello readers, I’m currently managing a large ecommerce website and have observed a recent change in the search engine results page (SERP) URLs. Specifically, they now include an ?srsltid parameter. I’ve also noticed this change across several of our competitors’ websites. What could be causing this change,…
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Inability to Index New Pages in GSC for Two Months: Why?
Unable to Index New Pages via Google Search Console for Two Months: Here’s What’s Happening Since November 18th, I’ve encountered a persistent issue while trying to index new pages in a client’s Google Search Console. Every submission results in the same frustrating error message: “Oops! Something went wrong. We had a problem submitting your indexing…
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Issues accessing Bing Webmaster tools on desktop?
“`markdown Troubleshooting Access Issues with Bing Webmaster Tools on Desktop Experiencing Access Problems with Bing Webmaster Tools? I’ve been facing an issue where every time I try to open the Bing Webmaster Tools homepage on my desktop, I end up seeing an unexpected page. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Any suggestions on how to…
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For crawl budget, are many 301s or many 404s/410s better?
“`markdown Optimizing Crawl Budget: 301 Redirects vs. 404/410 Errors On my website, I manage thousands of product URLs like: https://example.com/product/acme-555 A few years back, I added links from each product page to another URL: https://example.com/share-it.php?product=acme-555 These URLs were merely for sharing purposes and carried ‘noindex, nofollow’ tags. In 2019, I decided to remove these ‘share-it.php’…
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Learned Screaming Frog for Reviews—Can I Derive Insights from Numerous Product Evaluations?
“`markdown Discovering Key Insights from Product Reviews Hi everyone, First off, I want to express my gratitude for the assistance I’ve received so far. Recently, I’ve been dedicating some time to explore new functionalities with Screaming Frog, particularly focusing on custom extraction techniques. With hundreds of reviews available for our major products, I’m searching for…