I needed to remove many lines from my sitemap.xml file which Google search console didn’t crawl correctly (reported as soft 404). The lines to remove
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When your site is not responsive, but serves a mobile version instead of the desktop one, it is recommended to add a rel=”alternate” link to the
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Cloudflare offers many benefits: There’s the CDN which makes your site faster to reach in different locations. There’s the caching system which makes it even
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For WordPress and Drupal specific instructions please visit Moving WordPress website to HTTPS and Moving Drupal website to HTTPS Technical: Buy and install a SSL
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Technical: Buy and install a SSL certificate Backup database and files Try to change all absolute references to relative, or change all hard-coded “http://www.yoursite.com…” into
Read morePosition a title on top of an image
Many times we want to have an image or a banner with some text on it. The most simple solution is to embed the text
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Technical: Buy and install a SSL certificate Backup database and files Try to change all absolute references to relative, or change all hard-coded “http://www.yoursite.com…” into
Read moreGoogle site search alternative.. by Google
As so many others, my company needed an alternative for its search engine. We were using Google Site Search (GSS) for years and were happy
Read moreHiding content from search engine bots / crawlers
I needed the following code to hide the product’s price from search engines:
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if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) && preg_match('/bot|crawl|slurp|spider/i', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) { return false; } |
PHP script for general all pages canonical script
The following script will work well as a general in-header canonical one-line script, BUT ONLY FOR SITES THAT DON’T PASS PARAMETERS TO GENERATE CONTENT PAGES.
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https://www.whatrunswhere.com/features.php http://www.adgooroo.com/for-advertisers/advertiser-features/ http://www.similarweb.com gives you the “not provided keywords” based on 60 million users gathering information. Read this blog post – http://blog.similarweb.com/similarweb-pro-reveals-your-true-traffic-data-with-not-provided-keywords/ http://www.spyfu.com/ well known, somewhat
Read moreGoogle Analytics Custom Variables
Eli – you can define up to 5 free custom variables to use with analytics. You inject values to the variables using code and you
Read moreGoogle SEO tips in 10 minutes
http://mashable.com/2012/06/26/google-seo-tips/ Basically, they advice to: 301 redirect to www version use webmaster tools google site:spaces.co.il to see if it is indexed fetch as googlebot in
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While dealing with a problematic RSS feed that was for some reason not validating even though there was no apparent reason (It kept giving me
Read moreSEO tips with focus on WordPress
* Changing the name of the domain in wordpress settings to have the www (unless decided differently) * Enabling nested comments in wordpress – settings
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High search frequency does not necessarily denote a great keyword. And ranking for a popular term does not a successful campaign make. While search positions
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