Questions tagged [technical-seo]

Technical SEO is the process of editing a website's code to make it more readable and desirable to web search crawlers. It includes improving page performance, internal link structures, proper use of "meta noindex" and robots.txt, removal of broken links and duplicate content, and updating to HTTPS.

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Is SVG better for SEO than other image formats?

While reading an article on the internet I read that SVG is better for SEO than other image formats. How true is that? Also, when adding an SVG image to a website should it be added as or ?
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What is the consensus on handling pagination in 2019 on big result sets?

According to my research, old methods of consolidating paginated URLs into one are not recommended anymore. Old ways: Using rel=prev/next, but: "Rel=prev/next is not an indexing signal anymore" (Google WebmasterBlog) Using noindex,follow on…
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Do URLs that only consist of an id, for example, a timestamp, have a chance to succeed in SEO?

For example: https://example.com/12345678912/ vs https://example.com/keyword1-some-words/ Is URL still an important factor for Google?
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Figure or Div, which should I use?

I'm designing a news site. I use thumbnails of news on the homepage. Should I use the div or figure tag for them? Sample figure,
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Where to put schema markup code. In or tag?

I am wondering where should i put the schema markup code? Should i put it in the tag or in the tag? This is a sample code from Google and they haved added it in the tag but I read somewhere that it is completely fine to put it either…
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SEO optimization of near me keyword searches

Suppose I have a web page for product P. That web page is optimized content-wise for near me type searches, for example, "P near me" by detecting geolocation based on user IP addrsss. Since Google crawls my web page mostly from USA, and I don't have…
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What characters should be escaped in canonical url's?

Should I url-encode non-ascii characters in canonical url's? That is, should i use ...or I see both being used in the…
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About sudden drop in crawl request of our site

Looking for some help from Google seo expert to help our company site to identify this urgent issue. Here is the thing: the crawl request of our site experience a sudden drop on 9th, Oct. And it hasn't recovered yet. Daily crawl request drop from 6M…
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Is it harmful for SEO to repeat the same call to action at the bottom of every page?

My website consists of 4 pages. These pages explain what programming languages are. On all the pages above, there are articles and images about why you should get software service from me after the content is finished. These images and texts are…
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Does Google choose the first two FAQs, or the two most relevant from structured data/schema markup to display on the SERP?

I am adding Schema Markup to my website for the first time. I am implementing FAQs for relevant pages and realize that Google has updated to only show two (2) FAQs to promote competition on the SERP, but if I use the code below indicating more than…
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On "staging.example.com" list "example.com" in the href for rel=canonical

On my staging subdomain I want to make the canonical URL for each page the URL of the page on my main site. My CMS is WordPress. I want to do this so that if Google crawls my staging site I won't risk pages on my main site losing rankings because of…
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What is Noreferrer?

I heard the term 'Noreferrer' while reading articles about links on the internet. I didn't get much information about this term. What exactly is this term?
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Ahrefs reached max crawl depth, could it be caused by robots.txt changes?

Three weeks ago I add this in my robots.txt to disallow pagination so it will not appear in the Google index: User-Agent: * Disallow: /blog/1 Disallow: /blog/2 Disallow: /blog/3 Disallow: /blog/4 Disallow: /blog/5 Disallow: /blog/6 Disallow:…
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Robots.txt Validation Failed?!? Can't find any error. What am I missing?

This is my first post! I'm trying to work my way through the technical side of SEO by cleaning up some Google Search Console issues. Google Search Console page report shows that validation failed for the following link (which is a tag link, and tags…
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Client's Website Was Hacked and 316K Fake URLs Submitted to GSC

First, I wish you all a pleasant weekend. I have a unique situation. My client's website was hacked before working with me, and now I'm trying to fix it to the best of my abilities. We started working on 19th August 2023. The site was hacked around…
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