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How can I replace my site's domain name on search engines with its business name?
I'm building a site and I've noticed that when I search my site's name on Google, unlike other sites my website's URL is displayed instead of the business title.
Can somebody please help me figure this out?
I've built my site using Wordpress and my…
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“prev. next.” text in Google search results meta description
Strange things happend when I check my website in Google search results. I'm using Wordpress and Yoast SEO plugin. Meta description of site was typed in Yoast SEO plugin so everything is fine but at the front of meta description, I see this text:…
lituoklis13
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Import Canonical URL for YOAST SEO using Database
Is there anyway to upload (import) a Canonical URL for YOAST SEO using Database (inject bulk method)? I'm quite confused as which table and field it used for the data in the database that use for YOAST SEO canonical URL field.
I stumbled in this…
Rakis Friski
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I submitted Sitemaps from AIO SEO to google search console, if I now delete the AIO plugin, do my sitemaps become invalid?
I use Yoast as SEO for my new Wordpress website, however I couldn't get the sitemaps with Yoast as it was giving me error 404, and regardless of what I tried, it wasn't working.
So I then got the All In One SEO while still having Yoast installed, I…
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Putting an ampersand (&) in a webpage's path (via WordPress Yoast) can be problematic?
I consider putting an ampersand (&) in a webpage's path (via WordPress Yoast).
I have a webpage with the h1 of "Questions and answers" and I'd like the webpage path to be just q&a (like example.com/q&a).
If I'll write in Yoast q&a as path, can this…
user58733
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Should I enable cloudflare crawler hints with Yoast SEO?
I have a WordPress site, and I want to have more traffic. I already have Yoast SEO installed in WordPress. Should I also enable CloudFlare crawler hints, and can it cause security issues? I see the Bing search console also promoting it.
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How do I debug "Couln't fetch" in the sitemap page of Google Search Console?
I read a lot of questions related to this problem, but it seems nothing applies to this case. From the Google Search Console, the sitemap for a Wordpress website using Yoast is reported as "couldn't fetch". No other info seems to be provided.
I…
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After adding HTTPS to my site, Google prefers to index HTTP
I recently moved my website from HTTP to HTTPS. But when I try to get my HTTPS pages indexed, Google search console says "Duplicate, submitted URL not selected as canonical."
Google is preferring the HTTP version and indexing it but not the HTTPS. I…
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In Wordpress how to remove title of post in new Yoast plugin breadcrumbs setup?
I have a Wordpress 5.4x website. I have installed Yoast 13.x SEO plugin into it and it's configured OK.
I also have breadcrumbs on my site using this Yoast plugin. To hide the title of the post in the breadcrumb's row, I have the following hack in…
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SEO for pages with no content like cart, checkout, or "my account"
How do you optimize pages with no content for search engines. I have pages that are functional, but have no content like cart, checkout, "my account".
I am using Yoast SEO
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Does using focus key phrase slightly too much (as warned by Yoast) hurt SEO?
My company has an issue with the Yoast SEO focus keyphrase. When we write our blog content on WordPress, there is a warning saying we use too the focus key phrase too much in our post. But we only a few words more than the recommended count.
Does…
Ravena Mallmann
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How can I get Yoast SEO under Wordpress to display multilevel heirarchical breadcrumbs?
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How can I get Yoast SEO + Wordpress to display multilevel breadcrumbs?
When I migrated from a static site, I had breadcrumbs like:
My Site → Orthodox Books Online, and More → Socratic Dialogue → Plato: The Allegory of the...…
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Why did Yoast put a no-index tag in my XML sitemap?
I recently removed an SEO plugin from my WP site and replaced it with Yoast. I made some other changes to the site as well, adding no-index to my category pages.
I just tried inspecting the new Yoast sitemap on Google Search Console but was told it…
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Two steps have pages with similar titles which gives a warning from Yoast SEO
my custom product designer web application is in the following page of my site: www.example.com/designyourself
This page can show different designable product based on Query String,…
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Search site by two possible abbreviation combinations - with space and without
I have a case where company name is registered as abbrevation, lets call it KUBER. But first two letters represent names of two founders so the client wishes that website will be found on search engines if the user types in "KU BER" or "KUBER".…
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