SEO
Posts about search engine optimization.
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The withgoogle.com Example Shows Why Domain Names Matter
The first time I came across the withgoogle.com domain, seeing the labs.withgoogle.com subdomain as the home of Google’s experiments, I was baffled. My immediate question was: Is this domain legit? So it didn’t surprise me when I recently noticed on Google Trends that the most searched query related to Google’s own withgoogle.com domain is “withgoogle.com…
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bbPress Discussion Forum Schema & SEO Rich Snippets – Free WordPress Plugin
Here’s a useful WordPress plugin if you are running a bbPress forum. The bbPress Discussion Forum Schema & SEO Rich Snippets plugin automatically upgrades your bbPress forum topics with advanced “DiscussionForumPosting” structured data for free. By providing search engines with precise details about your community threads – including active reply counts, author information, and conversation structure…
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Failed: Robots.txt Unreachable Error in Google Search Console – Solved
Here’s how I solved the Failed: Robots.txt Unreachable and Robots.txt Not Fetched errors in Google Search Console. The issue itself is serious, since it prevents Google bots from crawling and indexing your website and webpages. The solution I found is to unblock Google bot IPs in your web hosting server’s firewall. Yes, although Google bot…
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Force HTTPS to Avoid Duplicate Page Indexing by Google
Having enabled access to both HTTPS and HTTP versions of your website may lead to duplicate content. For instance, the Google Search may index both HTTPS and HTTP versions of your site’s webpages, which may create unnecessary duplicates in the search results like this: Having duplicate pages indexed isn’t good from the SEO perspective. Furthermore,…