Canonical Mismatch: Conflicting Signals and How to Fix Them

Canonical points to a noindex url: fixing the contradiction

Canonical Points to a Noindex URL: Fixing the Contradiction

A canonical tag (rel="canonical") tells search engines which URL is the preferred, indexable version of a…
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Orphan linked only from other orphans

Orphan Linked Only from Other Orphans: How to Fix Orphan Clusters

This check flags pages whose only internal links come from pages that are themselves orphaned. The…
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Url contains form with get

Forms Using GET: When Crawlable Form URLs Become an SEO Problem

A form with method=GET turns every submission into a URL. That is by design and often…
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Disallowed image: when blocking images in robots. Txt hurts you

Disallowed Image: When Blocking Images in robots.txt Hurts You

Your robots.txt file tells crawlers which URLs they may and may not request. A "Disallowed Image"…
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Canonical mismatch: conflicting signals and how to fix them

Canonical Mismatch: Conflicting Signals and How to Fix Them

A canonical mismatch means a single URL declares more than one canonical, and those declarations point…
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Old ajax crawling meta fragment

Old AJAX Crawling Meta Fragment: How to Remove It Safely

The <meta name="fragment" content="!"> tag is a leftover from Google's AJAX crawling scheme, deprecated in 2015…
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