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Lazy loading in scroll-navigated SPA for better SEO
In my case, the landing page is SPA with scroll-based navigation, and my intention is to improve the performance and SEO by lazy-loading sections that don't match current url.
For /section3, the ...
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Should I be duplicating all DNS A records with their AAAA counterparts?
I have a Bind DNS for various websites on a shared server.
The shared server has an IPv4 and an IPv6 address.
I have and I expect to duplicate the NS records for A and AAAA.
Ai LLM's are telling me ...
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Why Is My Website Not Getting Indexed Properly on Google? [closed]
I recently launched a website: but I’m facing a strange issue.
Google is crawling the site, but it’s not indexing several important pages.
Here’s what I’ve noticed:
Some URLs remain in the “Crawled – ...
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Too many meaningless URLs spending up web crawl budget
I'm currently running a website specializing in booking hotels, resorts, homestays, and more. Lately Google been spending all its crawling budget on my old and outdated indexed URL (approximately ...
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Abilitate userdir in XAMPP for Mac for local sites
I installed XAMPP 8.2.4-0 on a MacBook with a Tahoe 26.1.
My goal is to allow access to the directories located at: /my_user/Documents/htdocs. One possible way should be to enable userdir.
This is ...
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Log authorization errors for bookstack on apache2
I want to set up fail2ban for bookstack, but I can't find invalid login attempts properly. I only see 302 responses in the access.log for my invalid/valid login. Is it possible to get responses like &...
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Why Is Only One of My Calculator Pages Getting Impressions While the Others Get None?
I created a new website about two weeks ago that contains three educational calculators.
All three pages are properly indexed, and I’ve done complete on-page SEO for each calculator.
However, I’m ...
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How do I get Bing to recognise my Google Site [closed]
My new website, www.ramsholt-fairway.org, hosted on Google Sites, does not appear on Bing (or DuckDuckGo). It does appear on a Google search. I freely admit I'm a little lost now. I have tried to ...
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How to purge cache for on Surge.sh? Live file serves old version, but new version is visible with a query string.robots.txt
I'm having a persistent issue with my file on a Surge.sh project, which is blocking Google from indexing my site.robots.txt.
What I want: I am trying to update my to allow all crawlers. The correct ...
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Bing crawler misbehavior causing 404 error flood
I am hosting a WordPress website on easy.gr (Europlanet) and it has been active since around November 2017. I don't think the domain or its content is particularly relevant for the purpose of this ...
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Sudden traffic drop after November 6, clicks fell from 50+ to 7–8 per day
Until November 6 2025, my website consistently received around 50+ clicks per day in Google Search Console.
After that date, the traffic suddenly dropped to 7–8 clicks per day, and it has stayed that ...
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How to prevent ModSecurity in Apache from filling up my logs?
I’m running a shared web server and I’d like to apply the WAF + CRS ruleset only to one of the virtual hosts. For now, ModSecurity is set to "DetectionOnly" mode so we can first review what ...
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Google crawling excessive URL on my website
My website is currently encountering a case where we have approximately ~11 milion currently crawled but not indexed URLs. Resulting in our listing page not showing up in Google search result, all ...
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need help with dns configuration
I recently acquired my first bit of freelance work, a friend's cousin wanted a new website - currently they have a wordpress website and they pay someone to host their website and email. I changed the ...
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Home Page Indexing Issue - Need Help
We've been struggling with a homepage indexing issue for the past two months. Interestingly, other pages on our site are appearing in Google search results without any problems.
Last week, we fixed a ...
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Handling PII on client side for enhanced conversions when the lead fires on a thank you page
I have a question about handling user data (PII) on the client side for enhanced conversions and attribution.
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I’m trying to track user data so that the advertising platforms (Google Ads and ...
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Blocking Claude-SearchBot with robots.txt
We have a website that is crawled by robots. Some robots have too many requests per day and I want to block them. One of them is Claude-SearchBot that is crawling our website. Their user-agent is &...
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httpd (apache2) on Arch: Warning: DocumentRoot [/home/peter/www/test.de] does not exist – but exists
My virtual host on my newly installed Linux Arch machine lives in /home/peter/www/test.de, so in my user directory.
In my /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf I include its config file:
# my own virtual hosts:
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Does rate limit on crawler hurt SEO?
In our website, we see many crawlers which pretends like human trying get contents. These crawlers are not well known like Google/Bing/Facebook etc. I can identify those crawler's IP and they are ...
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Local customized DocumentRoot in XAMPP for Mac
I'm on a MacBook Pro with Tahoe 26.0.1. I installed XAMPP-osx-8.2.4-0.
My goal is to change the DocumentRoot to place the directories containing the files for my local websites in:
Users/myuser/...
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Google Ads account suspended for “Misrepresentation” because of affiliate links in the page content?
My website is a free guide explaining how to start an LLC in the U.S.
It includes step-by-step instructions and some affiliate links to useful services (clearly declared).
Google Ads suspended my ...
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Moved XenForo to VPS, but it redirects to the old domain
I hope you're all doing well. I'm facing an issue that I've been unable to resolve on my own.
Here's my situation:
I have a XenForo 2.3.7 site hosted on a shared plan with Hostinger. I recently ...
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How do I get JMX prometheus exporter working in tomcat 10?
In theory it should be simple according to their docs.
But I have the following JAVA_OPTS now, as confirmed by the Tomcat logs, but I still have nothing listening on port 9001.
Oct 29 13:36:53 ...
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Indexing forum pages
Our issue is we're constantly getting Google indexing errors due to our two forums where not all pages are indexed or added in the site map. Well, the problem is forums have hundreds of pages with ...
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google? No violation but still not indexed [duplicate]
Why doesn’t Google index articles even though they are not penalized or violated? Even if the content is new, it is not indexed. The article still has backlinks but all are wrong, only the homepage is ...
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hreflang for regions
I am working on regionalizing a website, where there will be one version for North America, South America, Mexico and Canada, one for Austrailia and new Zealand and then a third as the fall back for ...
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My site is not indexed by Google, but shows ok in Bing [duplicate]
So, I have a basic Ghost blog with some human-written content by myself (mostly just notes for myself about bugs I encounter, because StackOverflow is kind of dead).
In bing it shows ok, but in Google,...
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Optimizing a loader on my website creates a CLS of 0.001
I've attempted to optimize my website as much as possible, but I came across something that causes a catch-22.
What my website does is this:
First it shows a small loader (aka a loading animation ...
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Apache2: I can server cgi files or .HTML but not both
I am struggling with Apache2 configuration to serve CGI (.py) and .HTML files on the same website.
if I run 'a2enmod cgi' my .py files can be served but my HTML Files can't be served.
if I run '...
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Apache Reverse Proxy with local BIND9 zone CNAME override
I have cPanel & WHM v130.0.14 STANDARD running in an EC2 instance. Trying to setup a reverse proxy with Apache2 by setting a CNAME some.example.com (not the real one) to forward the request to api....
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Mail server hosted by Gmail: external incoming/outgoing email not working
Good day!
After setting up our own mail server, external emails doesn't come and emails and nor going out.
Mail server was previously hosted by OVH. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.
Updated ...
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How to configure HTTP pages and kerberos?
We have hadoop running and database guys want to have kerberos between folk and the service UIs for HDFS, HIVE, etc.
Even after implementing some changes in firefox:-
network.negotiate-auth.trusted-...
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Massive drop in indexed pages - everything getting stuck in 'Crawled - Currently Not Indexed' (no recent changes, protections removed)
I'm struggling with a serious indexing issue that keeps repeating across several of my business websites that have over 10 million pages. (Big e-commerce projects that are custom-made).
Here’s what’s ...
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Goolge search console created thousands of fake URLs
I have a multi-language website with hierarchical structure:
For English language:
mywebsite.com/default.aspx (this is the home page)
mywebsite.com/page1.html
mywebsite.com/page2.html
mywebsite.com/...
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How to solve "DNSKEY missing: no SEP matching the DS found for XXX"
I recently moved my domain name to NameSilo and used their nameservers, enabled DNSSEC, and now various public DNS servers return errors when surfing to or querying DNS record information. Using dig ...
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Can't get Google Postmaster to validate a domain
I am trying to get two domains I own to validate in google postmaster. I have added the required TXT record to my DNS zone and waited over 72 hours. I have verified that there are no typos in the TXT ...
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Usage of SSL directives in Apache backend-only https reverse-proxy?
I've recently migrated an existing Apache2 webserver config from a "traditional" Debian-based linux machine to an AWS EKS environment using the hub.docker Httpd Docker official image instead....
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What steps would you take to rerank on Google after a rebrand and domain change nuked your rankings?
I had a master site company-x.com, and two unique local business sites site1.com and site2.com.
I took site1.com and site2.com and rebranded them to match my company, and changed the urls to company-x....
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What's the point of not having a DNS A record?
Some domains do not have a DNS A record
but have
www A record pointing to a website
mail A record
@ MX 1 mail
@ TXT SPF
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Why or in what case is it interesting to not have a DNS A record at all?
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How to Recover SEO/Indexing After Malware from Ad Network Ruins Site
I have a new website which I started in January this year, I've been working continuously on the site which now has over 5K+ pages published!
Everything went fine and got all my pages indexed within a ...
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The website Reddit shows a webpage if you attempt to open an image URL, how do they achieve this?
The default behaviour when right-clicking and choosing "open image in new tab" is that your browser will open the image file in a new tab. But the website Reddit doesn't do this, instead it ...
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Website effectively completely deindexed by Google despite reporting indexed pages and high average positions in GSC
For the past 12 months, a website I manage has effectively disappeared from Google Search results. Our homepage previously ranked #1 for organisation name, city but now appears on page 4, with largely ...
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Apache sent "200" responses to POST requests on a page that shouldn't be able to handle them. Have I been hacked?
I'm hosting a NextJS website with Apache as the web server. And I was looking into ways to make it more secure today. I went looking through Apache's logs and mixed in with the many failed attempts by ...
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Why Did My High-Ranking Page Lose Rankings After Adding New Content?
I recently updated one of my high-ranking pages by adding new sections and information. After the update, I noticed a drop in rankings for the page’s main keywords.
Could this be due to keyword ...
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There are almost 315k pages that are added overnight to my page indexing report
On my website, there are thousands of pages are added automatically by Google System after I signed up to Google Merchant center. Not sure how to remove them from search console. Also, the pages I was ...
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Does redirecting an old domain to a specific page on a new site help SEO?
I have two domains:
An older domain with some history and backlinks.
A new main domain with an important subpage (e.g., newsite.com/service).
If I redirect the old domain completely to newsite.com/...
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Taking over website and getting the old google analytics
I have been asked to update a website from a client and been given access to the code via ftp. I notice it has a Google Analytic gtag in the header and wondered if I can access the data.
The client ...
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My website is not showing up in Bing Search Results despite webmaster tools saying it's indexed
My website mydomain.fr & mydomain.us (same site just localized) is not showing up in bing search.
I've checked via incognito, on/off VPN, from different locations and nothing comes up anywhere....
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How do I craft a rewrite rule to incorporate url-encoded characters in the target url?
We are hosting our website on apache 2.4 on an OracleLinux compute instance in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
We are moving our website from one technology stack (MySQL/php to a new one using ...
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About website ranking [duplicate]
As a newcomer to this field, I am very frustrated thinking about the ranking method, and I am confused about whether I am doing it correctly or not.
So, can you please give me some points on the ...