Questions created by JohnHuynh
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Need I add rel="dofollow" or not?
Hello, My website is http://www.vietnamvisacorp.com is using the href links without meta tag rel="dofollow" such as I am using . Should I put ref="dofollow" in this: Thank you!
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Sitemap for Mobile Version of Site
Hi, I just did a mobile version (http://m.vietnamvisacorp.com) of my site (http://www.vietnamvisacorp.com). And was looking for some guidance on where to put it in the sitemap. Do i need an entirely new sitemap for mobile site, or do i just add to my existing .xml of desktop site. Thank you!
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Dealing with Not Found errors
Hi, I have a problem with Google Webmaster, it reported that I have many errors 404 Not Found.
On-Page Optimization | | JohnHuynh
I have detected and found the links are coming from my site, I have fixed them and submit a new sitemap to google again. Then, I wait a few days, google still report errors 404 Not found same as before. I don't know why? Please help!0 -
The page is missing meta language information.
Hi, I saw my website have a problem about meta language, I do some search and found that I need to add on the , with 'll' is language code and 'cc' is country code. But I am confused what should I do, because my website is world wide, not launch at specific any language and country. Please give me an advice in this case. Thanks,
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Duplicate Page Title issues
Hello, I have a duplicate page title problem: Crawl Diagnostics Reported that my website got **sample URLs with this Duplicate Page Title **between:
On-Page Optimization | | JohnHuynh
http://www.vietnamvisacorp.com/faqs.html and these URLs below:http://www.vietnamvisacorp.com/faqs/page-2
http://www.vietnamvisacorp.com/faqs/page-3
http://www.vietnamvisacorp.com/faqs/page-4
http://www.vietnamvisacorp.com/faqs/page-5 I don't know why, because I have already implemented rel=”next” and rel=”prev” to canonical pages. Please give me an advice!0 -
Sitemap.xml parameters
Hello, I confused about the parameters when create sitemap.xml. I don'n know how to use these parameters efficiently. Some parameters are:
On-Page Optimization | | JohnHuynh
- **Page changing frequency: **what is a good value? Can I choose "None"?
- **Last modified date: **what is a good value? Can I choose "Don’t specify"?
- **Page priority: **what is a good value? Can I choose "Don’t specify"? Thanks,0 -
URL contain special character
Hello, I am using URLs which contain special character such as ', ". I found in the Google Webmaster Tool report errors related URL contain ' character. Google have indexed partial URL from beginning to ' character and cut off the rest of URL. For example: I submitted URL www.example.com/vietnam-visa-corp'-test-page.html, then google report error NOT FOUND for URL www.example.com/vietnam-visa-corp I don't know why and how to fix it? Please help! Thanks,
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HTML Improvements is not updated
Hi, I am using Google Webmaster to check 'HTML Improvements' errors and found that I have many Duplicate meta descriptions errors. I think that they occurred because I have change some **old URLs **to **new URLs **and then use redirect 301. This lead meta description of **old URLs **duplicate with meta description of new URLs. For example: old URL: www.abc.com/this-is-a-url--1.html and new URL: www.abc.com/this-is-a-url.html. And then use redirect 301 from www.abc.com/this-is-a-url--1.html to www.abc.com/this-is-a-url.html Who did face this problem? Please help me how to fix this? Thanks
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Solve duplicate content issues by using robots.txt
Hi, I have a primary website and beside that I also have some secondary websites with have same contents with primary website. This lead to duplicate content errors. Because of having many URL duplicate contents, so I want to use the robots.txt file to prevent google index the secondary websites to fix the duplicate content issue. Is it ok? Thank for any help!
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Duplicate contents with competitors websites
Hello, I have use the http://copyscape.com to check the duplicate content and found that my website have some errors duplicate contents with other competitors website. But a problem is, I could not define the reason of this (my website copied the competitors website or they copied of mine) To solve this issues, should I modify a unique my contents (this is difficult) or anyone have a good solution for this problem? Please give me advice? Thank you!
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Duplicate content with mine other websites
Hi,
On-Page Optimization | | JohnHuynh
I have a primary website www.vietnamvisacorp.com and beside that I also have some secondary websites with have same contents with primary website. This lead to duplicate content errors. What the best solution for this issue? Please help! p/s: I am a webmaster of all websites duplicate content Thank you!0 -
Does the link title attribute benefit seo?
Hello, Anyone could tell me the benefit SEO of link title attribute. Is **Link Title **ranking factor? Thanks
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Robots file include sitemap
Hello, I see that google, facebook and moz... have robots.txt include sitemap at the footer.
On-Page Optimization | | JohnHuynh
Eg: http://www.google.com.vn/robots.txt Sitemap: http://www.google.com/sitemaps_webmasters.xml
Sitemap: http://www.google.com/ventures/sitemap_ventures.xml Should I include my sitemap file (sitemap.xml) at the footer of robots.txt and why should do this? Thanks,0 -
Optimize On-Page Mobile Version
Hello, Do we need optimize on-page for mobile version, such as: How about title tag, description tag? Should mobile have another sitemap or not? Does google penalty my webpages mobi vs desktop are duplicated content? Thanks for any your advice!
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Duplicate title tag
Hello,
On-Page Optimization | | JohnHuynh
My site have problems with duplicate title, they were reported from google webmaster. For example:
/extra-services/car-pick-up-service-146.html (1) /extra-services/transportation--car-rails--146.html (2) According to my sitemap the first URL is right (1). But the second URL is wrong, I don't know it occur here.0 -
Google Index HTTPS
Hi,
On-Page Optimization | | JohnHuynh
I had a HTTP protocol file which indexed. Now I want to change this file to HTTPS protocol. I wonder that is there any effects?
I don't know HTTPS would be indexed by google or not? Thanks,0 -
Articles URL
Hello, Currently, I am parsing article base on article ID on URL request. For example:
On-Page Optimization | | JohnHuynh
To go to the content of article **What is the visa on arrival? How to get it? **I am using URL like that http://www.vietnamvisacorp.com/news/what-is-the-visa-on-arrival--how-to-get-it--245.html and base on ID 245 to get this page content.
But, now I want to optimize this URL to http://www.vietnamvisacorp.com/news/what-is-the-visa-on-arrival--how-to-get-it.html. Then I got a problem: How to get an article without ID? Thanks,0 -
URL best practices
Hi, I have a problem here, I used http://www.vietnamvisacorp.com/faqs.html instead of http://www.vietnamvisacorp.com/faqs. Hence, http://www.vietnamvisacorp.com/faqs will be caused 404 page. My question is should I change from faqs.html to faqs (no .html)? Thanks in advance any advice?
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Optimize URL
Hello, My website have been running over five years. I have just reviewed and seen some URLs had not good. It is http://www.vietnamvisacorp.com/faqs/who-need-visa-to-vietnam---1.html, containing characters "---1". Should I remove unnecessary characters "---"?. Thanks for any advice!
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Errors when checking W3C HTML after added Google Custom Search
hello, I have added google custome search to my website, and then check with W3C HTML, it report many error.
On-Page Optimization | | JohnHuynh
eg: there is no attribute "enableHistory" <gcse:searchbox-only enablehistory="true" autocompletemaxcompletions="5" au…<br="">or there is no attribute "resultsUrl" and so on ...</gcse:searchbox-only> Has anyone face with this problem, I don't know how to fix it. Please help!0 -
URL parameters
Hello, Currently, I paginated a content to 5 pages eg: http://abc.com/faqs.html?&page=2 Is it right? and how to check it is correct or not?
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Google Custom Search
Hello, Is there anyone use goolge custom search? and will it improve my website ranking?
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How to check duplicate content with other website?
Hello, I guest that my website may be duplicate contents with other websites. Is this a important factor on SEO? and how to check and fix them? Thanks,
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Modify URL, how to re-index
hello, I have just modified URL, do I need to re-submit sitemap or something else to search engines?
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DMOZ listing
Hello, My website is not listed in DMOZ. Is DMOZ important? And how to submit website to DMOZ directory? Thank you!
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URL or sitemap submit to search engines?
Hello, I have just updated content at some URL site links, and I also added new URL content. Should I submit URL or re-create a sitemap then submit it to search engines? And please advise me some tools for submit them?
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Problem: Google web master tools with HTML Improvements
Hello, When using the google webmaster tools, on Optimization --> HTML Improvements, I have some problems in field the Short meta descriptions. This is easy to fix and I fixed some last days, then today I check this again. Google webmaster tool still report these errors. Please let me know how to notify to google, these errors was fixed?
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Miss meta description on 404 page
Hi, My 404 page did not have meta description. Is it an error? Because I run report and seomoz said that a problem. Thanks!
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How to check Meta laguage tag
Hello, My website www.vietnamvisacorp.com only use english language. I have added the meta language as below: name="language" content="english"/> Is this correct and how to check this follow SEO condition?
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HTTP status code 302
When running Seomoz crawl report, I saw a link site https://www.vietnamvisacorp.com/?req=apply-visa with status code 302 and empty title tag Is this an error? and what should I do to fix this problem? Thank you,
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How to remove all sandbox test site link indexed by google?
When develop site, I have a test domain is sandbox.abc.com, this site contents are same as abc.com. But, now I search site:sandbox.abc.com and aware of content duplicate with main site abc.com My question is how to remove all this link from goolge. p/s: I have just add robots.txt to sandbox and disallow all pages. Thanks,
Technical SEO | | JohnHuynh0