I have a Joomla website with an extension SEF to make beautiful urls.
I want to configure my goals in Google analytics and I asked myself the following question:
Do I have to put a NONsef url or a SEF url?
I thought to put a SEF url because my non sef urls are not seen on the website. But my landing pages redirects to NON SEF thank you pages that immediately become SEF in the browser since SEF extension of JOOMLA does its job.
What do you think about?
I searched everywhere on forum, google et analytics support groups, but I can't find any answer to this question.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Just look in Google Analytics for the url that is used in the reports, that is the one you need to use for your goals. Alternatively you can look in the developer tools in your browser - go to the network requests tab, filter for requests that start with /collect (that is the GA endpoint) and look in the request url for the dp (document path) parameter.
If this will be the search engine friendly URl or not depends on when and how the redirect happens - if this happens before the GA code is executed you will get the "normal" Url, else the SEF url.
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My website was recently hacked and Google mentioned "This site may be hacked" so I removed the entire wordpress website and changed server. I installed a new wordpress website however, Google is still crawling the old pages. It runs into 20+ Google pages meaning there's over 200 links generated by the hack.
Now, I would like to do a 301 Redirect to all this links using htaccess so Google cache faster and remove these links.
How do I list all this links displayed in the searched result? or is there a better way to do? Yes, I have asked Google for Review but they said it will take several weeks :(
You can see all youre indexed pages by writing this in Google search
site:example.com
Just write youre domain name instead of example.com
I'm using SEOFrog on Wordpress to show the AMP version of the website. It works great, but there is one little problem, especially for affiliate websites such as Plus500 (with a very strict tracking).
When I'm visiting the AMP version of my website (for example: google.it/amp/www.mercati24.com/come-funziona-plus500/amp/?client=safari) and I click on one of the affiliate links of the broker Plus500, such as plus500.com/it/Marketing/Promotion1.aspx?id=11693&tags=Mercati24Post061213&pl=2 . The affiliation campaign shows an error, because the domain is not mercati24.com but google.it instead.
I don't think the broker will whitelist https://www.google.it/amp/www.mercati24.com/, so is there any way to fix this error by just changing the code on the website?
Thanks in advance,
M
Link to non-AMP page which will then redirect to affiliate link.
Referer will be your domain.
AMP pages are cached by Google; in fact - when you create an AMP version of your webpage - you make Google the owner of that page. As a result, when a user clicks on a link in an AMP page, the referer is google.com instead of your domain. This behaviour makes AMP pages not really suitable for tracking purposes, as they are always served from google.com; for such scenario’s (like tracking and affiliate programs) you need to serve pages from your own domain, not from Google’s AMP cache servers.
Two days ago we posted a new blog on a site with the aim of being picked up for the search term "live comedy in chippenham". It’s been indexed by Google and we’re now 2nd in the results for the search query. The bad news is that for some reason the post has been indexed as a https URL so all browsers give a warning when the link is clicked.
Firefox gives this error:
The owner of www.neeld.co.uk has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website.
The host has confirmed that it's not a server config error and we have other posts and pages on the site that are being indexed correctly. We're using WordPress and the Yoast plugin. I can't see anywhere in Webmaster Tools that could be causing the problem.
Can anyone offer any advice please? If you search Google for "live comedy in chippenham" you'll see the issue (it's the link https://www.neeld.co.uk/live-comedy-in-chippenham/)?
It's a really strange one but something I've experienced before.
It has mostly likely been caused by an external link to the page using https protocol which Google has followed before indexing the page. Google are very keen to index https pages at the moment so we might start seeing this kind of issue more often.
There's not a lot you can do other than wait for Google to realise their mistake and list the correct URL in the SERPS. You can help speed this along with a canonical link (which I can see is there), XML sitemap (which you've got) and a server level redirect of https to http.
Do not try to remove the page in Webmaster Tools as this won't have the desired effect and will stop Google reindexing the page properly.
Hope this helps.
I want to change the url for the sitemap xml in seo yoast plugin.
from: http://example.com/sitemap_index.xml
to: http://example.com/sitemap-something-unique-aqw65643.xml
I know exactly how to change it using rewite rule, but my problem is that I don't know if this is safe.
Is there anyone can explain me what will be the bad effect?
Using a URL rewrite rule for something like this should not impose any negative side-effects. You are simply directing traffic from one URL to another. There are even some benefits of using rewrites when it comes to SEO but those mostly pertain to your page URLs. Since you are using WordPress, I'm sure that's not the advice you're looking for.
There is thread on Google Support here that talks about URL mapping when preparing to migrate to a new domain. I'm sure some of this might be helpful information for your situation. I would lean toward a 301 Permanent redirect for a sitemap that I was submitting to Google or another search engine.
My website pages all show up in Google search results as *.com/node/#### instead of the alias name.
I need help fixing the naming convention to show up in Google via alias, as they are also listed in the sitemap.xml. I'm not sure if this needs to be fixed from Drupal or through NGINX.
Note that I don't have this issue in Bing.
The reason for this can be that Google bots have indexed your urls with node/nid formats.
But its weird that you don't have this issue in Bing. The only reason I can think of for this anamoly is that Bing crawled the right urls just by chance or Bing has a rule which says when there are aliases use more meaningful ones(which can't be true for Bing :P)
Anyways go ahead and install http://drupal.org/project/globalredirect module. This should solve your problems as it creates 301 redirects for all you aliased paths which is very SEO friendly.
It could be that google found your page while you had aliasses disabled, and Bing found it later when the aliasses were enabled.
If you want them removed you can go to google webmaster tools. http://webmaster.google.com
There you can upload a new sitemap and remove URL's that you no longer use.