Topic: canonical urls
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Google's New SEO Guide: JavaScript Canonical Best Practices
Google has updated its JavaScript SEO guidance to clarify how canonical URLs should be managed for client-side rendered sites, addressing a technical challenge where duplicate content indexing can occur due to conflicting signals. The core issue is that Google evaluates canonical tags twice—once ...
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Google's Top Crawling Challenges: Faceted Navigation & More
Google identified faceted navigation and action parameters as the primary technical hurdles, together causing about 75% of all crawling problems for websites. These problematic URL structures can overload servers, degrade site performance, and waste crawler resources on low-value or duplicate con...
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Google: Fix These 2 URL Errors to Solve 75% of Crawling Issues
The vast majority of search engine crawling issues stem from two main technical problems: faceted navigation (about 50% of issues) and action parameters (about 25% of issues). Faceted navigation, common on ecommerce sites, creates endless, often duplicate URLs from filter combinations, wasting cr...
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XML vs. HTML Sitemaps: Which Is Better for SEO?
An XML sitemap is a technical file for search engine crawlers, designed to help them discover and index pages, especially those that are new, orphaned, or deep within a complex site structure. An HTML sitemap is a webpage for human visitors, serving as a supplementary navigation aid to help users...
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