Question is the following, we have site with video. Where address is video title, which can changing all the time. For example user upload video and name it "nice video" then he rename it to "nice video in London". So in this case URL also changed from "http://example.com/video123/nice-video" to http://example.com/video123/nice-video-in-london.
From my research I found that dailymotion using canonical pointing to the page without any keywords in the URL (example.com/video123). So question which URL will be in SERP?
Question, how should we care of this? Thank you so much in advance for any suggestions on it.
Regards,
Constantine
Answer: You will put in the canonical link the link of the page that you intent to give the credit to. The page that is gonna show on SERP is the one its' link is INSIDE the canonical link tag and not the one that HAS the tag.
Why:
Page0 = http://example.com/video123/nice-video-in-london
Page1= http://example.com/video123/nice-video
The canonical link is used so u can make clear to the crawl bots the page is a "dublicated content" and the original is the "canonical link". So in your example the search engine is looking at the page 0 which is "http://example.com/video123/nice-video-in-london" and find a canonical tag. The search engine understands that this is a dublicated content and looks at the link in the canonical tag (canonical=---->original page1"http://example.com/video123/nice-video"<----) and realises that every traffic u are getting from page 1 should be added to the traffic of page 0. And for that reason the page 1 --->video123/nice-video-in-london.<--- is getting zero traffic while the page 0 --->video123/nice-video<--- is getting traffic accounted for both pages AND this page will show on SERP for obvious i think reasons.
Let me know if u have more questions on that or if you need some more details on how or why it works that way.
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i have a problem with sharing links of my website in Google+. So, if i want to share a link of my website (http://www.droidwiki.de/Hauptseite) G+ say, that the webpage can not be loaded. Same problem is with the Google +1 button on the page. If someone click this button, it appears a red exclamation mark. Sometimes, only the URL, but no opengraph data will show, but the most time, it only doesn't work. Other websites work perfectly with the account.
The same pages work without errors on facebook, will show the title of page and the opengraph description.
Have anybody the same problem, or a solution?
Thanks!
I'm not seeing any of the errors you're reporting.
While OpenGraph is supposed to work with Google's bot, it often doesn't work that well. Best practice is also to include schema.org microdata so Google's plus bot and search bot process it. See https://developers.google.com/+/web/snippet/ for details and http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets for a tool to help you test your markup.
I tried searching for similar posts but none of them satisfied my need. Hence I have to ask a new question
I have some domain space on my university website like this <university>.edu/~<myname> which is actually <university>.edu/~<myname>/index.html
I want all the traffic from here to go to <myname>.wix.com/resume. But I don't want other pages like my <university>.edu/~<myname>/somethingelse to redirect anywhere.
Also I want the address bar to still show <university>.edu/~<myname> even when it has readirected to my site on wix.com.
Kindly let me know if this is possible.
Thanks in advance.
No browser that I know of will allow itself to be redirected to a different site, without displaying the URL of the new site in the address bar. However, there are ways that you can display content from <myname>.wix.com/resume on your page at <university>.edu/~<myname>/index.html. One way is to use a frame (or an iframe) on <myname>.wix.com/resume which would load content from <university>.edu/~<myname>/index.html. Another (perhaps more seamless) solution would be to use a server-side scripting language (such as PHP) to create a script at <university>.edu/~<myname>/index.php which would download the content 'on the fly' from <myname>.wix.com/resume and display it at <university>.edu/~<myname>/index.php.
I have a site that look like this:
Main page (index.php)
where a user can research a business.
To display result at page (search/index.php), the page url will look something like this:
/search/index.php?what=plumber&where=montreal&page=1
The page will generate dynamic link to access the business profile found. When you click on one of those links, you get here:
/entreprises/index.php?companyName=Something
How can I get the previous link to be indexed on Google?
This appears to be a good situation for the canonical URL tag. You'll want to specify a single URL for the page in question, and then other variations of that url getting to the same page (i.e. searches, tags, etc.) will refer to the stated canonical url as the actual url for SEO purposes.
Google has a detailed description of the tag here:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en
Example an online learning application that you want to share your results which are behind a logged in part of your site. So you add a public URL to your site for google to fetch the content (img, description, title):
data-href="http://www.example.com?result_id=24".
But then when someone views the post and sees the shared content and clicks the link to the site it goes to:
http://www.example.com?result_id=24
The only way I can think of is redirecting the user to http://www.example.com once they land on the shared URL.
Is there an official way or better way to do this?
Thanks
No, but there is a work around.
The URL that you share is used for both the snippet and place users are sent when they click.
However, you can put schema.org or OpenGraph markup on these pages that describes the content behind the login wall. This will allow you to specify a title, description and thumbnail. You can read more about configuring your snippet on Google Developers.
What would be the benefit of having a back link with no anchor text? A friend of mine got a message asking if he would do a naked back link on his blog.
A "nacked" back link would not even be displayed. Therefore the point is to "show" it to the search engines and hide it from real users. This probably falls into the domain of "black hat SEO" and may be penalized if discovered by the search engines.