Questions tagged [seo]
Questions about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) used on Stack Overflow.
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Why do DuckDuckGo (non-AI) snippets make Stack Overflow look like slop?
When I'm searching for an answer, I use Google or DuckDuckGo and read the "snippets" until I find one that starts to answer my question. I have learned from experience that snippets that ...
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ChatGPT banner is polluting search results [closed]
The text of the banner is the first thing shown in some of Google's search result previews. It's easy to make this show up by explicitly including chatgpt in your search query - e.g. searching for ...
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How can I post an article on Stack Overflow with a 'dofollow' link? [duplicate]
I am new here and I work for a WordPress blog website. I want to submit an article here with a dofollow link and in the future, I will submit a more unique article according to my niche.
I have got ...
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Should the ability to order tags manually be included for SEO purposes?
I have a question I recently added a bounty on. I wanted to add a reactjs tag to it. However, reactjs is added as the first tag when I do this. According to this post, this is because reactjs is a way ...
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Is placing error messages inside code blocks bad for SEO?
Quite often, we search for an error message to find out what has gone wrong.
Do answers/questions containing error messages in plain text vs in code formatting affect our ability to find such answers/...
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Strange highlighting for a few seconds
On this Stack Overflow topic, I've seen this strange behaviour:
It happened right when I started my browser, and it was the first page I loaded. Additionally, the page becomes unresponsive for about ...
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Meta-SEO: how to choose Google-friendly question titles?
Is there a best practice in choosing the title of a question so that it will be easier to find it from a search engine?
This can be useful for
People asking their own questions
People editing someone ...
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Why didn't Google find this question & answer?
My (somewhat simplified) routine when I encounter a programming problem I can't seem to solve myself:
Search for related words in Google.
Stack Overflow pages appear in the top regions of the first ...
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Google result shows title: "Not the answer you're looking for? Browse..." for SO question link
I just googled spring boot test redirect and the first result, this SO question with the title
Test HTTP status code of redirected URL with MockMvc
appears like this in the result page
The SO ...
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Google "Featured Snippet" on Git Question shows a Downvoted/Deleted Answer [duplicate]
So, I came across a rather odd thing this morning. Curious to know exactly what is the difference between a branch and a tag in Git, I plugged into my trusty Google search. And, lo and behold, the ...
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When the short link is part of the error log, how to format it?
A small reminder that many short links domains (link shorteners) are impossible to post or edit by choice of the community. This includes goo.gl, bit.ly, tinyurl.com, cl.ly, etc.
Consequently, ...
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Has the time come for SE to stop adding the first tag to the question page's <title> element?
Years ago Stack Overflow started to include the first tag from the question in the <title> tag. This was done to help with SEO:
Jeff Atwood SE Meta:
Sorry, this is absolutely necessary, ...
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Adding keywords to a question to help improve future search?
I have been searching for a solution here a while and by chance, not by search, I found a question that answered what I was looking for.
Later I realised that I could help others find this question/...
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Should deleted questions still show up in a Google search?
Perhaps this question needs to be on “Meta Stack Exchange” but posting it here for now…
So I was doing a Google search for “Turning Logstash data into relational data” and saw the following results. ...
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Questions with links for SEO 'domain authority' from Stack Overflow
I'm wondering if an initial response and/or downvote for new questions on Stack Overflow should take into account whether the poster seems to be creating an outbound link to their website for SEO ...
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