Question2Answer Q&A - Recent questions tagged seo-urls

Replace a slash to a dash in a link (../123/qarticle to ../123-qarticle) Adsense Requirements

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 05:40:44 +0000

Hello.

How to change the standard link

`site.org/58020/how-to-replace-spa` to

`site.org/58020-how-to-replace-spa` on the site.

id/prettyurl to id-prettyurl

I have more than 50k page with redirect on google search Consol

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 13:13:03 +0000

My website have lost a lot of traffic due to this problems.

I have only 2 redirects done.

http to https and www to none www see the screenshot

Here is an example of the pages with redirects

Urgent! Pagination creates duplicate content!

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 19:56:05 +0000

Pagination logic is not correct. It depends on "start" GET parameter, which affects the offset.

But if I change the number of questions displayed, it causes some SEO problems.

You may say that all I need to do is to close pagination from indexing... But this is a holywar topic for another discussion.

For example, in my case, I've changed number of questions per page from 20 to 30 and this caused pages such as:

/?start=20
/?start=30

have similar titles, which are "[category name] - page 2".

Or:

/?start=320
/?start=330

Have title "[category name] - page 17".

This creates duplicate titles which is really bad for SEO.

Moreover I can put ANY number in start parameter and Q2A will give me a 200 OK answer with some content. Search engines just don't know, that pages like /?start=115 or /?start=333 exist. But if they do - it will create even more duplicate pages.

The correct approach

The right, or best practice to organize pagination is to use PAGE NUMBER instead of OFFSET (start in our case).

Current logic: use "start" parameter as offset. Take in count the number of questions from site options. But depending on number of questions displayed, start parameter will always change!

Correct logic: use page number which will consider number of questions displayed from site options and page number will always remain the same.

So for 30 questions per page, instead of /?start=30 for second page we must have /?page=2 and page=2 parameter has to stay constant (!!!), not depending on number of questions per page option.

If number of questions changes to, lets say 50, pager links will not change to /?start=50 for second page, it will remain as /?page=2 and will not break our SEO.

This is implemented in all major CMS's. I wonder why Q2A had to go the other way.

I've looked into the code. All logic divides into two parts:

creating links for pager;
creating offset for correct database queries for each page.

This is described in following files:

\qa-include\app\format.php lines 1212 - 1282 function qa_html_page_links()
\qa-include\app\q-list.php lines 29 - 151 function qa_q_list_page_content()
\qa-include\app\search.php lines 29 - 140 function qa_get_search_results()
and maybe in some other places...

Sounds not very hard to override this.

Who wants to cooperate and write a plugin? Or maybe this issue will be corrected in future releases of Q2A?

Duplicate Content Issues in Google Search Console

Wed, 16 Jun 2021 04:02:56 +0000

Hi Question2answers Community...

I have recently checked my Google search console, in which I have seen many duplicate urls are indexing.

Like this-

Original URL -

https://peddia.net/qa-hindi/569/lal-kila-kahan-hai

Duplicate URL -

https://peddia.net/qa-hindi/569/lal-kila-kahan-hai?show=570

This type of more than 400 urls indexing.

Please suggest me any Idea for solve this problem.

How to Fix Google Console Error For having more than 50k question urls in sitemap?

Sun, 04 Apr 2021 03:14:10 +0000

Google Says, "Your Sitemap contains too many URLs. Please create multiple Sitemaps with up to 50000 URLs each and submit all Sitemaps."

How To Change Page Links to Another Language

Wed, 24 May 2017 09:35:49 +0000

Hello there,

I succesfully installed and translated q2a however I couldn't change

/tags => /blabla
/hot => /blabla2

/users => /blabla3

Is there an easy way to do that?

How to change to custom question URL?

Mon, 12 Dec 2016 03:37:55 +0000

Hi! I've recently installed Q2A on a website subdomain (e.g: http://www.domain.com/q2a/) and I have some problems trying to set up question URLs.

Despite the fact that there are some customization options in admin settings, I'm looking for another simple combination that's not available to select. What I'm looking for is for an estructure for questions like the following one:

http://www.domain.com/q2a/title-question-here-2
instead of
http://www.domain.com/q2a/2/title-question-here

Is there anyone else looking for the same?
I don't know if it's posible to do so but a URL without the question id between slashes would be perfect for something that I'm looking for.

I checked the htaccess and files like qa-base.php and many many more where it seems that q2a is doing something with URL but I haven't found anything. Hope you can help!

Thanks in advance

Duplicate URL with same title on Google search when change a question title

Fri, 23 Sep 2016 06:45:16 +0000

The problem is here, assume that I have a question with title:

Changes no.	Question title	The URL
(1)	Who created Q2A	/1/Who-created-Q2A
(2)	Who created Question2Answer	/1/Who-created-Question2Answer
(3)	Who is contributing to Q2A?	/1/Who-is-contributing-to-Q2A

So, if I access one of three URL, it are worked. But it's not redirect to the newest (/1/Who-is-contributing-to-Q2A), so when Google indexing, it will index all three of these. And result is I have duplicate result on Google search. So is this a bug or anything to fix this?

is a backlink with question mark "?" in the url Useful ?

Wed, 07 Sep 2016 03:39:54 +0000

I understand "?" kind of shows that it may be a dynamic URL. I can see a backlink from a URL to my own site but this URL has a "?" From moz bar tool i can see it's showing up neither follow nor no-follow. So not sure what to make out of it.

1) My questions is that is this kind of back-link useful for SEO of my site?

2) Sometimes a hyperlink shows just "external
it's neither follow nor no-follow. Is this kind of backlink useful ?

Vikas