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Hi everyone,

Best practice question:

When adding your sitemap to your robots.txt file, do you add the whole sitemap at once or do you add different subcategories (products, posts, categories,..) separately?

I'm very curious to hear your thoughts!

Thanks for your answers and helping us out guys!

Hi Mozzers,

For an international client, we want to install hreflang tags for 3 different languages for their website in Belgium: dutch, french and english.

The dutch version (nl-be) and the french version (fr-be) can perfectly be installed, but our developer has troubles implementing the english version (en-be).

According to  ISO 639-1 , "en-be" is apparently not supported.

Unfortunately, we can't generalize the hreflang tags (), because our client has different websites in each country, so we need to specifically target Belgium here.

Does anyone have a solution?

Thanks,
Jens

Hi Christy,

Thanks for your answer!

Yes, it only happens with this specific site in Screaming Frog. I also did a crawl test on Moz Pro and there were no issues. Google Search Console doesn't point out big issues neither.

The website does save 9 cookies but none of them have any name value even close to path or domain.

Thanks,

Jens

Hi Alick300,

Thanks for your answer.

The hosting company said it wasn't a hosting issue and that is was rather website related. It is the first time we have this problem in the screaming frog spider tool.

Thanks

Hi all,

When I try to crawl a website, I got next error message: "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal cookie name"

For the moment, I found next explanation:

The errors indicate that one of the web servers within the same cookie domain as the server is setting a cookie for your domain with the name "path", as well as another cookie with the name "domain"

Does anyone has experience with this problem, knows what it means and knows how to solve it?

Thanks in advance!

Jens

Thank you guys! The responses are really useful!

Sander

The Yoast plugin is installed on the website. It generates the following meta property tag when I enter a new title-tag in the plugin:

Next to that I have my standard title-tag.

<title>dummy</title>

Is this meta property tag able to replace the title-tag?

Thanks!

Thank you for your answer Dirk. This looks really solid.

Sander

Hi Mozzers,

The background:

I have this very corporate .com domain which is used worldwide. Next to that, we have another .com domain which is specifically created for the US visitors. Within the organic rankings, we notice that our corporate domain is ranking much better in the US. Many visitors are arriving on this domain. As it is a corporate domain being used worldwide, they get lost.

My questions:

I know there are ways to redirect by location. Would it be smart to automatically redirect US visitors for the corporate domain to the commercial US-specific domain? Is it possible to only redirect US visitors and leave the website as it is for visitors from other countries. Won't this harm the corporate website (organically) worldwide?

If this would be a good idea, any recommended plugins or concrete procedures?

Thank you so much for helping me out!
Sander

Hi there,

My client has a product URL: www.company.com/product. They are only serving one state in the US. The existing URL is ranking in a position between 8-15 at the moment for local searches. Would it be interesting to add the location to the URL in order to get a higher position or is it dangerous as we have our rankings at the moment. Is it really giving you an advantage that is worth the risk?

Thank you for your opinions!
Sander

Thank you for your reply Joris! Good to see some Belgians participating on Moz :).

Happy to help!

Two solutions in my opinion:

1. Hide the keywords and place a canonical URL on the existing tag pages to the main tag,category or blogpost pages

2. Keep the tagging and do the same as in situation one (canonical) :D. Just make sure you don't have more URL's with the same article.

Hope you can sort it out.
Sander

Is it the case that all three keywords are directing to a different URL (but same article)?

I've had some clients working with blogs and with 'tag' pages. They allocate tags (in your case keywords?) to an article. These tags are also accessible on a URL. All these URL's contain the same article.

e.g. www.example.com/blog/tag/keyword

This causes duplicate content. If this is the case, I would just work with category pages or with canonical URL's.

Sander

Hi There,

I'm sure this interesting article will help you!

Sander

Thanks again Patrick! This confirms my assumption.

Hi Patrick,

Thank you for your response!

On our local websites, we have specific meta-descriptions in place. Do you know another technical solution to do this on a corporate .com domain (meta-description per country)? This domain is used in the whole world but we want to test multiple meta-descriptions for this .com domain.

Thank you for taking the time to write me this extensive response. This already helps!

Thank you for your answer - very valuable. We would want one fixed meta-descriptions per country. Wouldn't that change in the Google results after a certain period of time (in the right country) if we do this with a php solution. Any articles or guides you know about?