: SEO links and ajax Only my main page shows up on a Google search on site:domain.com and I start to wonder why this happens. I also use Google Webmaster Tools which confirms this. On my main

@Gonzalez347

I had a rewrite in my .htaccess file to change www.domain.com to domain.com. After changing the rewrite to work in the opposite way, that is, rewrite from domain.com to www.domain.com, it finally worked. I confirmed this using the Fetch as Google tool.

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@Si4351233

You are using path relative URLs in your href attribute. The problem is that the actual link destination depends on the page where the link is.

An example:

<a href="testlink">Testlink</a>


When the link is at www.example.com, the link will be expanded to www.example.com/testlink.
However, when the link is at www.example.com/subpage, the link will be expanded to www.example.com/subpage/testlink.
In general, it is really easy to shoot oneself in the foot by using path relative URLs in links. By using / in the start of href attribute, you ensure that all URLs are domain relative.

Does Webmaster tools show any crawl errors?

You should also test your page links by right-clicking on the link on your page, copying link location and then browsing to that page in another window. This way you can see if the links work right.

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