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Should we merge [social-networks] and [social-media]?
I agree. I think we should merge them and use social-media as the canonical tag. They are essentially the same thing, especially with the context of how they are used on this site.
John CondeMod
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Time to change the google-webmaster-tools tag?
It is time to make the change. google-search-console should now be the canonical tag.
One of the criteria brought up last time was which is used more.
"search console" 50 uses since November 30th.
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Which of the tags [canonical], [rel-canonical] and [canonical-url] is the canonical one?
rel-canonical is a specific type of canonical implementation. It uses a meta tag. The other implementation for canonical URLs is 301 redirects. I'd keep rel-canonical separate from the others. I ...
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Synonimize [titles] to [title]
I agree that this tag synonym should be created. We'll do it in a few days unless other people disagree.
Edit: The tag merge and synonym creation has been completed.
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Tag merge request: [advertising] and [advertisement]
According to this related Meta discussion, the ads tag was made a synonym of the advertising tag.
Though it seemed to be agreed there that ads was short for advertisement, there isn't a synonym ...
danMod
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Synonyms: [site-deployment] or [website-deployment]?
I agree that "site" and "website" are redundant, unless there's something besides a website that could be deployed and would generate an on-topic question here.
I would support ...
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Rename tag [google-apps] to [google-workspace] and synonymize [gsuite]?
Your plan sounds fine to me.
rename and synonymize the google-apps tag to google-workspace, then synonymize the gsuite tag to google-workspace.
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What are the differences between [index], [indexing], and [google-index]?
I can see why these tags appear similar and should be merged, but there are some dissimilarities in the context of a Webmaster:
index can be used when referring to a file (such as the default
index ...
danMod
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Remove "gwt" synonym from "google-search-console" tag
After a Google and Bing search, it appears the acronym GWT more commonly refers to the Google Web Toolkit now that Google re-branded Google Webmaster Tools to Google Search Console, so the GWT tag ...
danMod
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Tags - [serps] are the same as [search-results], right?
The two are similar enough to merge. I would prefer to merge serps into search-results because the former is jargon and the latter is likely to more widely understood.
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Request to add tag synonym from [webshop] to [ecommerce]
I'm in agreement with you and John here. I believe "webshop" is primarily used internationally, outside the U.S. Since this site is accessed throughout the world, we occasionally see regional or less ...
danMod
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Adding [xml-sitemap] as synonym for [sitemap]
I'd prefer separate tags for various types:
xml-sitemap
rss-sitemap
atom-sitemap
text-sitemap
html-sitemap
Then we could get rid of sitemap.
The biggest draw back of this approach would be that ...
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