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How to access the "Fetch as Google" tool?

In Hacked Sites Troubleshooter - Search Console Help, there is a tutorial to find hacked content: Use the Fetch as Google tool in Webmaster Tools to check suspicious pages for hacked content. Hackers ...
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Why might "fetch as Google" be taking longer to index submitted pages than it used to for my site?

I am not new to webmaster tools. I have long used "fetch as Google" to index my pages within 5 minutes. I don't know what happened to the index timing, but it is taking much longer now. Is anyone ...
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Google live test can't load AngularJS XHR resources due to CORS policy

I implemented my website using AngularJs, It works correctly on any browsers and locations I've tested. Although they claimed that Google Search Engine sees exactly what modern browsers display, my ...
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Google Search Console is rendering the home page from our old site without any CSS rather than the new site

Recently, my client's hosting provider migrated http://kastenhandelaars.nl to http://indoorhomeline.nl. (both Wordpress websites) Appropriate redirects were placed and we changed the homepage. ...
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Facing a challenge with the "Fetch As Google" feature in my webmaster

I am facing a challenge with the "Fetch As Google" feature in my webmaster Steps to reproduce bug:- 1. Goto webmaster , click on "Crawl" -> "Fetch As Google" 2. Select "Crawl this URL and its direct ...
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Does Fetch as Google have a charchters / lines limit? And does it matter?

I have a test page with text only. No JS. No CSS. Just the html, head, body and p tags and a lot of lorem ipsum text. Now when I try to use Fetch as Google tool, the HTTP response is cutted at the ...
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Googlebot cannot access 'maps.googleapis.com' and '.js'. Is this preventing my site from getting indexed in Google search?

When I fetch and render it is showing partial. It looks fine. The same way Google sees it is the same way visitors see it. But 'maps.googleapis.com' and '.js' are showing blocked. But I didn't blocked ...
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Google caching not complete

I have a web page where I had used the URL inspection tool to request Google to crawl it. The HTML code has for the meta tags as shown below: <meta http-equiv="Cache-control" content="private"> ...
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Fetch as Google says: "I'm sorry, your browser is not supported."

We built a new website with Vaadin Flow and added it to Google Search Console. We tried using fetch as google. But we get the following error: I'm sorry, your browser is not supported
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Google Search Console fetch and render says CSS, fonts and images are "Temporarily unreachable" [duplicate]

I have requested that Google index (Fetch and render in Search Console) my website on 4th August 2018 but still it didn't get indexed and it is stating that some scripts, style sheets, fonts and ...
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Google's cache shows a blank page but Fetch as Google shows the content. Can Google index my site? [duplicate]

My site content is loaded by ReactJS by fetching a webservice (in componentDidLoad). I need a strong SEO positioning on my pages, so I am trying to understand if Googlebot can read the content. ...
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Product carousel on my site is showing up blank in Google's fetch and render for mobile

Using GSC, I am trying to fetch a page with products and content, this page also has few products in carousel format and when I render this page for desktop or mobile, I am seeing everything fine but ...
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Search Console fetch doesn't render the bottom of a very long page. Is that a problem?

I use Google Search Console to see how the crawler sees my page with a "Fetch & Render" option. In the results: Fetching tab: I can see the whole valid HTML without any errors Rendering tab: ...
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Fetch as Google: Differences between Googlebot and Visitor views

I have an AJAX-heavy website that I'm trying to get indexed properly in Google. When I use the "Fetch as Google" tool, all the content shows up in the "This is how a visitor to your website would have ...
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Best Ways to get Google to Re-index existing and new pages

I know that this has been partially answered previously. But I am curious what the best and available ways to have Google reindex pages. If it is just one page that you changed - title, meta ...
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The Googlebot is only fetching my website's assets [duplicate]

When I try to use Fetch as Google on pages for my website, the Googlebot fetches it partially, and when I check the crawl log, tells me that some of my assets are temporarily unreachable: What should ...
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Cannot "fetch as Google" in Search Console after implementing HTTPS because of redirect

We have recently switched from HTTP to HTTPS. When I tried to "fetch as Google", it says the URL has been redirected and I am not able to see how the website is going to look. Is it because Google ...
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Angular2 : 'Fetch as Google' doesn't render page [closed]

I am working on Angular2 based web app. I used Angular CLI to generate app and then to build it for prod. I have hosted website on AWS S3 & Cloudfront. When I use 'Fetch as Google' tool from the ...
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Google Search Console sees my old site redirect to a sub-directory of my new site

I made a new website to replace my old website. A lot search results on Google are still directing to the old site which are not there anymore. I tried with Google Webmaster Tools to "Fetch as Google"...
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Google webmaster tools : how Googlebot saw the page is redirecting to homepage

If i fetched and render a link of my website, how Googlebot saw the page: is redirecting to Homepage how a visitor to your website would have seen the page is actual page I need to fix the "how ...
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"Fetch as Google" only puts my page in the seach index for 30 minutes

Fetch as Google only works for 30 minutes. After that, the page is not shown in the Google index. Here this is my robots.txt file User-agent: * Disallow: Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml ...
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My site Cache version problem

I have an issue for last month and that also affected my website ranking. When I fetch my site it will be normal but after 48 hours it will be shown without title and description and this wording ...
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Using 'fetch as Google' for an Angular.js page with a hash in the URL fails [closed]

I tried to add website URLs in Google Search Console by clicking on Fetch as Google. It removes the hash and shows that URL as the home page. URL /mygharseva.prod/#/service/home-cleaning only shows ...
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Google Webmaster can't recognize redirect

I add a 301 redirect for a URL listed in the "Crawl Error" but when I try to fetch it on the Webmaster Tools it is still "Not Found". When you type the URL on the address bar the redirect is ok. I ...
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Duplicate title tags and meta descriptions in Google Webmaster Tools from removed blog [closed]

I added a blog on my website like this: www.example.com/blog Then I created a page just like this: www.example.com/blog/contact Also, I added this link to 'Fetch as Google' in Google Webmaster ...
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Is this the expected/wanted outcomes using html snapshots and google fetch? SEO/SPA

Just got html snapshots working with the help of html-snapshot node module & following htaccess. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$ RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^_escaped_fragment_=/?(.*)$ ...
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Fetch as Google not reading all source code

I just did a Google Webmaster Tools fetch test on two websites and found that Google is not reading all source code of one of them. Here Google is not taking my website <title>, <meta>. ...
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My Fetch and Rendered page versions ary very different from my actual page - any ideas why? [closed]

I have made significant changes in my site's structure - both html and CSS. I've tested it on both localhost, live, and on mobile - with and without caching. It is responsive and works perfectly. But ...
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How come Google can properly fetch and render some sites using a SPA but not others?

I have 2 websites, both use a single-page app framework. One uses React, and one uses Angular. Neither of them have any server-side rendering going on. When I run the "fetch and render as Google" ...
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Submitting a URL to Google using PHP/cUrl

I've been successfully submitting xml sitemaps to Google using cURL. The URL is http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap= The problem is that XML sitemaps take several days to be ...
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Cached version of the site is different from "Fetch as Google" version

For some reason not all of the content that I can see at "Fetch as Google" appears in the cached version of the page. This same content also can't be found by Google Search. What can be the reason ...
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Soft 404, Fetch and Render showing js bundle temporarily unreachable

We recently launched a new page to our site. Previously our whole site has been in classic asp and this page is an angular SPA with asp.net on the backend. Since the launch of the new page our amount ...
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Fetch as Google says my page is "Temporary Unreachable"

When looking into it in WebmasterTools, I saw that there is a "Fetch as Google - Temporarily Unreachable Issue". It is for an image, and font. How do I resolve this issue?
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fetch as google on development environment

We are working on a new version of a website. The current version is indexed by google, everything looks fine. The new version will have more or less the same content & links, but we are changing ...
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Fetch as Google fails in Search Console (Webmaster Tools)

Most of the time, the Fetch as Google succeeds only partially. There's always some resources that cannot be retrieved. It says the URLs are temporarily unreachable. I thought it was something to do ...
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What is the scope of "Crawl this Url and Direct Links" in Google Search Console

In Google Webmaster Tools you can use the "Fetch as Google" feature to have Google download a page from your site. Once you have done so, you can click the "Submit to Index" button which gives you ...
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Webmaster Tools "Fetch as Google" doesn't fetch my js/css/images on a CDN

I've discovered that when I do Google Webmaster Tools --> Fetch as Google on a page on my site (let's call it http://example.com), it shows the static assets (js, css, and images) as Temporarily ...
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Using Fetch as Google on AngularJS

I am working on an eCommerce site and I have been asked to look at the SEO implications of our product listing page. I have done all the necessary steps to get the webmaster tools working fine on one ...
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"Fetch as Google" doesn't find the HTML snapshot for my AJAX content

For my webpage I generate the content via JavaScript, so I want to use ?_escaped_fragment_ to redirect Google to my HTML snapshot. I have a RewriteRule for my Apache RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{...
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Manual "Fetch as Google" or better wait?

If Google picks up a page organically it means it has already found one link to a page. Fetch as Google is a great way to get your new pages indexed quickly. Is there a difference in terms of SEO? Of ...
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"Temporarily unreachable" when using fetch as Googlebot from Webmasters Tools

The page I'm trying to fetch is public. The server logs show no request. Google reports that any page on my site is "Temporarily unreachable". It won't even fetch the verification file, a static ...
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Is there a way to bulk submit URLs to Fetch as Google?

Google is taking a while to re-index changes I have made to thousands of pages, so I want to use Fetch as Google to give it a prompt. However, you can only enter 1 URL at a time as standard. Is there ...
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Does Fetch as Googlebot still support their ajax-crawling proposal?

I spent half a day implementing the server side html generation for modal pages based on their proposal (link), but it seems like the Fetch as Googlebot functionality in Webmaster tools completely ...
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Fetch as google - getting both 301 and 404

I am getting this from fetch as Google: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Server: nginx Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:07:58 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 20 Connection: keep-alive Status: ...
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<meta name="robots" content="noindex"> in "Fetch as Google"

I don't know why but when I execute "fetch as Google" it returns me HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: private Content-Type: text/html Content-Encoding: gzip Vary: Accept-Encoding Server: Microsoft-IIS/...
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Googlebot getting "301 Moved Permanently" according to "Fetch as Googlebot" in Webmaster Tools

I launched a website four days ago, and now when I try to crawl the website like Google bot in "Google webmaster tools" I end up with a response like this: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Thu, ...
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Fetch as Google goes infinite loop (again)

A couple of days ago, I faced an issue with Google Webmaster's Fetch as Google functionality. The page was going into an infinite refresh loop. I started a thread on Google's forum. The issue ...
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Remove URL from "Fetch as Google" - in Google Webmaster Tools

I need to remove a URL from Health -> Fetch as Google in Google Webmaster Tools. Is it possible?
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Do your 'fetch as google bot' allowances refresh?

in google webmaster tools you can fetch as google bot - which you can do 500 times, and you also have submit to index that you can do 10 times, do these allowances refresh or are they for the life of ...
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Fetch as Google error 403

2 weeks ago, Google started being unable access my website anymore. In Webmaster Tools I can't fetch any pages, always getting error 403, and the website has been completely dropped from Google search ...
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