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I'd like to set a preferred domain for my website but saving changes is taking too long than the usual. Is there something wrong?
When I reloaded the page, it went back to the default setting. I really want to set the domain for canonicalization purposes.
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Thanks for all the inputs. I've recently found out how to resolve the issue.
I added another variation of my website to Google Search Console before going to the settings and selecting the preferred domain. It seems like Google chooses either your www.mywebsite.com or http://mywebsite.com.
In my experience, I only added as property the www.mywebsite.com. When I went to settings to change the preferred domain, the problem occurred.
Then recently, I added the http://mywebsite.com version and checked to see if I can already set the preferred domain.
And, it worked.
I can confirm that the functionality is broken for one of my domains as well. I see the same behavior that you do. When I click on "Display URLs as example.com", a save button appears. When I click "Save" I see the "Saving changes" message that never actually resolves. If I click the "Dismiss" button or refresh the page the setting was not applied.
This is clearly a bug in Google Search Console and Google needs to be involved to fix it. The official way to report a bug in Search Console to Google is to post about it in their webmaster help forums: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmasters Their community leaders can escalate issues to Google staff to be fixed. I did a quick search and couldn't find that anybody had reported the issue yet. I took the liberty of reporting it there: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/_USyOGeq3_E Hopefully Google will fix the issue soon.
