Questions tagged [google-search-console]
A Google web-based console that provides additional insight into a registered website's search performance and potential issues.
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The Sitemap Paradox
We use a sitemap on Stack Overflow, but I have mixed feelings about it.
Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow ...
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Number of indexed pages with "site:" search less than reported in Google Webmaster Tools
In Google webmaster tools it shows that I have 309 pages indexed, but when I search using "site:site.com" appear about 180 only (On the first page appears "about 608 results," something near the total ...
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Moving from HTTP to HTTPS in Google Search Console
I'm moving from HTTP to HTTPS for my entire site. The site is currently added to Google Search Console (formerly Google Webmaster Tools) as www.example.com and all the pages are indexed without using ...
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Should I submit https:// and http:// in Google Search Console both with and without the www?
In my site I'm redirecting everything (http://, http://www., https://) to https://www.example.com.
Google webmaster tools says: Make sure you add both "www" and "non-www" versions for your site. Also,...
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I'm using a vanity country code top level domain (ccTLD), can I persuade Google to geotarget a different region?
Because I'm still living like it's 2008, I run a website with a .in TLD. The website has nothing to do we India and does not target Indian users.
Unfortunately, when I go to Google Webmaster Tools I ...
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How to resolve Google "Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt"
Recently Google has been complaining about certain pages saying:
Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt
I am confounded by this error. Yes the page, is blocked by robots.txt and it has always been. ...
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Huge drop [50%] in traffic after HTTPS move
Currently look after 3 websites. I changed one of them to be HTTPS as it's ecommerce, however have seen a huge drop in organic traffic since this was implemented. Went from around 800 impressions to ...
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Sitemaps - one per subdomain or one for the base domain?
I have more than 5 subdomains on a project, say developer, www, staff and some more, what is the best practice in creating sitemaps?
All subdomains that share a same sitemap at base domain (example....
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How to fix "404 Not Found" crawl errors reported by Google in Search Console
I was checking on Google webmaster tools for my blog site to see if there's any indication on why my blog traffic decreased to half in one day and i saw 43 Not Found crawl errors and 5 in Sitemap Not ...
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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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Google says my sitemap index was "processed successfully", yet "total discovered URLs" is 0
I submitted a new version of the sitemap index for my site in Google Search Console two days ago. Soon after submission, GSC started saying that the index was "processed successfully", and yet has ...
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Why the number of indexed pages decreased for a "site:" search
Recently I created a website with hundreds of thousands of unique pages. A week ago, Google had indexed about 250,000 pages. It has now decreased to 90k URLs (using a site:domain.com query).
What ...
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Choose the Google Sitelinks that are shown when somebody searches for my website
How can I remove Search for product, About us, Log in, etc. which are displayed in Google Search?
And how can I add particular categories like Automobiles, Mobiles & Tablets, etc.?
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SEO (or other) problems with a 404?
I am a member of a writing website called HubPages. We are each given a subdomain on which to write articles and are also given access to Google Webmaster Tools for our subdomain.
Upon checking out ...
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Google Search Console domain property not in the list of properties I can add to Google Analytics
I'm trying to connect a domain property to a google analytics domain. But when the property I added is not in the list of properties where I can choose from.
All the other properties are. The big ...
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What can cause "Discovered - currently not indexed" in the new GWT
The new GWT shows sitemaps links divided into new categories. Two that confuse me:
1. Discovered- currently not indexed
2. Crawled - currently not indexed
What are the possible reasons for this, and ...
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How to get tens of millions of pages indexed by Google bot?
We are currently developing a site that currently has 8 million unique pages that will grow to about 20 million right away, and eventually to about 50 million or more.
Before you criticize... Yes, it ...
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Do search engines perform JS rendering while crawling?
I have couple of websites recently created (~8 months) and Google is marking them as "Duplicate without user-selected canonical" or "Page with redirect" errors
How I implemented:
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Google excluding site for queries for its exact name
I have a client site with a unique name (not just the FQDN, but the company name that the site is for) that simply will not appear for Google searches using the company name. It's a very simple and ...
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Why the new Google Search Console does not read my sitemap?
I have the following problem:
I cannot submit any sitemap recently to Google Search Console.
Let me give you an example:
https://ru.azrhymes.com/static/sitemaps/ru/sitemap-main-1.xml.
(validator says ...
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International Targeting "no return tags"
Google Webmaster Tools has added an International Targeting Report to show hreflang errors. There's a section that reports "no return tags" errors with Originating URL & Alternate URL columns.
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Is it better to have an ErrorDocument 404 redirect back to the homepage or a standard 404 error page?
We run an ecommerce site that was setup by a third party ecommerce software provider, basic shop with product pages, basket and checkout.
The third party vendor set up the htaccess file so that if a ...
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Geographic location settings
I am building a website and it uses a Netherlands (.nl) domain. This domain is being found when using the Netherlands Google. I'd like the site to be found on all Google's not just country speific ...
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Why doesn't searching for the unique name of my website bring the site up in a top position on Google?
I have a website with a unique name, already indexed and with a perfect SEO. Although there are no websites with the same unique name, when I'm searching on Google I found my homepage listed on the ...
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GSC: How to move a site from a domain to sub domain, sub folder or new domain with a sub folder?
Is it possible to tell Google's Webmaster Tools that our site hosted on www. has moved to a sub folder, sub domain or a new domain with sub folder?
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How to get Google PageRank (from the toolbar) to increase from 0?
I have an issue with the Google PageRank of my site, the PR of this site is 0. I've tried many ways to increase the PR:
I submitted the site in webmasters
created sitemap.xml
filled all meta ...
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Need Google to recrawl the pages
I've changed the meta description tag in many of my site pages. Should I select Fetch as Google->Fetch->Add to Index->URL and all linked pages in GWT?
Will Google recrawl the whole site faster than ...
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Moving to another domain loss google search rank
My old A.maindomain.net was hosted on wordpress.com so I decided to move to B.maindomain.com domain and use Google Analytic and wordpress.org instead.
Actually, I have prepared test environment to ...
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Are there any clear indicators that my sitemap file is beneficial?
I have recently created a sitemap.xml file and uploaded it to my Google Webmasters Tools account. Google didn't report any issues or errors with the uploaded sitemap of my site.
Now my question is:
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Does Google crawl and index sites hosted on an IP address only (with no domain name) and non-standard port?
I have website on 203.162.177.159:8071 (Actually, that isn't the real IP address, I changed it for this question.) Because of an internal rule, this site must not have a domain name, and running on ...
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How bad would it be to use a ccTLD domain on a website targeted to another country?
I'm currently working on a website targeted mainly towards Japan (all content is in Japanese). This website's domain is registered as another country's ccTLD (in this case, Belgium's .be domain) as ...
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Google Search Console emailing "New Mobile Usability issue detected" but live test shows "Page is mobile friendly"
I have a site with 20,000 URLs per language. Each language is added as a separate property in Google Search Console. This month Google started emailing me about each of the properties due to "New ...
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Huge drop off in Google "indexed" pages after switching to HTTPS, should I switch back to HTTP?
I did a full redesign of my website to make it responsive (bootstrap), added localization, and also switched the whole website to use HTTPS.
My website use to default to http://www.domain.com/ and ...
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Thousands of 404 errors in Google Webmaster Tools
Because of a former error in our ASP.Net application, created by my predecessor and undiscovered for a long time, thousands of wrong URLs where created dynamically. The normal user did not notice it, ...
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Why is the number of pages on my website indexed by Googlebot decreasing?
I am monitoring the number of pages indexed by Googlebot for one of my websites .
I noticed that since last week, the number of pages has dropped by about 60 or so. Now to be fair, I have not added ...
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Google Webmaster Tools reporting crawl error 404 (Not found) for a page which has never existed
Google Webmaster Tools is reporting a crawl error "404 (Not Found)" for an .html page which has never existed on a web site I developed. The page being reported is "tyuiabmog.html", which doesn't ...
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Is it necessary to handle every 404 reported in Google Search Console?
Is it necessary to handle every 404 reported in Google Search Console?
used/hyundai-cars/page-143/undefined/
There was a bug in JavaScript which was forming such wrong URLs. These errors are fixed ...
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Google Search Console vs. Google Analytics Data Difference
I manage a number of sites for an Agency, and in pretty much all of them I see huge differences in the Search Queries data that you get from Search Console, vs. the integrated one you get in Analytics,...
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How to identify spammy domains giving backlinks to my site (to submit in disavow links in WMT)
Google is out with much awaited feature. But out of 100's of domains giving backlink to my site I want to simply find the spammy ones and disavow domain-wise using "domain:" feature.
I'm looking for ...
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Google Search Console: 404 errors on existing pages
There is a few years old small website with very few pages (~5), which were indexed and ranked by Google. A few days ago 4 of those pages disappeared from SERPs and Search Console gives me 404 Not ...
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Detecting structured data in Google Webmaster Tools
We have added some schema.org markup to a dozen of webpages on our website to provide rich snippets in Google SERP (different types, such as authorship and reviews). They are correct - at least, ...
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All pages from my site are showing a 404 error in the Google cache from search results [duplicate]
For the last 30 days, all internal pages of my website have been showing 404 error in the Google cache. When I click on 'Cached' on any page, it shows below error message:
The requested URL /search?...
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"High response time" warnings in Google Webmaster Tools
In my Google Webmaster Tools account, there are warnings about my site.
Some URLs listed in this sitemap have a high response time. This may indicate a problem with your server or with the content ...
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How to improve CLS. Chrome Lighthouse shows GREEN but GSC shows RED?
I have no Idea what is going on. The lighthouse on different devices shows my page CLS 0.002, but when I go to my Google Search Console -> core web vitals the CLS is in RED ZONE >0.25.
I ...
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Changing URLs in Google's Index
I recently submitted a sitemap.xml in Google's Webmaster Tools and some of the pages already got indexed. The problem now is, that I cleaned my URLs with MOD_REWRITE in the .htaccess file afterwards ...
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How exactly is Google Webmaster Tools measuring "Site Performance"?
I've been working for two months now on improving our response time (mainly server side) on a new forum (a brand new product on a technical point of view) we've launched in Germany a few month ago and ...
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Google doesn't crawl CDN files
I've noticed that Google Webmaster Tools is reporting a lot of blocked resources in my website.
Right now all the "blocked resources" are .css, .js and images (.jpg, .png) that I serve from Cloudfront ...
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Why won't Webmaster Tools let me set a preferred domain? (says to verify, but it should already be)
I've got a domain that I apparently forgot to set a preferred domain for, so I just tried to do it.
Webmaster Tools instead popped up a little box:
Part of the process of setting a preferred domain ...
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Migrating from a wordpress.com to wordpress.org blog without harming SEO
I've had a Wordpress.com weblog for 3 years. And its pages have a good pagerank and are shown in first search results pages.
Because of the limitations, I should migrate to my own WordPress.
How to ...
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Removing full site from Google index
I want to remove the contents from Google index. Google index include my websites huge number of pages indexed in Google index about 5,000,000 pages earlier but now left pages are 3,025,000.
I have ...
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