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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URL Structure Without WWW
I've recently generated a sitemap.xml for my website to help with its visibility on search engines. With this in mind, I have a specific concern about the structure of the URLs listed within the ...
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86 links indexed by Google Search Console. Shown in search results, but later removed from search results (still shown in the Search Console)
I have 86 links for my site example.com successfully indexed by Google Search Console. They first appeared in Google's search results. But after a few days, most of the links disappeared. Currently, ...
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Google chose non-canonical pages as canonical
On our website, we use different domains for several countries (.be, .ch, .fr, .com, .it). On each of them there's 3 languages (en, fr and it). So for a specific page, there's up to 15 possible ...
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My tool site is indexed but not ranking on Google which is 1 year and 164 days old [duplicate]
I have a tool site, which is created by me and published before 1 year. The site is available on Google. But till now the site is not ranking on Google. On the other hand, My tool sites are ranked in ...
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Why is Google is crawling unsupported languages?
In the Google Search Console, under Indexing's "Duplicate without user-selected canonical" error section - there are many links that are being crawled that are not supported.
I have recently ...
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My page does not get indexed after months [duplicate]
I went live with my website (using WordPress) about 2 months ago and almost every page is not yet Google indexed, except for 2 somewhat useless pages (ex. one is a page not yet completed showing "...
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Google forcing HTTP as canonical, despite rel tag linking to HTTPS and despite HSTS enforced for entire TLD
I have a small personal website with a .dev TLD, which has HSTS enforced across the entire TLD. So my site is entirely HTTPS with Let's Encrypt certs and all that fun stuff. This year I've been ...
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Tracking links going to 404 pages
I have a price comparison website with quite a few tracking links like this:
<a href="/go.php?id=6000579" class="fh-price-go-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ...
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Large list of backlinks disappear from Google Search Console
I typically have 700-800 backlinks listed in GSC. I normally check this list every other week. However, today when I checked, it showed 73. At first I suspected that Google cleaned up all of the ...
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Why is Google not Indexing most of my pages it found? [duplicate]
When I visit search console, it shows 5 indexes pages and 18 pages not index. But no error whatsoever.
Why is google not indexing my pages?
Where can I get more information about why it's not being ...
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What is the Query to add in robots.txt for blocking URLs has some special characters?
I was going through the Google Search Console pages issues and one of the issue reason is "Alternate page with proper canonical tag" and this has some URLs which look like below
example.com/...
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Validation of canonical links not working in Google Search Console
I internationalized my site's canonical links using the guide from here: https://yoast.com/hreflang-ultimate-guide/#hreflang-canonical
Which has an output like this:
<link rel="canonical" ...
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Why my website is not showing but my articles are showing in google
I created a website around 2 months ago, and I have written around 90 articles till now. Most of them are getting indexed in google search. When I used to search the name of my website it used to ...
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Google Search Console not showing new sitemap pages [duplicate]
I published a new sitemap on GSC and it appears that it was published successfully and that 9 pages were indexed, but when I click to see the pages, it shows me 5 pages not indexed which are the pages ...
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How to automate the identification of which organic keywords are generating leads?
It seems this answer is a solution to identifying which organic keywords are generating leads:
Go to Search Traffic > Search Analytics, drill down into a specific
keyword, then click the "...
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How to overcome Google indexing issue? [duplicate]
It's almost been more than 6 months i'm facing Google indexing issue my site can not be indexed. The issues are described below:
1- "Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag" although I have searched all ...
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Google is not choosing the canonical URL I chose
My website already has a canonical URL defined however in the
Google Search Console it says that the canonical URL is the English page. How can I change this?
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Why is Google indexing the title and description of my site in English instead of Portuguese?
When I look for my website (in Portuguese, my language), Google shows me the title and description of the page in English and they appear to have indexed the Portuguese URL.
Why is this happening? I ...
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Multilingual site and issues with homepage on GSC
I have a challenge here: my client has the homepage for each location added to the main website property and not in the URL prefix profiles for any locations.
What I mean is...
GSC as usual, has a ...
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Website is not showing up in google search results, even though it is indexed [duplicate]
My (NSFW) website is indexed by Google, I can see it in the Google Search Console, and according to that, everything is fine, I have good usability and no issues.
I had pretty good results right after ...
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How to let site:example.com show results?
I set up a website example.com several months ago but it does not show up in site:example.com, so I submitted it in Google search console. After several days, I saw there were some pages indexed in ...
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Google Search Console says 5xx error, but won't show page URLs
I can fix the 5xx error if I know what page, and I thought Search Console was supposed to show page URLs? But this is what my page shows and I can't see any URLs to troubleshoot further...
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how to get not indexed pages using google search console api
I am looking for a way to get 404 pages of mywebsite using google api search console
I have tried this way but it returned 0 rows despite there are 404 pages in my website
$service = new ...
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Google flags my dynamic product pages as duplicate content
My dynamic product pages are marked as duplicate content by Google (Internal duplicate). They are structurally similar, but present different information about each product (price, description, image.....
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Google Search Console - Add a new user to multiple properties in bulk
Is there a way to add a new owner to all properties in one shot? So far, all I've found is adding the owner to a property one at a time.
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Trying to readjust the title of the multilingual website when searching through Google
As of this moment, I am making adjustments to SEO through Google Search Console for a company website.
The site is built using Nuxt2 with i18n for multilingual support.
I have a problem with the name ...
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Regarding Google Search Console report "Page Not Found"
I am currently doing SEO through Google Search Console for a company website.
I am trying to solve website indexing issues, one of which is a 404 Error (page not found). While I do have the sitemap ...
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Why is my WordPress website not getting indexed on Google Search Console despite using Yoast SEO and manually creating a sitemap and robots.txt?
I have added my website in my Google Search Console but it's not getting indexed. It's a WordPress website and I'm using Yoast SEO but since it didn't work out. I had to create Sitemap manually and ...
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Google Search Console indexing page as a separate page even though it was a <link rel="canonical"> in the header
I normally serve pages from my (static content) website without the .html extension in the URL.
I recently had a bug in my web server's configuration for a couple days where it did serve pages with ...
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Google Search console: We had a problem submitting your indexing request. Please try again later
I recently published my website live, everything seems to be okay except for adding URL'S in the inspector with index request. Live testing is not an issue.
The website is now 5 days on air, I ...
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How do I add a Google Search Console verification meta tag to a read-the-docs page?
I've created a page on read-the-docs that I would like to add in Google inspection for indexing.
https://ltb-symm.readthedocs.io/
In URL Inspection Tool explains one way to prove the ownership of the ...
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Google removed over 100.000 Indexes… But why? [duplicate]
I am the owner of a synonym page. The Problem i am currently facing is that Google Search Console is automatically removing my pages.
My Index Count in 20th April
My Index Count in 20th May
Google ...
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Why pages are badly indexed? How to increase the presence of pages in the index? (index limits) [duplicate]
The site has approximately 6,000 links to its pages (internal links). But only about 1000 are indexed. The site has a sitemap.xml and robots.txt files.
Found, not indexed 3200
Page crawled but not ...
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Google Search console: Blocked due to access forbidden (403) when blocking all country except (India, Srilanka)
I am a very old user of cloudflare for the last 4 Years, I have 14+ websites of different categories which has have added to cloudflare last year. My website was accessible and ranked on google which ...
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Remove subdomain URLS from Google search console without removing WWW
There are two subdomains for my website. The subdomain for the production site is www.example.com. The subdomain for the test site is test.example.com.
test.example.com is showing up in Google search ...
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Indexed URLs with strange params in my Google Search Console
In my Google Search Console. I have thousands of indexed links to my website but with some strange URL params like this:
https://www.example.com/?ve=6.91.11197224.7.17.51.adidas+pants+tiro+17+mens
My ...
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Alternate page with proper canonical tag - caused by referrers
I have some page errors being identified by GSC as "Alternate page with proper canonical tag". The referring url's typically have a query string parameter (that my pages don't have), or a ...
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How can I change the 404 to 410 in Google Search Console?
In my Search Console, I have some 404 links.
Those links belong to pages that are deleted.
I read online and realized that I should return 410 (Gone) for those pages.
Yet Google Search Console does ...
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How can I see how many transactions each search query came from Google organic search?
I have a website which has GA4, GSC, and BigQuery connected to it.
The site is ranking for a bunch of different search queries in Google. I want to know which queries bring me transactions. That is, ...
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Google wanted to crawl the URL but this was expected to overload the site
In Google Search Console I can see that Google has indexed about half of the pages in my website. But the others are "Discovered – currently not indexed". It has been like this for many ...
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How to show my website on Google Search as example.com instead of www.example.com?
My website is currently showing as www.example.com on Google Search. Instead I would like it to be example.com. My DNS servers are properly configured.
What I recently did is adding this line into the ...
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Google Search Console doesn't index an alternative language page
I have this single page site in portuguese.
When this page loads (index.html) it runs a script to verify the browser language and if its not portuguese it forwards the user to an english version of ...
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Google Search Console detects issue with noindex pages excluded from sitemap, why? How to resolve?
Google emails me this:
Message type: [WNC-10030322]
Search Console
Page indexing issues detected in [DOMAIN]
To the owner of [DOMAIN]:
Search Console has identified that your site is affected by 1 ...
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Image Indexing Google Search
I have large website for Hindi and Gujarati Shayari.
It have about 80000+ Hindi and Gujarati Shayari pages.
its successfully indexed in Google and I am getting enough organic search traffic.
My Post ...
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Could a change in our website's address potentially be affecting the queries people use to find it?
We moved our Wordpress website from a .co address to a .com a few months ago, and ever since we did that, the queries that were the most interesting for our business stopped making our site appear on ...
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Will temporarily removing a property from Google Search Console clean up the 404 report?
I need to reset an account which is erroneously showing thousands of pages "not found" which do not exist in the sitemaps.
I think if I remove the property then add it back in Google might ...
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Is there a way to stop Google from indexing spam internal search results?
I've just seen in Google Search Console that Google is doing 3 things with spammy internal search links.
The link structure is always www.example.com/search?q=[spammy link here]
Around 500 are green ...
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Is my Google search console property broken after creating it when the site was under construction?
Domain property and https://www.example.com/ property are not getting indexed well
The thing is, I created the property before the under construction was deactivated on my WordPress website. Now some ...
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Why does our site name keep reverting back to an incorrect name?
We have two websites living under two different domains. Domain A and domain B. Domain B was decommissioned in February and migrated over to domain A with a URL path /en-us/. All of the old URLs from ...
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How to remove a link from my sitelinks without removing it from indexing
I have this shop website which contains a lot of dynamic product. I added a dynamic sitemap which updates constantly. it did great to my SEO and click rates but now its adding the products on the ...
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