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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Google seemingly ignoring redirects
So a bit of background. We previously maintained a blog-style news site to supplement our main e-commerce site, on a separate domain, let's call it magazine.example.com. The site was built using ...
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Google does not see the backlinks on the web pages of the domains it indexes
I have 1 main domain and a web page connected to it. I have 5 different domains and web pages.
I have different content on the same topic in my 5 different domains. In these other 5 different domains, ...
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How Remove Owner From Google Search Console Property?
I want to remove myself from the Google Search Console Property, however I am the owner (Verified owner) of that property and also providing access to other person. Other Owner can remove me as I am ...
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Should I Add images Subdomain To Search Console?
My website:
example.com
My images subdomain:
images.example.com
I added images.example.com to search console a few years ago, because I had read that subdomains should be added to search console.
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Why is google console showing url as anchor text instead of actual anchor text?
I have deployed a website using Django. This is my very first app so still trying to learn.
So I was checking my SEO progress and ended up checking my google search console and saw this:
The very ...
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Should I redirect requests for index.html to index
For months, at the start of the year, Google Search Console has been complaining about the clickable elements too close together and text too small to read. I ended up making the buttons ridiculously ...
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How do I debug "Couln't fetch" in the sitemap page of Google Search Console?
I read a lot of questions related to this problem, but it seems nothing applies to this case. From the Google Search Console, the sitemap for a Wordpress website using Yoast is reported as "...
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Bulk Removals in Search Console
Will this work? Remove all URLs with this prefix in the search console.
https://www.example.com/^*.html
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GSC URL inspection's limit to 2k URLs - what are the limit's rules?
A single GSC property limits its URL inspection to 2.000 URLs. In case there are more than 2.000 URLs - how GSC decides, which data to deliver? Are the 2.000 URLs those with the most traffic or random ...
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Submitting Sitemap URL Variations for GoogleSearchConsole?
I understand that in order to index and rank on Google you are required to submit Sitemaps to GoogleSearchConsole.
However I can't seem to find any information on whether you need to add different ...
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Index content if there are external duplicates
My website contains a large database which includes descriptions about thousands of products.
These descriptions are already available on other websites so it's some kind of external duplicate content....
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Why does Google discover a web page but not crawl it?
Several years ago, posts on my site would be indexed very quickly (usually 1-2 days after I publish them). But now, it takes 2-3 months after publish before pages get indexed.
This is not due to low ...
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Website search results sub pages show incorrect content
I'm helping a small business with their SEO and one of the things we noticed is when you search for their website specifically the suggested sub pages (I'm not sure what this is technically called) ...
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Will Google crawl links with other nested HTML elements?
I have a link like this
<a href="/some/relative/link">
<div class="container">
Some Content
</div>
</a>
On the Google Search Console, it says that ...
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Could a brand name called "Error 404" cause SEO issues?
This is a strange question, but I really struggled to find any decent info by searching for it.
I have a client who has a new e-commerce product collection called "Error 404", and they want ...
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The Google selected canonical for my website home page is an unrelated website to which I have no connection
I have created a small website named https://www.example.co.uk. I have managed to index the majority of pages on my website however the home page is not being indexed as Google is defining it as a '...
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How can we hide the Google Review Button [duplicate]
We wanted to hide the Google Review button and add overview & course admission buttons. For example:
If you see our Google Page (Shikshapeeth College), the review button is coming on top.
But if ...
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How can I link Google Search Console up to Google Analytics using a subdomain to subdomain relationship?
I am working in an organization where a Google Search Console property has been set up for each subdomain of the website which pretty much is separated as a business area/domain.
Now in Google ...
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fixing Search Console index problems after submitting no subdomain or extension in canonical URLs and sitemap
I prefer clean URLs... so my internal links lack the .html or .php extension, and I'm omitting the www. subdomain. The links are resolved by .htaccess rules, and the browser shows example.com/my-page. ...
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Cannot fix Google's Content Wider Than Screen warning [duplicate]
On the Google Search Console, I get warnings from Google about one of the pages on my site not being mobile friendly. You can see the results using their test tool here: https://search.google.com/test/...
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Is it a problem if site and domain name includes "hub"
My site and domain name includes the word part "hub". This was the main reason why my site get rejected firstly for "Google News" because it was connected with sexual content (...
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Error: Missing region-independant link for that language? [duplicate]
Hi this continuation for this question,
I generated a sitemap like this:
When I try to validate this sitemap, I'm getting the below warning:
Missing region-independant link for that language (en)
If ...
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Google Search Console coverage lists 5xx errors for URLs that have never existed
I've a problem with Search Console.
For some months now the "Coverage" report has been detecting many "5xx" errors caused by URLs that don't exist and have never existed on my site....
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Google Search Console- wrong counter
I've created two sitemaps. One sitemap has over 400.000 links and I use a sitemap index for that. The Search Console gives me the status that the links are submitted and indexed but I don't see any ...
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Which url(s) need to be included in sitemap.xml if I have different urls for different regions?
I have a .com website. I have some lamda function on AWS which redirect URL to specific country URL
Ex: for India: www.example.com/in
for US: www.example.com.us
I have up to 12 geographical regions ...
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sitemap.txt stops being indexed at 999 lines in Google Search Console
This is a weird behaviour of the sitemap upload tool in Google Search Console. Uploading a sitemap with anything past 1000 lines doesn't get indexed. The "Discovered URLs" stops at 999.
I ...
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Google autocorrects my friend's company name [duplicate]
My friend is running a social company which aims to help people across the Netherlands. It is an amazing idea, but google is not really helping raising awareness.
The company is called Huurprijshulp, ...
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Can regex or wildcards be used in Google Temporary Removals?
The problem
/[venue]/program
The above url accesses a program page to which a date parameter is added. This url will give the program for todays date at a particular venue:
/[venue]/program?date=[...
Simon Gowing
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Google Mobile Friendly Tester Issue - Preview Shown Is Very Small
The mobile friendliness tester is saying that my text is too small, and that clickable elements are too close together. I ensured that ALL text on the page was above 18 font to test, and Google still ...
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Should pages in Google Webmaster Tools with zero CTR be removed?
For the past 16 months, my site has pages that have not yet been clicked, while other pages of the site have very high clicks (CTR of the whole site is 21%)
Do you think these pages should be deleted?
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Google is indexing pages so slowly that it will take 25 years to index all 8 milliion [duplicate]
We have a website with about 8 million pages
https://www.tibrains.com/
We try to index it, but have not very good results
We had about 13-14 000 indexed pages for the last several months
Then Google ...
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Https non www version of URL not indexed
My website's https://example.org version of link is not being indexed by google. My canonical address is set to https://example.org but when inspecting google search console Coverage, it shows that
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All posts went to “Indexed, but not submitted in sitemap”
I have potentially a sitemap issue on my website.
In GSC, all my pages went from ‘submitted and indexed’ to ‘indexed, but not in sitemap’ overnight.
If I do a live test of any page, it says ‘Sitemap: ...
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Google Search Console Indexed, not submitted in sitemap [duplicate]
I've attempted to index my new site but on the Coverage section for the URL inspection, I get the following issue>
Indexed, not submitted in sitemap
I'm not sure if it's due to the Sitemaps being ...
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SEO problem after changing the domain of the site [duplicate]
I redirected my site to my new domain with 301 redirect and I also informed Google about the domain change, I also created a sitemap and robots.txt.
The problem of late content indexing in Google ...
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GSC is showing 404 not found while the links have content and are working fine [duplicate]
I have an eCommerce website. Around 30 URLs are showing 404 not found while all of them are working fine when opened. Can't seem to find what is causing these 404 errors. Most of these pages are ...
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Why my keyword is showing 30 average position on search console but isn't showing in top 100 in google?
When I go to google search console, I see the average position of one of my keywords at 30th, but when I manually search for that keyword in that specific area my keyword is not on even 100th position....
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To pass Core web vitals you need a website close to amp level [closed]
So Google is rolling out AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) but increasing the pressure on CWV with new experimental metrics. To pass CWV, you will need to render a page almost identical to amp level.
Do ...
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Coverage error in Search Console after modification of htaccess
In the last year, my website has had a problem with many 404 errors where .html was added to URLs that shouldn't have it. To resolve this problem I modified the HTACCESS with this line:
RewriteEngine ...
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Deindex a site through Google Search Console without access to the site's server to make changes?
Is there an option in GSC to exclude the whole GSC property (all URLs of it) from indexing?
Implementing noindex isn't feasible. I don't have access to the server to make changes. I can't add a meta ...
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How to remove redirect error page which is not even indexed from Google Search Console?
however I don't remember for requesting indexing for that subsite, Google Search Console says redirect error for the URL https://example.com/subsite where the real URL should be the same but ending ...
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Getting Robots.txt Not Found 404 Error on Google Search Console
I have created robots.txt in my root directory and when I navigate to my website address like https://example.ca/robots.txt I am able to see the rules
User-agent:*
Disallow: /captcha/
Disallow: /...
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What should I do in Google Search Console if the URL for my domain changes completely?
I was running a website called https://example.com. Multiple indexes are registered in the Search Console with the above domain.
As the content of the website changes, I need to reconfigure the ...
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amp&iframe with URLs getting hits in GSC
I am seeing pages like this getting hits in GSC, can someone help me figure out what pages are these and how to remove them from GSC.
https://www.example.com/resume/examples/data-systems-...
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Can I remove thousands of 5xx server errors from Google Search Console at once?
I want to remove coverage errors (server error 5xx) from Google Search Console at once. Currently I have 1.57k errors.
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URL is not on Google [duplicate]
I have created a website where I create blog posts, however, the website has pages that are discovered but not indexed. Does that mean that the webserver is not good enough to handle the load when ...
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Server Error or 503 Coming from Search Qeury
Search console is showing lots of 503 error like this, Some of them are coming from search pages and some are 404. I only redirect those error coming from 404.
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Google Search Console indexing non existent pages for a Create React App website with react-helmet-async hosted on Netlify
Google is showing non-existing pages when I search for my website (hosted on Netlify)
it looks like this: https://*********.com.tr/Achlamydeae1901520.html or https://*********.com.tr/Cumar1152083.html ...
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Malicious activity on website using site's search bar
It started with a few but now the number has increased to more than a hundred. I am seeing strange urls getting hit as errors in my Google search console, not sure how is this being done but someone ...
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How to redirect after doing an action (submit) to the same page without getting a redirect error in Google Search Console?
On the course page, there is a button for registration, and after clicking, it takes the user to another link to do the registration algorithm, then redirects the user to the same course page with a ...
Ahmed Shaaban Elgendy