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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Alternate page with proper canonical tag - htaccess rule
I have been receiving lots of canonical error messages from Google Search Console. Most of the time, the referring pages are my own pages and the urls are correct in the referring page.
Google is ...
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How do you manage clients' Google accounts/services as administrator? [closed]
When you have multiple clients, do you use your own master Google account to set up all your clients in, OR do you set up all the Google services for each client in their own Google account?
For ...
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Best Practice For Multi Language Site [duplicate]
I have my website in English but My Audience is with Hindi and Gujarati Language. I have preferred to go with English version as my primary website with URL like
https://example.com
because my ...
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Why does my site fall that much? Google update? Or something else? Seeking expart opinion [duplicate]
In February 28 or Maybe March 1 there is a google update showing in semrush.
My site was a very good site after all. But suddenly it dropped 500 users to 100 users per day. Many ranked content ...
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Google Spidering ajax Call URL as Stand Alone Content
My page has an ajax call that loads fresh html into the mother page.
Google has now spidered these ajax urls and runs it's search console algorythm over them as if it were a stand alone page.
In the ...
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Does pinging a sitemap under a certain path affect crawling of parent directories/sitemaps?
I couldn't find much information about this topic in the official docs, but under Google's best practices:
"You can host your sitemaps anywhere on your site, but a sitemap affects only ...
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Discovered - currently not indexed - N/A Last Crawl Date in Search Console [duplicate]
I am facing an issue, some of my blogs are giving this return Discovered - currently not indexed, I tried to link with them but still, the last crawl date is showing N/A. I started the Validation ...
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How to fix an XML sitemap that Google says doesn't properly declare the namespace?
I am getting error on Google search console for XML Sitemap.
Sitemap.XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9&...
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Can a Banner Advertisement Make My Site be Marked as Spam?
I have one blogging site called A with about 80000+ pages in it. It's doing good in Google Search. I have recently launched a new site called B. I have put a banner advertisement on my site A which ...
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How did Google crawler view my password-protected pages?
I have a site that is login-blocked/password-protected where Googlebot crawling has worked for 1+years and suddenly stopped.
I am trying to figure out how this could have happened. It is a large site ...
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Webpage not indexed by google because of unknown host DNS error
I have hosted a site on github and encounter the following error in the Google Search Console URL inspection section.
The custom domain I'm using was purchased through Google Domains. How can I ...
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Weird URLs in Google Search Console
Looking at our Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag in the Google Search console we have tens of thousands of these URLs that look like this.
/page/2/?s=Xổ+số+thể+thao+Xổ+số+kiến+thiết+bóng+đá+5+lần+bao+nhiêu+...
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Why are some files not loaded in my Google Search Console account (URL Inspection)?
My website works well, but Google Search Console shows me that even style.css files can't be loaded, and many more files are not loaded as well.
Please let me know why it is? And how to fix it?
Image ...
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How to get Search Console email notifications only from certain property?
I have an email address, which is the owner of multiple Search Console properties. Usually all GSC notifications are off.
Now I want to get GSC notifications only from one certain property. But after ...
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"Page With Redirect" issue for index document
I use the Pelican static site generator with Attila which automatically creates a page for each of my site's categories (/categories.html).
The default configuration for Attila created category URLs - ...
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When searching a specific page on my website it is displaying it in Japanese language
I am searching my website's page indexing of About us (mentioned below) on browsers but it is giving me details on other languages which we haven't added anywhere.
Consulting with the front-end team ...
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Google Search Console indicated page was "Discovered - currenltly not indexed", then page disappeared entirely
I had a number of pages that Google's Search Console had marked as "Discovered - currently not indexed" 2 weeks ago, and so I clicked "Validate Fix" in the hopes of having the ...
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Changed URL of a site, now Google won't index it
So within typo3 I changed the URL of site so it fits better with the content of the site.
Then I got Search Console to crawl. Now it says that Google won't index the site because the canonical link ...
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I got a Google indexing warning because I am using HTTP forwarding
Today I received a mail from Google. There is a problem with indexing my website because I am using HTTP forwarding.
I disabled HTTP a week ago now only allowing HTTPS. I am using this code in my ...
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Google Search Console: is it possible to get a list of de-indexed pages?
I have noticed a decrease of my "Indexed pages" in the last few weeks while taking a look at the graph in my Google Search Console.
This surprises me because I did not make any significative ...
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What to do when URL is available to Google, but has issues?
I have a quite long page where I have a well explained content including images, videos, internal linking, external linking etc. The problem is when I want to index it, Google says "URL is ...
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Submitting a 301 Redirect to Google
For the SEO experts:
A long time ago, I created a website with some pages that used underscores instead of hyphens to separate words (e.g., "page_1.html"). I understand now that Google likes ...
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Sudden extreme drop in Google rankings for no apparent reason [duplicate]
In late 2021 I created https://bg3.wiki/ as a fan project for the upcoming video game Baldur's Gate 3. There's another wiki for it hosted by a relatively popular for-profit company (Fextralife), and I ...
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Website is indexed but not on search results [duplicate]
I submitted my sitemap to Google and Google says it is indexed, but does not show up on search results even if I search with site:example.com
It was also indexed twice, on 17 Dec 2022 and 18 January ...
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How to remove spam URL from Google Search Console
When we bought our domain and connect Google search engine we noticed that we had about 1000 spam URLs from 2020, probably someone who used to domain as a source of back links.
We have a list of all ...
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Why does my site's average position drop on weekends?
I noticed a weird patten in my GSC Performance chart - average position drops on weekends and rises back up on Mondays, peaking mostly the middle of the week.
The standard response "Well, people ...
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Google Search Console found huge number of unknow pages from my site, why?
I just submitted a web site with only 8 pages, but search console found 500K pages. These pages are not in my site - "UNKNOWN Pages"
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https://example.com/index.php?...
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What to do when GSC and Mobile-Friendly test don't agree?
A few days ago, Google Search Console started reporting some pages as not mobile-friendly, with three different issues:
Content wider than screen
Text too small to read
Clickable elements too close ...
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Why is Google Search Console crawling/discovering pages that do not exist?
I am working on a site to do with domestic cleaning. When I check on Google Search Console, the page indexing section advises that there are thousands of pages that are either crawled but not indexed ...
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Crawled - currently not indexed [duplicate]
I have been working on improving the SEO of my website and have noticed that it has been recently crawled by Google according to my Google Search Console. However, when I search for my website on ...
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Alternate Canonical Tags error on Google Search Console
I recently started my blogging site and after a few days on Google Search Console I got an error saying alternate page with proper canonical tag. Now I searched the internet and found the fix. A line ...
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Is there a way to see what is the new content on my website in GA4?
I have linked my GA4 and Search console accounts. Is it possible now to see which content or sites are new on my website in GA4?
In Search console I can see it in "Your new content" section -...
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How can I calculate average position for interval when I am storing values for position for a every day in my database
Average positon value for an interval (2022-12-31 - 2023-01-02) from the API
Average position value for every date stored in my DB
I have verified the daywise value stored in the DB from the API for ...
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Errant URLs from an acquired site
I recently acquired a website for an ecommerce company that I am now running, and am trying to get it up to snuff for SEO. It was previously a WordPress site but is now hosted on Shopify. I'm in the ...
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Google Bots Crawling Invalid URL
Google Bots crawl URLs by appending trailing 200 and false for all the article pages. I am unsure what the issue is here and why that is getting appended on every article page.
I have tried scanning ...
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Moving Pages to New URL's - Unable to Use 301 Redirects to Tell Search Engines The Pages Have Moved
I am considering moving some of my website pages to new paths, but I cannot do 301 redirects as I use Google Sites.
What's the best way to tell Google the pages have moved? I could:
Request removals ...
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How to Remove URLs from Google Search Console
I first connected my .com domain to a Blogger blog and wrote on the blog for three months and manually indexed about a hundred url in Google Console. Later, I bought a hosting and connected my domain ...
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How is Googlebot finding a 404 from a referring page that also doesn't exist?
I had a problem with a Japanese keyword hack a while ago and am still having 404 issues in GSC. I 410'd all pages that don't exist but am still having problems. Whenever I inspect a page that ...
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I have a URL problem in Google arabic site [duplicate]
I made an Arabic site using Google new sites. The page titles have to be in Arabic. When I write the page title in Arabic, the URL looks funny.
Google indexing did not happen in 3 months while ...
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Avoid having pages showing up as 'events' in Google search results
We have some pages that are not events (they are job postings), but they are showing up as events in Google search results. How can we avoid this? The pages do not have structured data, but they ...
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Page with paywall not indexed by google [duplicate]
I'm managing a website with a lot of content pages but only a few of these pages get indexed. Only 271 pages of in total 1402 are indexed. The other 1131 are not. The reasons Google is giving me for ...
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Google shows Redirect issues in google console for the internal 301 redirects
I built my website using next Js and deployed it in Vercel. Here, I had to move some old page URLs to new ones. So, I did this,
301 redirect
www.example.com/book/harry-potter => www.example.com/...
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How to fix search console trying to get the 404 pages error?
I have Page indexing (Not found (404)) error report on Google search console for a while now(2 months).
After made changes on the website, I removed those "hash" paths from the URLs. Right ...
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Why are clicks in query keywords and pages inconsistent?
In google search console/performance, I see zero click under query keywords section, but some clicks under pages section(some pages got clicked). I think the number of clicks should be the same. Why ...
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How to create a custom sitemap of multiple subdomains? [duplicate]
how can I achieve a certain well structured layout in the Google search results as presented below? I am working with multiple WordPress instances on several sub domains (not a multisite). Google does ...
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Cross-domain sitemap submission
I am verified owner of 10 different domains in Google Search Console.
I am hosting sitemaps for all 10 websites under one of these 10 domains. Based on the Official Docs, this should not be a problem, ...
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Can I use existing Google analytics/Search Console for SSL based site?
I am planning to change hosting provider(From Site5 to Namecheap) and also will be using SSL. My site(WordPress) is 5+ years old and indexed. My question is, can I just change http://example.com to ...
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Syndicate partner reviews missing author names! and GSC throws "missing author name" error
Ours is a one of the biggest e-commerce website. In item pages, For a given product, Our website pulls syndicated reviews from multiple syndicate partners and shows it under the product.We are using &...
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Page can be indexed but "URL is unknown to Google" [duplicate]
Ahhhh... this is doing my head in!
I've got a bunch of URLs that are in my sitemap, able to be indexed, URLs have been live for a couple years etc. but they are "unknown to Google".
I'd love ...
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"Discovered - currently not indexed" in Google Search Console [duplicate]
I have a 25 page website that I have submitted the sitemap for, but I have 13 pages that are under "Discovered - currently not indexed". I have clicked on Validate Fix, and then it took ...
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