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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Do I HAVE to use return hreflang even on noindex pages? And how important is x-default?
So, our website is HUGE. It has more than 32 languages in more than a dozen countries. There's a good reason for that, related to legal regulations for our business.
Because of that, we have only a ...
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How can I change the SEO of my domain name knowing that this domain name is a redirect?
Currently, I have a domain with an associated WordPress site example.fr, which is correctly indexed by Google.
But also, I have another domain name example.eu which redirects to the main one -> ...
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How to submit a new sitemap to GSC with API
I would like to programmatically submit new sitemaps to Google Search Console. I found that it can be done with Google Search Console API.
However, in this docs they say that request require ...
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Google Search Console not recognising sitemap or crawling the site [duplicate]
I am having trouble getting Google to find my sitemaps, which is a problem because it can't seem to crawl the site properly either (A SPA built with Angular).
We have thousands of products listed but ...
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Can somebody become a google search console owner by accident? most likely your previous seo agency
A few months back we got an update that a new email id has become the owner of GSC. Even though nobody from our company did that. The email id was of our previous seo agency. Is it possible that ...
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Setting up sitemaps of multisite network in google search console
I have a multisite network and each site has its own sitemap.
e.g. the main site's sitemap is at main-site.com/sitemap-index.html and the subdomain's sitemap is main-site.com/site1/sitemap-index.html
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I have many strange links in Google Search Console Report
I'm pretty much new in this field!
Google console sent me the report and I see there:
1,006 not indexed pages
And when I checked why pages are not indexed
For example, I went to "Discovered-not ...
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Sitemap parsing error
I've upload a sitemap file to google search console recently, but they tell that it could be read but has errors with namespace and namespace prefixes.
This is my sitemap and its structure
<?xml ...
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Same Google Verification tag for multiple domains
I have registered an HTML google <meta /> tag in my production webpage provided by the Google Search Console, but we have other 3 environments to verify.
If I create a new property in the ...
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Google tells me that http://mydomain.de.whoisbucket.com/ is not indexed
I got a report from Google Search console ([email protected]):
Page indexing issues detected in http://sprechcomputer.de/
To the owner of http://sprechcomputer.de/:
Search Console has identified ...
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Google Search Console diplaying my URLs are indexed but it is not showing in search result by parameter site: search [duplicate]
Can anyone provide the solution about this issue:
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In what situations it should be use a symbol "-" in the title of pages?
Examples for understanding, please tell me by your experience, is it good to use?
Name_of_film - watch online
Name_of_season_2_episode_4 - watch anime
Name_of_book - read
Like the main aim, what to ...
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Nerdused product is not getting index in google
I am working on my client's website. I saw a product index in google search console but when I search in google by using this URL but not showing in google. How can I fix this issue?
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Google Crawl 404 Issue for different links
As the question title mentioned, I have checked my google console Crawl Report and found some of the URL have 404 which target the main/root directory.
I have double-checked the assets and try to ...
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Google search console is showing far fewer external links than other sources, could this be the cause of ranking problems?
I have been facing issue with my website ranking. I realized today that Google search console is not getting new inbound links and keep showing around 3000 links only whereas other back links checking ...
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Is a redirection made in cPanel - a problem for Google Search Console?
My domain is gpj.rs
Google search console cannot indexing the home page
It says - there are pages with redirection
And lists the following examples:
http://www.gpj.rs/
http://gpj.rs/
Here is my ...
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Excluded by 'noindex' tag on pdf files on Wix website
I am getting Google Search Console reports indicating "Excluded by 'noindex' tag" issue on pdf files. Why is Google sending me emails when the pdf files are excluded by noindex tag? Noindex ...
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Why my sitemap.xml isn't recognized by the Google Search Console?
I have generated this sitemap.xml file :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset
xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:xsi=...
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Redirection or canonical? URL changed
We've changed one of the url in the website, the content of the page remains same.
Its been a month, but google is still showing the old URL in the search result.
What should be done here?
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Google thinks my webpage has a video when it doesn't (since June 2022)
I have many webpages which Google has been indexing since 2019. These are product pages which have an image that is displayed prominently and also set as the image in the <meta name="thumbnail&...
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Potential Connection Between Search Console Issues and Storyblok?
First, I'm generally more familiar with WordPress, and my company uses Storyblok as our headless CMS. I'm generally less familiar with headless and so I'm assuming there may be a connection here.
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Google search console collects data for two websites within the same property even though there is separate properties for both
we have two websites, the first one is the main website e.g example.com while the other website looks like a directory within the main domain eg. example.com/xyz, but it has been hosted on a different ...
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Can I have only homepage URL inside sitemap.xml?
Can I have only homepage URL inside sitemap.xml?
I want to cancel Google to crowling and indexing any other page.
here is the code of my current sitemap.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding=&...
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HTTPS not valid with Google Search Console (prevents indexing)
I want to index in Google a website that I have coded, but it is not working because an error:
HTTPS not valid, and that should prevent indexing.
However, I have a valid SSL certificate. Here is the ...
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Google Search: Trying to delete all pages with same beginning
Due to a recent malware infection one of my sites has a ton of pages (thousands) that begin with https://www.example.com/recollection.php
Some examples:
https://www.example.com/recollection.php?3957/...
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Why site instruction returns 4 results? [closed]
I have some junk websites, each of which has thousands of junk posts. When I search on google using "site:example.com", it returns 4 results for all these websites. I'm curious why it ...
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Removed AMP for WordPress Plugin and now "/amp" and "?nonamp=1" URLs have infinite self-redirect
Google Search Console(GSC) shows "Page with redirect" errors on my website. According to GSC, these posts are not indexed. That is fine. But look like the URLs with "/amp" and &...
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What does Google Search Console look like when you have approximately 1,000 sites?
When one has a few sites, this is how the Google Search Console menu looks like when you change the property:
But if you grow to manage approximately 1,000 sites, what does it look like in the Google ...
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React Native Web SEO Optimization
I am trying to better optimize my react-native web app project for the internet. I have it built successfully and launched on the internet. I had originally created this project as an app and have ...
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Even after setting 301 redirect, Google Search Console displays 301 redirect error
I want to change my web address to a different domain, and I have added 301 Redirect to my old site, but it still shows an error.
Here is the screenshot of Vercel:
and the CURL response is 301:
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How to cancel a stale site move on Google Search Console
I had two domain names, say A and B, pointing to the same domain, say C. I requested a "site move" from Google for them about a year ago and it's still not processed, so I believe it never ...
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What is the best strategy for dealing with redirects in Google Search Console?
On my website, I redirect all traffic from HTTP to HTTPS, and from non-WWW to WWW. The canonical pages are the HTTPS/WWW versions.
These preferences are specified in the page headers (link rel="...
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Page Fetch: Redirect Error on Google Search Console - Getting error on some new pages but not on others
So, I know there's been a few iterations of this same question with this particular Google Search Console indexing error, but after sifting through a few of these, I couldn't find anyone having the ...
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Google Search Console Page index chart not updating
. The chart in the "Pages" section does not get updates. It's been almost a week.
When I search for my website on Google (site:mysite.com), I see it is getting indexed but GSC does not give ...
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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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Shopping Page in Search Query
I originally wanted to do eccomerce for my website but I switched it to a service-based website, the site is now live but when I search on Google, the shop is showing up on the organic query(that wasn’...
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Why doesn't Google follow the links on my site while crawling?
Google doesn't seem to realize that there are links on my page.
I don't yet have provided a sitemap, and I know that I should (and I will).
Regardless, I'm trying to figure out whether I've done ...
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Is there a way to make Google list specific pages in site links? [duplicate]
Is there a definite way you can control which pages (privacy Policy, About Us etc.) Google includes in the site links section of the search results for your site?
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How to make my percent encoded URL work with the Google Rich Results Test without removing the question mark?
When I pass my URL to the Google Rich Results Test or in Google Search Console, the URL automatically changes. Here's an example:
https://example.com/blog/Jak%20zainstalować%20WordPress%20na%20swoim%...
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Favicon doesn't show up in google result [duplicate]
These are my link tags in my index.html (inside the head tag):
<link rel="icon" href="./iconePourOnglet.png" type="image/png" />
<link rel="apple-touch-icon&...
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Blocked due to other 4xx issue in Google Search Console
I have problems with error "Blocked due to other 4xx issue" in Google Search Console. I dont know how to fix that and what is problem. I just have on website "call button" for ...
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Can I ping Google with a sitemap from another domain
I already know that a Sitemap.xml file can be hosted on a different website and point to it via the robots.txt file like so
In awesomewebsite.example/robots.txt
Sitemap: https://sitemaphost.example/...
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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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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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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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