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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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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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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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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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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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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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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New business website (.co.uk) not appearing in google search - up against an established .com website with the same name
A client has started a business in the UK that shares its name with a bigger established business based in Mexico. They operate in completely different market sectors. The name is a single word and ...
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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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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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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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What does "submitted and indexed" mean in the coverage report from Google Search Console?
I added my website in Google Search Console and submitted a sitemap there.
What does it mean by "submitted and indexed?" I think it says the pages are available in Google, but that doesn't ...
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Google is indexing the root domain rather than the language subdirectory where it redirects
I have a multi language website for my company.
my language routing goes like example.com/[language]. I have 2 languages, and my URLs are example.com/tr,example.com/en, and example.com/ redirects to ...
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SEO | VueJS | Why do I see "We're sorry but desk-app doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue." in web browser?
I set up a single page application using Vue.js and Firebase.
It works fine but when I search for the website in Google Chrome, this is what pops up :
I expect to see a proper description, instead of ...
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After adding HTTPS to my site, Google prefers to index HTTP
I recently moved my website from HTTP to HTTPS. But when I try to get my HTTPS pages indexed, Google search console says "Duplicate, submitted URL not selected as canonical."
Google is ...
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Google Search Console - Breadcrumbs
Google search console enhancements breadcrumbs have stopped being picked up by the desktop crawler.
They're quite visible on pages but for some reason, search console has gradually started de-listing ...
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Internal linked pages count in Google Search Console (GSC) does not add up
I have an e-commerce site which has approx. 2500 pages most of which are e-commerce products page. There are approx. 50 pages which are static pages and rest of the pages are dynamic and all the ...
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Redirect Errors in Google Search Console when trying to index site
I've built a small site for a local trader which is not a complicated site in any way. In fact it is 100% static. I have a few years experience and in that time have never encountered an error with ...
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Verification of Google Search Console via Google Tag Manager
I have a problem with verification website in Google Search Console via Google Tag Manager. I have a site on Wordpress and GTM installed via GTM4WP plugin. Noscript part was set up to "Codeless ...
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Position tracking via Google Search console API
Is it possible to track the positions of a list of keywords in Google Search via Google Search console API?
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How should I remove duplicate content caused by URL parameters that's already been indexed by google? [duplicate]
On our website, we have many "project" pages with a similar URL structure.
Ex: acme.com/projects/unique-project-title
Another site that backlinks to us uses utm parameters (and we want them ...
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Google Indexing Tons of Non-Existent URLs
A client that I am working for has come to me with a problem. Their Google Adwords account has been disabled because there is a bunch of traffic to crazy non-existent pages on their website. Here are ...
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What Is The Effect Of Falsely Submitting Google Search Console Errors As Fixed And The Fix Failing Repeatedly?
What Is The Effect Of Falsely Submitting Google Search Console Errors As Fixed And The Fix Failing Repeatedly?
Basically, at my company, we have a web developer that we work with unfortunately they ...
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3 months since my pages are blocked with status "Discovered - currently not indexed" [duplicate]
I am trying to get my website fully indexed by google. Google has indexed 30 pages out of 92. So Google still have to index 62 pages. Since January I have 54 pages out of these 62 that are blocked ...
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Google doesn't index my site-home page and google-search-console appear the message "Crawled - currently not indexed" [duplicate]
Hello it is the first time i am trying to deal with seo and i have a problem.
Almost a month ago google crawled my site but hasn't indexted it so yet. Google search console showed me only a short ...
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"Page fetch error Failed: Redirect error" in Search Console
We have a page with the address: (https://example.com/song/delgiri)
I solved this redirect problem and it is completely green in WooRank!
Now
We have prepared four pages for Google Search Console.
(...
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In a client-side-rendered app, some pages are successfully crawled by Googlebot while others fail to fully render. How can I get all pages to render?
The /home and /home/search pages render fine, but /home/product/ID_XYZ pages appear as just a loading icon when doing a "Live Test" in Google Search Console.
There has been some flux ...
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Open redirect is being exploited on my domain and has lead to bad links in google search console
Google Search Console notified us of several 'Server Error 5(xx)'
These are URL redirects to an adult website. eg: https://example.com/?URL=https://xxxvideo4.com/result/PORNOGRAPHYTERMS an example of ...
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Indexed, not submitted in sitemap and site map not getting recrawaled : next js [duplicate]
I have this website which has lot of dynamic URLs, so I want Googlebot to revisit my sitemap every few days. However, my site map have not been crawled for a long time now or new pages from it ...
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How to make my webSite indexed by Google Search [duplicate]
I have been trying to make my website indexed by google. I tried every solution on the internet, and passed more than 1 week and Google haven't indexed it yet. I don't know what I can do. What I did:
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Enable Crawl for Google Search on Public Documents with Metadata in Azure Blob Storage
I have an existing sharepoint site which contains both pages and documents under single domain name. Currently Google search console is setup to crawl this site and in sitemap.xml we are adding urls ...
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Google Search Console Performance report - Total differs from Device report total
"Total Clicks" above the graph shows 90K clicks while under "DEVICES" the sum of three rows is 60K. Why are these statistics not equal?
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Cannot upload sitemap from other domain in Google Search Console
In the screenshot of Google Search Console below, I am looking at my property at example.com/my-site.
The black scribble is my site at example.com/my-site, and the yellow is me attempting to link my ...
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How to revoke some company from accessing my google search console (GSC)?
I registered at some SEO helper company and give them access to my GSC to do some data audit.
However, the audit doesn't help and I don't want to share any data with them.
How can I revoke it?
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