I have requested an index for a website however am being shown this message:
Duplicate, submitted URL not selected as canonical
I do not have any duplicates of this site according to google and I have added a canonical tag to my websites head as well - but I am still getting this message.
However if I use the live test I am given (what seems) a more positive message - saying the site can be indexed.
I have requested for the site to be re-index but am still seeing the same results after waiting a number of days.
Its worth noting that this site is being index technically: according to google, if you are able to find your site by following these steps
- google search
- type in: site:
<Your site name.exstention>i.e. site:google.com
This does produce a search result:
I'm not quiet sure how to make google search console track the website - as it is providing no data and I assume (but could be wrong) that this is because of a underlying cause:
