Unanswered Questions
202 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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“See Index Coverage” link from sitemap not working in Google Search Console
Why is my “See Index Coverage” button is disabled? I created the property 2 months ago and also submitted sitemap then. I still can't see my index coverage for the sitemaps I submitted.
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Google Search Console reports the number of indexed pages in the sitemap fluctuates
We have a large site. The number of indexed pages in our sitemap has been decreasing and increasing constantly in the last month.
What should I do? Is there a special reason?
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Users (erroneously) type a short URL in the Google search box instead of the address bar. How to make it navigate instead of showing search results?
I'm using a URL shortener to publish pronounceable URLs for my pages so I can tell people something like, "Visit mydomain.com/slug to solve that problem." If people go to the address bar of ...
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"General HTTP Error" for XML sitemap in Google search console
Google search console says that the XML sitemap specified in robots.txt could not be read due to:
General HTTP Error
When I click on the link on right top, "OPEN SITEMAP," it shows an error:
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With WordPress multi-language site in English and Spanish, Google doesn't index the URLs with the /es/
I have launched a website with English and Spanish languages. I've done it using WordPress multi-language (WPML), but I'm having a lot of problems indexing and ranking the Spanish URLs, which appear ...
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"See Index Coverage" link from sitemap not working in Google Search Console (not able to click)
For the last week, I've had this problem in Google search console. The "see index coverage" link is not working. I'm not able to click it to see index and submitted URLs in sitemap.
I tried ...
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When submitting a cross-domain sitemap, does robots.txt need to list individual XML file, or just the index?
I am trying to move a bunch of sitemap files out of my website into a separate site that just has static assets, however I am struggling to understand the cross-site submissions mentioned on sitemaps....
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What to do with my RSS sitemap & PubSubHubbub for fast URL indexation in Google?
I've read on several places, that by using Google PubSubHubbub will get the newest pages posted in RSS feeds ultra fast indexed by Google.
So, I have my RSS sitemap with lots of new pages added daily ...
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How good is Google in indexing and crawling SPA webpages?
I am about to relaunch our website, but I am uncertain whether I should go with a Vue.js SPA webpage or a Nuxt.js SSR webpage. The big advantage of an SPA webpage is that it has an app-like feeling ...
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Manage sitemaps for multiple sites in Google Search Console
We are dynamically generating sitemap.xml files and hosting them on content delivery network (CDN) which is not on our primary web site domain.
Primary website: https://bla.example/sitemap-index.xml &...
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Does Googlebot see duplicated content when content is shown in a loop with JavaScript?
One of the projects I have recently developed uses SwiperJS slider with loop option set to true. It generates duplicated slides which makes sense. Since each slide represents an article the SEO guy ...
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Stop indexing of Github pages published from forks
This is similar to this question on Stack Overflow, but I want to keep the indexing of the original repo and stop indexing of the GitHub pages sites that are generated from the forks of the original ...
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Is it possible to reuse a site with a different domain name, even if the domain that was attached to this site before is now on another site?
We have moved our domain name to a brand new site and we would like to use the old site (now without a domain) with a new domain name and use the same template we used before with the previous domain. ...
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Canonical and Duplicate without user-selected canonical
I manage a website made up of HTML pages (as oppose to PHP). There is a .htaccess file that:
adds www
adds https
hides the .html extension
All of the current HTML pages have a line of code telling ...
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Best way to ensure Google indexes a video iframe that is dynamically injected upon user interaction?
I work on a publishing site and sometimes we use Youtube videos instead of a hero image at the top of articles. When Core Web Vitals rolled out, we noticed that the YT video became the LCP element and ...
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