Unanswered Questions
732 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Fetch as google Content-length: 0 when using IIS with active request routing (ARR)
I'm very new to this and just had a new issue dropped on my desk which I could use help with.
Basically all requests for domain name www.example.com are routed through an IIS with active request ...
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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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Why do external links on Google Search Console vary so much from month to month
I keep an eye on external links to my website that google reports in its webmaster dashboard for my blog (technical tipps).
According to that dashboard, my website has a wildly varying number of ...
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Google Search Console “Mobile Usability issues” but live test shows “Page is mobile friendly”
Looking into a customers site that has been having issues with Mobile Usability issues in the google search console.
Specific issues are:
Clickable elements too close together
Text too small to read
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How to stop Google translation on a link?
I use Mailchimp for campaigns. They have a feature where a person that receives the email can click the email in a web browser and translate to another language. The issue is the links in the email ...
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Setup Google Analytics 4 property from 2 different tags
To measure my top-level domain and my subdomain I have installed 2 different Google tags in each of them and use 2 Google Analytics properties (Say Site & App). I am looking to setup a 3rd Google ...
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What could cause a huge drop-off in traffic from two specific countries? (Germany and US)
We launched a new website in March this year and site traffic has been fairly consistent, however, since the beginning of September I noticed a huge drop off in traffic, all of which seems to be ...
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Google Analytics 4 showing all traffic is "Direct"
1 week after setting up a new site with Google Analytics 4, GA stopped showing any search engine traffic information and now shows all traffic as Direct
I'm stumped as to why GA is losing all ...
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Another site not owned by us chosen for the Google-selected canonical
One of our sites is affected by negative SEO. In our Google Search Console, we notice that Google has chosen a different domain as the canonical URL. We don't own that domain. How it got there is ...
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Duplicate without user selected canonical, even though pages are different. Why?
I am using the Search Console and I encountered this problem with my Angular 7 app for a webshop. At first, I thought it was a Javascript rendering problem, but made sure all server resources were ...
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Analytics imported conversions show as "No recent conversions"
I have imported a few goals from Analytics into Google Ads, but they show as "No recent conversions":
The reason it's confusing me is that there are quite a few conversions in Analytics.
I believe ...
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Google Mobile Friendly Test doesn't download css/js/images reliably (cloudfront + ALB)
I use CloudFront and ALB with AWS and my site always looks good from mobile, desktop and tablet browsers.
But in the Google mobile-friendly tool, it often doesn't have random images, css, and ...
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Google Search Console does ot recognize JSON-LD dynamically added to head in angular app
In my Angular(v1) application, I have a directive that on routeChanging event, remove last added JSON-LDs and add JSON-LD of that page to head element.
// .. some codes here
angular.element('....
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Matrix URL vs query string URL
Matrix URL is a way to pass data in URL to the program, it's like a query string, but a bit nicer.
Matrix URL notation is an idea first introduced in a 1996 proposal by
the founder of the web, ...
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Why is a spam/hacked website appearing in the "Linked from" list for 404 Crawl Errors in Google Search Console?
A website I manage is listing numerous crawl errors in Google Search Console for URLs that don't exist on my site and never existed. eg Images/mage.asp?id=buy-my-dodgy-pharmaceuticals-12345.html
When ...