Unanswered Questions
489 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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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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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 ...
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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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Google change of address, stuck at step 2
I'm changing the domain name of a WordPress site. I've verified the new domain name (both www and non-www) and setup 301 redirect rules for all URLs.
On the "Change of address" page in Webmaster ...
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Remove subdomain URLS from Google search console without removing WWW
There are two subdomains for my website. The subdomain for the production site is www.example.com. The subdomain for the test site is test.example.com.
test.example.com is showing up in Google search ...
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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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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 ...