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What to do about Internal Site Search Spam? Many websites have a search engine, that accepts an arbitrary query via the URL
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Page(s) not been crawled, not being indexed, and/or sitemap not being processed? Google's search indexing process is a complex system that involves crawling, evaluating, and indexin… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 2 Replies 4 Upvotes
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Change of address tool not working? Does it show messages like 'Validation failed' or 'couldn't fetch the page' ?
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Tired of seeing irrelevant, old, non-canonical and bogus URLs in the 'Page Indexing' report? ... a tip is to Filter the report by Sitemap. In the top corner of the report, is a dropdown to filt… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 1 Reply 46 Upvotes
Do I need to fix all "pages that aren't indexed" ?? (aka 'Page Indexing Issues') When looking at the 'Page Indexing' report in search console, you can often see a number of URLs in … 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 1 Reply 1001 Upvotes
How to Get the Most Out of the Google Search Central Community? Guidance and Best Practices What s This Community About? This is where SEOs and webmasters gather to talk about SEO on Google Se… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 25 Upvotes
About "Last Update" in Search Console reports. Nearly all the reports in the search console are updated by background process. They are not updated… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 3 Replies 130 Upvotes
Messages from the console, that sound like an Error, but probably aren't These are some common message may see in the console, which at first glance can seem bad, whereas in… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 17 Upvotes
Seeing "Crawled - currently not indexed" in search console? The message "Crawled - currently not indexed" in Google Search Console doesn't necessarily mean ther… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 1 Reply 16 Upvotes
Dealing with URL Injection hacks that employ URL Parameters A more resent trend of URL Injection hacks seem to use URL params, like https://example.com/page/2?l… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 14 Upvotes
Advice for sites with Crawl Budget Issues - the cause of Discovered - currently not indexed We often get questions about the 'Discovered - currently not indexed' status/reason in Search consol… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 39 Upvotes
Received a 'Pure Spam' Manual Action Notice? See What It Means for Your Site and How to Address It What is a Pure Spam Manual Action? Google issues a pure spam manual action when a site appears to us… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 1 Reply 57 Upvotes
The 4 types of 404 / Should I redirect a URL that returns 404? There are 4 main reasons why may see 404s on your site. Ie a URL that returns 404 status, and shows … 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 4 Replies 64 Upvotes
Have localized content, and getting 'Duplicate, Google chose different canonical than user' ? If you have a site with multiple versions of a page, eg by country, and/or by language. Then it can … 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 20 Upvotes
Got a 'New Owners identified by google' email, but can't find the user? Alas 'User and permissions' screen, only lists users for the SPECIFIC property, not sub-properties. … 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 91 Upvotes
No, or Partial Core Web Vitals Data in Search Console? Why do I have no, or limited Core Web Vitals data?
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Have a Blogger Site and Seeing Page Redirect Errors in Search Console? Do you have a site on Blogger and you are seeing Page Redirect Errors?
This is normally down to how … 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 93 Upvotes
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Using site: query to test indexing of your page(s)? Read this! First and foremost it should be noted that a 'site:' query is not a reliable way to test indexing. T…
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Are you seeing "Other Error" reported during Page Rendering? (shown in Page Resources) When Googles Renders pages during indexing, it loads the page in a headless browser. THis process lo… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 118 Upvotes
Are you seeing [couldn't fetch] reported for your Sitemap? This doesn't necessarily mean there is an issue with the sitemap itself. Google process sitemaps on … 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 1 Reply 303 Upvotes
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