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Search Results FAQ Addressing some questions about Search Results
First thing, remember that Search Results are the lis…
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Google Search Indexing and Ranking FAQ Google Search Indexing FAQ This guide answers your most common questions about how Google discovers … 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 4 Upvotes
Change of address tool not working? Does it show messages like 'Validation failed' or 'couldn't fetch the page' ?
There is a weird issue… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 1 Reply 77 Upvotes
Guide on using Search Console to Test Rendering When optimizing a website, it's essential to understand how search engines like Google "see" your pa… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 0 Upvotes
General Guide to Managing an International Website Managing a website with multiple international versions can be complex, but getting the technical se… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 0 Upvotes
The Reality of Web Crawling - The Perpetual Backlog Crawling is a core process search engines like Google use to discover and update web pages. A common… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 1 Upvote
Why isn't Google indexing pages in "Discovered - currently not indexed" status ? Have you ever noticed the "Discovered - currently not indexed" status in Google Search Console and w… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 60 Upvotes
Lost your Search Console Verification Details? Here's where to find them Do you need to find your verification details again? Perhaps you've rebuilt your site, or something … 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 84 Upvotes
Getting 'new reasons prevent pages from being indexed' for 404s??? The notifications you're receiving from Google Search Console about "Not found (404)" pages don't ne… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 2 Upvotes
Why "Services" Pages Can Be Hard to Index You may of hit on a common challenge for webmasters, especially with "services" pages - It's true th… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 101 Upvotes
Sitemap Role in Site Crawling Many website owners believe that submitting a sitemap to search engines is a magic bullet for improv… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 2 Replies 2 Upvotes
Why shouldn't we leave redirected links in the internal linking of the website? The use of 301 redirects facilitates migration processes or adjustments/changes in the URLs of the w… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 3 Upvotes
Unsupported Tags in the HTML Head Section - community guide The <head> section in an HTML document serves to hold metadata about the page. It contains important… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 5 Upvotes
How will Google find my pages? Organic URL Discovery
Google Search is a fully-automated search engine that uses software known as w… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 68 Upvotes
Search Performance data, and/or BigQuery data export not updating? Google uses a two-stage process to prepare Search Console data for reporting, the Search Console API… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 4 Upvotes
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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A quick note about Sitemap Index files (when they don't seem to get processed) You can submit a sitemap to the Search Console, or Sitemap Index file - which is a file listing site… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 15 Upvotes
Seeing 'URL is unknown to Google' reported in URL Inspection? A "URL is unknown" message from Google doesn't necessarily mean Google is completely unaware of the … 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 119 Upvotes
What does "No Referring Sitemaps Detected" mean? Seeing this "No Referring Sitemaps Detected" message in URL Inspection, can often "look like" an err… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 4 Upvotes
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