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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 …
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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 1 Upvote
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 67 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 9 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 118 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 3 Upvotes
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How to improve search result snippets? Google builds a snippet of a page in its search results based primarily on the meta description incl…
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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 45 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 0 Replies 68 Upvotes
How is Googlebot crawling my Website? - Google Search help you Introduction
Googlebot crawls millions of web pages daily across a vast array of languages, server c… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 20 Upvotes
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 51 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 31 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 170 Upvotes
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