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Câu trả lời cho Should I use to "Removal Tool" for deleted/redirected pages?
Google Search Central•6/3/2023
So about about those pages that have been deleted/redirected but still appear as indexed and show in search? How do I force Google to visit those pages and remove them from search?
Câu trả lời cho Should I request another "Change of address" after 180 days?
Google Search Central•3/1/2023
But why duplication appeared? May be you have used 302 instead of 301? Or something another is incorrectly migrated. Or may be something else ... without URls it is difficult to me to answer.
The redirect is done correctly. Google reports these URLs as duplicate on the old domain (they appear fine on the new domain, indexed and crawled) because it didn't crawl them not even once after the domain migration. Like, I did the domain migration on July and the last crawl on these particular pages on the old domain has been in May and June. Hence, Google hasn't seen the redirect and the new canonical and marked the pages as Duplicate because at the time of the crawl the "User-declared canonical" was the old domain and now Google chose the canonical URL the new domain. Obviously, the canonical URL is the new domain but because Google didn't crawl the page it didn't see it.
I keep trying the manually index these pages every week but the report does not update.
Check internal linking - have you changed it to new URLs? During migration all internal linking should be changed.
Yes, I have updated all internal links with the new domain.
About these duplication: check canonical tag implemented by you (user) and what Google took as a canonical - same address or another?
The current canonical for these pages is the new domain. Howerver in the report it states that the "User-declared canonical" is the old domain and Google choose the new domain as canonical so it marked the pages as duplicate. The problem is that Google hasn't crawled these pages after I done the migration so it didn't confirmed the redirect and the new canonical. Again, this is only happening if I inspect the URLs on the old domain. On the new domain, these pages are fine.
How can I solve this? How can I force Google to crawl these pages. No matter how many times I trigger the "manual indexing" nothing happens. The report does not update and these pages are still marked as duplicate on the old domain.
Câu trả lời cho Should I request another "Change of address" after 180 days?
Google Search Central•3/1/2023
- Do you think it is still possible to recover after 6 months?
- Do you think this duplicate issue could impact the migration?
- Should I trigger another "Change of address"?
Câu trả lời cho Should I request another "Change of address" after 180 days?
Google Search Central•3/1/2023
*I have updated all internal links
*Fixed all broken links
*Updated all social media links
*Updated the most impactful backlinks
Everything looks flawless in GSC except for 10 pages on the old domain.
These 10 pages are marked as "Duplicate content" by Google because Google hasn't crawled these pages not even once after these 6 months post domain migration. The report states these 10 pages have been last crawled 7 months + ago and Google saw the "User-declared canonical URL" as the old URL at that time in the meanwhile he choose the canonical URL the new domain but it didn't updated the "user-declared canonical", hence the duplicate content.
No matter how many times I trigger the "manual crawling" in GSC for these pages the report does not update (even though I can clearly see in logs that Google entered these pages on the old domain and it has been redirected to the new domain).
I also requested the "Validation" for these 10 pages marked as Duplicate like 2 months ago but literally, nothing happened. It likes the old property in GSC is frozen, nothing updates anymore.
- Do you think it is still possible to recover even after 6 months?
- Do you think this duplicate issue could impact the migration?
- Should I trigger another "Change of address" so that Google would crawl these 10 pages again?
Câu trả lời cho Should I request another "Change of address" after 180 days?
Google Search Central•3/1/2023
Câu trả lời cho How to do the "Change of address" on domain migration
Google Search Central•15/12/2022
Ontopic: I understand everything you say but the domain migration I did was just to move to the plural version of the domain. It's basically the same brand name. I did everything by the book and still lose the traffic and have big problems recovering it.
And it looks like the domain migration is a big deal just for Google. Other search engines have no problem with it. I don't understand where all these concerns come from. A domain migration should come with no compromises if done correctly. If it's 100% the same site there shouldn't be any logic explanations for hindering the recovery process.
Anyway, thanks a lot for your input. So it's normal to have no "moving site" reported in the GSC for the www. version of the new URL since I triggered the change of address to the non www version.
Câu trả lời cho How to do the "Change of address" on domain migration
Google Search Central•14/12/2022
It's super annoying that Google does not have a comprehensive guide on every detail about domain migration and also that does not notify you if anything goes wrong. I say this because I noticed and also saw almost everyone saying that Google is more problematic with domain migration than Bing or any other search engine. Literally every small detail that's not mentioned in the guidelines if done wrong can hinder the recovery process. The process is in essence super straightforward, it should be enough to redirect and request the change of address, which is for other search engines, but it looks like Google needs more than that to take the move for granted.
Saw plenty of cases where the migration was done flawless but still took a long time to recover completely, and in others, never recovered. This is alarming.
And those people that say traffic is usually recovered after 1 month or so probably never did a domain migration in their life or have moved very small sites or authority ones but no in between.
Câu trả lời cho Need help recovering after domain migration. Google does not read/crawl the old sitemap?
Google Search Central•30/11/2022
May I ask what are your thoughts about the thing that Google does not read/consider the old sitemap? I think if I manage to make Google crawl the sitemap things will improve considerably.
Why is that?
- Is see on the old domain that some pages have been last crawled on June (right after I did the domain migration). Some of these pages are also marked as "Crawled not indexed" or "Page is not indexed: Duplicate, Google chose different canonical" instead of "Page with redirect" since they haven't been crawled for ages. This is another signal that Google does not read the sitemap.
- The crawling rate on images is deadly slow (3-5 crawls per day) and I have more than 5000 images on the old domain that needs to be crawled and marked as redirect. Considering that Google has no sitemap, it has no source to see the old URLs of images and confirm the redirect.
- Google keep crawling the category pages on the old domain over and over again. If it would read the sitemap I'm sure it would visit inner pages and images as well.
- All old URLs are missing the "Referring page" or "Sitemap" in the "Inspection URL" report. That clearly indicates that Google visit the old URLs from completely other sources and this may considerably slow down that crawling process.
I saw few people claiming that is a super bad idea and could break the process if you redirect the sitemap too after domain migration (which I did). Is it true?
So for the first three months after migration, all old sitemaps have redirected to the new sitemaps, so basically I had no mapping for the old URLs at that time.
In September, however, I added an old sitemap on the old domain and leave it for one week after I deleted it (I was scared that it would create a conflict between the old and new URLs). After doing that I saw a considerable increase in the crawling rate on the old domain and I also noticed that the sitemap appeared as "Reffering page" for a couple of old URLs when I inspected them. This indicates that Google indeed read the sitemap at that time and crawled a part of the URLs.
I tried to do the trick again on Octomber and again on November but it didn't worked at all. Google has stopped read the sitemap after I deleted it in September.
What do you think?
Câu trả lời cho Need help recovering after domain migration. Google does not read/crawl the old sitemap?
Google Search Central•29/11/2022
I think it has nothing to do with algo changes. I haven't seen any movement in clicks/impressions during the updates so they didn't impact the website at all.
And even if it was like you said, the 95% of pages that are vanished from Google are clearly good enough to be at least in the top 100 to receive impressions. Some pages that are now 1st on Google have poorer quality and more aggressive competition than other pages that haven't seen the light after migration.
Also, if the website would have been affected by any update I don't think Google would crawl the new pages in a few hours.
Câu trả lời cho Need help recovering after domain migration. Google does not read/crawl the old sitemap?
Google Search Central•29/11/2022
Another "good" sign is that new content on the new domain is indexed in 1-2 hours.
But I really don't get why Google prefers to only show 5-10 pages in search (and rank them on the first page) and what stops it from showing the rest. If there would be something wrong I doubt those pages would rank at all, but they do. And this behavior of Googlebot to only visit the category pages on the old domain drives me crazy.
Câu trả lời cho Need help recovering after domain migration. Google does not read/crawl the old sitemap?
Google Search Central•29/11/2022
Câu trả lời cho Need help recovering after domain migration. Google does not read/crawl the old sitemap?
Google Search Central•29/11/2022
The old site received around 1000 clicks per day, the new site receives only 70-80. I'm saying the new site has the exact traffic it had Day1 after domain migration. It feels like the traffic and ranking keywords are capped to a static value. The new site is ranking with only a couple of keywords (those keywords haven't changed their position not once, they are literally taking the first position) while the rest 500 keywords + are vanished, don't receive a single impression. How could Google rank those pages so well on the new domain and vanish the rest?
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Câu trả lời cho Need help recovering after domain migration. Google does not read/crawl the old sitemap?
Google Search Central•29/11/2022
Thanks for your input.
The website has the exact traffic and number of "ranking pages" as it was right after changing domain so I don't think it was affected by any algorithm update. I can give you the domain and server logs (in private) if you are willing to take a look at it.
Câu trả lời cho No coverage stats for the old sitemap
Google Search Central•29/11/2022
Câu trả lời cho Having problems recovering after changing domain
Google Search Central•24/11/2022
In your case, how is the crawling on the old domain? Because in mine, 90% of crawls are on the category pages and the rest of inner pages and images. I don't understand why it has this behavior, what it sees on these category pages to keep it crawling like that (sometimes I see 20 requests in a single day on a specific category). I think this is a huge factor that slows down the recovery because Google wastes a lot of time crawling category pages that don't actually change. I'd love to see how the crawling is going on your old domain.
Câu trả lời cho Having problems recovering after changing domain
Google Search Central•23/11/2022
What do you say about the fact that Google most of the times (>90%) when visits the old domain crawls the URLs of the category pages and forget about inner pages? Sometimes it crawls one category URL 20 times in a single day although nothing has changed. Why it keep visiting those URLs over and over again? What makes it trigger this behavior? I feel like something is going on.
Câu trả lời cho Google keep accessing old redirects
Google Search Central•19/11/2022
Câu trả lời cho Strange server logs after domain migration.
Google Search Central•16/11/2022
What do you think about the fact that Google keep crawling the category pages but not the inner pages on the old domain. Given that some URLs haven't been crawled for more than a month (as per the inspection tool) shouldn't Google check the redirects again?
Câu trả lời cho Google continue crawling ads.txt on the old, deleted subdomain
Google Search Central•15/11/2022
I have deleted the subdomain long time ago but still since I have done the domain migration I see on the old property that Google keeps crawling this old subdomain ads.txt file. In the Crawl stats report there are two requests every day on this file and all return DNS error. Strangely I never uploaded an ads.txt file on that subdomain.
If I insepct the URLs there's no "Referring page" stated in the report.

Câu trả lời cho August 2022 Helpful content update feedback
Google Search Central•23/9/2022
Those sites are ruining Google searches.
Câu trả lời cho Question regarding domain migration
Google Search Central•18/8/2022
The whole website has been redirected 1:1, every new URLs matching the old ones.
However, I have noticed for some time that in GSC, we have quite a few pages "not indexed" because they are pages with redirects. This is because:
- For some pages, Google finds both versions of the URL with "/" and without it, and since the version with the trailing slash redirects to the version without (which is also the version in the sitemap), Google sees it with a redirect. However, the versions without the trailing slash are indexed and good, that's why I thought I shouldn't worry about it. The strange thing is how Google found those versions of the URL ending with trailing slash. We literally have no internal links pointing to them. We also tried to inspect the URLs to see the referring pages, but we couldn't find any URL ending with "/" on those pages.
- Also, since we have migrated the domain, Google sees all the redirects we did on the old domain
and shows them in Coverage as excluded due to "Page with redirect." I think this is normal since those URLs have been actually redirected. The actual and final versions of the URLs are indexed. But why does Google prefer to show those old URLs that have been previously redirected on the old domain quite a long time ago and display them as excluded pages in GSC?
Câu trả lời cho Question regarding domain migration
Google Search Central•15/8/2022
6 months sounds insanely long for a domain migration. I hope that is not the case as we can barely "survive" that long without generating revenue.
Any insights from other webmasters that actually did a domain migration? What was your experience?
Câu trả lời cho Question regarding domain migration
Google Search Central•12/8/2022
I mean, out of 300 pages, 8 pages are first on Google and the rest out of 100. How Google can rank only 3% of my pages, and all those 3% be 1st while the rest can't be found anywhere on search.
And I'm sorry to hear your rankings haven't been recovered. This is really worrying.