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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…
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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
https://example.com/… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 50 Replies 155 Upvotes
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 3 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 49 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 37 Upvotes
Change of address tool not working? Does it show messages like 'Validation failed' or 'couldn't fetch the page' ?
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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 12 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 49 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 28 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 148 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 20 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 20 Upvotes
Dealing with URL Injection hacks that employ URL Parameters A more recent trend of URL Injection hacks seem to use URL params, like https://example.com/page/2?l… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 19 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 41 Upvotes
Looking for Recent data in Search Performance Report/API and/or Bulk Export? Google runs a background batch process to extract the Impression+Click data, this runs periodically,… 0 Updates 0 Recommended Answers 0 Replies 8 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 63 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 72 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 22 Upvotes
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