To troubleshoot video outside the Viewport errors as shown in Google Search Console Video Page Indexing reports. All you need to do is identify the video area on the page, and then move the video so that the entire video is inside the renderable area of the web page and seen when the page loads.… Continue reading How-To Fix Video Outside the Viewport
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How to Fix Crawled Currently Not Indexed
Is your website encountering the “Crawled – currently not indexed” status in Google Search Console? This Page indexing status indicates that Googlebot (Google’s URL crawl bot) has visited a particular web page (for a verified website property in Search Console), but hasn’t yet added the web page to its index, which also means the web… Continue reading How to Fix Crawled Currently Not Indexed
How to Fix Blocked by robots.txt Errors
Search engines find information through crawling (which means they request / fetch a URL) to then analyze what they find on the URL. robots.txt rules should only be used to control the search engine crawling process but not indexing process. This means, most Search Console blocked by robots.txt errors arise due to incorrect rules used… Continue reading How to Fix Blocked by robots.txt Errors
How to Fix Page with Redirect Errors
Latest Page indexing reports in Google Search Console has grouped various errors so that it is easier for website owners to fix issues. Page with redirect basically means that Google is seeing a URL but when it tried to fetch and index it, Google is being redirected to a different URL causing page with redirect… Continue reading How to Fix Page with Redirect Errors
How to Fix Excluded by noindex Tag
There are various methods a website URL can send NOINDEX directive telling search engines like Google to NOT index certain parts of a website. This is to block indexing of URLs. Fixing Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag Issues When troubleshooting Page indexing errors, do not waste time analyzing Page indexing reports for Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag… Continue reading How to Fix Excluded by noindex Tag
You are verified to see sc-domain:// but it’s not in your account
Unsure about what Google Search Console Property not in account message means? When analyzing certain Search Console reports and using tools such as robots.txt tester, Google may show “You are verified to see sc-domain:// but it’s not in your account” this is because the new Google Search Console has 2 verification methods Domain Verification URL… Continue reading You are verified to see sc-domain:// but it’s not in your account
Page Indexing
New Google Search Console Page Indexing reports with Excluded and Error issues are now grouped into the status Not indexed. Google Search Console now shows you various issues a website may experience that can affect indexing of certain URLs. And because RankYa has been maintaining full course and how-to videos related to Google Search Console,… Continue reading Page Indexing