Welcome to the 2025 Mini Course on Google Search Console (GSC) by RankYa. This course is designed to help you understand and utilize Google Search Console effectively in 2025. Whether you’re a beginner or looking to refresh your knowledge, this course will guide you through the essential features and tools of GSC. Table of Contents… Continue reading How-to Use Google Search Console in 2025
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Page Indexing
The Page Indexing in Search Console shows the Google indexing status of all URLs that Google knows about in your property. In this latest blog post, I’m going to answer some common questions as well as show you how to fix ALL of these issues affecting your website. I’m also creating updated 2024 video lessons… Continue reading Page Indexing
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
How to Fix Google Search Console Page with Redirect Issues?
Google Search Console Page Indexing reports is all about how Google sees certain URLs it comes across during crawling a particular website as well as the internet. In most cases, Page with redirect issues do not need to be fixed or validated as it is normal part of operating a website to have redirection of… Continue reading How to Fix Google Search Console Page with Redirect Issues?