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by shumisha » Mon Dec 23, 2024 11:39 am
Hi
Plenty of things to say, here are the main comments:
1 - Most of the items in this list are not problems and don't need fixing.
- "Excluded by noindex": you excluded some pages voluntarily (by adding a noindex tag), and they are just telling you that.
- Not found (404): you changed some pages, so the old pages are 404 and therefore not indexed. Unless these 404s are mistakes, then all is well and you don't need to do anything, 404s are good and exactly what you should have
- "alternate with proper canonical": Same. You have some pages with a canonical tag pointing to other pages, so Google is considering the "other pages" and not the ones with the canonical tags. All is as expected, nothing to do (unless these canonical tags are mistakes)
- Page with redirect": Same as canonical. You have pages that redirect to other pages. Google is considering the redirect targets and does not index the original pages. All is as expected, nothing to do (unless these redirects are a mistake)
- "Duplicate with user-selected canonical": they found duplicate, but you have added canonical tags, so they don't use the duplicates and instead look at the canonical target. No problem here, unless your canonical tags are wrong
- "Duplicate, Google chose a different canonical": They found duplicate, you added a canonical, but they disagree with you with what the canonical should be. These may be an issue, or not. Likely, Google is right and your canonicals on these pages are wrong
2 - The issues:
- "Discovered - currently not indexed": they found some links to new (to them) pages on your site, either on other websites, or in your sitemap or just on some other pages of your site that they already know. And they have not yet processed them, not even crawled them. This is usually because their crawling system thinks these pages are not going to be very good and it's not worth spending time on them. Not much you can do about it, except having links to them from other pages to make them look better, give them more authority.
But you have to ask yourself first if these pages have value. Maybe Google is right in not wanting to spend time on them. If so, you may be better off noindexing them
- Crawled - currently not indexed: the bad part: they saw these pages, they crawled and analyzed them, but they decided they do not want them in their index. They consider the pages don't have enough value and are not worth proposing in their search results.That's the tough one.
Two things to do:
a - Look at these pages and decide whether the pages are indeed valuable and worth fighting for.
b - If the pages have value, then it's still going to be difficult to make them change their mind. Change the pages, add more (valuable, to the visitors) content. Add links from other pages. Add more content that can link to these pages.
3 - "Verification failed": this likely happens because while you may have changed things, Google thinks differently. For instance, if you have removed pages, then they are still 404s. If you have canonicals on some pages, they these pages are still not going to be indexed, because they have canonicals. And like I said above, most things don't need fixing anyway.
4 - Notes on the site
- you have a bug in your Google Tag manager integration, this causes a javascript fatal error on all pages
- you have an issue with a "magnific.js" and "magnific.css" scripts that are not working on most pages
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