"Null" appearing as top keyword in "Content Keywords" under Google index in Google Search Console

[vivekrathore]

Hi,

"Null" is appearing as top keyword in Google search console > Google Index > Content Keywords for our site http://goo.gl/cKaQ4K . We do not use "null" as keyword on site. We are not able to find why Google is treating "null" as a keyword for our site. Is anyone facing such issue.

Thanks & Regards

[UmarKhan]

Hey,

Yes I did face this issue sometimes ago and figured it out it was due to crawling issues. We solved all of them and resubmitted the sitemap and it's started showing up the data after a day or two.

By the way, SEMRush could help you with organic ranked keywords data of yours. (A temporarily solution till you resolve this)

Hope this helps!

Umar

[vivekrathore]

Hi Umar,

Thanks for a quick reply. Could you kindly brief - what kind of crawling issues were those. Any suggestions - from where should we start and what should we look at to solve this.

Regards,

[UmarKhan]

Hey Anirban,

There was some DNS and server problems that causing the crawling issues. Have you checked your crawl report in Search Console?

[Tom-Anthony]

It seems like the issue is a bug in the way Google handle data from your site ('null' being computer speak for 'empty', and often appearing after buggy handling of data). However, it seems that the indication from Umar is correct, and that this buggy data handling is likely prompted by crawling issue so that is the best place to start.