Google selecting incorrect URL as canonical: 'Duplicate, submitted URL not selected as canonical'

[nfrank]

Hi there,

A number of our URLs are being de-indexed by Google. When looking into this using Google Search Console the same message is appearing on multiple pages across our sites: 'Duplicate, submitted URL not selected as canonical'

'IndexingIndexing allowed? YesUser-declared canonical - https://www.mrisoftware.com/ie/products/real-estate-financial-software/Google-selected canonical - https://www.mrisoftware.com/uk/products/real-estate-financial-software/'Has anyone else experienced this problem?How can I get Google to select the correct, user-declared canoncial? Thanks.

[paints-n-design]

I don't have a lot of time and I can't take a deep look into this atm, but for several querries it is allways the correct page showing up here in germany on google.de.

I realized one thing wich could be the problem, one page is using hreflang, one is not. But I guess they exist in multiple languages (for multiple regions). Maybe you have duplicates somewhere because of that. And maybe I have a little bit more time later...

[nfrank]

Hi Andreas.  Thanks for your response on this, I've updated the example to a different page (I realised the previous example used different pages):

User-declared canonical - https://www.mrisoftware.com/ie/products/real-estate-financial-software/ 
Google-selected canonical - https://www.mrisoftware.com/uk/products/real-estate-financial-software/'

[josellamazares]

Hi,

I agree with Andreas. I attached two links that you may find interesting.

One is from Matt Cutts /Google explaining about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ets7nHOV1Yo

And other is from  Sixtrix - Hreflang guide for international SEO https://www.sistrix.es/hreflang-guide/