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  • In Search Console (new version) go to Coverage > All Known Pages. Then click "Valid" above the chart, Then click on "Submitted and Indexed" and download to a spreadsheet. Do the same for "Indexed, not Submitted in Sitemap". Combine these two downloaded lists into one list in a tab in excel, and in another tab you can put the URLs of all the pages you think should be getting indexed (unless you think all of them are in your sitemap anyway). And then use vlookup formulas to find whether each of the pages you know are on your site are actually indexed (by looking up in the tab containing the downloaded lists).

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | seoelevated
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  • Hi, 1. You can exclude the Moz crawler (Rogerbot) from various pages: https://moz.com/help/moz-procedures/crawlers/rogerbot  You need to use your robots.txt file, rather than trying to do it on page 2. Once you've done the above, you can request a recrawl and they should all disappear

    Feature Requests | | Xiano
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  • i have same problem. keep sharing please in google serp "اثبت شرکت" or "ثبت برند" with star snippet but my site don't show. my website name is : https://vanak.org/

    Content & Blogging | | alirezatrade0123
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  • That is exactly the same thing am facing on my music download website

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Emilyodidi
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  • I would definitely not allow search engines to index those type of results pages. To be fair, they're unlikely to come across them as a bot wouldn't typically fill in a search box to search, but ey might follow a link from somewhere else. For products, I would definitely want to be using category (or similar) pages to define what the search engines saw.

    Technical SEO Issues | | Xiano
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  • Hi Steve and thanks for the feedback - it would definitely be interesting to check - I can't imagine this is a huge issue on uncomplicated sites without thousands of pages, but who knows... testing is needed.  All the best, Luke

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | McTaggart
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  • Don't worry, it is happening because of Google technical issues. They are trying to fix there a problem

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | jacobmartinnn
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  • I ran the Google Lighthouse report and scored 98 on seo. Other areas seem under 50 points but not by much. How can I share the report with you to see what your opinion is about the Google User experience rating.

    Moz Pro | | MattBanes
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  • Thank you again, Alex. Moz has tagged a bunch of these pages as "temporary redirects" so I have them all as "disallow" right now. I'm hoping that will fix the issue. I'm not sure why Moz is flagging them as temporary redirects. They are just review pages of my products, which I guess are generated when a customer clicks the Leave a Review button and then gets taken to these review pages.

    Technical SEO Issues | | AllChargedUp
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  • Hi Nick, Thanks for your response. At the moment we have around 2000 products and some of the canonical pages do rank, others don't so it does seem the search engine in confused. The article on SiteBulb is really interesting and I agree with your reasoning to canonicalise to either the most vanilla or popular product variant. Many thanks, Simon

    On-Page / Site Optimization | | SimonKenworthy
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  • Hi Dilip, You have a chain because your original site redirects from http to https, before the redirection kicks in to take the user to the new site. It could be that you have two separate systems creating redirections, I suspect one that is handling your http -> https that is set up on the web server software, and then further ones in your CMS or htaccess. I wouldn't worry too much, to be honest, a chain of that nature isn't a big deal. If you are concerned, you just need to ensure that the specific redirects are processed first and are configured so that the source is relative, redirecting to an absolute path.

    Technical SEO Issues | | Xiano
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  • The issue is now being reported as fixed, with a response from Google’s John Mueller saying it was a technical issue their end. https://searchengineland.com/google-de-indexing-issue-now-fixed-result-of-technical-issues-315058

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Xiano
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  • Lots of people facing this same problem. It happening because Google has some technical issues.

    Technical SEO Issues | | jacobmartinnn
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  • Or maybe somebody on this forum can recommend a forum where someone may know what is going on with my url's? I also have www.www in my url's when I do site:coastlinetvinstalls.com    Yikes!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Matt16
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  • I wouldn't do that if I were you it really seems like a "gray" to even a "black" hat tactic. It might work for now but in the future, it might create problems that you surely don't want. Mass link building to a certain domain or a chain of domains is not recommended at all.

    Link Building | | alexspur
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  • Wildcard will work, that means that "http://old_url/anything_here" will redirect to "http://new_url/anything_here". However, it looks like you can set up individual redirects using the box next to the slash, and the box underneath labelled "Redirects to". For example: /contact.asp Redirects to: https://bimcosupply.com/contact/ I note you say you have changed it to redirect to https now, but I am still seeing a redirect to http. I also see that you are using CloudFlare. If you haven't already, I would suggest turning off caching for the moment, as this will make testing more difficult (Otherwise, after each change, make sure you flush the cache for both domains) At the moment I am still seeing the same behaviour resulting in all of your redirects going to the home page. Given that other random urls give a 404 (https://bimcosupply.com/sdfdsfs -> 404), I think your individual redirects must be broken. Which plugin are you using? I'm a fan of Redirection by John Godley https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/ Regarding the toggle switches, I would imagine they should be turned off. Your site is currently indexable, but that could be caching perhaps.

    Technical SEO Issues | | Xiano
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  • It appears that Zenfolio really doesn't want Moz crawling their site for some reason.  They want me to jump through hoops to get it to work and, being an ultra small business, cant justify the effort to get it working. Guess I could always migrate to another web host. Thanks for the replies.

    Getting Started | | bpenn11
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  • Hi Tvisha. Interesting question and very weird all round, hopefully Eli and the team can get to the bottom of it. Few observations from me (Troop Messenger): I agree, my Link Explorer also has it marked as no-follow. Curiously using the Moz Toolbar, the highlight follow link doesn't work for me. Neither does highlight no-follow links. Only one which works is the external link Inspecting the line of code rel="follow" isn't actually a valid property as far as I'm aware: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en Perhaps this could be confusing Roger? Quite far-fetched but the only wild theory I have. Or perhaps it was no-followed when Moz originally crawled it and the links have since changed. Hope you get to the bottom of if, it's a weird anomaly! Nick

    Link Explorer | | NickSamuel
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