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      • effectdigital
        effectdigital last edited by

        I can't seem to replicate your problem

        https://d.pr/i/l9sPYn.png (SERPs screenshot)

        For me, your site is loading ok in Google's SERPs and showing all the Meta data you have set

        The URL which you have shared says that it is indexable with DeepCrawl's indexability checker. Can you give more details and screenshots, or let us know if things have changed?

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          • effectdigital
            effectdigital last edited by

            Ignore the user declared canonical thing, that's not an error and you are misreading it. The full line says this: "Google-selected canonical: Same as user-declared canonical". This means that Google is choosing the SAME canonical as the user is, and in this case the user is you (not your site's users. They mean the search console user). That mans that Google is agreeing with you

            Also you are checking the wrong URL:

            https://d.pr/i/341c5u.png (edit of your screenshot)

            In the red box you can see that you are checking the URL (in Search Console) which does not end with "/". But in the green box, you can see that the canonical URL which you have set, does end with "/". So you are checking the non-canonical version of your page and hoping it is indexed

            If that still doesn't change anything, there is no error, Google just doesn't like your page enough to rank it properly (sorry)

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