Over 40+ pages have been removed from the indexed and this page has been selected as the google preferred canonical.

[pnoddy]

Over 40+ pages have been removed from the indexed and this page has been selected as the google preferred canonical.

https://studyplaces.com/about-us/

The pages affected by this include:

https://studyplaces.com/50-best-college-party-songs-of-all-time-and-why-we-love-them/

https://studyplaces.com/15-best-minors-for-business-majors/

As you can see the content on these pages is totally unrelated to the content on the about-us page.   Any ideas why this is happening and how to resolve.

[sean-parnell]

Your About Us link is broken. That needs to be fixed first.

[Joseph-Green-SEO]

My Friend,

I don't have access to the backend and to search console, so it is hard to make a precise determination of what's causing your issue.

I think this article might be helpful to you. https://www.signalogic.com/index.pl?page=google_canonical_page_algorithm_problems

Also, the pages they deindexed have mobile issues as you can see here

https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly?utm_source=gws&utm_medium=onebox&utm_campaign=suit

And I see on brings catch that some pages are blocking the content with a popup.

The about page is now 404 (maybe you did that on purpose to get the index for the others back? )

I am sure you will figure it out when you do, please come back here to share your experience.

I wish you all the best in resolving this soon!

Regards,

Joseph Green

[willcritchlow]

It seems like Google only has a handful of distinct pages indexed at the moment - whereas bing has about 10x as many. So that seems to indicate something wrong specifically for Google.

I'd start by checking your search console - are there any errors? If you use the URL inspection tool and visit the URL in question (studyplaces.com/15-best-minors-for-business-majors/) does it tell you why it has been canonicalised? What happens if you view the page as Google saw it? Is there any chance that you are blocking googlebot / cloaking in any way? Have you had any website outages or downtime?

As others noted, your about page is now missing - did you do that deliberately to see if it resolved this issue?