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Why are some regions/countries not indexing correctly?
Hi Thomas, So you're saying you've added all of your language specific subfolders (and have specified language targeting) but you aren't receiving Google Search Console data for all of them? e.g impressions, clicks, keywords. Can I just ask what your overall strategy is here with the localisation? From taking a quick peak, I can see that you basically have English versions targeted at different countries; which elements have you specifically tailored to each country? Hreflang and scaling is never easy and I can't say definitely, but it seems like you might have duplicated quite a lot of your efforts here. Surely it might make more sense to make English the x-default/internalisation version and then ensure each page is translated into the target language e.g Italian or Estonian. Kind regards, Nick
International Issues | | NickSamuel0 -
Branded Product Dropping from 1st position. Why?
It's because Google believes that your page doesn't sell the product (which makes the page dramatically less useful) which is due to them crawling your site and caching pages from the wrong data centre (apparently somewhere in Australia!?) Check it out. Here's your beautiful page: https://wattbike.com/gb/product/atom Look how beautiful and useful it is, with the ability to buy the product and with all that nice content: https://d.pr/i/obxBVq.png Now let's look at Google's cache of the page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https%3A%2F%2Fwattbike.com%2Fgb%2Fproduct%2Fatom You can clearly see in that above link, we're querying Google's cache of the "gb" version of the page (%2Fgb%2Fproduct). But how weird is this? It's cached the AU page 'as' the GB page ,which states to Google that the product isn't available to buy: https://d.pr/i/wkZzh3.png Uh - what Google!? Are you high? Why have you cached the AU page as the EN/GB page. I bet you any money, that has a huge amount to do with this. I reckon' you've got regional redirects installed which snatch up users and force them into their own region's version of the site / page - unless a user manually uses the flag to change their location. Seems like good UX right? And it is, but don't apply the same logic to Google Exempt Googlebot from your regional redirects if you have any (do it via user-agent based .htaccess / web.config exclusion, your dev will know what that means!) You may find that by doing this, Search Console starts giving you more error reports in other areas. That's because you will have lifted a veil that has been cloaking certain issues underneath of redirects (leap that hurdle when you come to it) Either you have a Google caching bug on your hands, or they deployed the wrong data centre to cache your URL, and that's when the redirects bork'd everything. IMO, that's what it is Even if this isn't 100% accurate it will be enough to get a good dev-tective sniffing Hope that helps...
On-Page / Site Optimization | | effectdigital0 -
Google Ignoring region settings on contact pages
Turns out a lot of regions were not set up in Search console. I've added and directed them to the correct regions now. Fingers crossed Google will correct itself soon as our results look very messy currently. Thanks again, Kate
Technical SEO Issues | | WattbikeSEO0