google indexing issue
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Reddish carpenter ant posted this in #help-forum
Reddish carpenter antOP
I have a Blogging page, some of it's Blog's are indexed but a mojority of them are not being indexed and the most common reason given by google search console is "Duplicate, google chose another canonical over user", and "not found (404)"
Also I'd mention that this is a wordpress website and also when I try to look at the sitemap it says "no referring sitemaps detetcted".
Also I'd mention that this is a wordpress website and also when I try to look at the sitemap it says "no referring sitemaps detetcted".
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oh
canonical
easy fix one sec
wait
give me some url examples
like which ones do you want indexed
which ones got indexed etc
Reddish carpenter antOP
ok I'll show you just a sec
so out of these many, only the third last got indexed
and when i manually requested indexing for the other the following thing was shown to me
and there's more, when I went deeper, i discovered there are some japaneese clothing brand running their wbeiste on my domain, idk how, below are screenshots
the first and third links are a part of my website but the rest i dont even know them, also wehn i click on them, nothing opens up, just 404 not found
and as a result these many non indexed pages are there which are just "not found"
oh wow ok
Reddish carpenter antOP
so is help available?
@Reddish carpenter ant so is help available?
ignore the japan stuff
google will slowly go through each url it has indexed
and remove them from the index
nothing much you can do about it
with respect to your urls which dont get indexed.. what is the issue it shows for them?
@Arinji ignore the japan stuff
Reddish carpenter antOP
but i want to know how did they manage to host their websites on my dom?
@Arinji with respect to your urls which dont get indexed.. what is the issue it shows for them?
Reddish carpenter antOP
i am tagging those screenshots
@Reddish carpenter ant but i want to know how did they manage to host their websites on my dom?
im assuming they had access to your domain before you bought it
which is when they hosted their own websites
@Reddish carpenter ant Click to see attachment
Reddish carpenter antOP
this is the one for individual url
hence the 404 now, since they dont exist anymore
@Reddish carpenter ant Click to see attachment
dosent show any issues, its just that google didnt find this specific url yet
do you have a sitemap?
@Reddish carpenter ant Click to see attachment
Reddish carpenter antOP
this one for the whole website
thats fine
@Arinji do you have a sitemap?
Reddish carpenter antOP
how do i answer that question, ?
do you have a sitemap.xml? its a yes or no question
@Reddish carpenter ant how do i answer that question, ?
Reddish carpenter antOP
but i beleive no
@Arinji do you have a sitemap.xml? its a yes or no question
Reddish carpenter antOP
nope i dont
ok send me your domain here
like link your domain here
Reddish carpenter antOP
thats what a sitemap is
it gives google a map to follow
since it wont be able to find your websites through the normal method of getting linked to it
makes sense?
Reddish carpenter antOP
so I make a sitemap and I am good to go?
not really, it just helps google
add it to search console
see how for my news site i had to add a sitemap
since it had quite a few more indexable urls needed
@Arinji since it had quite a few more indexable urls needed
Reddish carpenter antOP
okay seems i am getting a bit of it now
so this whole issue of indexing was beacuse of this absence of a sitemap?
not really
basically, google needs a way to know what url to index
Reddish carpenter antOP
and what about that canonical thing that google was giving as a reason?
there are a few methods for that
1) You put just one link directly
and google will index that url, and then crawl it for other links
but if you have a lot of links.. and its hard to keep putting one link and indexing... .you can use a sitemap to tell google at once
@Reddish carpenter ant and what about that canonical thing that google was giving as a reason?
canonical means google thinks that a diff url is the actual url, one sec imma give an example
ok so
my portfolio
its hosted on www.arinji.com
and arinji.com redirects to it
so the main one is www.arinji.com
and hence it wont index arinji.com, its just gonna do the canonical url.. www.arinji.com
you can specify it yourself, or let google handle it
here i let google handle it
to manually set a canonical url, use this
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.example.com/your-page-url" />@Arinji so the main one is www.arinji.com
Reddish carpenter antOP
but in your case even if google is choosing the www prefixed url as the canonical one but still all your website's pages are indexed but in my case, the url selected by google as the canonical one is mine only but due to that a lot of inner pages are not being indexed
which is why you need a sitemap, so that google can find the other links
btw, your sitemap only found 30 urls
if you have more than that.. that means you need to spend time working on inner linking
@Arinji btw, your sitemap only found 30 urls
Reddish carpenter antOP
how did u get to know that?
its a good site
use it
Reddish carpenter antOP
ok
@Arinji if you have more than that.. that means you need to spend time working on inner linking
Reddish carpenter antOP
and now how find if i have more than 30 of em, as of what i know is they are under 30
@Reddish carpenter ant and now how find if i have more than 30 of em, as of what i know is they are under 30
if its under 30, then your fine
i was just mentioning
Reddish carpenter antOP
ok
i m gon link this sitemap with gsc and get back if anything else comes up
btw you've got a good portfolio
thanks
Reddish carpenter antOP
hey, i updated the sitemaps, and it reconmected them with GSC and it did have some positive changes but still the issue persists
here i requested manual indexing for this one url and i have no idea why there is N/A all over
It's gonna take some time
Reddish carpenter antOP
its been 24 hours now since i wrote this one and requested for indexing, but still the problem persists
the main i don't get is how come are thousands of pages existing on my domain
see those 32.4k pages
@Reddish carpenter ant see those 32.4k pages
Those will take days, even months.. google how long does it take for Google to remove indexed 404 pages
@Reddish carpenter ant its been 24 hours now since i wrote this one and requested for indexing, but still the problem persists
Check if the sitemap I sent had that url
Reddish carpenter antOP
yes all the newly written articles in the sitemap but still didnt get indexed