Google's John Mueller explains how Search Console handles 404s, redirects, and site migration issues during reprocessing. Google’s "mark as fixed" doesn’t speed up reprocessing. Proper redirects and ...
I am seeing an unusual number of complaints around the reported 404 errors within Google Search Console reporting. This is specific to your URLs having /1000 appended to the end of the URL. Google is ...
Google's Gary Illyes warns of soft 404 errors' impact on web crawling and recommends proper error handling to improve SEO and site efficiency. Soft 404 errors mislead ...
According to Gary, soft 404s are bad because they (1) limit crawl budget and (2) the pages won't likely show up in Google Search. Gary wrote on LinkedIn wrote, "Crawlers have lots of resources, they ...
Navigating the “Alternate page with proper canonical tag” error in Google Search Console often feels like a game of high-stakes covert ops for SEO professionals ...
The first time I saw the “Duplicate without user-selected canonical” error in Google Search Console, I gulped. “Oh, no. Please, not this.” Then I saw it again ...