Need help with Google Search Console
Hi,
1. I'm getting this message from Google, as if I had submitted Privacy Policy and Affiliate disclosure pages for crowling. I never did. They are marked as No-Index , No Follow because they are not original content. What I'm doing wrong?
2. The console shows that in total there were X clicks on my website. In the keywords list below, there are no clicks on any keyword. Then where these X clicks came from?
3. How do I know when Google has indexed the post? Sometimes I get a note from WA about indexing, but never directly from Google. I don't see this information in Search Console as well. If I look into ""Fetch as Google", it says "Completed", but no new keywords are added on my list in the Console, so I'm not sure if it really was successfully indexed.
Does Google have to be such a mistery?
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I believe X clicks means 0 clicks to your site no activity to report which explains why the Keywords show 0
Lol I just used an X to represent a number. Let's say it's 25. Google tells me there were 25 clicks, but all the keywords below come up with 0 clicks. So I'm wondering where those 25 came from?
Were you able to get an answer to Q2 I didn't see an answer in the replies below.
I logged into google and this is the explanation they gave me below I hope this helps
Clicks - Count of clicks from a Google search results page that landed the user on your property.
Queries
Group results by query strings that users searched for on Google. Only searches that returned your site will be included. Very rare queries are not shown in these results to protect the privacy of the user making the query.
Common uses:
Review the Query list for expected keywords. If keywords that you expect to see don't appear, your site might not have enough useful content relevant to those keywords. If unexpected words (like "Viagra" or "casino") appear, it's likely that your site has been hacked.
Find queries with high impressions and low CTR. These queries can help identify where you can improve your content to satisfy your user’s interests.
Thank you for trying to answer this. I think Google stays a mystery.
Foe example , in the list of the keywords I get the word "free" as standalone with quite high ranking. It doesn't make sense for my new website. Other keywords that had really low (like under 10) QSR don't appear at all.
Probably I just need to stop looking there for a while and let my website grow some authority just by being out there for more than couple of months and by adding more content.
It's just my natural curiosity that drives me to understand Google's behavior.
Good luck sorry I couldn't get a better response from Google. I will continue to keep my eye out for it and alert you if I get a rsponse
Hi Mary. I did training on this topic - How To Resolve 'Submitted URL marked 'noindex' Check it out. Hope it helps. You can ask me further questions on this if you need to.
1. There is something to do in AIO setting (sitemap - if you use it that way), so check there. If you use a separate plugin for the sitemap also check settings. Exclude pages which you do not want to be indexed. Currently, you obviously have some contradiction - use nofollow but at the same time tell Google to check the page, so they are confused.
2. Not clear what you ask, give a screenshot.
3. When you Fetch, and request indexing, it is completed but there is no info when it will indeed be indexed. My fastest recorded is 8 seconds. It can also take a few days, there is no rule. You can check directly in Google, go incognito and search by using the targetted keyword, without quotes if you want to see where it is (temporarily) ranked, or with quotes if you just want to know that Google has taken a note on it and indexed it.
When we submit our sitemap to Google search console, Google bots crawl all the pages of our website even the pages we marked as noindex such as our privacy policy or affiliate disclosure. That is Google first crawling results. Eventually this will disappear. It happened to me also but when I checked it was my Privacy policy and Affiliate Disclosure that I intentionally set as to No-Index as per Kyle training. I did nothing and it disappeared naturally.
You can check whether your post is indexed by typing site:yoursite.com in Google search. If your post is indexed it will appear as you click the search button.
Besides marking our pages as noindex, we need to take care of the sitemap too. I have training on this, pls check it out - How To Resolve 'Submitted URL marked 'noindex' It will help to remove this error message from Google.
The link which looks like from real organisation but is sent by the spammer to steal your information.
Just a caution.
OK.
In that case, it is really Mystery.
In response to your point 3 - How do I know when Google has indexed the post?, I use to check the status of my published posts and if the post is indexed it looks like attached file :
Thanks, never looked on published articles before. I usually edit them a lot in Wordpress after publishing from Site Content
It is not spam. It is just conflict between noindex settings and sitemap. Check out my training for more info - How To Resolve 'Submitted URL marked 'noindex'
Thanks, Timotheus.
That is the beauty of the WA community.
I wonder how many people will get benefit from Mary's doubt on this topic.
I will surely go for the training to enhance my skills in this subject.
Thanks for the correction.
Warm Regards,
Gaurav Gaur
It sounds right that you marked your pages as no index because they should not appear in searches. I think they stay as a mystery,
tom
We can indicate to Google which pages are marked noindex. And we need to indicate in our sitemap too. Then this issue is gone. Check out my training on this - How To Resolve 'Submitted URL marked 'noindex'
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Great post I think many members here are experiencing difficulties with the new GSC and with more posts like this and helpful links provided by Timotheus these problematic situations will effect them less.
Great jog for bring this issue to light
Thank you