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Sorry I know very little about how Google search works so I am asking several, what I believe are easy questions for you, on one ticket. I have just updated structure of the website so everything will be different.
1. This is example of pages listed in Duplicate, Google chose different canonical than user
https://natureinfocus.com/plants/barbed-wire-cactus/
User-declared canonical https://natureinfocus.com/plants/barbed-wire-cactus/
Google-selected canonical https://natureinfocus.com/image/barbed-wire-cactus-1/My original page had the barbed-wire-cactus-1/ slug which I had changed to the new slug barbed-wire-cactus/
For this, do I inspect the new barbed-wire-cactus page and ask google to index it? Will that get rid of the other non-existent link?
2. Crawled – currently not indexed
I think this means that Google is doing a few pages at a time it visits website since I have too many pages to do at once on my shared hosting? So I don’t need to do anything for these pages?3. Duplicate without user selected canonical
These pages no longer exist so I assume they will go away eventually if I don’t redirect them?4. Alternate page with proper canonical tag.
I understand the concept that there are 2 duplicate pages. I know some of these pages have been redirected but not sure what to do to fix this example. I don’t even know how this other domain shows up (mine but not used other than to redirect to natureinfocus.com)
It should be https://natureinfocus.com/natural-encounters/mrs-henrys-spiderlily/User-declared canonical is https://naturalencounters.org/natural-encounters/mrs-henrys-spiderlily/
Google-selected canonical http://naturalencounters.org/natural-encounters/mrs-henrys-spiderlily/Thank you for your patience!
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Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math support. We apologize for the late reply – Your message somehow got stuck in our spam filter.
Here are the answers to your questions:
- Google has detected duplicate content on these two pages and has decided to index the one it thinks is original.
Since you have deleted the duplicate page, you should also ask Google to remove it from its index, then use the URL Inspection Tool to request the indexing of the original page.
- Google has crawled the page but has not indexed it yet – This could happen for various reasons. You can learn more about how to fix this issue here.
- Yes, you can ignore these pages since they no longer exist – They will disappear when Google updates its index.
- This is because the canonical tag of your .org domain is pointing to the .com version.
If the .com domain is the original, then this is fine. Google is just informing you that it found other pages with canonical links to this one (you might also want to redirect the whole .org site to the .com version).
We hope this helps you understand and resolve the issue better. If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us again. We’re always here to assist you.
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Thank you for getting back to us.
Sometimes Google Search Console can mix things up, the most important thing is that the page is indeed set to
indexand Google has already indexed the page.This would most likely correct itself when next Google crawls your site. For now, you can ignore it.
We hope this helps clarify. Thank you for your patience and cooperation
- Google has detected duplicate content on these two pages and has decided to index the one it thinks is original.
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