I have a domain that is set-up with Google Business Apps for email under one Google account, and I verified the domain using a google-site-verification TXT record. BUT, I've just added it to my Web...

There's a way of excluding complete page(s) from google's indexing. But is there a way to specifically exclude certain part(s) of a web page from google's crawling? For example, exclude the side-ba...

Recently the google search console reported a coverage issue on our ASP.NET website for the urls pointing to PDF documents. So far in our web.config file we don't have any MIME setting for PDF docu...

I use google-api-php-client library to access webmaster tools data. When I wanted to list sitemaps, it appeared Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Google_Service_Exception'(403) User does not have su...

I am trying to connect to google search console API using OAuth2 const {google} = require('googleapis'); const auth = new google.auth.OAuth2( YOUR_CLIENT_ID, YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET, YOUR_REDIRECT_U...

Google Search Console isn't indexing my Angular SPA application. The Angular team dynamically inserts a "noindex" meta tag in the head and after page rendering completes an Angular component delete...

I have generated a sitemap from online generators, it seems to be working and even i tested it on old google search console sitemap testor and it works. but when i submit it in both versions ...

I see many URLs with status Excluded in search console google, when I click on "TEST ROBOTS.TXT BLOCKING" I get following error: Property not in account You are verified to see sc-...

I was checking Core Vitals on PageSpeed insight and noticed its flagging Image elements do not have explicit width and height and suggesting Set an explicit width and height on image elements to re...

We're developers of mobile device games. I'm looking for solution how to add our game into list of games on youtube. We would like to use name of the game below video on youtube. I have read many...

My angular 7 apps sitemap.xml is not being picked up by webmaster tools I have this sitemap.xml file (I've hidden real names): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <urlset xmlns="http:...

Why does the Cumulative Layout Shift metric reported in Google's speed measurement tools, like Lighthouse/PageSpeed Insights differ from what is reported in Search Console?

I have a functioning website with a blazor client side component (webassembly/WASM). I then tried to google advertise for the site, but it was rejected for Unwanted Software. I looked at my site, a...

Google's mobile-friendly test states my web site is not mobile-friendly. It states that the content is wider than the screen and clickable elements are too close together. Drilling down it is bec...

The Google Search Console offers a couple methods for claiming ownership of a site. The recommended one is to download an HTML verification file and upload it to your site. An alternative method is...

I'd like to use Google's Webmaster Tools to add domain verification for my "site", which is entirely made up of Cloud Functions for Firebase: https://us-central1-<project-id>.cloudfunctions....

I already set up Google Cloud Endpoints project and can invoke http/https requests. Endpoints gives me MY_API.endpoints.MY_PROJECT.cloud.goog domain name that I can use. I'm using gRPC Cloud Endpoi...

A friend of mine has been having trouble getting her site indexed by google and asked me to have a look, but that is not something I really know much about and was hoping for some assistance. Loo...

I use this meta tags to make google crawler know that I have two languages for my site, as suggested here support.google. <link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="http://www.example.co...

The Mobile Usability report for one of the websites I maintain is currently showing 215 Valid (mobile-friendly pages). At the same time, the Coverage report shows that a total of 399 pages ar...

I've just coded my first website using reactjs, but when I check how google sees my website, I receive the following result: My HTML file looks like this: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <...

I'm having an issue with getting Googlebot to correctly render my webpage(s). It's rendering the header and one "row" of my page (just the page's top background picture), and then failing to rende...

On Google's hreflang documentation, in the 2-language example, it says: Imagine you have an English language page hosted at http://www.example.com/, with a Spanish alternative at http://es.e...

Since the end of may, I have a lot of new 404 errors in the Smartphone Crawl Errors page in Webmaster Tools / Google search console. All of them starts with /m/ or /mobile/, none of which are exist...

before responsive design we need mobile specific sitemaps, but with responsive design they were not needed. But with introduction of Accelerate Mobile Pages (AMP), we are again having mobile speci...