Practical Google Search Console tips and tutorials. Learn to fix indexing and sitemap errors, read your performance data, and turn Search Console insights into real ranking gains.
Crawled, currently not indexed usually means Google crawled the page and judged it not worth indexing. Here is what it really means, and which pages to fix, merge, or leave alone.
A Search Console impressions spike with no clicks usually means scraper bots or Google’s logging bug, not real demand; here is how to read it and which numbers to still trust.
When Search Console indexed pages decreased right after the June report freeze, most of those cliffs were recounts, not lost pages. Here are the four checks I run before changing anything.
The Sitemap Couldn’t Fetch error in Google Search Console is usually simpler than it looks. Here are the real causes, the fixes, and when it resolves on its own.
The Canonical URL Not in Property message in Search Console almost always points to a property mismatch, not a broken page. Here is what it really means and how to fix it for good.
Crawl budget is how much Googlebot can and wants to crawl your site. Here is how to find it in Search Console, when it actually matters, and where it really gets wasted.
The Your Sitemap Appears to Be An HTML Page error means Google is getting HTML where it expects XML. Here are the real causes and the exact steps to fix it for good.
Learn how to remove URLs from Google Search with the Search Console Removals tool, then make the removal permanent with noindex or a 404/410 so the page does not come back.
The URL not in property error in Google Search Console is not an indexing problem; it means the inspected URL does not belong to the selected property. Here is the one-minute fix.
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