Lately, the renowned search engine confronted an indexing procedure fault. Now it seems that the error is almost fixed with Google, declaring that the recent update will solve mobile indexing and canonicalization errors.
In early October, Google SearchLiaison mentioned this problem.
“If a previously indexed page has gone, it might be the mobile-indexing issue, where we’re failing to select any page at all to index. If the canonical issue is involved, URL Inspector may show the URL as a duplicate & the Google-selected canonical will be different from it….”
Mobile Indexing Trouble
A little while ago, online publishers started observing abrupt index decline. Although, in most cases, home pages would strangely vanish from Google index. The issue further got stretched to new web pages that would take forever for indexing and ultimately appear in Google.
Some website owners stated that an incomplete fix of Google was to reintroduce declined URLs to Search Console, at which the declined URLs would return.
Canonicalization Issue
Google went astray in the matter of content duplication. Explicitly, Google was giving credit to the copied content pages. Just imagine, you publish authentic content and somebody duplicates it & publish it. When you search for new content, a search engine would present invading content instead of the unique one. Not fair!
With the canonicalization problem,Google was in favor of replicated text instead of the unique and original text and everyone knows that’s not legitimate.
SearchLiaison defined the problem on October 1, 2020:
“If a previously indexed page has gone, it might be the mobile-indexing issue, where we’re failing to select any page at all to index. If the canonical issue is involved, URL Inspector may show the URL as a duplicate & the Google-selected canonical will be different from it….”
Later tweet
“The issue with canonicals impacted roughly about 0.02% of our index, beginning around Sept. 20 until late yesterday around 4:30pm PT. We’ve since restored about 10% of those URLs and keep reprocessing more.”
Glitches are On the Verge of Resolving
Google updated that the ongoing mobile indexing and canonicalization concerns are comparatively solved.
On 5th Oct, 50% of those URLs were salvaged. And on 9th Oct Google SearchLiaison tweeted that the prolonged mobile indexing issue is 99% solved. The outstanding cases would be set in the forthcoming weeks.
Yet the canonical indexing problem is partially unsolved, merely 55%is fixed.
Message
From time to time bugs and errors will keep on occurring in the search engine. These issues cause vital disturbance for concerned publishers. SEO is a continuous excursion, so you need to do website scrutinization on SERP now and again.
