Here are updated tutorials (including video lessons) for understanding and fixing video indexing issues as reported by Google Search Console Video Page Indexing. Basic Understanding of Video Indexing Reports The video indexing report in Search Console shows how many indexed pages on a website has video/s part of the web page, and importantly, how many… Continue reading How to Fix ‘Video is not the main content of the page’
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How-To Fix INP issue: longer than 200ms
Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is now a Core Web Vital metric that replaced First Input Delay (FID). INP assesses responsiveness using data from the Event Timing API. INP observes the latency of all interactions a user has made with the page, and reports a single value. A low INP score means the page was… Continue reading How-To Fix INP issue: longer than 200ms
How-To Fix Video Outside the Viewport
To troubleshoot video outside the Viewport errors as shown in Google Search Console Video Page Indexing reports. All you need to do is identify the video area on the page, and then move the video so that the entire video is inside the renderable area of the web page and seen when the page loads.… Continue reading How-To Fix Video Outside the Viewport
How to Fix Crawled Currently Not Indexed
Is your website encountering the “Crawled – currently not indexed” status in Google Search Console? This Page indexing status indicates that Googlebot (Google’s URL crawl bot) has visited a particular web page (for a verified website property in Search Console), but hasn’t yet added the web page to its index, which also means the web… Continue reading How to Fix Crawled Currently Not Indexed
How to Fix Blocked by robots.txt Errors
Search engines find information through crawling (which means they request / fetch a URL) to then analyze what they find on the URL. robots.txt rules should only be used to control the search engine crawling process but not indexing process. This means, most Search Console blocked by robots.txt errors arise due to incorrect rules used… Continue reading How to Fix Blocked by robots.txt Errors
How to Fix Page with Redirect Errors
Latest Page indexing reports in Google Search Console has grouped various errors so that it is easier for website owners to fix issues. Page with redirect basically means that Google is seeing a URL but when it tried to fetch and index it, Google is being redirected to a different URL causing page with redirect… Continue reading How to Fix Page with Redirect Errors
How to Fix Excluded by noindex Tag
There are various methods a website URL can send NOINDEX directive telling search engines like Google to NOT index certain parts of a website. This is to block indexing of URLs. Fixing Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag Issues When troubleshooting Page indexing errors, do not waste time analyzing Page indexing reports for Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag… Continue reading How to Fix Excluded by noindex Tag