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Use this tag for programming questions regarding the usage of Google Search Console tools and reports. Non-programming questions related to your website are better asked on https://webmasters.stackexchange.com

Google Search Console tools and reports help you measure your site's Search traffic and performance, fix issues, and make your site shine in Google Search results.

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Fetch as Google showing only "q"

I'm having an error with my website where it's not showing on Google any more. It had been well indexed last week, but now has no pages indexed. No major changes were made for this, but when I use the Googlebot Render in Fetch as Google, it shows…
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Google API. No access, refresh token, API key or refresh handler callback is set

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_URL ); const searchconsole = google.webmasters({…
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Sitemap for a site with a large number of dynamic subdomains

I'm running a site which allows users to create subdomains. I'd like to submit these user subdomains to search engines via sitemaps. However, according to the sitemaps protocol (and Google Webmaster Tools), a single sitemap can include URLs from a…
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What should be the name of sitemap file while submitting to Google Webmasters?

I just want to know while submitting a sitemap file to Google webmasters, what should be the name of the file? Is it necessary to keep the sitemap filename as sitemap.xml or can I use any custom name for the file?
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Fetch as Google - Googlebot (desktop) not rendering page correctly

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 render anything beyond that, not even the footer, missing…
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Do i need to Submit Separate (Mobile) Sitemap for AMP pages?

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 specific URLs, so my questions are: Do we need Separate…
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Google Webmasters API for Java returns empty site list

I have written a simple site list query code which uses Oauth with service account based on Google's documentation. The authentication key file (.p12) being used is valid as well as the account. The problem is that sites list method returns an empty…
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Can you have more than one Google Site Verification tags

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 Webmaster Tools which is under a different Google…
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Google Webmaster Tool API in c#

I want to use Google Webmaster Tool API in c# application. I have gone through different documents that are available on https://developers.google.com. Unfortunately I did not get any working example of using Google WT API using .Net . I have also…
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Excluding testing subdomain from being crawled by search engines (w/ SVN Repository)

I have: domain.com testing.domain.com I want domain.com to be crawled and indexed by search engines, but not testing.domain.com The testing domain and main domain share the same SVN repository, so I'm not sure if separate robots.txt files would…
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"no enabled plugin supports this MIME type" message on mobile device for PDF document

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 documents. But indeed, both on localhost and in…
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Using Angular to dynamically add and remove

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 deletes the "noindex" meta tag. From my understanding this…
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How to exclude part of a web page from google's indexing?

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-bar which usually contains unrelated contents?
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How to verify ownership of Google Cloud Endpoints service URL?

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 Endpoints with HTTP/JSON to gRPC transcoding feature. It…
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Why is the number of mobile-friendly pages on Google Search Console Mobile Usability report less than the number of pages indexed?

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 are Valid (have been indexed). I downloaded a list of all…
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