A technical issue with Google Console, Indexing and Canonicals.

  • Resolved Audiobook Saga

    (@audiobooksaga)


    11 months, 3 weeks ago

    I am working on a client website,

    He has two website both under the same niche with a particular service offering (made the second site for extra earning, as the first one was already ranking).

    Both of the sites have 100 plus articles. The formatting of the article is similar, however, the content is unique in them. Only a service offer link to third party is similar.

    The issue i m facing is that Google is indexing the second site as the first, with Google own canonical and its showing in webmaster as:

    “Duplicate, Google chose different canonical than user”

    i have checked the canonical on the second site, they are fine, and generated by Yoast.

    I have tried, submitting a request to google, resubmitting the sitemap and all, but google is showing it as failed, and every day more and more posts are getting index as google canonical for the first site.

    Anyone, who has faced similar issues? or any recommendations on how to fix it? I want the second site to get indexed on its own as an independent site?

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  • Plugin Support Mushrit Shabnam

    (@611shabnam)

    Hi @audiobooksaga,

    For us to check, can you kindly share with us the site URLs? Also please share with us the canonical URLs you have added for your sites.

    Additionally, please let us know for which site you are facing the notice “Duplicate, Google chose different canonical than user” in Google Search Console.

    Thread Starter Audiobook Saga

    (@audiobooksaga)

    The number of affected are 100+ it even include the homepage. below i will share the a few urls:

    https://audiobooksaga.com/clockwork-angel-audiobook/
    https://audiobooksaga.com/privacy-policy/
    https://audiobooksaga.com/

    i have not added any manual canonicals, all the canonicals are generated by yoast and are the same as website URLs.

    i m facing the issue for https://audiobooksaga.com/

    Google is picking different URLs.

    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    According to?Google’s Page Indexing report, here’s what “Duplicate, Google chose different canonical than user” means:

    This page is marked as canonical for a set of pages, but Google thinks another URL makes a better canonical. Google has indexed the page that we consider canonical rather than this one.

    1. Inspect this URL to see the Google-selected canonical URL under Page indexing > Google-selected canonical.
    2. Look at the canonical you chose under Page indexing > User-declared canonical.
    3. In your browser, look at the current page, the user-declared canonical, and the Google-selected canonical.
    4. This error means that Google thinks that the tested page isn’t a duplicate of the user-declared canonical. Instead, Google thinks that the tested page is a duplicate of the Google-selected canonical.
      • If the Google-selected canonical is the tested page, then Google thinks that the tested page isn’t similar to any other pages.
      • If the user-declared canonical is not similar to the current page, then Google won’t ever choose that URL as canonical. A duplicate page must be similar to the canonical. (That’s what duplicate means.)

    If you require further assistance, you may consider reaching out to Google in the?Google Search Central Help Community.

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