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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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Is it ok to remove Google TXT verification records after I've authorized my domain with Google?

For Google Analytics, I had to prove that I owned my domain. I added a TXT record to do this. I also had to prove to Microsoft that I owned my domain by uploading a file (BingSiteAuth.xml) to my site. Now that I'm up and running with Analytics and…
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Google sitemap files for Rails projects

Is there an easy way to create a sitemaps file for Rails projects? Especially for dynamic sites (such as Stack Overflow for example) there should be a way to dynamically create a sitemaps file. What is the way to go in Ruby and/or Rails? What would…
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Google's mobile-friendly test - couldn't load resources

Google's mobile-friendly test states my web site is not mobile-friendly. It states that the content is wider than the screen and clickable elements are too close together. Drilling down it is because lots of files are not being loaded by…
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Why does Googlebot crawl for /mobile/* and /m/* pages that are not referenced anywhere?

Since the end of may, I have a lot of new 404 errors in the Smartphone Crawl Errors page in Webmaster Tools / Google search console. All of them starts with /m/ or /mobile/, none of which are existing nor linked to anywhere on the site. For example,…
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Google search console fails to fetch sitemaps | "Sitemap could not be read"

I have generated a sitemap from online generators, it seems to be working and even i tested it on old google search console sitemap testor and it works. but when i submit it in both versions it just displays error message.
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Manually add sitemap located in s3 into google webmaster tools

I have an app running in Heroku. I am using sitemap_generator to generate sitemap and save it into s3. I have added the robots.txt to contain my sitemap location. My question are. How can I know my sitemap are successfully find by search engine…
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Register new game for YouTube Gaming

We're developers of mobile device games. I'm looking for solution how to add our game into list of games on youtube. We would like to use name of the game below video on youtube. I have read many posts and articles about that, but I stuck on issue…
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How do you notify Google through code that there is a updated sitemap?

On this page of Google help: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/sitemap-generator.html#submitting Google mentions that there is a way to notify them of an updated sitemap using an HTTP request. When you click the link, it takes you to…
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Robots.txt syntax not understood

I submitted my robots.txt file ages ago to Google and it is still giving me a syntax not understood for the first line. After Googling the most common problem is Google adding a '?' at the start of the line but it isnt doing that to me. the url to…
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Why google webmaster tools don't see the static version of my site but instead the template for the dynamic one?

I have added the spiderable package package to my Meteor app, and the html version of the page is returned when making requests with ?_escaped_fragment_= in the url, but I'm unable to get Google to crawl the site. Details When using Fetch as Google…
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GitHub Pages blog and Google Search Console: Is it safe to follow these steps for a public repo?

The Google Search Console offers a couple methods for claiming ownership of a site. The recommended one is to download an HTML verification file and upload it to your site. An alternative method is to add a meta tag to your HTML that has a certain…
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How to perform domain verification for Firebase functions

I'd like to use Google's Webmaster Tools to add domain verification for my "site", which is entirely made up of Cloud Functions for Firebase: https://us-central1-.cloudfunctions.net/ However I cannot figure out how to do this in a way…
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Webmasters API User does not have sufficient permission for site

I use google-api-php-client library to access webmaster tools data. When I wanted to list sitemaps, it appeared Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Google_Service_Exception'(403) User does not have sufficient permission for site. See also:…
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Webmaster tools doesn't detect structured data on my website

It has been a while since I upload all my webpages. Google in fact has indexed them too and my website has started appearing in the Google search results. But still Webmaster tools shows that the data on my site is unstructured. How can I rectify…
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Google 404 soft error on index page that is working fine

A friend of mine has been having trouble getting her site indexed by google and asked me to have a look, but that is not something I really know much about and was hoping for some assistance. Looking at her search console, google crawl shows an…
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