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Duplicate Google Chose a Different Canonical Than The User
This means that you had set a canonical tag, but Google still indexed a different page. You added the canonical tag, but Google did not follow it. The solution is that if Google is not accepting your canonical tag, it means there is a problem with your website’s structure. You may have used this URL while creating internal links in many places without www. Or this non-www URL may have received more internal links or more external backlinks.
If you want Google to index the www version and not index the other one, you need to create more internal links pointing to the www URL. If there are any internal links without www, remove them. If Google still does not follow the canonical tag, build a few external backlinks to the www page, and it should be resolved.
Meaning: Google rejected SEO’s canonical and found its own
Solution: If the internal URL is nothing, or if the external URL redirects
Redirect Error
Now, how do you solve this error? Remove the redirect. Wherever Page1 is being redirected to Page2, remove that rule. The problem will be solved. Do not create the redirect.
Meaning: The linked page is redirecting to a different page
Solution: Link to the final redirected page
Blocked Due to Another 4XX Issue
It’s simple. You have linked to a resource or a page that is not open to the public. Remove that link, and the problem will be sorted out on its own.
Validation
Click on the same error that you fixed. After clicking on it, you will see the Validate Fix button. Click on it. After fixing the issue, when you click the Validate Fix button, Googlebot and Google’s system will know that this problem has been fixed on this website. Then it will come back and check again.
Now, let’s say there are six URLs here. It will not check all six URLs. It will check some of them. It will check the first one. If the 404 has been removed and the problem has been fixed, then it will check the second one, then the third one. It will check sample URLs like this. After that, the problem will be fixed, and the URLs will be removed from here.
But if you are one of those excited SEOs who clicks the Validate Fix button as soon as you see the problem and then tries to fix it afterward, it will fail here, and your website’s reputation will go down.
Trend
Now, after this, you can see the trend here. The trend basically tells us, very quickly, whether these are increasing or decreasing on a website. For example, by looking here, I can tell that Crawled Currently Not Indexed used to be lower before, but now it is increasing. The Pages number tells you how many pages have this issue. You can find that from the number shown under Pages.
Video Index Issues
Now, why is a video not indexed? There are two main reasons. Around 90% of the problems happen because of this issue: The video is not on the watch page. Nowadays, around 95% of videos that are not getting indexed on websites have this problem.
If you are an SEO and you are working on a website, many of your website’s videos may also not be indexed, and this happens because the video is not on the watch page issue. Apart from this, there is another issue related to responsiveness. What is responsiveness? Let’s say I open a website on a mobile device, and its content is spread out more than it should be.
What does spread out mean? Let’s say this is my web page, and it looks like this on a mobile device. Everything is displayed properly inside the page. The red outline you can see represents the width of my mobile device. These are the borders and corners of the mobile device. This is the size of my device. But sometimes, when a website is not built properly and is not responsive, the website’s content becomes slightly wider than the device.
Technically, every website should identify the width of the mobile device and, based on that, shrink or adjust its content. But sometimes, the website looks like this. The device width is smaller, while the website’s width is larger because the website is not resizing itself. On such websites, you have to scroll or swipe sideways to see the full content. You must have seen websites like this. This is called a non-responsive website. The website is not responsive.
When videos are added to such websites, the videos are also slightly outside the screen. If the video is outside and not fully visible, why would Google index that video? This may seem like a very simple issue.
Now, the video is not on the watch page issue is completely different. It does not depend on this. In such cases, your watch page is completely correct. The text is visible inside the page, and the video is also fully adjusted within the page and the device. But you still get the “Video is not on the watch page” error.
So, let’s read this line carefully. What does this line mean? It says, ‘Video is not on a watch page.’ That means the video is not on a watch page. So, what is a watch page? If we put the video on a watch page, then the video will be on the watch page, the problem will be solved, and the video will be indexed. Correct? So, what is a watch page? Let’s look at it. Now, we click on this issue. Then we can see which URLs have this problem.
That is what Google wants you should place the video on a page where watching the video is the main purpose.
Every video should have its own individual page so that Google can index all the videos. If there is more than one video on the same page, Google will index only one of them. This is because each video will have its own watch page, and the ‘Video isn’t on a watch page’ error will be resolved.