What does excluded mean in search console?

Excluded means that the affected pages will not be indexed. So if there is info on the page that you want people to be able to search on, then this will affect your search results.

Why are my pages excluded from Google search console?

Any duplicate or alternate pages will be labeled “Excluded” in this report. Duplicate or alternate pages have substantially the same content as the canonical page. Having a page marked duplicate or alternate is a good thing; it means that we’ve found the canonical page and indexed it.

How do I remove pages from Google console?

The URL must be in a Search Console property that you own.

1. The URL must be in a Search Console property that you own.
2. Open the Removals tool.
3. Select the Temporary Removals tab.
4. Click New Request.
5. Select Next to complete the process.

What are excluded pages?

Excluded. These pages are typically not indexed, and we think that is appropriate. These pages are either duplicates of indexed pages, or blocked from indexing by some mechanism on your site, or otherwise not indexed for a reason that we think is not an error.

How can I see what pages Google has crawled?

Live URL test

1. Inspect the indexed URL.
2. Click Test live URL on the index results page.
3. Read understanding the live test results to understand what you’re looking at.
4. You can toggle between the live test results and the indexed results by selecting Google Index or Live Test on the page.

How do I fix no page information in search results?

Option 2: Remove the page from Google search results

1. Remove the page from your site, or.
2. Require a user login to access the page, or.
3. Use “noindex” on your page. If using noindex, you must also remove the robots.txt rule that blocks the page to search engines.

How do I exclude sites from a Google search?

Exclude sites from your search engine:

1. From the control panel, select the search engine you want to edit.
2. Click Setup from the menu on the left.
3. In the Basics tab, click Advanced under Sites to Search to expand the Sites to exclude section.
4. Click Add under Sites to exclude.

How can I tell if my site is indexed?

Checking If Your Site is Indexed by Search Engines

1. To see if search engines like Google and Bing have indexed your site, enter “site:” followed by the URL of your domain.
2. Note:
3. The results show all of your site’s pages that have been indexed, and the current Meta Tags saved in the search engine’s index.

Why was a page with redirect excluded according to Google Search Console?

Why was a page with redirect excluded according to Google Search Console’s coverage report? Because this page has a redirect, it’s not included in Google’s index. Click the line to see a list of the pages that are being redirected. Remove the redirect if you want this page in the index.

What does it mean when a page is excluded from Google?

It means that those pages are excluded aka blocked from being indexed on Google. Now, there can be plenty of reasons for it (Will come to that part later) but the pages that are excluded from being indexed are most of the times intentionally which basically means that the site owner do not wants them to be indexed.

Why is my website not being indexed by Google?

Google isn’t specific on why they’re not including it, but they’ve determined it’s not going to be indexed. To see which pages have been crawled but not indexed, click on the list in the report. If you want Google to index it. Try submitting it through an XML sitemap or adding links to this page.