So I noticed I’d been receiving a lot of redirect notices from various search engines. I think the issue is that a lot of these redirect notices have something to do with some sort of ad. Some of the redirect notices I’ve seen have something to do with the website being down or broken. I’ve also seen a lot of redirect notices from Google for pages that weren’t even indexed.
The best solution is to remove any redirect notices from your website. And you can do this from your Google webmaster tools, as well as from your Google Search Console. There are plenty of ways to do this too. One way that I’ve always used is to just manually change any redirect notices that I see. Simply go to the page in question and edit the URL in the browser. You can also change the HTTP headers that these redirects make with a browser plugin like RedirectGuard.
I did that for a while and Google just kept indexing the old redirects, but you can do the same thing yourself.
The next time you see a Google search result that is not quite what you expect, you might want to check, just in case something is fishy. Google is also crawling the pages of these redirects and the ones you see are usually from other legitimate search engines. So if you see something that is not exactly what you expect, you can check it in Google Search Console.
You can also check it out in Google to see what else Google is crawling. You can also check for any other redirects you might have missed, or even for any redirects in your own domain that is not on the canonical search results.
If something is not what you expect, you can check it either in Google Search Console, or in Google to see what else Google is crawling.
Yep, we’re back. But that’s not all. The other day, two SEOs had a conversation about how Google crawls our website and why it’s not what we think it is. Turns out, Google has a habit of ignoring links from our website, so we have to crawl our site from top to bottom to see what is on it. So if you find something that is not what you thought it was, you can check it in Google Search Console.
It’s true, Google does crawl our website, and it’s also true that Google also crawls other websites on our server. Because we have over 1000 websites on our server, it’s not just our website that Google can crawl, it can crawl anything on our server. So there is a fair chance Google is crawling your website either as a result of you linking to it, or by accident.
Google does crawl our website, but not all of it. In fact, the vast majority of links we get are the same links that you would get from just searching for the word “google” on Google. So although Google is crawling our website, it does not crawl all of the websites linked to it.