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Google Search Console Errors with Page Not Found and Alternative page with proper canonical tag

Eva Pettifor

Hi!

I received a search console email alert of a couple of issues that I cannot resolve and hoping you can help. The website is a single page very simple site: www.emmadoremigration.com.

ISSUE 1.  PAGE NOT FOUND
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I cannot turn off the two settings for protected pages, they are greyed out, see screenshot. Perhaps this is the problem? How do I turn those off as I am not using any login pages on this site. 

ISSUE 2.  ALTERNATIVE PAGE WITH PROPER CANONICAL TAG 
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This has me perplexed. I don't recognise that settledinaustralia.com URL ?? I have done a source code search to see where I've added it to the web page but can't find it and don't remember adding it. It seems relevant to the subject of this website though! Do you know where I can find this mysterious link?

Thank you and Merry Christmas!

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  • KC George

    Hello Eva,

    You website homepage appears indexed by Google.

    A "Page Not Found" error in Google Search Console, indicates that those 3 specific URLs were not accessible to Googlebot, hence were not indexed. There is no action required here as you would not expect Google to index non existing pages.

    The "Alternate page with proper canonical tag" status in Google Search Console indicates that Google has found another page with the same content on your website that are properly canonicalized: Since you wouldn't expect Google to index the URL https://www.emmadoremigration.com/?ref=settledinaustralia.com, you can also disregard this.

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  • Eva Pettifor

    Hi KC George

    Thank you so much for confirming the above. Much appreciated.

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