.fr Site Not Indexed in Search Console
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Hey everyone,
I am just now learning international SEO, and so appreciate any and all help!
1. I added supershuttle.fr to Search Console about a week ago and it still has 0 indexed pages. It is showing that pages were indexed in the sitemap, and when I check, there are 75 results in Google. Is this something I should be concerned with? Is there a setting that I'm not aware of in Search Console that I need to change?
2. Also, I read the below regarding the automatically translated pages. Would https://en.supershuttle.fr/ be considered an "automatically translated" page?
Use robots.txt to block search engines from crawling automatically translated pages on your site. Automated translations don’t always make sense and could be viewed as spam. More importantly, a poor or artificial-sounding translation can harm your site’s perception
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Thanks! Glad to have been of assistance.
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Yep, all good under the sitemap index report as well. Thanks for your help - I'll probably just let this one go (even though the 0 is bugging me :)). Have a good week!!
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To answer your question about translations, here's what Google say:
Duplicate Content and International Sites
Websites that provide content for different regions and in different languages sometimes create content that is the same or similar but available on different URLs. This is generally not a problem as long as the content is for different users in different countries. While we strongly recommend that you provide unique content for each different group of users, we understand that this might not always be possible. There is generally no need to "hide" the duplicates by disallowing crawling in a robots.txt file or by using a "noindex" robots meta tag. However, if you're providing the same content to the same users on different URLs (for instance, if both
example.de/
andexample.com/de/
show German language content for users in Germany), you should pick a preferred version and redirect (or use the rel=canonical link element) appropriately. In addition, you should follow the guidelines on rel-alternate-hreflang to make sure that the correct language or regional URL is served to searchers.(Source: <a>https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en)</a>
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Okay. Interesting (and rather encouraging). Does all look okay under Sitemap Index Report?
See this article from a few months back reporting same issue:
http://searchengineland.com/google-says-google-index-status-search-console-report-broken-257111
This and the fact that Google is fetching them (and we can see that in the real world) suggests there's no cause for concern.
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Yep, and all looks good there. Sitemaps show indexing, and when I do site:https://www.supershuttle.fr I get 75 results back. The only place I'm seeing the discrepancy is in the actual Index Status section of Search Console - that shows 0. So I was wondering if there's anything I missed to have results there since this is an international site and I've never worked with one before.
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A google search for: info:https://www.supershuttle.fr shows that the homepage is indexed. Have you tried the Fetch as Google within the Search Console on this and other pages? - A lot of this will be referenced on that best practice article I suggested, earlier.
Also, a quick search in Google using cache:https://www.supershuttle.fr shows it was cached (and therefore indexed) on 28th Jan.
Bonne chance!
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Hi! Thanks for responding. I do have all versions added.
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I can see that you are using https://www.supershuttle.fr. Have you added the HTTPS version of your site within Search Console?
"Add all your website versions
Make sure you add both "www" and "non-www" versions for your site. Also, if you use the HTTPS protocol, add those variations as well."
Here's a best practice article on implementing HTTPS: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6073543?hl=en
It may be worthwhile adding your posting your question about translation separately to get it in front of more Mozzers (as you'll have the benefit of giving your question a relevant title and catching the attention of users with experience of this specific issue).
I hope that helps.
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