Website improvements
Investigate common website problems with practical checks and possible fixes to discuss with your development team.
- Server error (5xx) in Search Console
- Redirect error in Search Console
- URL blocked by robots.txt
- URL marked 'noindex'
- Soft 404 errors
- Blocked due to unauthorized request (401)
- Not found (404) in Search Console
- Blocked due to access forbidden (403)
- "Crawled - currently not indexed": what to check
- "Discovered - currently not indexed"
- Alternate page with proper canonical tag
- Duplicate without user-selected canonical
- Duplicate, Google chose different canonical than user
- Page with redirect
- Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt
- Page indexed without content
- Fixing failing Core Web Vitals
- Slow Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)
- Poor Interaction to Next Paint (INP)
- High Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)
- Fixing the "Not secure" warning
- Contact form emails not arriving
- Website not showing on Google
- Google showing the wrong page title
- Google showing the wrong description
- Favicon not showing in Google
- Sitemap "Couldn't fetch" in Search Console
- Security issue or hacked site warning
- Google manual action
- Traffic drop after a website redesign
- WordPress contact form emails not arriving
- WordPress site not showing on Google
- Hacked WordPress site warning