Automatic redirect to browser language

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In a multilingual website, it is possible to decide which version to show to the user based on the IP address or the language set on the client, by redirecting based on these elements. Even if it is a user-friendly solution, automatic redirection could cause some critical issues from an SEO point of view, in fact, this choice could compromise the indexing of the contents.

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In fact, all pages other than the default language will be considered free brazil number for whatsapp duplicates, because Google will only detect the canonical of the main language and not the self-referential one, due to the Javascript that automatically redirects and prevents the scanning of other contents. It is possible to understand if the site is affected by this problem by analyzing the Coverage of the Google Search Console: usually the “Duplicate and submitted URLs, not selected as canonical” increase .

To solve the problem, you need to disable browser language or IP redirection and submit the site to Google Search Console to speed up the crawl. It is not known how long it will take to resolve this issue: URLs can be indexed correctly again within a couple of days, but it may take months to recover lost positions.

10. Search Engine Bug




It has happened more than once that Google de-indexed URLs by mistake, only to re-index them after the owners reported it. Therefore, if none of the above issues address the problem detected on your site, you have no choice but to try to investigate whether there was a bug in the search engine.

In an article from August 12, 2019, signed by Vincent Courson, it is explained in detail what happened to Google and how the development team behaves when these problems occur. "Most of the time, our search engine works correctly" says Courson, "however, like all complex systems, sometimes major disruptions can occur" . During an index update (in April 2019) a part of the documents was deleted by mistake. Fortunately, the engineers identified the problem fairly quickly and were able to restore the search index within a few hours.