Website excluded from indexing, google-selected canonical: N/A

[Fibigrus]

The google search console revealed to me that none of my pages was indexed, all pages are listed in the 'excluded' section "duplicate, google chose different canonical than user".
But in the URL-inspection tab it shows me

google-selected canonical: N/A

Indexing and crawling is both allowed. Don't know how to get my pages to be indexed correctly. (by the way, they do NOT exist in other languages, so that can't be a reason why google might think they are a duplicate. There's definitively no other version of those pages available)

[pnoddy]

Hi,  We are having exactly the same issue.

Over 40+ pages have been removed from the indexed and this page has been selected as the google preferred canonical.

https://studyplaces.com/about-us/

The pages affected by this include:

https://studyplaces.com/50-best-college-party-songs-of-all-time-and-why-we-love-them/

https://studyplaces.com/15-best-minors-for-business-majors/

As you can see the content on these pages is totally unrelated to the content on the about-us page.   Any ideas why this is happening and how to resolve.

[BlueprintMarketing]

It sounds to me like you thousand serious duplicate content issues. Google will make its own assumptions and it will eventually choose its own rel canonical's if you do not.

Would you feel comfortable sharing your domain?

Run a crawl of everything. on your site make sure there are no duplicates make sure the rel canonical's that you have chosen are the ones pointing to every duplicate. Or duplicates are removed if practical.

This could be very bad just to be upfront with you.

Duplicate, Google Chose Different Canonical Than User

Cause: The page has rel=canonical link in place, but Google disagrees with this suggestion and has chosen a different URL to index as the canonical.

How to fix it: Inspect the URL to see the Google selected canonical URL. If you agree with Google, change the rel=canonical link. Else, work on your website architecture to reduce the amount of duplicate content and send stronger ranking signals to the page you wish to be rel canonical.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-search-console-index-coverage-report-guide/346514/#close

https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/2497936?hl=en

I hope I have been of some help I would honestly need to see the domain in order to tell you how to fix this exact issue but I hope. this is been more help then what you have received so far.

Sincerely,

Tom

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