Google selecting incorrect URL as canonical: 'Duplicate, submitted URL not selected as canonical'
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Hi there,
A number of our URLs are being de-indexed by Google. When looking into this using Google Search Console the same message is appearing on multiple pages across our sites: 'Duplicate, submitted URL not selected as canonical'
'IndexingIndexing allowed? YesUser-declared canonical - https://www.mrisoftware.com/ie/products/real-estate-financial-software/Google-selected canonical - https://www.mrisoftware.com/uk/products/real-estate-financial-software/'Has anyone else experienced this problem?How can I get Google to select the correct, user-declared canoncial? Thanks.
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Hi,
I agree with Andreas. I attached two links that you may find interesting.
One is from Matt Cutts /Google explaining about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ets7nHOV1Yo
And other is from Sixtrix - Hreflang guide for international SEO https://www.sistrix.es/hreflang-guide/
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Hi Andreas. Thanks for your response on this, I've updated the example to a different page (I realised the previous example used different pages):
User-declared canonical - https://www.mrisoftware.com/ie/products/real-estate-financial-software/
Google-selected canonical - https://www.mrisoftware.com/uk/products/real-estate-financial-software/' -
I don't have a lot of time and I can't take a deep look into this atm, but for several querries it is allways the correct page showing up here in germany on google.de.
I realized one thing wich could be the problem, one page is using hreflang, one is not. But I guess they exist in multiple languages (for multiple regions). Maybe you have duplicates somewhere because of that. And maybe I have a little bit more time later...
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