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Summary on May 29, 2025: if you want to be indexed, submit the URLs manually
Recently in GSC, page indexing has been terrible — just over 50%, as shown below.
The situation was dire, and keyword coverage was even worse — fewer than 14 keywords. I'd uploaded over 70 notes and got 14 keywords. Google, are you insulting me? I'm a technical person, and this is a blatant insult. I had to fix this!
Based on my assessment, the problem was mainly with the Rank Math SEO plugin — I may have misconfigured some items, especially pages flagged with noindex issues.
1. Excluded by “noindex” Tag
Go to the Rank Math SEO plugin interface and find the corresponding option, Tag Archives Robots Meta.
There's an important setting here. Setting it this way meets the requirements — it means tags are allowed to be indexed by Google, or you can simply turn it off.
This way, indexing is also allowed by default.
Fixed. In GSC, run re-validation and move on to the next item.
2. Crawled – Currently Not Indexed
Tested these and they basically all meet the requirements. Re-run validation, done.
3. Crawled – Currently Not Indexed
There are lots of old articles here. They were written in a hurry back then and ended up too short — some are just a one-line link. Some have already been rewritten with AI. Done.
4. Page Is Redirecting
Restart validation.
5. Redirect Error
This error is already fixed — it was mainly caused by TranslatePress. Restart validation.
6. Alternate Page (with proper canonical tag)
How to handle: nothing to do.
The following content comes from the Shopify community:
Thank you for using the Shopify Community forums. I'm Gina from the Shopify support team, and I'm happy to help you through this platform. I understand you're seeing an “Alternate page with proper canonical tag” notice in Google Search Console, and I know this matters to you. Don't worry — here's more information.
For this notice, I found the “Page indexing” report in Search Console Help, which says the following about alternate pages with proper canonical tags:
相应网页被标记为另一网页的备用网页（即该备用网页是一个 AMP 网页，它可以是桌面版本的规范网页，或者是桌面版本规范网页的移动版本，还可以是移动版本规范网页的桌面版本）。该网页正确地指向了已编入索引的规范网页，因此您无需执行任何操作。Search Console 不会检测网页的备用语言版本。So you don't need to do anything.
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