Google indexing bug “effectively resolved”

Posted by Edith MacLeod on 13 Oct, 2020
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Google says 99% of mobile indexing URLs and 55% of canonical URLs now restored.

Google indexing bug.

Google first reported the problem on 2 Oct, saying they were working to resolve two separate issues that had impacted URL indexing - mobile indexing and canonicalization.  

This was the effect of the bug on impacted URLs:

Mobile and canonicalization issue.

In tweets on 3 Oct, Google said the mobile indexing issue had impacted around 0.2% of the index and had begun in early September. The canonicalization issue affected roughly about 0.02% of the index, and had begun around 20 Sep.

In a status update on the 9th, Google said that 99% of URLs affected by the mobile indexing bug had been restored.

Work continues on restoring URLs affected by the canonicalization, with 55% of impacted URLs restored as of the 9th.

Status update.

The indexing bugs have caused significant disruption for affected publishers. Bear this issue in mind when looking at your report metrics over this period.

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