Hello! Since building my website with Salient last year, I've noticed that all of my pages seem to have three consistent issues with Google Search Console, which I believe is having an overall impact on my website's SEO.
First, all of my pages are flagged with two mobile errors:
Clickable elements too close together
Content wider than screen
When I load the page on various mobile devices, everything looks fine. I've tried submitting for revalidation several times and every page still comes back with the same two errors. In fact, when I look at my Core Web Vitals, it shows 100% of my URLs as failing.
Second, when I use Google's Search Console to test the live URL and then view the tested page, it never comes back with an actual image. It appears to not be loading any of the website content (see attached screenshot). I assume this is somehow related?
Third, I've noticed that zero of the images on my website appear to be getting indexed by Google either. I have no idea why.
I'm not an expert with Google Search Console or SEO in general, but I do have a few other websites, built using different WP themes where this isn't an issue. And so, I'm wondering if there's something not right with Salient OR perhaps I've set something wrong with a setting?
Note...I don't know if this is related or not, but it's worth mentioning when I submit a URL for indexing, the Coverage status will stay as "Discovered - currently not indexed" for weeks before it ever actually shows as indexed...if at all. Many of my pages haven't ended up on Google and it's been months. Again, with the other website I have, the pages are always indexed within 24 - 48 hours and I don't seem to have any of these issues.
So, any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Adding an update. Upon further research, I've concluded it's my CDN preventing Google from Indexing my site's content. After disabling the CDN, it seems to be working now. I know this isn't a Theme-related question...but if anyone knows how to keep a CDN from blocking Google from crawling my website's content, I'd gladly take any tips! :)
Hello! Since building my website with Salient last year, I've noticed that all of my pages seem to have three consistent issues with Google Search Console, which I believe is having an overall impact on my website's SEO.
First, all of my pages are flagged with two mobile errors:
When I load the page on various mobile devices, everything looks fine. I've tried submitting for revalidation several times and every page still comes back with the same two errors. In fact, when I look at my Core Web Vitals, it shows 100% of my URLs as failing.
Second, when I use Google's Search Console to test the live URL and then view the tested page, it never comes back with an actual image. It appears to not be loading any of the website content (see attached screenshot). I assume this is somehow related?
Third, I've noticed that zero of the images on my website appear to be getting indexed by Google either. I have no idea why.
I'm not an expert with Google Search Console or SEO in general, but I do have a few other websites, built using different WP themes where this isn't an issue. And so, I'm wondering if there's something not right with Salient OR perhaps I've set something wrong with a setting?
Note...I don't know if this is related or not, but it's worth mentioning when I submit a URL for indexing, the Coverage status will stay as "Discovered - currently not indexed" for weeks before it ever actually shows as indexed...if at all. Many of my pages haven't ended up on Google and it's been months. Again, with the other website I have, the pages are always indexed within 24 - 48 hours and I don't seem to have any of these issues.
So, any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Tim
Adding an update. Upon further research, I've concluded it's my CDN preventing Google from Indexing my site's content. After disabling the CDN, it seems to be working now. I know this isn't a Theme-related question...but if anyone knows how to keep a CDN from blocking Google from crawling my website's content, I'd gladly take any tips! :)