Blogger Tips, Search Console Fix, Blogging Nigeria, Google Indexing

Yesterday my blog ibb442.blogspot.com was showing Redirect Error in Google Search Console and my traffic dropped from 19 to 6 users. I almost cried.

Today I fixed it 100% and my status now shows "Page can be indexed". Here is exactly what I did with my Tecno phone, no laptop.

What Caused The Redirect Error?

I checked my Blogger settings and everything was correct:

Visible to search engines = ON

HTTPS redirect = ON

The problem was Google was trying to crawl my blog with HTTP (ibb442.blogspot.com) instead of HTTPS (ibb442.blogspot.com). Blogger automatically redirects http to https, so Google thought it was a redirect error.

How I Fixed It in 5 Minutes (With Phone)

Step 1: I opened Google Search Console on Chrome: search.google.com

Step 2: On top bar, I pasted my blog with slash at the end exactly like this:

https://ibb442.blogspot.com/

Many people forget the slash / at the end. That slash is important!

Step 3: I clicked TEST LIVE URL and waited 1 minute. Result showed "Page can be indexed, Page fetch: Successful".

Step 4: I clicked REQUEST INDEXING button. After 2 minutes it said "Indexing requested - URL added to priority crawl queue".

Done!

What About My Old Error?

I went to Pages > Not indexed and saw the old http error was still there, but the new https with slash is now working. In 2-3 days Google will automatically remove the old error.

Lesson: If you are a Blogger user in Nigeria, always submit your blog with https:// and / at the end. Don't submit ibb442.blogspot.com without https.

After fixing this, my blog is now healthy again. I will post daily to recover my traffic.

Have you seen redirect error before? How did you fix it?

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Blogger Tips, Search Console Fix, Blogging Nigeria, Google Indexing

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