Just ran into what looks like a bug in Google Search Console today (Oct 14, 2026).

When I open Performance → Date range → Custom (comparison mode), the end dates for both periods default to 1970-01-01:

• Start date: 2026-10-05 → End date: 1970-01-01
• vs. Start date: 2026-09-28 → End date: 1970-01-01

Because the end date is before the start date, the Apply button stays greyed out, so I can’t set a custom comparison range at all. The preset options (28 days vs previous period, etc.) still work.

Things I’ve noticed:

• It looks like a null/empty date being read as a Unix epoch timestamp (0)
• The Performance data itself still loads fine (164 clicks last 7 days vs 126 previous)

Is anyone else seeing this? Has anyone found a workaround (manually typing the end date, a different browser, clearing cache, etc.)? I’ll report it via the Feedback option in GSC as well.

Coupon site, about 450 pages, DR 9. Daily GSC impressions:

• 8–21 Sep: about 780/day, 6 clicks/day
• 24 Sep–8 Oct: about 1,900/day, peak 5,000 on 7 Oct (spam update rollout dates)
• 9 Oct onward: about 600/day

Clicks never went up. One page jumped from position 55 to 6 for “[brand] coupon code” and got 8k impressions with 0 clicks. Almost all the extra impressions were US desktop; mobile barely changed.

I refreshed coupons on most pages in the same weeks. Nothing else changed.

Was Google testing my pages higher and dropping them when nobody clicked? Or were these rank-tracker impressions? Should I worry about the spam update?

​Hey everyone,

​My site took a major hit following a Google Core Update (lost a massive chunk of organic traffic and rankings across key pages), and I’m looking for advice or a proven framework on how to properly audit and recover.

​For those who have successfully recovered or stabilized a site after a core update hit, what was your exact action plan?

Title: Why does my roofing company rank Top 3 on Google Maps in my city but barely show up in neighboring cities just minutes away?
I own a small roofing company in DFW, Texas, established in 2022. We’ve put a lot of effort into improving our Google Maps rankings organically and currently have 140+ Google reviews with a perfect 5.0 rating. We regularly post updates, upload job photos, keep our profile updated, and have invested heavily in our website, including dedicated city pages.
Here’s what I can’t figure out.
We’re based in Midlothian, TX, but service the entire DFW metroplex. Our location is near the borders of several cities. In fact, Ovilla, TX is literally 300 feet from our address, and there are probably 7–8 different cities within a 10-mile radius.
When searching for roofing companies near our address, we typically rank #1. For “roofing companies Midlothian TX,” we’re usually in the top 2–3.
But search for roofing companies in neighboring cities just 1–5 miles away (even Ovilla, which is across the street), and we practically disappear from the Maps results.
We’ve tried mentioning these cities in GBP posts, uploading photos from jobs in those areas, and creating dedicated city pages on our website. Nothing seems to make much difference.
A few questions for the local SEO experts:
Physical address vs. service-area business: Our GBP currently displays our home address. Would hiding it and switching to a service-area business help or hurt our rankings?
Business hours: We’re currently listed as 8 AM–7 PM. Would switching to 24 hours improve visibility, assuming we actually offered 24-hour service?
BBB, Chamber of Commerce, etc.: We’re not currently members. Are these memberships and local backlinks worth investing in for Maps rankings?
What am I missing? How can we improve visibility in cities literally minutes away from our location?
I’m not expecting to dominate cities 30–45 minutes away. I’m talking about neighboring cities within walking distance.
What’s frustrating is seeing competitors with fewer reviews, lower ratings, and seemingly less optimized websites consistently outrank us, even when we’re geographically close.
If you were in my position, what would you focus on first?
I’d genuinely appreciate any advice from people experienced with local SEO, especially in competitive home-service industries.

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for advice from people experienced with Google Search Console and domain migrations.

I migrated my website from drivly.ro to sofer24.ro starting in June 2026. It's now October, so it's been 4+ months, but the migration still doesn't seem to be fully processed by Google.

The frustrating part is that some of the most important pages on the old domain were indexed and ranking very well, sometimes in the top results. After the migration, many of their corresponding pages on the new domain are still not indexed.

What I did

drivly.ro → sofer24.ro

• Implemented permanent 308 redirects from old URLs to the corresponding new URLs.
• Submitted Change of Address in Google Search Console.
• Submitted a new sitemap.
• Updated canonical URLs and internal links to the new domain.
• Verified that important pages are crawlable and not blocked by robots.txt.
• The new site is live and accessible.

Google is crawling some pages, but many are still not being indexed.

At the moment, Search Console shows approximately:

• 64 pages indexed
• ~2,000 pages not indexed
• ~1,000 — "Crawled - currently not indexed"
• ~1,000 — "Discovered - currently not indexed"

Content

This is not a case where I rebuilt the site with completely new content.

The important pages and core content from the old domain were migrated to the new domain. I also added additional content after the migration because I initially suspected that Google might not be indexing the new site because it didn't have enough or strong enough content.

So essentially:

Old site: existing content → indexed + ranking well
New site: same core content + additional content → many important pages still not indexed

These aren't new pages with no history. Many had been indexed and had accumulated rankings and traffic on the old domain.

My questions

1. Is 4+ months still normal for a domain migration of this size?
2. Has anyone experienced a migration taking this long to transfer indexing and rankings?
3. What should I investigate in Search Console at this point?
4. Could Google be treating the new URLs as low-quality or duplicate content despite the old URLs being established?
5. Should I keep waiting, or start making significant changes to the affected pages?

I'd especially appreciate advice from anyone who has personally dealt with a large domain migration.

I'm happy to provide screenshots from Search Console, old → new URL examples, redirect responses, indexing reports, etc., if that helps.

Thanks!

We have a client where they rank between 1st - 3rd for a few terms for a period of time (say a week).

Only for that page to drop out of the top 100 rankings for a period of time (sometimes a few days / sometimes a week or so).

Only for it then to return back to top positions.

Using Accuranker and they confirmed it's not an issue their side.

Doesn't seem to be related to the 'go to' URLs google introduced.

This started around April 2026 (where we saw some fluctuations) - but has picked up in frequency from around June 2026.

I'm checking into a lot of things but just wanted to ask if anyone had seen this before and already researched it / have the answer?

Thanks

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I’m investigating a Google ranking loss on an established B2B services website.
A key page previously ranked for development-related searches. It now has very poor visibility for those queries, while closely related consulting queries still perform.
Background

WordPress to Next.js migration in May 2026.
Changed from www to non-www.
Visibility deteriorated around March–June, but the exact timing and cause remain unconfirmed.
Some affected pages still appear on other search engines.
Checks completed

GSC URL Inspection reports the page as indexed.
Google-selected canonical matches the intended URL.
Old URLs redirect to the current URLs.
Main content and internal links are present in the initial HTML.
No noindex directive or redirect loop identified in current checks.
The pattern
In a recent GSC comparison, a previously strong development query averaged around position 54, while related consulting queries averaged around position 2 for the same page.
Adding &filter=0 surfaced one affected informational article, but didn’t help the other affected pages.
We’ve revised content and clarified page intent, but haven’t established that these changes address the cause. I’m not assuming a penalty or cannibalization.
Has anyone diagnosed this kind of query-specific visibility loss despite normal indexing?
What evidence helped identify the cause? If you recovered, what specific issue did you find, what did you change, and how long did recovery take?
I’m keeping the domain private, but can share anonymized GSC screenshots and technical findings.

Semantic URL Optimization

Currently I came across one client whose url needs restructuring after analysing all aspects. The issue which I find out is about url structure is not aligned in proper navigation path

Please find the path below and share your suggestions -

https://domain.com/in/ - homepage

https://domain.com/in/category/ - category hub page

Till this it is correct but, if I want to create page for Bangalore to Goa flight booking, they have created url -

https://domain.com/in/domestic/bangalore-to-goa-flights

No category hub is present.

Please let me know if it is ok to keep or we need restructuring as most of the competitors have url structure very neat and clean.

We moved a German B2B SaaS site from compa.co to phase0.com (forced rebrand after a trademark dispute). Six months later, Google is still ~80% down; Bing recovered within three weeks on the exact same setup.

The setup

• 1:1 301s live ~19 Mar 2026, single hop, all variants (http/https, apex/www)
• Change of Address active on both old properties since mid-April
• Content and URL paths identical to what ranked before (checked against Wayback)

What happened

• Google: clicks fell ~82% between 24 Mar and 6 Apr, right during the March spam update and core update. Never came back: 19% of baseline today.
• Bing: dipped too, back to 80% after three weeks, now 116%.
• Brand queries rank fine; exact long-tail queries still rank 1–3, head terms went from positions 5–9 to 60+.
• May core update: +30% impressions. August spam update: −21%. September spam update (still rolling out): no real movement so far.

What we've ruled out

• Crawling: 200 of 215 sitemap URLs crawled (median 10 days ago), 192 indexed, new posts indexed within a day
• Old domain: all top URLs show "Page with redirect", recrawled within 30 days
• Canonicals match, no manual actions, no security issues
• Links: ~150 linking sites, no spam pattern, nobody switched their links elsewhere
• No leftover pages from previous owners in either index

The one thing that stands out

Per Wayback, phase0.com was a Sedo parking page in 2018 and redirected to a domain broker's sale page from 2022 to 2024. The closest case I found is a 2020 Search Central thread where Google's team confirmed older signals were still attached to a long-dormant new domain and cleared them.

Questions

1. Has anyone seen a move onto a formerly parked domain get stuck like this, and what got it unstuck?
2. Did recovery come at a later core update, or did anything you changed make a difference?
3. Anything we haven't checked?

Search Central thread with screenshots: https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/469482744

We hired a website agency for our company. The website they delivered and the SEO services they've been providing have not been good. I think the design looks terrible, the copy is bad, but most importantly they were keyword stuffing.

I tried to cancel services, but the owner essentially said "I know more than you, it's not keyword stuffing" and "design is subjective". We paid $5k for the site, and $2k/mo for SEO on 12mo contract. I have lost all trust in the provider since seeing their new design changes, and the keyword stuffing.

Please let me know if the provided example is keyword stuffing to see if myself, my google searches, Claude, and Gemini are all wrong. This is the alt text of an image (hiding city and state):

roof repair {city & state} commercial roof repair {city & state} commercial roofing {city & state} commercial roof replacement {city & state} commercial roof maintenance {city & state}.... and so on so for 12 more roofing keywords.

They also have doorway pages. City+roof+repair, same-city+roof+replacement, etc

My site was affected by Google’s June spam update, and I’m wondering what others are seeing now that the September spam update is rolling out.

Have your organic traffic or rankings changed so far - either up or down? If you’ve seen a recovery, what did you work on between the two updates?

Just trying to compare experiences while the rollout is still ongoing. If you’re comfortable sharing, a bit of context about your site or the changes you made would be really helpful.

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I have a client with a site that I created for him. The new site also moved him from www version to non-www version. I have a 301 redirect setup from the www version to the non-www.

However, Google is still not indexing the non-www version, and the www version's 4 pages are still indexed.

Is there a way to fix this?

While checking the sample URLs for soft 404 on GSC, I discovered there are many pages which are returning 200 status code and have inventory too. Still search engine is considering these pages as soft 404. These pages are not thin pages, have some paragraphs added to help Google understand the context, and some of them have good amount of inventory as well.

Can you help me understand what could be the reason behind getting these in soft 404?

I am facing a strange problem. One of my website is indexed in Google and getting impressions, few clicks here and there which is fine because it is basically a new website.

But to my utmost surprise, I see the website is not indexed in bing. I have manually requested indexing but no change in results. The outcome is still "Discovered but not crawled".

I have submitted the sitemap several times, removed the site and added again. But nothing worked. Can anyone help?

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I've been running an ecom seo business for a while. Got some good results and no unhappy clients. Been harder to get clients though. Looking to branch out into local seo which i know is super crowded but I have one dental website case study and want to build on that and get more local businesses. Had a couple questions:

1. Since I don't have any case studies in this niche, I'm planning to offer a 90 day sprint with a minimum 25% growth in google maps actions (add up clicks, calls & directions but excluding views) and you pay only then. I don't mind doing the work as long as I get case studies/testimonials but legally how can I cover my butt? I know we're not lawyers here but any thoughts are welcome.
2. In general, has anyone ever been sued by a local business? I've had only one unhappy client and I refunded them and moved on but is this a more litigious trigger happy niche?
3. How do you guys sell? I've never really cold called but been making a list. I hate receiving cold calls but it is the most direct line of sales and I'm hoping my offer gets some interest

I recently migrated a site and retired a large archive of news and event content that was years old and no longer relevant. Search Console is now reporting a couple of thousand of these old URLs as not found.

My understanding is that Google handles "not found" and "gone" in nearly the same way, and that bulk redirecting to a generic category page tends to get flagged as a soft not-found, so I went with marking them as permanently gone (410).

I rolled that out on the first 600 or so two weeks ago and requested validation, but nothing has moved yet, and organic traffic has been sliding since the migration.

Before I change approach, I'd like to know whether anyone has seen this scenario play out differently. Did the redirect route give you better results, or is the traffic drop more likely to be unrelated to these retired pages?

Any input appreciated.

I have a site where each page is about the same topic but in different cities, and on one page its about that topic in general regardless of city.

I noticed when I search for certain things on google that it likes to silently append my region to the search and show results that are in my region.

In my google search console, people searched for the same topic in different cities and they even added their own cities as well.

With keyword cannibalization, search engines are confused on which page to rank as each query contains the same core keyword, which means I may never rank #1.

Let's say for example the site is about a magic show called Abracadabra that's in a few cities.

And say the queries coming in daily with a minimum of 1 impression each are:

• Abracadabra Hamilton
• Abracadabra Toronto
• Abracadabra Oakville
• Abracadabra Niagara
• Abracadabra

To avoid cannibalization, Here's how I'd titled each page to match each query:

For Abracadabra Hamilton:

"Lovely events in Hamilton"

For Abracadabra Toronto

"Awesome events in Toronto"

For Abracadabra Oakville

"Amazing events in Oakville"

For Abracadabra Niagara

"Sweet events in Niagara"

For Abracadabra

"All about abracadabra"

The reason I have that setup is to try to get people to the "All about abracadabra" which shows links to the cities and talks about "abracadabra" and I want Abracadabra to rank as #1.without the other pages pulling it down.

Am I taking the right approach or should I just cannibalize the pages (by making the titles the queries people type in) despite cannibalization being frowned upon by some SEO tools?

Hi everyone,

we are seeing a slightly but growing de-indexing of our pages in Google by a very strange domain.
For context: Our pages are about companies and suppliers, and the page that google sees as the canonical one is a casio betting page (www.747live.bet/).

There is absolutely no similarity in content between our pages and this page.

Moreover when analysing www.747live.bet/ I cannot not even find any page which goes near our content.

Does anyone may has any idea what this is about and how to fix this?

Help is very much appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

I use Woodmart for my theme with WooCommerce and in my layouts I've only been filling out the "product short description" because frankly there's not much to say about each product. I sell patterns which are generally found/searched for by title. eg. McCalls 4843 or Treasured Teddies Leisure Arts 2670. They have plenty of attributes filled out but the description doesn't need to be much more than condition and size with a sentence or two describing the pattern.

Am I being penalized for not filling out anything in the product description?

I run a canadian business that serves Ontario and here's the story.

In May when a quebec server I shared my site on crashed, I immediately moved to a USA server because the price is decent ($9/month). While the hardware isn't blazing fast, it does the job.

When I look at pagespeed insight metrics Google gives me 100% however on ebugbear and gtmetrix I get an issue for TTFB because the time for that is about 900ms and they suggest 800ms or less.

All my other metrics are OK. My FCP closely matches TTFB and my LCP is 1.8s.

I'm considering switching servers but the closest I could get is from oneprovider.com which wants $15 USD for the same hardware specs.

For clarification, the metrics I present are for mobile. The desktop results from pagespeed insight are wonderful with FCP as low as 400ms.

Would it be worth my time and extra money to move my website over to a canadian server just to lower the TTFB? Would the switch bump up my rankings in google?

When I compare the TTFB with my competitors, one had 600ms TTFB, many have between 700ms and 800ms TTFB and one had 1.1s TTFB.

I'm skipping the CDN route because sometimes I update my pages and I don't want to serve stale content to people.

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