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Search Console - How To Remove Reported Errors After Page Fixes

         

Uber_SEO

7:13 am on Aug 21, 2015 (gmt 0)

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I hope I've posted this in the correct place. I'm working alongside someone who aggressively wants to clean up a website so that when you log in to Google's Search Console, you don't see any errors. No duplicate page titles, no server errors etc...

Whenever we see errors, we take measures to fix them. The only problem is, Search Console doesn't update accordingly, meaning that whenever we log into Search Console, we're still presented with the same errors. And we've seen this happening for months - in fact recently it too Search Console 2-3 months to remove pages that had been flagged as problematic after we fixed them.

Now what I'm looking for is either:
(1) A way to get Google to update Search Console more quickly
(2) A way to tell Google that we've bulk fixed a heap of stuff (i.e. not one URL at a time)
(3) Some comms from Google that says Search Console is a bit flaky, and we just have to live with the dashboard showing out of date data.

I was wondering if anyone here could provide some help / insight?

aakk9999

7:19 pm on Aug 21, 2015 (gmt 0)

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Unless you have the smallest possible site it is impossible to have Search Console errors free. And even then - just one invalid link to the site will create "error" in Search Console (WMT) reports.

With regards to your questions (1), (2) and (3), then:
(1) you cannot do anything here
(2) you can expand URL list to maximum number of URLs and then select a checkbox on the top that will check all URLs and then click on "Fixed" button. Errors will disappear for a while, but some will come back (e.g. reports of HTTP 404 will come back even if the page is redirected until Google re-crawls the URL, sees the redirect and update Search Console
(3) I am not sure you can get communication from Google, but there is plenty of reports in this (and other) forums discussing Google Webmaster Tools (Search Console) being buggy.