In Google Search Console, I've got 168,000 pages with "Alternate page with proper canonical tag".
They are divided into:
just 200 pages (https://example.com/item/12345), crawled between 2021 and 2023, whose canonical URL is different from the original URL, just to consolidate the content. I decided that the canonical URL must be different, and it's ok for me.
just 200 pages (https://example.com/item/12345?iframe=true&width=95%25&height=95%25), crawled between 2021 and 2023, with that weird URL structure (I do not use iframes, do not know why I get these URLs). These pages are showing the proper 'https://example.com/item/12345' canonical URL.
167,600 pages (https://amp.example.com/item/12345), crawled before 2021. I decided to remove the AMP version of my website in January 2021, and started to 301-redirect all the 'https://amp.example.com/*' to 'https://example.com/*'. The redirection works ok, and I do not understand why Google is showing these 167,600 pages as "Alternate page with proper canonical tag", and not as "Page with redirect".
Are these 167,600 pages hurting my ranking or my web crawling?
Should I click the "Validate fix" button?
If I click the "Validate fix" button, will Google consider the the three cases (consolidated content, weird iframes, removed AMP) in a separate way?
[edited by: not2easy at 3:37 pm (utc) on Jan 7, 2024]
[edit reason] edited move request [/edit]
