Title: Multiple Indexing Issues Last modified: May 18, 2020 --- # Multiple Indexing Issues * Resolved [remarkable1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/remarkable1/) * (@remarkable1) * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-indexing-issues/) * Hi. I’m having an issue with site indexing. Google Search Console is reporting no errors and saying that my sitemap was discovered successfully and discovered 165 URL’s, but it’s only showing 8 URL’s submitted and indexed. * A lot of pages are showing as “Duplicate without user-selected canonical” and“ Duplicate submitted URL not selected as canonical”. Also it’s showing Crawled– currently not indexed pages. * I don’t know if this is because of an issue that Yoast was having in the past few weeks with indexables, where the plugin had to reindex things a few times or what. * ????? * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fmultiple-indexing-issues%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Thread Starter [remarkable1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/remarkable1/) * (@remarkable1) * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-indexing-issues/#post-12854418) * UPDATE: I’m also noticing that Google is indexing UTM parameter in URL’s that I have set up to track type-in traffic through Google Analytics. * For example [https://thenameguy.com/hitco/?utm_source=hitco.com&utm_medium=301](https://thenameguy.com/hitco/?utm_source=hitco.com&utm_medium=301) is being indexed, but I set up Hitco.com to forward to that link, so that I could track type-ins of that domain name through Google Analytics. * When I look this up in Google Search Console Help, I find answers that say there’s an issue with the site using proper rel=canonical tags on these URLs. * From what I see, the rel=canonical tags are correct, so I’m confused and makes me think these issues are connected. * [devnihil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devnihil/) * (@devnihil) * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-indexing-issues/#post-12867676) * [@remarkable1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/remarkable1/) Is that URL one of those that is showing as “Duplicate without user-selected canonical”? If not can you please provide us with one of them that is? * We did review the source code of that page, and did n’t find an issue with the canonical tag on it and when checking the site in a Google search [here](https://www.google.com/search?q=site:TheNameGuy.com&sxsrf=ALeKk00bHmsrSK_WFnbI61nxeUeqr13HCQ:1590014187793&ei=67DFXvaGMJDVtAbg0K34Aw&start=30&sa=N&ved=2ahUKEwi2qOe2wMPpAhWQKs0KHWBoCz8Q8tMDegQICxAx&biw=2268&bih=1081) it is showing over 100 indexed URLs. * How many of the URLs in question have been redirected? The warning looks like it can be related to Google finding it a duplicate when the URL is redirected: [https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/4488321?hl=en](https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/4488321?hl=en) * Thread Starter [remarkable1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/remarkable1/) * (@remarkable1) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-indexing-issues/#post-12877413) * [@devnihil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devnihil/) [https://thenameguy.com/lendcredible/?utm_source=lendcredible.com&utm_medium=301](https://thenameguy.com/lendcredible/?utm_source=lendcredible.com&utm_medium=301) is one of the URL’s showing up as “Duplicate without user-selected canonical”. * 40 other URL’s with parameters just like that are showing up as “Duplicate without user-selected canonical”and they all point to pages where the canonical is in the page source. * There are 68 pages that are listed as “crawled but not indexed” and they are all connected to a URL parameter type link as shown above. * There are 56 pages listed as Duplicate, “submitted URL not selected as canonical” * There are 40 URL parameter type links showing as “Indexed, not submitted in sitemap”. * What are the over 100 indexed URL’S you’re seeing, because GSC is only showing 9 valid URL’s as submitted and indexed. Everything else that’s indexed is parameter URL’s and they shouldn’t be indexed. * For example [https://thenameguy.com/lendcredible](https://thenameguy.com/lendcredible) is what should be indexed … * Not [https://thenameguy.com/lendcredible/utm_source=lendcredible.com&utm_medium=301](https://thenameguy.com/lendcredible/utm_source=lendcredible.com&utm_medium=301) * [Pcosta88](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pcosta88/) * (@pcosta88) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-indexing-issues/#post-12878156) * Hi, * We think Google is confused. We say this as [https://thenameguy.com/hitco/?utm_source=hitco.com&utm_medium=301](https://thenameguy.com/hitco/?utm_source=hitco.com&utm_medium=301) shouldn’t be appearing in Google with the UTMs as the canonical is [https://thenameguy.com/hitco](https://thenameguy.com/hitco). See image [https://pasteboard.co/J9BBNmx.png](https://pasteboard.co/J9BBNmx.png). * Yoast is outputting well over 100+ URLs from the sitemaps [https://thenameguy.com/sitemap_index.xml](https://thenameguy.com/sitemap_index.xml). * We suggest the following actions: * 1. Clear all your caching from your theme, plugin, server, CDN like CloudFlare or browser. If you are not sure how to clear caching from theme/plugin please speak to those authors. If you want to clear cache from the server, please speak to your host provider. To clear the cache from a browser use this guide: https:// kb.yoast.com/kb/how-to-clear-my-browsers-cache/. * 2. Delete your sitemap in Google. Doing so will not hurt the SEO of the site. This guide explains more (scroll to the bottom): https://support.google.com/webmasters/ answer/183669?hl=en. * 3. Submit the sitemap again. Be sure to submit only sitemap_index.xml and nothing else. This guide explains more: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/submit-sitemap-search- engines/. * 4. Monitor the results to see if the issue resolves and pages get indexed. * [Jerlyn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jerparx/) * (@jerparx) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-indexing-issues/#post-12909327) * Hi [@remarkable1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/remarkable1/) , * We’re closing this thread because we haven’t heard back from you in a while. Should you have further questions, please open a [new thread](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-seo/). * Thread Starter [remarkable1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/remarkable1/) * (@remarkable1) * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-indexing-issues/#post-12910824) * This thread shouldn’t be closed, because the issue has not been resolved. The last instructions given are being tested. No changes have been seen as of yet. 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