Check your pbns

patlang

Regular Member

Sep 3, 2015

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• Jun 17, 2018

• #1

Well its not just me cause I found others to encounter the same. When you want check cache and how google crawled your PBN you may notice this https://imgur.com/a/JG3UFtm

Do you figure out what could be the cause of this and how it eventually influences your rankings?

 

snaip

Junior Member

Oct 3, 2014

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• Jun 17, 2018

• #2

Yes, I've seen this. Google said this is a bug and if they're not lying this shouldn't affect the rankings. Most probably means your PBNs have been moved to mobile-first indexing.

Check this:
https://twitter.com/googlewmc/status/1007235824017117184
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-cache-404-mobile-first-index-25803.html

 

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HairlessBeing

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Apr 19, 2018

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• Jun 23, 2018

• #3

This happened to my money site as soon as I added an AMP plugin and properly implemented it. @snaip, what do you mean by mobile-first indexing?

 

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HairlessBeing

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Apr 19, 2018

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• Jun 23, 2018

• #4

Also, can confirm, there was a drop in rankings after this happened.

 

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IMFROMTHATPLACE

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May 27, 2018

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• Jun 23, 2018

• #5

yap confirmed today, also drop in rankings.

 

itz_styx

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• Jun 23, 2018

• #6

it shouldnt affect rankings, its only the cache. that is, if you can believe what google says about it...

 

starki

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Jul 17, 2012

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• Jun 24, 2018

• #7

The cache bug affects sites switched to mobile first indexing, so depending how mobile friendly your site is, there could be a drop as well. Not because of the bug, but because of the mobile first indexing in general.

 

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set23

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Feb 21, 2017

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• Jun 24, 2018

• #8

snaip said:

Yes, I've seen this. Google said this is a bug and if they're not lying this shouldn't affect the rankings. Most probably means your PBNs have been moved to mobile-first indexing.

Check this:
https://twitter.com/googlewmc/status/1007235824017117184
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-cache-404-mobile-first-index-25803.html

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What are the reasons of this moving to mobile-indexing first? Is it a good or bad thing?

 

tiiberius

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Sep 8, 2015

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• Jun 25, 2018

• #9

patlang said:

Well its not just me cause I found others to encounter the same. When you want check cache and how google crawled your PBN you may notice this https://imgur.com/a/JG3UFtm

Do you figure out what could be the cause of this and how it eventually influences your rankings?

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I have it like this on PBNs and even money sites. Doesn't influence anything. Money sites are rankings high and very well crawled/indexed.

 

aidenhera

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Nov 30, 2016

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• Jun 25, 2018

• #10

i never had it, i guess im doing things too good

 

queenjude

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Mar 15, 2017

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• Jun 25, 2018

• #11

I recently had this issue but PBn link showed up on console so I doubt it affects anything.

 

starki

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• Jun 26, 2018

• #12

set23 said:

What are the reasons of this moving to mobile-indexing first? Is it a good or bad thing?

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Well, mobile traffic already exceeds desktop traffic in Google search for quite a time, so Google slowly but steadily switches to mobile indexing. Means, your desktop version is ignored and the mobile version determines rankings. Good for responsive sites, bad for sites with a cut down mobile version or sites that aren't mobile friendly at all.