2. Check for Duplicate Versions of your Website

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2. Check for Duplicate Versions of your Website

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You can also take a specific URL and enter it into the search bar at the top of your Google Search Console dashboard.

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You will see the status of the URL. You can also request Google to index the URL by clicking the " Request indexing " link.

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If you have substantially modified the page, you can request indexing again, even if the page is already indexed.

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If you want to learn more, read our guide to Google indexing .


It is essential to ensure that Google only indexes one version of your website.

It could be in multiple versions of a URL (depending on whether there is a WWW on the domain and whether it uses HTTPS).

For a search engine, all these versions are different:


If your website runs on more than one of these versions, it can cause many crawling, indexing and positioning problems. Especially because Google will see them as duplicates.

Additionally, having multiple versions of your site can dilute PageRank , which can also have a negative impact on your rankings.

You can check it very easily:

Simply enter all versions of your website into a web browser.



redirect to preferred version
If your website is accessible through multiple country area code philippines versions, use a 301 redirect. Check out our guide on SEO redirects to learn more.

3. Run a Web Crawl
A professional SEO audit is based on crawling.

That is, you should be able to simulate the way Google crawls your site and find problems in the same way that the search engine finds them.


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To do this, you will need an SEO audit tool like Semrush Site Audit . First, you will create a project and set up the audit.

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There are several settings in this step. You can refer to this guide to help you.

Once you're all set, click the " Start Site Audit " button.

Depending on the number of pages crawled, it may take more or less time to complete. Once completed, you will receive an email.

The audit dashboard looks like this:
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