# Google search console acceptedAnswer error

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-search-console-acceptedanswer-error/399525
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [March 29, 2026, 5:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-search-console-acceptedanswer-error/399525 "2026-03-29T17:36:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![RBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@RBoy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RBoy)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2026, 5:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-search-console-acceptedanswer-error/399525/1 "2026-03-29T17:36:04Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [Either 'acceptedAnswer' or 'suggestedAnswer' should be specified](https://meta.discourse.org/t/either-acceptedanswer-or-suggestedanswer-should-be-specified/111809/3):

> [@Either 'acceptedAnswer' or 'suggestedAnswer' should be specified](https://meta.discourse.org/t/either-acceptedanswer-or-suggestedanswer-should-be-specified/111809/3):
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> As per the Google’s doc we already set `answerCount` to 0 for unsolved topics. You should not worry about this alert.

I had this issue pop today suddenly after updating to this week’s latest build.

Any thoughts as to why it suddenly started? The site has been around for a decade and so has the page that’s affected by it. The topic has only one post (wiki) from the admin (it’s a notice FAQ topic).

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2026, 9:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-search-console-acceptedanswer-error/399525/2 "2026-03-30T09:23:49Z")

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Thanks for the report, @davidb’s recent work seems to have surfaced this issue.

Will be fixed by

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/38964](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/38964)

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2026, 6:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-search-console-acceptedanswer-error/399525/3 "2026-04-03T06:00:49Z")

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