Is Something Wrong With My New Forum

AI-generated summary

The user MihirR is seeking help with their new forum, concerned about indexing issues reported by Google Search Console. Jagster asks for clarification on the links involved. MihirR provides a detailed report: some pages are excluded due to ‘noindex’ tags, which they confirm are intentional; 404 errors are from deleted posts and not a concern; HTTP redirects are expected; a canonical tag issue exists for a specific URL; and some recently created topics are not indexed. The user notes that Google has chosen a different canonical URL for the guidelines page, which is also a concern.

What could be the possible cause of this, I have my forum running as it is was fresh and all no custom pages nothing.

PS: Attaching an image for reference

And what kind links those are, and have you linked them to somewhere that does not exist? That report would be more important than a generic error.

Here’s the report which was shared:


Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag :

Summary
/latest.rss
/search
/search?q={search_term_string}
/my/preferences/account
/posts.rss
/u/oliviadavis 

PS: These all are intentionally set to noindex.


Not Found : It were the posts I deleted and it now shows 404, so that’s not an issue I guess.


Page with redirect : Shows the HTTP redirect like http://example.com/ and http://www.example.com/ which I again think is not an issue.


Alternate page with proper canonical tag :

https://example.com/latest?no_definitions=true


Crawled - currently not indexed :

This show some of the topics created within the last 3 days.


Duplicate, Google chose different canonical than user :

https://example.com/guidelines