Alternate page with proper canonical tag

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In the Google search consule, I have a message that says “Alternate page with proper canonical tag” These pages aren’t indexed or served on Google.

I have no idea why I have this second URL. It’s not on my server anywhere for the site. Dajen

Anyone know what this might be?

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I have had that recently on one website but it indicates a page that does not exist on my site just like your one. In my case it goes to ?ref=xranks.

I think this is just some web page out there referring to your website and Google is picking up on it. You then receive the Google search console error notification, but I wouldn’t lose any sleep over it.

At a push you could add some htaccess code like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://example.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^?publisher=4846312192$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.yourdomain.com/ [L,R=301]

Anything going to that link, including Google should then be redirected to the actual home page and bypass that referring link. Just change the code to reference your domain url.

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