What is Fetch as Google in Search Console Errors (Webmaster Tools)

What is Fetch as Google in Search Console Errors (Webmaster Tools):

In Google Search console fetch as Google is a tool which enables webmasters and website owners to fetch a URL in this tool call fetch as Google in search console (webmaster tool) and see how Google renders your website URL on your website. Fetch as Google tells you what is a response received by Google bot when fetching the URL of your website and how Google bot sees your website when you do fetch and render.

What does fetch as Google in Search Console Mean:

Fetch as Google means fetching your website URL in Google search console and see how Google bot is seeing your website URL by running a fetch, that is why the tool name is Fetch as Google in Search console.

How to Use Fetch as Google Tool:

Its very simple for a beginner o newbie to use this powerful tool called fetch as Google by simply entering the URL of the website into the text box without the base url of a website and run a fetch and get results instantly and see how Google bot sees your webpage.

Fetch as Google Unreachable:

When you run a fetch in webmasters tool in fetch as Google in search console with text box sometimes you may get to see fetch as Google for a specified URL as fetch as Google unreachable. Fetch as Google unreachable means that it returned an unspecified error which is the resources of the URL is unreachable by the host or either too long to reply or refused the URL.

Fetch as Google temporarily unreachable:

Fetch as Google temporarily unreachable in Google search console means the URL cant fetch at the present time because of the server overload and unable to send any requests or 404. Fetch as Google temporarily unreachable also means here that the fetching the URL has been cancelled because of too many request were made to the server for different URLs.

Fetch as Google not working:

Sometimes fetch as Google not working which may lead to check with the specified error type and resolve the issue it may be temporary unreachable or fetch as Google redirected your URL, fetch as Google status is partial or etc.

Fetch as Google in Search console limit

Yes ! There is a limit to submit and run a fetch as Google in Google search console. Previously there was no limit; webmasters was able to run a fetch for n number of requests passing the captcha in search console. But now Google fetch as Google has a certain limit to submit URLs to Google and run a fetch in fetch as Google tool.

Fetch as Google limit is for 10 URLs per day now. A webmaster can run a fetch with fetch as Google tool and see how Google is fetching the URL via fetch as Google for 10 times a day. This is limited coz people are submitting URL in fetch as Google so that they come in first page or making Google bot to crawl their webpage and index the URLs in Google search engine.

What is Crawl Fetch as Google in Search Console

As soon as you run a fetch in fetch as Google tool Google will be crawling your website URL if it meets the requirements and see noindex nofollow meta tags and crawls the URLs and this happens after a minute you run a fetch as Google.

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Fetch as Google indexing requested in Search Console:

After you run a fetch in fetch as Google tool, after successfully fetching the url it will ask you to request as indexing requested. Fetch as Google tool only let you see how Google bot is fetching your website URL and it also asks you to indexing request, if you do indexing requested it will crawl and index the URL fast.

Google bot fetch as Google in Search Console

Fetch as Google tool in search console also allows you to see the visual appearance of your website URL and see how Google bot saw your page and how a normal user sees your website URL and display the difference between both Google bot fetch crawling as well. This is very much useful tool to see how Google bot renders and fetches your website URL and fix the issues if you see in fetch as Google.

Fetch as Google mobile in Search Console:

When you run a fetch in search console it also allows you to fetch and request the fetched URL for mobile version and how Google bot mobile crawled your website URL when submitting URL in fetch as Google mobile.

Fetch as Google Desktop:

Fetch as google in search console also gives options to run a fetch as desktop version and see the response in search console and how Google bot crawl and renders the webpage and how a normal users sees your webpage with information like header status as well like 200 ok response or 404 or server level errors.

Fetch as Google redirected to HttpS:

After running a fetch in Google search console if it shows a redirect then it means that, the fetched url is having a redirect and it has been redirected to the redirect version with a 301 redirect. Normally, when you a run a fetch in http version of your website property and run a fetch in google search console the url will be redirected to https version of your website, it means there is a 301 redirect happening there and it is redirected to other url which is normal coz http version will be redirected to https version if you have implemented 301 redirect or migrated your website to http.

In the above case you have to check with https version of your website property and run a fetch as Google in search console then it will be returning 200 ok responses instead of fetch as Google redirected to httpS.

Fetch as Google Not found in Search Console:

If fetch as Google in Google search console says not found then that url does not exit that is why it is 404 not found. This normally happens when you run a fetch as Google in search console by typing the wrong url by mistake or the page has been deleted these are the reasons why you get fetch as Google not found in search console.

In this case you have to implement 301 redirect to the not found url to the related url. Normally in crawl errors if Google crawler or bot founds your website not found url then they will be reported in crawl errors. Generally 404 not found does not harm your website but implementing 301 redirect will be a good implementation.

Fetch as Google Status:

When you run a fetch as Google in search console it will be returning your fetch status as below:

Fetch as Google Complete: Which means fetch is complete

Fetch as Google Partial: Fetch as Google in search console status as partial means Google got a response and fetched your website url but could not load all resources like css, js, etc which are blocked by robots.txt with significance resources were blocked while rendering a webpage or url.

Fetch as Google Redirected: The fetched url has a redirect to the other url which server responded to it and redirected to the requested url and google follows redirects as instructed.

Fetch as Google Specified Errors: Not found which is a 404, 500 level server response error, access denied etc.

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Ramana Tula is a Google Product Expert - He is a Full stack Web and Android Developer.

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