Since around May, Google has been filtering test pages for the same domain when targeting one single keyword. This was long thought to be an indexing issue, however, since the pages are ranking and showing up in the search results for other keywords, we learned it was a filtering issue. For this test, we try to see if having unique meta descriptions can overcome the filter.
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So the first one, Does having a unique meta descriptions overcome filtering? And what I did here is I created, I use Ted's testing tool, Ted Tobias as you guys know, he made the that testing tool. And I use that and I submitted links to the Indexing API Search Console manually, that's hard to experience by the way.
Then through omega indexer, and I got 100% indexing, and going through one by one for all 100 of these pages, I knew that I was 100% indexed. But as you can see, from the test results, the filter is only showing me 30% on average, and then I get 2 sites that actually show 40%. And this is showing me that the meta descriptions, I can't uniquify the meta descriptions. In order to erase that filter, it's got to be the keyword and is the target of that keyword.
It's not, in my opinion from what I've seen from this test is that it's not accepting multiple pages beyond the 3 or 4 depending on your domain for each particular keyword.