Ask HN: Google started to index non-hyperlinks. What to do about it?
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Looks like this a known issue with embedding JSON.
I found a dozen of related issues in the context of Next.js:
* https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/40143
* https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/39377
* https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/66896
* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75672103/how-can-i-block...
Crazy that this isn't addressed as it affects every website.
I found a dozen of related issues in the context of Next.js:
* https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/40143
* https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/39377
* https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/66896
* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75672103/how-can-i-block...
Crazy that this isn't addressed as it affects every website.
However, I noticed a massive spike of 404 errors in Search Console.
I sampled a bunch and the issues and they all seem to be the same – Google indexed non-hyperlinks as if those were links.
Here is an example of reported 404:
Search Console says it discovered a link to this page on:
If you inspect the source code of the page, there are no hyperlinks to that resource.
There are now hundreds of thousands of these cases reported in GSC.
I cannot even think of where/how to start troubleshooting this.