If we login in our Google Webmaster tools and try to check the
Index Status report in the advanced section, you will see the “Not Selected”
option was removed.
What is “Not Selected”
Option was used in the Previous days
Go to your Google Webmaster Tools using you login details.
Then Click Health -> Index Status ->Advanced
You can seen this before
Now Google was confirmed and removed the “Not Selected”
filter with Google Webmaster tools.
Now you can see as
What “Not Selected” Actually mean in previous days:
- It redirects to another page
- It has a rel=”canonical” to another page
- Our algorithms have detected that its contents are significantly similar to another URL and picked the other URL to signify the content.
Google’s John Muller said it was removed jus because of the
reason it was confusing one for the webmasters. It was actually removed to help
the Webmasters. Still many webmasters found the data useful. In fact, there
were times when John from Google said himself that “not selected” data can be
useful in some situations.
