Search Engine Visibility Help

Understanding domain setup error messages

You might encounter errors when attempting to set up a Search Engine Visibility account. Here's the errors you may receive and how to fix them.

We can't validate this site because it appears the site has not been published or has no content.

It looks like you haven't yet published your website — or the page is empty. Double check the page and publish your page.

We could not find this domain on your account.

Double check the domain you're using (e.g. greatsite.com). It may be owned by someone else or you don't have this particular`godaddysites.com` domain in your account.

Your site's domain is masking another URL, which can hurt your search engine ranking.

Edit your domain forwarding to forwarding only. See set up my domain name.

Your site is on a temporary domain, which doesn't work with SEO.

The domain you are trying to use is a temporary domain for Managed WordPress sites (`myftpupload.com`). Why use a temporary domain name with Managed WordPress?

We cannot setup an account for this domain because one already exists.

The domain is already associated with another SEV account you have. Log into the already set up account — or decide if you should can cancel that account so you can use the new one.

Search Engine Visibility is blocked from reaching this site.

When attempting to access their site, it is sending back a 401, 402, or 403 status code to our requests. To troubleshoot the issue, see common web page errors.

This site is currently unavailable.

When attempting to access their site, it sent back a 404 or > = 500 status code. To troubleshoot the issue, see common web page errors.

Your site is currently not reachable.

When attempting to access your site, your site sent back some other failure response. Check that your DNS settings are correct.

We are having trouble reaching this site, please call support if this continues.

When attempting to access your site, your site sent back some other failure response. Check that your DNS settings are correct.

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