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Landing page issue when linked from a Google snippet
4 replies · Started by Dong on July 14, 2020
Hi guys,
So I moved to GP Premium for a few weeks now (been loving it!) and just noticed a very strange thing that didn't happen with my previous theme.
Specifically, When you Google for a product I review and the result is shown as a featured snippet (yay!), the link from the snippet will cause the landing page to freeze: It takes a looooooonng time to load among other things. The page itself is fine if you access it directly or from a regular (non-snippet) search result.
Here's an example (you need to comp the entire link).
Or you can google "ds620slim synology review dong ngo" and follow the link in the snippet.
It seems the part that starts with "#:~:text=" in the URL (automatically added by Google) causes the page to freeze. Do you know how I can fix that?
Appreciate your time!
Thanks,
-Dong.
Hi there,
I believe that's Google's thing the theme itself doesn't control - I noticed that when searching our doc page recently too.
You can try to verify it by testing with a twenty series theme.
An SEO plugin like Yoast or RankMath should have options to modify that I believe.
Leo,
It's definitely something to do with GP. I turn off "Use Navigation as Header" and that helped. Please look into it.
-Dong.
Actually, Leo, scratch that. I spoke too soon. It seems the issue is only with Chrome. :(
Glad you've identified the problem.