How does SEO work with netlify?

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I’m at wits end trying to resolve this. How can I get my website to show properly in SERP? I’m not even sure what the issue is at the moment but here are the things I can point to.

No 1. Google is still picking up this link: https://688f7b0bda23c800086aa445--chimerical-cascaron-eab7c9.netlify.app/ as Google-selected canonical when I’ve declared this link as the canonical: https://lullaread.xyz/ Please see screenshot below:

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  1. BTW this link has really really stale content I don’t want this link: https://688f7b0bda23c800086aa445--chimerical-cascaron-eab7c9.netlify.app/ to ever appear for anything in seo.

  2. The URLs that are even appearing on Google SERP aren’t appearing correctly, see screenshot below. What I’ve specified as the meta title and description are totally off, plus why is netlify doing there? Since I’m new here they said I can only embed one image so this is the link to the screenshot: Screenshot-2025-09-06-at-10-23-27 hosted at ImgBB — ImgBB

Please I really need support to fix this.

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The URL: https://688f7b0bda23c800086aa445--chimerical-cascaron-eab7c9.netlify.app/ has a noindex header:

curl -I "https://688f7b0bda23c800086aa445--chimerical-cascaron-eab7c9.netlify.app/"
...
X-Robots-Tag: noindex

So if Google is still indexing it, that’s a Google issue. Not something Netlify can fix for you.

It also says that user-declared canonical is a different one than what Google selected, and Netlify is not involved in any way about what Google selects. Sorry to say, but Netlify can’t help with this. You’d have to contact Google.