: Preferred domain setting functionality in Google Search Console is broken I'd like to set a preferred domain for my website but saving changes is taking too long than the usual. Is there something

@Si4351233

Thanks for all the inputs. I've recently found out how to resolve the issue.

I added another variation of my website to Google Search Console before going to the settings and selecting the preferred domain. It seems like Google chooses either your mywebsite.com or mywebsite.com.
In my experience, I only added as property the mywebsite.com. When I went to settings to change the preferred domain, the problem occurred.

Then recently, I added the mywebsite.com version and checked to see if I can already set the preferred domain.

And, it worked.

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@BetL925

I can confirm that the functionality is broken for one of my domains as well. I see the same behavior that you do. When I click on "Display URLs as example.com", a save button appears. When I click "Save" I see the "Saving changes" message that never actually resolves. If I click the "Dismiss" button or refresh the page the setting was not applied.


This is clearly a bug in Google Search Console and Google needs to be involved to fix it. The official way to report a bug in Search Console to Google is to post about it in their webmaster help forums: productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmasters Their community leaders can escalate issues to Google staff to be fixed. I did a quick search and couldn't find that anybody had reported the issue yet. I took the liberty of reporting it there: productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/_USyOGeq3_E Hopefully Google will fix the issue soon.

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